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Monthly news roundup: December 2017

January 2, 2018
2017 top story: Wet start to 2017 brought end to 5-year drought Bill Hicks, Daily Republic, Dec. 30, 2017 Even though wildfires have dominated the headlines at the end of 2017, the Daily Republic selected the end of the drought as its top story of 2017.
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Retired marine fisheries specialist Chris DeWees fuses art with science.
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Mayflies, Fish and the Fusion of Art and Science

December 2, 2014
This week while searching through backyard photos, I came across a mayfly I photographed on July 1, 2012 on our flowering artichoke. It looked like a little ol' man skiing through a purple landscape of spiked petals.
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UCCE 100

May 7, 2014
By Luis A Espino
The 2014 rice season is in full swing. Some ground is still being worked, and fields are being flooded and planted. Calls are starting to trickle in (algae, tadpole shrimp) and it's looking like it will be a challenging season. But in this blog entry I'm not going to write about rice.
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Bee breeder-geneticist Michael "Kim" Fondrk works the Page bees in a Dixon almond orchard. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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It All Began at UC Davis

January 7, 2014
It all began at UC Davis. The highly acclaimed research published in Current Biology that cracked the 200-year secret of complementary sex determination in honey bees is rooted right here, right here at UC Davis. Arizona State University Provost Robert E. Page, Jr.
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