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Glenda Humiston, left, and CDFA Secretary Karen Ross form ANR-CDFA partnership to help farmers adopt climate-smart agricultural practices. Photo by Evett Kilmartin
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CDFA and UC ANR join forces to advance climate-smart agriculture

October 29, 2018
Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and Vice President Glenda Humiston signed a memorandum of understanding in Sacramento Oct. 26 to initiate a new partnership to advance climate-smart agriculture in California. This partnership will provide $1.
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Water-resources research proposals invited from junior investigators

September 6, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
The California Institute for Water Resources has announced its 2018-19 Request for Proposals. This year, proposals are requested in the junior investigator category only, said Doug Parker, director of the California Institute for Water Resources. Funded projects will begin March 1, 2019.
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August 2018 News Clips 8/16-8/31

August 31, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Enormous wildfires spark scramble to improve fire models (Nature) Jeff Tollefson, Aug. 31 Something is definitely different, and it raises questions about how much we really know, says Max Moritz, a fire scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Focused on water this week

August 13, 2018
This week I am on vacation. For me, if it doesn't involve water, it's not vacation. But that doesn't mean I'm not thinking about what's going on in California and UC ANR.
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Scientists from Israel and California met at U.S./Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) Program workshop to exchange ideas for managing water for agriculture.
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UC and Israel sign agricultural research agreement

July 27, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Pledging to work together to solve water scarcity issues, Israel's Agricultural Research Organization signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and UC Davis on July 16.
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UC and Israel sign agricultural research agreement

July 20, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Pledging to work together to solve water scarcity issues, Israel's Agricultural Research Organization signed a memorandum of understanding with UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and UC Davis on July 16.
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Gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
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Program Highlights July 7-13

July 17, 2018
Humboldt's Lily (Liliumhumboldtii) is a plant endemic to CA and is considered rare. It was named after naturalist and explorer, Alexandervon Humboldt. Its flowers typically bloom around June. There are two subspecies.Ssp.humbodtii is found primarily in the Sierra foothills andssp.
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