California Water Policy Seminar Series Reconciling Ecosystem And Economy

Winter 2014 Mondays, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm 146 Olson Open to the Public

Jan. 6 Reconciliation ecology: Tactics for conserving diversity: global vertebrate patterns point the way. Michael Rosenzweig, University of Arizona

Jan. 13 Applying reconciliation ecology to aquatic ecosystems in California. Peter Moyle and Melanie Truan, UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology

Jan. 27 Management, economics and engineering perspectives. Jeff Mount leads panel discussion with Jay Zeigler, The Nature Conservancy; Tim Quinn, Association of California Water Agencies; Richard Howitt, UC Davis Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics; and Lester Snow, Resources Law Foundation

Feb. 3 Regulator perspective. Michael Lauffer, Office of Chief Counsel, State Water Resources Control Board

Feb. 10 Reconciling ecosystem goals for San Francisco Bay. Letitia Grenier, San Francisco Estuary Institute; and Joe LaClair, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Mar. 3 Law perspective. Associate Justice Ronald B. Robie, California Court of Appeal; Hap Dunning and Richard Frank, UC Davis School of Law

Feb. 24 Farms, floods, fowl and fish on the Yolo Bypass. Jay Lund leads two 40-minute panel discussions:

◆ Science panel: Carson Jeffres, Robyn Suddeth, Richard Howitt, William Fleenor - UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

◆ Policy panel: Petrea Marchand, Yolo County; others TBA

Mar. 10 Science and ecosystem reconciliation for the Delta. Peter Goodwin, state Delta Science Program; Stuart Siegel, Wetlands and Water Resources Inc.; and Robin Grossinger, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Mar. 17 Prospects for ecosystem reconciliation. Ellen Hanak, Public Policy Institute of California

UC Davis sponsorsCenter for Watershed Sciences — John Muir Institute of the Environment

California Environmental Law and Policy Center — School of LawDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Seminar available for 1 unit to graduate students as ECI 296/CRN 60166. For extended graduate seminar on water policy as ECI 298, contact Jay Lund; as Ecology 290, contact Peter Moyle. Law students contact Richard Frank. Extended seminar (1-2 units) includes small group discussion with speaker/s after talks and small term paper.