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UCCE Water Management Advisor Job Opening at Kearney REC
A UCCE position is now open through April 25th for Water Management Area Advisor. Home base for the position will be at the Kearney REC.
The Water Management Area Advisor will implement an innovative extension education and applied research program to address major challenges around local and regional uses of water in the Tulare Basin and lower San Joaquin Valley (Tulare, Fresno, Kings, and Madera Counties).
Follow link for details:
UCCE Water Management Advisor job description and how to apply
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Blooms and Bombus in Benicia
There she was, a beautiful yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging Feb. 27 on...
A bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on trailing African daisies at the Matthew Turner Shipyard Park, Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on trailing African daisies at the Matthew Turner Shipyard Park, Benicia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Frank Zalom: 'The Michael Jordan of IPM'
Accolades continue to flow. When UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus and noted ...
Information shared on LinkedIn (Screen shot)
UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal, former professor and chair of the Department of Entomology, shared this archived news story about Frank Zalom and graduate student Hannah Burrack on X (formerly Twitter). (Screen shot)
Of Tules, Cattails and Dragonflies...and on St. Pat's Day!
Medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, associate professor, UC Davis...
This is the wetland area in Cache Creek conservatory which is adjacent to the Tending and Gathering Garden. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo)
The flameskimmer dragonfly, Libellula saturata, commonly perches on a tule stalk. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo)
A lizard sunning in the tules. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo)
Exciting News from Jason Bond Lab About Trapdoor Spiders
If you like learning about trapdoor spiders, be sure to read the newly published research from the...
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