Last week I successfully defended my dissertation on boundary-spanning fish and fisheries! 🐟 Incredibly thankful to my hardass committee: Steve Gaines, Chris Costello, and Mark Buntaine, to Cori Lopazanski for a beautiful ChESM toast, and to my friends & family!

Exciting News! 'Slam Dunk Job Search' by Dave Parker is now available! Dave has worked with Bren for decades now, and shares his wisdom about how to turn your career aspirations into reality. #SlamDunkJobSearch #CareerGoals amazon.com/Slam-Dunk-Job-…

Data from over 17,000 wells and aquifers worldwide shows groundwater supply is rapidly decreasing. These concerning findings and the interventions that successfully reversed the trend are summarized in this new video:
youtube.com/watch?v=H1OhKb…

Groundwater is a finite resource, yet it sustains millions of people. Dr. Scott Jasechko and his co-authors believe there is still time to solve this problem. Their recent paper in @nature identifies three interventions to successfully reverse this trend. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Professor Ranjit Deshmukh was recently interviewed by KQED to provide insight on a handful of critical challenges and opportunities that California faces in meeting its goal of 100% clean power by 2045. Read the interview at the following link!
kqed.org/science/198561….

Congratulations Dr. Joan Dudney and Robert Heilmayr for being featured in Science Magazine!

We are excited to announce that Bren PhD student Rachel Torres is defending her dissertation on December 8 at 10:00 PT at Bren Hall 1414!

Don’t miss the opportunity to discover the insights from her pivotal research!
bren.ucsb.edu/events/beyond-…

Congratulations to Bren Professor Ranjit Deshmukh (Ranjit Deshmukh) both for his recent publication, and having his work cited in the The New York Times!

The article is an interesting read, and we invite you to get the full story here:
nytimes.com/2023/10/23/cli…

Bren PhD student Stephen Whitaker is defending his dissertation on December 5 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT at Bren Hall Dean’s Conference Room (2436)!

Join us to learn more about Stephen's groundbreaking research during his academic journey.
bren.ucsb.edu/events/assessi…

Professor Oran Young is the Mohn Prize Laureate for 2024! The professor at The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (UCSB Bren School)
is awarded for his leading research and #geopolitical work on the #Arctic . Read more at en.uit.no/mohnprize

The first Decadal Management Review of California's #MPA Network is here! 📜 Find out more about the NCEAS #synthesisscience working group that contributed to the review 🐟

Explore the findings in the latest #EDFish Blog: edf.org/Z6mN

When groundwater flows to the surface without pumping, it’s an artesian well. A hundred years ago, they were common. There is even a city in CA named Artesia.

But new research from Annette Hilton and II shows that pumping has made these wells much less common UCSB Bren School

📢 Calling all future Bren students 📢

Our applications for Fall 2024 have opened!

Still haven't decided on whether or not to apply? Register for an upcoming webinar or join us for Open House on November 3 for more information.

bren.ucsb.edu/open-house

Multiple ecosystems in hot water after marine heatwave surges across the Pacific – our new #OpenAccess paper published today in Global Change Biology shows that even ecological communities protected from fishing are vulnerable to sweltering seas, a 🧵 (1/6).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Designing transfer payments to reduce crop burning in India - Kelsey Jack (UCSB Bren School), Seema Jayachandran Seema Jayachandran (@Princeton), Namrata Kala (@MITSloan) and Rohini Pande (@YaleEGC)

Read more: ideasforindia.in/topics/environ…

A Rocha USA EEN #heatwaves

Dr. Leah C. Stokes of UCSB Bren School A Matter of Degrees speaks on #extremeheat #climatechange #globalwarming #AGW #attributionscience study by World Weather Attribution

Human-caused climate change is fueling global weather extremes, new study says
youtube.com/watch?v=QrRkKT…

very exciting workshop earlier this week with Government of Ghana partners on our clean household energy transition collaboration (Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) + UCSB Bren School + ColumbiaPublicHealth)

Conservation dogs in action at the #DangermondPreserve 🐶. Barley & Scottie are detection dogs trained by K9 Conservationists. This week they are helping Dr.Rae Wynn-Grant, PhD & UCSB Bren School researchers sniff out scat from wildlife in order to analyze their diets 🐾

📸: E. Hiroyasu

“Prescribed burns offer the rare opportunity to collect pre-fire data in addition to the post-fire data that’s normally available with wildfires,” says @brenucsb student Kaili Brande at a The Nature Conservancy training exchange at #UCSB ’s Sedgwick Reserve. (5/8)

New #PolicyBrief Well setbacks limit California’s oil supply with larger health benefits and employment losses than excise and carbon taxes. UCSB Bren School, emLab UC Santa Barbara, Ranjit Deshmukh, Kyle Meng, Olivier Deschenes