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May 7 2012 | UC Berkeley News
The competition between farmers and fish for precious water in California is intensifying in wine country, suggests a new study led by recent ESPM Ph.D. graduate, Theodore Grantham. The researchers found that juvenile steelhead trout are particularly at risk during the dry summer season typical of California’s Mediterranean climate. |
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May 3 2012 | UC Berkeley News
UC Berkeley scientists, led by Prof. Cindy Looy of Integrative Biology, are drilling into ancient sediments, some of the world's oldest, at the bottom of Northern California’s Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today’s plants and animals will adapt to climate change and increasing population. |
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May 2 2012 | UC Berkeley News
Prof. Ashok Gadgil of Civil & Environmental Engineering has won the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation in recognition of his inventions and sustainable innovations that help those in the developing world to live healthier, safer lives. |
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May 1 2012 | UC Berkeley News
The fungal infection that has killed a record number of amphibians worldwide leads to deadly dehydration in frogs in the wild, according to a new study by UC Berkeley ESPM post-doctoral researcher Jamie Voyles and research partners from San Francisco State University. |
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Apr 30 2012 | UC Berkeley News
UC Berkeley researchers, led by Prof. Eli Yablonovitch of Electrical Engineering, have suggested – and demonstrated – a counterintuitive concept: solar cells should be designed to be more like LEDs, able to emit light as well as absorb it. The Berkeley team will present its findings at the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO: 2012), to be held May 6-11 in San Jose, Calif. |
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