UC Davis Agricultural Water Center

We focus on groundwater sustainability while advancing socioeconomic resilience through agroecological and technological innovations.

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Watch the video now and support our mission for sustainable farming.

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🌱 Explore the fascinating world of groundwater management and cover crops in our latest YouTube video! Discover how they're like managing a bank account to balance supply and demand. #GroundWaterConservation #SustainableFarming

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🌾 Join us on a journey to understand how cover crops are revolutionizing agriculture! We're dispelling myths and highlighting the vital role they play in water conservation and soil health. 🌍💧 #EnvironmentalConservation

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Registration details can be found here: https://t.co/wi3UYFOcV3

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🗓️ Date: May 27-28, 2024 ℹ️ Learn from experts, explore innovative solutions, and discuss the pressing issue of water scarcity in our ever-changing world. Together, we can make a difference! 💧 #WaterSummit2024 #WaterScarcity #ChangeForGood 🌏👥💙

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Agricultural Water Center researchers held a dedicated session at the UCOWR conference to present their publications on a variety of topics. They also had the opportunity to enjoy a social dinner with Dr. Jim Dobrowolski, the USDA NIFA national program manager.

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The Agricultural Water Center was recently covered in a feature article from the UC Davis News and Media Office for our researchers' important work reducing groundwater overdraft and creating drought-resilient food systems. Read the full piece below!
https://t.co/d01GmOit8f

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Our researchers are finding techniques and inventing technologies designed to help farmers conserve #groundwater, cover #crops, and recharge #aquifers during to help during times of #drought. https://t.co/nOpFUwwMJI

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Are you interested in how winter storms like this year's could be used to improve aquifer management? Check out this recent commentary piece in @CAFarmBureau's Ag Alert from center researchers Thomas Harter, Mallika Nocco, Isaya Kisekka and Helen Dahlke!

https://t.co/PBqguFYzpL

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Ag Alert: Commentary: How managing flood flows can help rescue aquifers
Read more here: https://t.co/Pa0hOoMgTP
📷: Helen Dahlke/University of California, Davis⠀
#news #cafarmbureau #cafb #farmers #water #floods #aquifer

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The Agricultural Water Center was recently featured in The Arizona Republic! Check out the link below to learn more about how researchers at the University of Arizona are helping farmers adapt to groundwater reliance.
https://t.co/v3xKU35nTT

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UCANR is looking for a Community Education Specialist for the 4-H Water Wizards! If you want to deliver educational programming and help students develop leadership and life skills, check out the link below.
https://t.co/lRclXjfYGn

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Finally, we stopped at one of Bullseye Farms’s pistachio orchards to learn about their implementation of cover crops, and USDA Researcher Matthew Roby discussed the use of flux towers to monitor the cover crop’s effect on the ecosystem-scale carbon and water exchange at the site.

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At our second stop, we met with engineers from the City of Woodland to learn about their use of aquifer storage and recovery wells to maintain surface water quality throughout the city.

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Graduate student William Lennon then gave a demonstration of the vadose zone monitoring system (VMS) used for the evaluation.

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It’s time for field trips! At our first stop of the day, graduate student Cassandra Bonfil presented on nitrogen leaching evaluation at this processing tomato site.

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Our final keynote speaker, @USDA_NIFA National Program Leader for Water James P. Dobrowolski, joined us virtually to give closing remarks for today’s presentations.

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We learned about data management, authorship, and collaborative tools with Emily Atkinson, and heard a project evaluation report from LeAnn Brosius.