Uncategorized

David, Meagan, and Rachael are presenting at the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) meeting in LA Feb. 1-3 2018. Stop by to hear more about the research going on in the lab!  See below for the specific dates, times, and locations of the talk sessions.      Thursday, February 1st Title: Climate change and open […]

In the early hours of Oct. 9, The Tubbs Fire swept across the corner of Pepperwood Preserve, and over the next four days fire spread across most of the Preserve. Most of the Ackerly Lab long-term forest dynamics plots were impacted by the fire, some just scorched by a ground fire and a few severly

The Cal Futures Forum in May 2017 featured a lineup of UC Berkeley speakers on topics from the management of the electric grid to global fisheries. David’s video on ‘Conservation in a Rapidly Changing World’ can be viewed here – just five minutes!

The Land Acquisition and Ecosystem Carbon in California Project Team, a collaboration between our lab, the Climate Readiness Institute, other U.C. Berkeley affiliates, the California Coastal Conservancy, and the National Park Service, presented our project results in a webinar on October 3rd, 2017, and you can watch the presentation below:  More project details can be found here. 

David, Rachael, Meagan, Prahlada, Isabel, Seema, Rob, and Andrew are presenting at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Portland August 7-11 2017. Stop by to see their work and hear more about the research going on in the lab! A special congrats to David on his election as an ESA fellow this year! 

As part of the work with the Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate Change Collaborative (TBC3), Naia and David organized a workshop for land managers for Bay Area on climate ready vegetation management in the Bay Area. The workshop featured scenario-planning exercises and a discussion of how bioclimatic models can help adapt management plans in face of climate

Nice article about our research at Pepperwood and the Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate Change Collaborative (TBC3):  

Meagan, Matt, and Rachael are presenting posters at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in San Francisco, December 12-16th 2016. Stop by to see their work and hear more about the research going on in the lab! See below for the specific dates, times, and locations of the poster sessions.  Matthew Kling Tuesday, 13 December

The Land Acquisition and Ecosystem Carbon in California Project Team, a collaboration between our lab, the Climate Readiness Institute, other U.C. Berkeley affiliates, the California Coastal Conservancy, and the National Park Service, presented our project results in a webinar on October 3rd, 2017, and you can watch the presentation below:    More project details can be found here. 

D.A. and three colleagues – Whendee Silver (Environmental Science, Policy and Management), David Sedlak (Civil and Env. Engineering), and Steve Weissman (Goldman School of Public Policy) have launched a new lower division course: Climate Change and the Future of California (L&S, ESPM c46). The goals of the course are to introduce students to the fundamentals