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Calendar courtesy of The Dirt.
There are several other great resources for finding arts and culture events, exhibits, performances, and other creative activities in the Davis area:
Davis Enterprise | UC Davis Arts & Entertainment | YoloArts | Visit Yolo
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Flyway Nights Speaker Series
December 1, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
Flyway Nights is a monthly speaker series highlighting environmental issues, current research topics in conservation, and natural history of Northern California.
The first Thursday of the month from November through April – 7 p.m.
Events are via Zoom. Registration is required.
Talks are an hour to 90 minutes in duration.
A $10 donation is suggested.
After the program, recordings are added to our
YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/YoloBasinFoundation
Yolo Basin Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship Recipients
Thursday, December 1 – 7 p.m. – REGISTER
“Yolo Basin Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship Fund” provided support for selected graduate students who are working in the areas of environmental education, public use, environmental sciences, or environmental/conservation policy. www.yolobasin.org/graduatefellowship/
In December, we hear from the recipients from 2021.
Stephen Gergeni is a graduate student studying for his MS in Biology (Ecology, Evolution and Conservation) at California State University, Sacramento. Stephen’s study focuses on increasing the understanding of how the giant garter snake and western pond turtle distribution changes and evolves during current climatic conditions in comparison to historical distribution data in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. He is determining species distribution within the available aquatic habitats using environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling.
Brian Lee is a PhD student at UC Santa Barbara. Brian’s project utilizes ground-based weather radar and computer vision to identify bat signatures across space and time in California’s Central Valley. The goal of this project will involve recording when and where bats are present, and eventually quantify their effects on agriculture throughout the region. He is creating the computer vision model and designing the data pipeline necessary to process the large amounts of data required to train and implement such a model.
Mackenzie Miner has completed her graduate research at UC Davis and will be presenting more finalized data during this, her second presentation, at Flyway Nights. Mackenzie now works as Environmental Scientist for the California Department of Water Resources in the Yolo Bypass. Mackenzie will update us on her research seeking to characterize the process of salmon reestablishment in newly rehabilitated habitats furthering our understanding of salmon reconciliation ecology in Putah Creek and identifying ways to encourage biodiversity in urban ecosystems broadly.