The Safety and Enforcement Division of the California Public Utilities Commission is looking to fill a Senior Utilities Engineer (Specialist) position. The jobs are located in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento branches.

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As the 2023 spring season goes into full swing, you may be noticing the warmer than average weather we are having this year. In fact, 

March 2023 was Earth’s second-warmest March since global record-keeping began in 1850."

The only March that was warmer was from recent years, specifically in 2016 near the conclusion of the El Niño event. New research allows us to compare global temperature records back to 1850, showing how March 2023's report is one of the hottest since then.

The Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) program provides funding at the state, local, territorial, and tribal level to support  government activities that lead to measurable environmental or public health impacts in communities disproportionately burdened by environmental harms.

The EJG2G program goals are to:

The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program | US EPA

When: February 1, 2023 from 12pm - 1pm

Talk Title: “Climate Change Effects on Hurricane Risk for Single-Family Houses in the United States”
Speaker: Michele Barbato, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis

As California broils under triple-digit temperatures, Dr. Michele Barbato, Co-director of the UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center and faculty director of the CITRIS Climate Initiative, says climate change is to blame.

“Putting AC everywhere can seem like a solution, but it’s not a long-term solution,” he tells the Sacramento Bee. “We are using more energy and that is increasing climate change. We are making the moving target further away from us.”

On Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022, Dr. Michele Barbato, Co-Director of the UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center and Director of the CITRIS Climate Initiative at UC Davis, hosted the 2nd  Wildfire Induced Air Pollution Assessment & Mitigation Symposium.

The Symposium provided insights on recent research advancements in the assessment and mitigation of wildfire effects on human health, with presentations by accomplished researchers from a multidisciplinary team supported by the University of California Office of the President, through the UCOP Lab Fees program.

On Wednesday, April 6, 2022, the Climate Adaptation Research Center team - with support from the UC Davis World Food Center and the UC Davis Air Quality Research Center - hosted a virtual symposium on Catalyzing Adaptive and Resilient Food Systems.

Known as one of the world’s foremost authorities on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a part of its Sixth Assessment Cycle Report on April 4, 2022, providing a global assessment of climate mitigation efforts. 

Read more about the IPCC Report here.

Dr. Michele Barbato, of the Climate Adaptation Research Center, was recently interviewed by KNAU Arizona Public Radio to discuss his research and ongoing work on earth block construction.