Water Talk

A conversation with Felicia Marcus (Stanford University) about community organizing, emergency response systems, and drought in California. Released June 18, 2021

A conversation with Dr. Joan Dudney (UC Davis) about drought, disease, and pest interactions on forest communities in California's Sierra Nevada. Released June 11, 2021

A conversation with Dr. Angel Fernandez-Bou (UC Merced) and Dr. Jose Pablo Ortiz Partida (Union of Concerned Scientists) about water equity issues and opportunities for improvement in California's changing climate. Released June 4, 2021

A conversation with Glenn McGourty (University of California Cooperative Extension Viticulture & Plant Science Advisor Emeritus) about grape water use, wine production, and dryland viticulture in Mendocino and Lake Counties. Released May 28, 2021. Transcript and resources available at: https://www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/episode-22

A conversation with Janet Hartin (University of California Cooperative Extension Area Environmental Horticultural Advisor and Director for San Bernadino & Los Angeles Counties) and Dr. Amir Haghverdi (Assistant Cooperative Extension Professor of Water Management at University of California, Riverside) about watering turf grass, trees, and other urban vegetation as well as drought strategies. Released May 21, 2020. Transcript and resources available at: https://www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/episode-21

A conversation with Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy (Humboldt State University) about land and water use futures, decolonization, and communities in California (Part 2/2). Released May 14, 2021. Transcript and resources available at: https://www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/episode-20 

A conversation with Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy (Humboldt State University) about land and water use futures, decolonization, and communities in California (Part 1/2). Released May 7, 2021. Transcript and resources available here: https://www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/episode-19

A conversation with Dr. Erik Porse (Sacramento State University & UCLA Institute of the Environment) about urban water resources, energy, conservation, and engineering economics in California. Released April 30, 2021. Find the transcript here: https://www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/episode-18 

A conversation with researchers Darcy Bostic (Pacific Institute) and Kristin Dobbin (UC Davis) about the legislated human right to drinking water, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, sustainability, and participation in California. Find the transcript here: https://www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/episode-17 

A conversation with University of California Desert Research & Extension Center Director Dr. Jairo Diaz about agriculture across the California/Mexico/Arizona Borderlands irrigated by Colorado River waters. Released April 16, 2021. Find the episode transcript here: https://www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/episode-16