Improving subsidence and carbon emissions modeling
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This project aims to improve and update a key mathematical model called SUBCALC that estimates how fast land is sinking and how much greenhouse gas is being released from drained farmland in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This essential information helps landowners and planners make decisions about converting farmland to wetlands to reduce these environmental impacts.
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Manage for Maladaption in Environmental Flow Planning
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This project combines several advanced computer models to identify potential cases of “maladaptation”' in water management — when changes made to adapt to climate change inadvertently create new problems for communities or ecosystems. The goal is to create practical decision-making tools that will help water managers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and potentially other regions, make better choices as they navigate an uncertain climate future.
FutureTracts: Leveraging Agent-Based Models to Forecast Land Use Changes in California's Central Valley
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This project will use an approach known as agent-based modeling — which analyzes the way many individual decisions weave together into collective outcomes — to examine the potential impacts of policy decisions about Central Valley water. This will allow policymakers to make more informed decisions that will strengthen the region’s ecological and economic health.
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