Merced River Fest
Merced River Fest
Sat, Apr 15, 4:00 PM
The Grove House • Mariposa, CA
$20
Actions Panel
"California's Watershed: Healing" film screening and discussion
Free film and discussion about Sierra forests and solutions for sustainable management and restoration. Advance registration recommended.
By Sierra Nevada Research Institute
When and where
Date and time
Tuesday, March 7 · 5:30 - 7:30pm PST
Location
University of California Merced Conference Center 5200 N. Lake Road Merced, CA 95343
About this event
UC Merced Sierra Nevada Research Institute hosts the campus premier of California’s Watershed: Healing,’ an important documentary film that presents immediate, viable, and implementable solutions for the urgent problems facing California’s forested watersheds. A sequel to the 2018 documentary, “Beyond the Brink,” this new film explores what is needed to meet the threats of climate change, wildfires, and inaction by public agencies and the implications for California's forests, watersheds, state economy, food and water security, and national security. Join us for a free screening followed by Q&A discussion session with forest and watershed expert panelists, Drs. Roger Bales, Thomas Harmon, and Safeeq Khan, and film Director and Executive Producer, Jim Thebaut of The Chronicles Group. The film features several UC Merced faculty among other featured researchers and experts.
5:30pm - Doors open, refreshments available
6:00-7:00pm - Film screening
7:00-7:30pm - Q&A
Directions and parking https://hospitality.ucmerced.edu/about/directions-and-parking
About the organizer
Organized by
Sierra Nevada Research InstituteWe accomplish our mission through:
- Faculty, researchers, and students using the San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada as their "outdoor laboratory" for sustainable water and land management, drought, wildfire, pollution, climate change, competing land uses, biodiversity and other basic and applied environmental research.
- Strong interactions with related research units within the UC system: UC Water, CITIRS, UC Solar, and close collaborative relations with scientists and managers at national laboratories (particularly Lawrence Livermore National Labs) and local, state, and federal agencies
- Establishing research facilities on the UC Merced campus and within the San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada regions of California
- Sharing SNRI data, information and research results with elected and agency decision-makers, public and private stakeholders through meetings, public forums, workshops and various media platforms
- Strengthening SNRI faculty engagement in Sustainability, Management, and Human Health Sciences