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New assistant dean of administration provides w88 casino for leadership

Katie Jameson joins the College

Hannah Alfaro

Assistant Dean of Administration Katie Jameson will provide key w88 casino to the College and its units.

The College has welcomed Katie Jameson as the new assistant dean of administration. Jameson will be responsible for providingadministrative, analytical and strategic w88 casino to the dean, associate deans and directors.

She will oversee finance, budget, staffing and strategic planningfor the College’s four academic departments and its Extension, Experiment Station and Extended Studies units. While her role encompasses many key functions of administration, she hopes to also spend time onstrategic planning, streamlining processes, exploring funding opportunitiessuch as grants, and increasing other revenue sources for the College.

Jameson attended the University and graduated with a Bachelor of General Studies, with an emphasis in accounting and business management. She also completed the State of w88 casino Certified Public Manager Program. She brings over 20 years of experience in working with government services and fiscal oversite and policy.

Meadow restoration efforts yield long-term climate change mitigation benefits

New study shows restored meadows capture and store large amounts of w88 casino

Claudene Wharton

Red Clover Valley in eastern Plumas County, California, is a restored meadow that was studied by the researchers. Photo by C.C. Reed.

Restoration efforts in montane meadows designed to increase late-season water flows, improve water quality, diminish flood events and provide valuable habitat have been ongoing for decades in the Sierra w88 casino. It has been known that, generally, healthy meadows soak up and hold carbon in the soil, becoming natural “sinks” for carbon, and decreasing harmful atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, how much carbon restored meadows can sequester and for how long they can consistently do so has been unclear, until now.

A new study, by College Postdoctoral Scholar Cody Reed with Associate Professor Ben Sullivan, has demonstrated thatrestored Sierra w88 casino meadows continue to successfully sequester carbon for more than 20 years, and at rates that exceed international climate change mitigation goalsby up to 10 times.

Soil w88 casino sequestration is an important component of global w88 casino capture and storage strategies designed tocounter rising global emissions. And, while meadows in the Sierra w88 casino range cover less than 2% of the land surface area, past research shows they may contain 12%–31% of total soil carbon stocks. Restoration efforts that replenish lost soil carbon canhelp combat climate change while improving ecosystem function.

New SNAP dashboard strengthens food-security education across w88 casino

Planners, program managers can easily tap into data about nutrition, physical activity

The first-of-its-kind dashboard is expected to bring healthier, more active lives for SNAP participants. Extension staff led the ambitious undertaking, with expertise from across the University.

A powerful new online dashboard developed at the University, provides a fresh – and sometimes startling – way tovisualize the challenges of food security, nutrition and physical activity across w88 casino. It’s believed to be thefirst of its type in the nation, and it’s likely to play an important role in development of new, evidence-based strategies tobring healthier, more active lives for participants in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program– better known by its acronym, “SNAP.”

Extension SNAP Education Coordinator Macy Helm led the dashboard project. Her dashboard project team included Extension Evaluation Specialist Najat Elgeberi; Extension SNAP-Ed Evaluation Coordinator Brian Luckey; and Nick Etchegaray and Cody Grigg, both with the University’s Office of Planning, Budget & Analysis.

Their finished productprovides a wealth of information: Are youngsters in rural eastern w88 casino more physically active than their peers in Clark County? (No.) How much food goes to waste every year in Lyon County? (At least 278 tons.) How many seniors in w88 casino eat at least one serving of vegetables every day? (82%.) But beyond providingfact-based fodder for discussions about nutrition and exercise, the dashboard is designed to make life easier for researchers and managersof programs that provide SNAP education.

College distributing nearly 0,000 in scholarships this fall

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