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1 Sierra Nevada Research Institute mission Foster interdisciplinary research that focuses on the Sierra Nevada eco-region, including the Central Valley & other adjacent areas. Facilitate synergistic links between science, the arts, education & natural resource management.

2 Themes in the SNRI strategic plan Climate & water Ecology & ecosystem science Air pollution & public health Environmental economics, policy & management

3 SNRI research within UC Merced $15 M in research grants to SNRI faculty since campus opened

4 Current SNRI faculty Andres Aguilar - evolutionary & conservation biology Roger Bales - mountain climate, hydrology & biogeochemistry, polar snow & ice Yihsu Chen - environmental economics Martha Conklin - biogeochemistry, groundwater, K-12 environmental education Michael Dawson - evolution & ecology Benoit Dayrat – ecology Phil Duffy - global climate change, climate modeling Henry Forman - lung-particulate interactions Qinghua Guo - remote sensing, geocomputation, landscape ecology Tom Harmon - contanminant hydrology, environmental sensor development Kathleen Hull - anthropological archaeology Shawn Kantor – economics Lara Kueppers - climate-ecosystem feedbacks, regional climate change Valerie Leppert - electron microscopy, nanomaterials Peggy O’Day - mineral-aqueous geochemistry Wolfgang Rogge – air pollution, organic aerosols Samuel Traina - chemistry of solids & natural waters Christopher Viney – bioengineering Tony Westerling - environmental policy Jeff Wright - water resources systems

5 SNRI research within UC Merced Grant amounts since inception of UC Merced, as of Sept. 2007 CategoryAmount, thousandPercent Extramural grants$38,551 Research grants a $25,915100 Research grants to SNRI faculty$15,28559 a Excluding grants for education, small business, etc. to non-faculty

6 Strategy for UCM-SNRI field stations

7 SNRI main area of interest for developing new field facilities

8 NRS PSW exp forest UCM station UCM research UC exp forest Wawona TPR Fish Camp SJV KREW SEKI Last Chance SJER NEON SNRI field facilities & research sites (incl. proposed) Aim is to build transects of instrumented sites along gradients of latitude & elevation Link with common cyberinfrastructure for data capture, archiving & serving

9 Wawona TPR Fish Camp SJV KREW SEKI Last Chance SJER NEON NRS PSW exp forest UCM station UCM research UC exp forest Sierra Nevada field facilities & research sites showing national forests & parks

10 Prototype instrument cluster: Wolverton, Sequoia National Park Priority: make research station more permanent, upgrade work space & lodging

11 Kaweah River, Three Rivers Priority: acquire site in cooperation w/ conservation groups & establish permanent station as per cooperative agreement w/ Sequoia NP

12 Kings River Experimental Watersheds: USFS/PSW research site

13 KREW is site for NSF Critical Zone Observatory & NEON gradient site

14 San Joaquin Experimental Range, USFS/PSW & NEON core site

15 The Central Valley Current thinking is to develop natural reserve access sites along elevational gradients in Central & southern Sierra Nevada – both Tulare & San Joaquin basins

16 Campus reserve

17 Wolverton basin & meadow instrumentation

18 Current research : Develop strategies that integrate remote sensing & ground-based measurements with state-of-the-art models to achieve accurate estimates of snowpack, snowmelt & the partitioning of snowmelt into runoff, infiltration & evapotranspiration.

19 Research plan 1.Establish & maintain ground-based instrument clusters 2.Develop remotely sensed data for mountain snowcover & vegetation 3.Calibrate & evaluate advanced hydrologic model 4.Estimate spatial water balance components 5.Simulate climate & hydrology

20 Stream stage & discharge Five pressure transducers installed in summer 2006

21 Wolverton meteorological stations Two stations installed in fall 2006, at Wolverton & Panther Meadow

22 Soil moisture & temperature Four locations Three pits per location Four depths per pit

23 Snow depth sensors Four locations 10 per locations One over each soil pit

24 Meadow piezometers & wells Three lateral transects & one longitudinal transect Continuous logging

25 Soil matric potential Transect in meadow, in line with piezometers

26 Sequoia National Park as a platform for world-class research & education

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