February 2021
Science Speaks Series: Supporting Youth in Challenging Times
Join Peter Mayfield, executive director of the Gateway Mountain Center, and Dana Adams, senior psychologist of Tahoe Truckee Unified School District, for a discussion about supporting youth during a pandemic. How are youth handling the COVID lockdown and distance-learning? How can we help support youth resiliency? Learn about current trauma treatment, research, and practice. Use the following Zoom link to access the webinar: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/98953328907
Find out more »Sierra-wide Executive Director Peer Huddle
The purpose of these gatherings is to network, coordinate, share resources, provide professional development, and generally lift each other up to get more conservation work done in the Sierra. Tentative Agenda will be posted as it approaches. If you have any suggestions for a professional development session, please email Jenny at jenny@sierranevadaalliance.org
Find out more »March 2021
Free Virtual Grant Writing Workshop
Free Online Workshop Introduction to Grant Writing A three-day intensive workshop to build grant writing skills for organizations and agencies in the Sierra Nevada region. Why? The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) looks to the organizations, agencies, and local governments in the Region to help achieve its vision for the future: “the magnificent Sierra Nevada Region enjoys outstanding environmental, economic, and social health, with vibrant communities and landscapes sustained for future generations.” You are our partners and we want to…
Find out more »Science Speaks Series: Where There’s Smoke, There are Conspiracy Theorists
We’ll explore why people come to believe conspiracy theories about anthropogenic climate change, how these theories spread, and what we can do to stop them. Presenters: Hannah Tierney, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis; Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney; and Tim Smartt, Lecturer in Philosophy and Research Associate in the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Use the following Zoom link to access the webinar:…
Find out more »Winter Science Speaks Series – Calculating the Costs of Climate Change
What are the costs if climate change increases the risk of extinction of plants and animals? What about costs from impacts to agricultural production and the risk to the global food supply? These are some of the important costs involved in estimating the costs of climate change damages, a value known as the social cost of carbon. Frances C. Moore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California Davis. Moore’s research…
Find out more »April 2021
Science Speaks Series: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy
Americans have always entertained conspiracy theories; they are as much a part of the American way as baseball and apple pie. That Americans believe such theories now is not unusual. What is different today is that people in power routinely and indiscriminately spread these theories, with a specific and very ambitious goal – the goal of destroying our faith in government, science, and any kind of community spirit. They encourage people to reject fact-based evidence in favor of partisan advantage.…
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