UC Davis (Video)

UC Davis's dean of engineering, Richard L. Corsi, Ph.D., P.E., is an internationally recognized expert in the field of indoor air quality, with a specific interest in physical and chemical interactions between pollutants and indoor materials. Corsi discusses "pandemic engineering" and approaches to disrupt transmission by reducing the inhaled dose of respiratory aerosols, including the highly effective and relatively low-cost do-it-yourself air cleaner for respiratory aerosols that has become known as the "Corsi-Rosenthal box." [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 37997]

Farmers in Cambodia have started to grow more vegetables to meet rising consumer demand, supported by innovations from a team led by UC Davis researchers. With help from Cambodia’s Royal University of Agriculture, farmers adopted "nethouses" to protect crops from pests without the use of chemical pesticides and packinghouses to better care for their crops after harvest. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 37826]

Responders with the UC Davis Oiled Wildlife Care Network traveled to Southern California to wash and release oiled birds, including federally threatened snowy plovers, after an oil spill near Huntington Beach in 2021. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 37812]

Knights Landing is a small, rural community just north of Davis, CA. With little access to a local grocery store, volunteers from UC Davis helped complete a community garden so they can grow their own fresh produce. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 37405]

UC Davis professor Michele Barbato and his students are engineering earth blocks that can withstand natural disasters such as wildfires, which are a continual threat across California and the Western U.S. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 37404]

Scientists at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory are conducting "urchin ranching" trials as a creative solution to purple urchin overpopulation, which has contributed to the crashing of the bull kelp forest in California. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 36769]

California produces 80 percent of the nation’s fresh citrus, but a disease called Huanglongbing or HLB, is threatening Central Valley groves. Citrus Greening disease, transmitted by the Asian citrus psyllid, has decimated groves in Asia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Florida, and is now spreading in California. UC Davis researchers are working to slow down the disease, as well as searching for solutions to protect citrus from the disease. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 36755]

Research at Lake Tahoe is finding microplastics in one of world’s clearest lakes. UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center Staff Researcher, Katie Senft, is studying how microplastics are impacting the beaches along the shoreline of Lake Tahoe. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 36768]

Why do Zebras have stripes? Scientists have learned it is to avoid biting flies. But, what is it about stripes that so disrupts a biting fly’s ability to land on a zebra and suck its blood? UC Davis Professor Tim Caro led a series of unique experiments for this study to better understand how stripes manipulate the behavior of biting flies as they attempt to come in for a landing on a zebra. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 35166]

Two isolated mountain lion populations in Southern California’s Santa Ana and Santa Monica Mountains are at risk of local extinction, perhaps as soon as within 50 years, according to a study published in the journal Ecological Applications. For the study, lead author John Benson of the University of Nebraska and co-authors at UCLA, UC Davis, the National Park Service, the University of Washington, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Wyoming used population viability modeling to predict the possibilities of extinction from genetic and demographic risk factors. The extinction risk is due to low genetic diversity and mortality that affects the stability of the population. But increasing connectivity could help. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 35168]