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UC Riverside Reserves to be Part of Climate Study
There are a total of three sites managed by UCR that are among those chosen for the study.
Three natural reserves managed by the University of California at Riverside will be among the sites involved in a UC systemwide plan to study the effects of climate change, university officials said last week.
The Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center near Baker, the Phllip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center near Indian Wells and the James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve near Idyllwild will be used as research locations, along with reserves managed by other UC campuses.
The Institute for the Study of Ecological and Evolutionary Climate Impacts was developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz.
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The new institute received $1.9 million in funding, the largest allocation from UC President Janet Napolitano’s inaugural President’s Research Catalyst Awards announced Wednesday.
— By City News Service.
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