Reimagining California's landscapes: Water, climate, and equity | Vicky Espinoza | TEDxUCMerced

Water plays an essential part in California's agricultural communities, it is a threatened and precious commodity. Listen to Vicky explain what is done to protect water in the central valley - by engaging local communities, building trust, educating and fostering diverse partnerships. So that everyone and their plants has access to clean water. Vicky Espinoza is a California native and has lived in the San Joaquin Valley for 6 years. As part of the Nature Conservancy’s California Water Team, she is developing and implementing strategies to ensure strategic and equitable agricultural land repurposing to create habitat for endangered natural communities, achieve water sustainability, and enhance human well-being. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of California, Merced where she developed a framework for strategic and equitable agricultural land use transitions to address groundwater overdraft under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) and ameliorate environmental inequities persistent among San Joaquin Valley underserved, agricultural communities. During her PhD, she identified and addressed an information access inequity among marginalized community members and farmers through bilingual workshops and her trilingual (Spanish, Hmong, and English) YouTube channel, CaliWaterAg (https://www.youtube.com/c/CaliWaterAg). She received her master’s degree in Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California and her Bachelor of Science degree in Geophysical Sciences with a concentration in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Chicago. Her prior applied research experiences include analyzing climate change impacts on atmospheric and hydrologic systems at Argonne National Laboratory, Pomona College, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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