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News for immediate release: November 28, 2007—Noon
Contacts: Peter Stine, Sierra Nevada Research Center prog. manager, 530/759-1703
Roland Giller, Pacific S.W. Research Station public affairs, 510/559-6327
Forest Service Lab Moves To New Davis Location
DAVIS—About 45 U.S. Forest Service scientists and support staff moved to a
new location on the east side of the U.C. Davis campus earlier this month.
Employees in the Davis area were previously based at five locations within the
city. They worked in four research units now consolidated in a leased building a few
blocks east of the U.C. Davis campus at 1731 Research Park Drive, just north of Cowell
Boulevard.
Forest Service managers selected the three-story, 14,000-square foot facility
through an open bid process that required the new site be near the U.C. Davis campus.
Employees at the new building work with the Pacific Southwest Research Station,
headquartered in Albany, Calif. Many began working in the U.C. Davis environmental
horticulture building in 1996.
The new building will consolidate scientists working for the agency’s Sierra
Nevada Research Center, Center for Urban Forest Research and Institute of Forest
Genetics. It will also be the duty station for researchers studying the chemical ecology
and management of forest insects.
Sierra Nevada Research Center scientists are working to restore forest health,
conserve species diversity, examine climate change implications, explore watershed
processes, and understand the institutional processes influencing resource management.
The Center for Urban Forest Research looks at how urban trees affect air quality,
public health, energy conservation, real estate values and watersheds. Its scientists study
urban forests as ecosystems with functions and processes not unlike natural systems with
heavier human influences.
Institute of Forest Genetics scientists conduct research to find unique and
endangered tree populations, and identify the genes that make some trees resistant to
disease or have certain characteristics. Most of the scientists working within this research
unit are based in Placerville, Calif.
Scientists with the chemical ecology and management of forest insects unit apply
knowledge of insect behavior to reduce the effects of infestations. Their research
emphases are on the use of insect-produced compounds to manipulate pine bark beetle
populations, and the role of insects in decomposing and recycling organic material.
For additional information about research activities at the new facility, log onto:
http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/davis/
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