Jeffrey Mount is professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Geology and the founding director of the Center for Watershed Sciences. He currently is a senior fellow with the Public Policy Institute in California. Mount held the Roy Shlemon Chair in Applied Geosciences, co-held the Presidents Chair in Undergraduate Education with Peter Moyle, and received the 2005 Distinguished Scholarly Public Research Award for his contributions on issues of public concern such as flood risk, watershed management and river restoration. Mount has served as chair of the CALFED Independent Science Board and as a member of California State Reclamation Board. He authored of "California Rivers and Streams: The Conflict Between Fluvial Process and Land Use" (UC Press). Mount's research and teaching interests include fluvial geomorphology, river ecology and water resource management. At UC Davis, he directed research projects on restoring salmonids in North Coast streams, restoring lowland floodplains and mountain meadows, managing Sierra hydropower systems in response to climate change, and alternative futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. He also co-taught Ecogeomorphology with Peter Moyle. This capstone undergraduate course provides field-based, interdisciplinary training in river and stream management.
Jeffrey Mount
Faculty, Emeritus
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The Draft Bay-Delta Conservation Plan: Assessment of Environmental Performance and Governance
Published in West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy
LEXISNEXIS SUMMARY: ... We evaluated the modeling results in the Plan and conducted our own modeling to evaluate how changes in conditions would affect delta and longfin smelt. ... Note: Full-color figures available in complete copy of this article at http://journals.uchastings.edu/journals/websites/west-northwest/index.php. ... One of the objectiv...
Where the Wild Things Arent Making the Delta a Better Place for Native Species
Published in Public Policy Institute of California
Stream temperature sensitivity to climate warming in Californias Sierra Nevada: impacts to coldwater habitat
Published in Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change
Water temperature influences the distribution, abundance, and health of aquatic organisms in stream ecosystems, so understanding the impacts of climate warming on stream temperature will help guide management and restoration. This study assesses climate warming impacts on stream temperatures in California\textquoterights west-slope Sierra Nevada wa...
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Confluence: A Natural and Human History of the Tuolumne River Watershed
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Conceptual Ecosystem Model of the Sub-Arctic River Response to Climate Change: Kobuk River, Alaska
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Regional Agreements, Adaptation, and Climate Change: New Approaches to FERC Licensing in the Sierra Nevada, California
Private hydropower projects above a threshold size require a license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Many private hydropower projects in California are currently undergoing or about to begin the relicensing process. Relicensing presents an opportunity to reduce or mitigate the environmental impacts of hydropower generation. Because...
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What If Californias Drought Continues?
California is in the fourth year of a severe, hot droughtthe kind that is increasingly likely as the climate warms. Although no sector has been untouched, impacts so far have varied greatly, reflecting different levels of drought preparedness. Urban areas are in the best shape, thanks to sustained investments in diversified water portfolios and con...
Economics of the Drought for California Food and Agriculture
The extreme drought that has gripped California over the past several years is causing onerous adjustments in the natural and human environments. Agriculture, which uses much of the states water, is at the center of many of these arduous responses. The 2015 impacts of the continuing drought are still underway, but in this special ARE Update issue, ...
Ten ways U.S. agencies and Congress can help ease the drought in California and other western states
