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Feb 06, 2019 |
Improved land management project co-led by UCI gets $4.6 million in state funding Irvine, Calif., Feb. 6, 2019 – California’s Strategic Growth Council recently approved $4.6 million for a project led by the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Merced to develop new tools and methods for better managing the state’s forests and wildlands. The ... |
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Feb 06, 2019 |
Surprise, there’s a six-mile hole under Antarctica No one likes a surprise void. Especially not a void where ice is supposed to be. Especially not in the glacier that already plays the largest role of any single glacier’s in sea-level rise. The void—or the “cavity,” as radar scientists put it—is in the Thwaites glacier, a troublesome mass of ice on... |
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Feb 01, 2019 |
Student Feature: Mia Arnold If jigsaw puzzles and mystery novels could be translated into a college major, it would probably be math, says junior Mia Arnold, who credits her childhood zeal for the former with igniting her adult passion for the latter. “They all require using your head to solve a problem,” she explains. “I see... |
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Jan 27, 2019 |
UCI School of Physical Sciences Dean's Search The University of California, Irvine (UCI) seeks an inspiring, visionary, and strategic scholar-administrator to serve as Dean of the School of Physical Sciences (SPS). The University was founded to advance a goal of improving society through globally preeminent research, life-enhancing discoveries... |
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Jan 18, 2019 |
Antarctic Ice Is Melting—And It’s Melting Faster Researchers monitoring the condition of the Antarctic ice sheet report that not only is the ice melting, but that the rate of ice loss is increasing rapidly. According to their estimates, around 40 gigatons of ice were lost per year in the 1980s. By the 2010s, that rate of loss had increased to... |
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Jan 15, 2019 |
Clean and green: UCI physicist helps invent novel way of converting nitrogen to ammonia The ammonia you use to clean and disinfect your kitchen floor starts off as nitrogen, a gas that makes up almost 80 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. But the conversion requires the breaking of a strong triple-chemical bond in a high-heat, high-pressure industrial process. UCI physicist Huolin Xin... |
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Jan 14, 2019 |
Energy From Fusion In 'A Couple Years,' CEO Says, Commercialization In Five TAE Technologies will bring a fusion-reactor technology to commercialization in the next five years, its CEO announced recently at the University of California, Irvine. "The notion that you hear fusion is another 20 years away, 30 years away, 50 years away—it's not true," said Michl Binderbauer,... |
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Jan 14, 2019 |
UCI/JPL: Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago Irvine, Calif., Monday, Jan. 14, 2019 – Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Glaciologists from the University of California, Irvine, NASA’s Jet Propulsion... |
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Jan 14, 2019 |
Professor emeritus of physics & astronomy receives Heinlein Award for science fiction Gregory Benford, science fiction author and professor emeritus of physics & astronomy at UCI, is the 2019 winner of the Heinlein Award, bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. The award is in recognition of... |
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Jan 14, 2019 |
Ice loss from Antarctica has sextupled since the 1970s, new research finds Antarctic glaciers have been melting at an accelerating pace over the past four decades thanks to an influx of warm ocean water — a startling new finding that researchers say could mean sea levels are poised to rise more quickly than predicted in coming decades. The Antarctic lost 40 billion... |