Climate Change
Jun 23, 2022
The sheer acreage consumed by fire in California in recent years is numbing: more than 2.5 million acres last year, and 4.3 million acres the year before that.
Jun 13, 2022
Perymon came to UCI to make the way we address environmental problems more equitable.
Jun 8, 2022
The award is the highest honor bestowed by the American Chemical Society's Southern California chapter.
Jun 7, 2022
Jane Baldwin has just completed her first year as an Assistant Professor at the University of California Irvine. Her combination of interests is non-traditional, at least for someone coming up through the places and programs that she has.
Jun 6, 2022
UCI scientists make the discovery using improved tracking algorithms
May 31, 2022
An accidental discovery in UCI Distinguished Professor Larry Overman’s lab in the 1970s helped define his research direction and legacy.
May 26, 2022
The new fellows research everything from solutions to climate change through chemistry to cancer treatments through mathematical modeling.
May 4, 2022
Climate change is already leaving unprecedented marks on forests. In the Sierra Nevada, up to 19 percent of adult giant sequoias, many of which have stood since the days of Aristotle, died in fires in just the last two summers. Five of the eight most abundant tree species in the West have declined significantly just since the year 2000. Using satellite data, archival records, and machine learning, Jon Wang, at the University of California, Irvine, determined that California likely lost…
May 3, 2022
Q&A with Class of 2022 graduate Erin Araneta, B.S. in chemistry.
Apr 28, 2022
After completing her Ph.D. in applied physics in Italy in 1999, Isabella Velicogna came to the U.S. in the hopes of landing a post doctoral position. Her efforts proved fruitful and she landed a dream job – working at the University of Colorado in Boulder on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) project. The mission involved using satellite data to assess the Earth's water systems, including changes in its ice…
Apr 27, 2022
KUCI's Keven Bossenmeyer interviews the Ph.D. students studying last October's OC oil spill.
Apr 25, 2022
When a pipeline break in October leaked thousands of gallons of oil into the waters off of Huntington Beach, the visible harm to local wildlife was almost immediate, as crude-covered birds and fish began appearing on beaches.