James Randerson named Ralph J. & Carol M. Cicerone Chair of Earth System Science

UCI expert on climate and environment is first to hold new endowed position

UC Irvine News Brief: Earth systems science grant

A team of UC Irvine professors has been awarded $3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to assess the below-ground effects of environmental change.

Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi (left), UC Irvine associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and materials science and engineering, is lead principal investigator on the Geophysicist.AI project, while colleagues Eric Mjolsness (center), professor of computer science, and Russ Detwiler (right), associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, are co-principal investigators.

UC Irvine to lead use of AI in solving grand challenges below Earth's surface

UC Office of the President-funded project involves 5 UC campuses and 2 national labs

From left, Jennifer Martiny, Rina Dechter and Catherine Lord.

3 UC Irvine professors elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Rina Dechter, Catherine Lord and Jennifer Martiny recognized for scholarly excellence

Photo of Cailin O’Connor, UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of logic and philosophy of science
UC Irvine Podcast Indicator

UCI Podcast: Women in science

Cailin O’Connor details obstacles overcome and the path ahead

Photo-like satellite image of southern Greenland on the afternoon of September 4, 2022. Bare, dirty ice at the margin of the ice sheet appears gray. Snow-covered ice is bright white. Pale blue ribbons and circles are lakes, rivers and ponds of melt water.

UC Irvine Earth system scientists discover missing piece in climate models

Their update accounts for the effects of overlooked physical properties in ice

Cascade Sorte

Coastal ecosystems: cracking the code

Marine biologist Cascade Sorte delves into the complex interactions between climate change and ocean species

Left to right, Hui Wang, Allison Welch and Jinhyuk Kim, graduate students in the UC Irvine Department of Earth System Science.

UC Irvine researchers shine light on rapid changes in Arctic and boreal ecosystems

The changes point toward increasingly unstable ecosystems at high latitudes

An artist's rendering of a solar system depicted as a group of ducklings orbiting their mother.

UC Irvine-led team unravels mysteries of planet formation, evolution in distant solar system

Astronomers analyze masses, orbital properties and atmospheric features of six exoplanets

Melting in a cast iron pan is a pat of butter derived through a chemical process.

UC Irvine-led science team shows how to eat our way out of the climate crisis

Researchers explore the benefits of producing farm-free food