Michael Prather

NOAA names Michael Prather to climate assessment panel

Michael Prather, UCI professor of Earth system science, has been appointed to the Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment by the National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration. The panel provides input on climate assessment activities to NOAA, which relays the information to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. Prather’s term lasts one year.

Michael Prather wins Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award

Michael Prather, professor of Earth system science at UCI, has won the California Air Resources Board’s elite Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award for fundamental contributions to the scientific understanding of the role and impacts of various air pollutants and greenhouse gases. His research group integrates global modeling with satellite measurements of the composition and chemistry of […]

Prather helps author new AGU climate change statement

The American Geophysical Union today released a new statement updating its position on climate change, the evidence for it, potential…

A gamble of global proportions

UCI’s Michael Prather is a lead author on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI Earth scientists co-write emissions verification report

UC Irvine Earth scientists Michael Prather and James Randerson have co-authored a National Research Council report discussing how the U.S. could monitor foreign greenhouse gas emissions if it enters into a new climate treaty.

Allergan climate

UC Irvine Earth system scientists Michael Prather and Diane Pataki will speak on “Climate Is Changing Globally. Dare We Act Locally?” as part of the Allergan Foundation Lecture Series in Modern Biology.

New institute aims to balance the planet

Michael Prather discusses UCI’s new environment institute, which aims to identify research needed for an improved understanding of society’s response to a changing climate and for environmental science to better respond to societal needs.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation names 3 UCI faculty as 2022 Sloan Research Fellows

Distinction is awarded to assistant professors in Earth system science, mathematics

UCI professor of Earth system science Michael Prather

UCI, others see agriculture as major source of increase in atmospheric nitrous oxide

Long-lived greenhouse gas could hinder international climate goals, researchers say

Sustaining Orange County: UC Irvine professor on parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change

Orange Coast, June 7, 2020