In September 1965, I came from Iran to study at the University of Southern California as a freshman. Over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, our dorms were closed. Many international students didn’t have a place to go for the holidays, so the university arranged for me to stay with two American families in Orange […]
UCI Earth system science researchers Yang Chen and Jim Randerson, along with NASA colleagues, are predicting an above-average wildfire risk in the eastern Amazon region and an average to below-average fire risk in the western Amazon for the upcoming dry season.
Stacked in gravity-defying arrangements in the western San Bernardino Mountains, near the San Andreas Fault, granite boulders that should have been toppled by earthquakes long ago resolutely remain. In exploring why these rocks still stand, researchers have uncovered connections between Southern California’s San Jacinto and San Andreas faults that could change how the region plans for future earthquakes.