Day: August 18, 2015

Father and daughter thrive at UCI

I have been going to UCI ever since I was a little kid. My dad, Jose Perez, is director of the Multimedia Resources Center at the Ayala Science Library and has worked on campus for 25 years. For as long as I can remember, he has taken me to events like Celebrate UCI and book […]

This map of ocean surface temperatures shows how warm waters in the North Atlantic fueled Hurricane Katrina.

UCI, NASA researchers find link between Amazon fire risk, devastating hurricanes

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines. The climate scientists’ findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters near the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s calamitous August 2005 landfall at New Orleans.