Environment & Energy

Eye-popping Earth Week exhibit shows how far campus is from zero-waste goal

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded UCI $701,304 to study the impact of climate change on air quality. “This grant offers an exciting opportunity to learn about air pollution in the future from both state-of-the-art experiments and computer modeling techniques,” said Donald Dabdub, UCI professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering. “We know that both ammonia […]

Ecologically rich mountain cloud forests impacted by drying climate

Oladele Ogunseitan, chair of UCI’s Program in Public Health, has been appointed to a nine-member state advisory committee on hazardous waste. Ogunseitan, who studies pollution prevention, will help the Department of Toxic Substances Control evaluate and select three pilot projects to reduce hazardous waste as part of the agency’s Community Protection & Hazardous Waste Reduction Initiative.

UCI chemist and partners also discover elevated levels of harmful pollutants

Mobile measurements pinpoint greenhouse gas hot spots

Irvine, Calif., Feb. 11, 2016 — New measurements from a NASA satellite have allowed researchers to identify and quantify, for the first time, how climate-driven increases of liquid water storage on land have affected the rate of sea level rise. A new study by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., and the […]

Professor Tim Bradley to aid efforts to save state’s largest lake

A change in leadership and a golden anniversary mark the start of a new era – and vision – for the university

In the spirit of UCI’s forward-thinking founders, campus researchers see beyond the present to create a brilliant future