Environment/Energy

UCI scientists see order in complex patterns of river deltas

Landforms ‘self-organize’ to withstand human and natural disturbances

ARPA-E funds UCI-led study of kelp farming

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has awarded $1.8 million to UCI oceanographic engineer Kristen Davis to study offshore kelp cultivation. “Macroalgae are fast-growing and highly versatile; they can be used for feedstock, fuels, chemicals and many other commercial products,” said Davis, assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering and Earth system […]

UCI: Earth is losing its fire power

Industrial farming disrupts burn-regrowth cycle in grasslands, study finds

Climate warming shifts lightning-caused forest fires farther north

Extreme lightning storms are the main driver of recent massive fire years in Alaska and Canada, and these storms are likely to move farther north with climate warming, potentially altering landscapes, according to findings in Nature Climate Change by researchers from UCI, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and elsewhere. Analyzing satellite images and data from ground-based networks, […]

Small climb in mean temperatures linked to far higher chance of deadly heat waves

UCI-led analysis of data from India could have dire implications for future

Cultivating the next generation of scientists

UCI’s Project CRYSTAL integrates classroom and outdoor learning experiences

UCI’s James Randerson is elected to National Academy of Sciences

Earth system scientist is honored for climate change studies

India’s outsized coal plans would wipe out Paris climate goals

UCI, CoalSwarm: Hundreds of new dirty power plants aren’t needed

Rowland Hall earns chemical landmark status

UCI’s Rowland Hall was officially designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society in a campus ceremony Tuesday. The building is named after F. Sherwood “Sherry” Rowland, a founding faculty member whose groundbreaking research in the 1970s demonstrated the potentially catastrophic effect of chlorofluorocarbons on the Earth’s ozone layer, which protects against the sun’s […]

Robots lend a helping hand

Stroke victims benefit from UCI engineering research