Environment/Energy

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

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 […]

Stroke victims benefit from UCI engineering research

UCI expert helps map migration of air pollution risk to regions far from factories

Katherine Mackey, UCI’s Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Earth System Science, has been awarded a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship in ocean sciences for her pioneering work in marine biogeochemistry. Each year since 1955, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded two-year fellowships to 126 promising early-career scientists in the U.S. and Canada. Nominated by […]

Future may bring more overlap of synergistic weather factors, UCI researchers warn

Long-term impact of climate change on US cities is rising, UCI researchers find

Nine times more ice is melting annually due to warmer temperatures

Data are dramatically increasing knowledge of how the ocean is melting the ice sheet

$140 million consortium aims to improve competitiveness of US industry