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Hiring of 100 educators goes long way toward satisfying strategic plan goal of 250

NASA has awarded UCI $1.25 million as part of a new $5 million center at Cal State Los Angeles for STEM education, with an emphasis on minority students in areas such as climate change, hydrology, computational physics and data science.

Freshwater runoff from the Sierra Nevada may decrease by as much as one-quarter by 2100 due to climate warming on the high slopes, according to scientists at UC Irvine and UC Merced.

UC Irvine Professor Jay Famiglietti, director of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, has been awarded the 2014 David Keith Todd Distinguished Lectureship by the Groundwater Resources Association. “This is a great surprise and a wonderful honor,” said Famiglietti.  “I will work hard to meet the high standards for communicating California water issues set by previous […]

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The American Geophysical Union has awarded Soroosh Sorooshian, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of civil & environmental engineering, the 2013 Robert E. Horton Medal for his outstanding contributions to hydrology.

Diane Pataki sifts through conflicting advice on how individuals can reduce their carbon footprint.

UCI hydrologist Jay Famiglietti calls much-needed attention to California’s dwindling groundwater supply.

Earth scientist Claudia Czimczik digs in Peru for new dirt on global warming.

Soroosh Sorooshian, Distinguished Professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine, has been selected as the 2009 Walter Orr…