Connie Valencia

For Connie Valencia, this research is personal

The public health doctoral student’s dissertation looks at the community impacts of air pollution in her home neighborhood of Boyle Heights

UCI and Singapore researchers find source of 2015 Southeast Asia smoke cloud

Burning of peatlands in Borneo and Sumatra created severe air pollution in region

Earth system scientists to conduct sky-high and ocean-deep research, thanks to NASA award

UC Irvine and other scientists have won a coveted $30 million NASA Earth Venture award for their Atmospheric Tomography Mission, which will study how air pollution affects fast-acting greenhouse gases in the global atmosphere.

Researcher testing air pollution in the Middle East

Hazy road to Mecca

Severe air pollution spikes during yearly pilgrimage, UCI and others find

UCI scientist uses NASA data to find agriculture is a top cause of fires

Wildfire risk will grow due to climate change, new research finds, but unhealthy controlled burns for farming are the leading type of blaze in the U.S.  UC Irvine Earth system scientist Hsiao-Wen Lin found that such fires have increased by 30% nationally in the past decade, mostly in the south. Thanks to stricter air pollution regulations, California, Oregon and Washington have slashed their agricultural burn rates though.

UC Irvine News Brief: Delfino awarded $3.2 million

UCI epidemiologist and his team will research effects of air pollution in elderly people.

Brett Sanders, UCI engineering professor.

UCI shares $1.5 Million NSF award to address inequities in flood adaptation

Brett Sanders will collaborate on three-year project flood modeling in Miami-Dade County

Vojislav Stamenkovic

DOE awards $3.75 Million to engineering for research in clean energy technologies

Vojislav Stamenkovic is leading the clean energy technology research team

A student wearing a head cap with sensors attached for a sleep study.

Wake-Up Call

UCI researchers dive deep in search of health-sleep links

Scientists discover a way Earth’s atmosphere cleans itself

UC Irvine chemist helped shed light on the formation of an air-clearing molecule