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Channels give warm ocean water access to their undersides, speeding glacier retreat

Global reach UCI is sustaining its outsized reputation for tracking and tackling environmental challenges Each morning by 8 and again at night, UCI doctoral student Zachary Labe pushes a button, and the latest satellite data on Arctic sea ice unfurls on his computer screen. If it’s anomalous – that’s the scientific term for not normal […]

UCI is sustaining its outsized reputation for tracking and tackling environmental challenges

From Nobel Prize-winning findings about the planet’s rapidly changing atmosphere to innovative technologies and solutions, the campus is ahead of the curve on the most daunting challenges of our time. Surging king tides and fiercer storms along the West Coast are being plotted on real-time three-dimensional maps by UCI engineers for Newport Beach and Tijuana, and social […]

Campus aims to boost Ph.D. candidates by 35 percent over next five years

Study findings will help improve predictions about global sea level rise

Energy, transportation scores make campus highest-ranked comprehensive university

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 […]

UCI celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015, which also saw the investiture of a sixth chancellor, the Dalai Lama’s third visit to campus and a continued reign as the nation’s top ‘Cool School’

Breakup of Zachariae Isstrom could substantially raise global sea levels