environment

UCI’s Project CRYSTAL integrates classroom and outdoor learning experiences

EVENT: UCI will host the 2017 Headwaters to Ocean Conference, the premier biennial gathering of a multidisciplinary group of leaders, decision-makers, scholars and advocates to address key social, economic and environmental effects on the Earth’s natural marine systems. WHEN/WHERE: 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 23, and 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 24,  at […]

EVENT: UCI will host the first gathering of chiefs, governors and presidents of indigenous sovereign nations within the U.S. WHEN/WHERE: 12:30-5:30 p.m. Monday, May 22, at the Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science & Engineering, 100 Academy Drive, on campus INFORMATION: Free and open to the public. Media planning to attend should RSVP […]

Earth system scientist is honored for climate change studies

Major federal funding establishes campus as international center of excellence

Campus partners with Irvine Ranch Water District to convert central cooling plant to recycled water use

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 […]

UCI faculty are joining thousands of colleagues across California in signing an open letter on climate change to President Donald Trump and his administration, calling on them “in the most urgent terms possible, to maintain our country’s commitment to meeting the greenhouse gas emission targets set forth in the Paris Climate Agreement.” The U.S. signed the pact last […]

Drought-ravaged California misses out on billions of gallons of freshwater each year, as rain washes into storm drains and out to sea. University of California researchers say it’s time for that to change. Led by UCI civil engineer Stanley Grant, they hope to start a revolution in how urban stormwater is collected and managed. Faculty […]