Eric Rignot

UCI, NASA scientists assess ice sheet with potential to raise global sea levels nearly 5 feet

UCI glaciologists play key roles on international assessment team

Project utilized 25 years of data from six international satellite missions

UCI, South American glaciologists characterize protected region with new methods

Interdisciplinary experts convened on campus for two-day public conference on looming existential threat

A study by scientists from UCI and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has revealed a gigantic cavity on the underside of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. The hole is reportedly two-thirds the area of Manhattan, about 1,000 feet tall and expanding. The findings were published today in Science Advances. The researchers expected to find gaps between […]

Climate change-induced melting will raise global sea levels for decades to come

Carbon Brief, a website devoted to the analysis of energy policy and climate change science, has published a list of the 10 climate research papers in 2018 that received the most global media attention, and two originated at UCI. The rankings are based on scores tabulated by Altmetric, which tracks and measures exposure of academic […]

Usually seen as less vulnerable, they carry the potential to add 16 feet to global sea level

UCI scientists are part of international team conducting 25-year assessment