geoscience

Joint research project furthers understanding of important CO2 reservoir

UCI expert on climate and environment is first to hold new endowed position

Mathieu Morlighem, UCI assistant professor of Earth system science, is contributing his expertise in ice sheet numerical modeling to the newly launched International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. The five-year, $25 million project, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the U.K.’s Natural Environment Research Council, aims to provide answers to some of the most pressing inquiries […]

UCI launches Green Labs certification program

More accurate maps of bed topography reveal physical processes controlling retreat

Warming-induced plankton growth near Antarctica will impair marine food chain

Essential iron is hoarded and recycled by the climate-regulating aquatic plants

Findings paint less dire climate picture, as ancient emissions are more harmful

Waning influence of once-telling weather patterns altered by global warming skews projections

Susan Trumbore, UCI professor of Earth system science, is one of eight 2018 recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth & Environmental Science, bestowed by the Franklin Institute. She was cited for her “pioneering use of radiocarbon measurements in forests and soils to assess the flow of carbon between the biosphere and atmosphere, with implications […]