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THREE IN UCI PHYSICAL SCIENCES BECOME 2021 AAAS FELLOWS
They join a list that includes scientists like Thomas Edison.
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Sep 27, 2021
Steven D. Allison Appointed Director of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society
Professor Steven Allison has been announced as the new Director of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society, effective October 1, 2021.  The Newkirk Center has had a large impact on UCI's…
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Sep 24, 2021
Charlie Zender to give Greg Leptoukh Lecture at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
The lecture honors Zender’s work to manage and analyze scientific data related to climate science.
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Sep 15, 2021
Claudia Czimczik wins NSF grant for new instrument to study climate change
The instrument will allow scientists the world over to study how permafrost thaw, wildfires and land use change are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, and to evaluate efforts to decarbonize economies and reign in climate change.
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Sep 14, 2021
The three new Physical Sciences faculty
One studies waves and patterns in nature, one studies how climate change will affect agriculture, and one uses math to understand how DNA moves around our cells. Meet the new faculty of the UCI School of Physical Sciences.
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Sep 14, 2021
UCI researchers to help find clues about past climate conditions in Antarctica’s oldest ice
Initiative will create paths for first-generation and underrepresented students
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2021 AGU Honors
Sep 10, 2021
Charlie Zender selected to give the Greg Leptoukh Lecture at the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting
AGU announces Section Awardees and Named Lecturers, including ESS Professor Charlie Zender
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Sep 9, 2021
Saltzman Lab research highlighted in UCI News
Earth system scientists at UCI studied air trapped in compacted layers of Antarctic ice and snow to come up with some answers and a few new questions about the amount of molecular hydrogen in our…
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Sep 9, 2021
UCI researchers analyzed Antarctic air samples to learn of a 70-percent increase in atmospheric hydrogen over the past 150 years
Earth system scientists at UCI studied air trapped in compacted layers of Antarctic ice and snow to come up with some answers and a few new questions about the amount of molecular hydrogen in our…
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Sep 3, 2021
UCI Science Delivery: Audrey Odwuor and the Caldor Fire
UC Irvine Earth System scientists prepare to head to the Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe to study the fire's smoke. 
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Sep 3, 2021
UCI Science Delivery: Audrey Odwuor and the Caldor Fire
Fires are burning in the West. The Caldor Fire in Lake Tahoe is making what you breathe more smoke than air, forcing thousands to evacuate. Find out what some scientists from the UCI Department of…
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Sep 3, 2021
Professor Gudrun Magnusdottir elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
Nowadays, Professor Gudrun Magnusdottir of the UCI Department of Earth System Science uses computers to model the Earth system — but she remembers a time when she did her calculations with a pencil…
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Sep 3, 2021
Professor Gudrun Magnusdottir elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
Becoming an AMS fellow requires a slate of field-defining advances in the meteorological sciences.
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The Department of Earth System Science acknowledges our presence on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Acjachemen and Tongva peoples, who still hold strong cultural, spiritual and physical ties to this region.