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UCI to Co-lead $50 Million Water-energy Research Consortium

Written on October 5, 2015.

US-China collaboration also will include 4 other UC campuses, university lab Oct. 5, 2015– The University of California, Irvine will be part of a five-year, multimillion-dollar, international research consortium tackling water-related aspects of energy production and use, the U.S. Department of Energy has announced. The partnership, led by UC Berkeley in collaboration with UCI, includes the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Davis, UC Merced, UCLA, and the Boston-based nonprofit SEI...

ChEMS Professor Receives International Award

Written on September 15, 2015.

Sept. 15, 2015 — Chemical engineering and materials science Professor Julie Schoenung has been awarded the 2016 Acta Materialia Holloman Award for Materials & Society. The honor recognizes demonstrated leadership in promoting an understanding of the interactions between materials technology and societal interests, as well as contributions to materials technology that have had a major impact on society. She was chosen by a selection committee comprised of five distinguished materials...

Southern California wildfires exhibit split personalities

Written on September 8, 2015.

UCI, other researchers examine differences between summer, Santa Ana fires Brian Bell / UCI Irvine, Calif., Sept. 8, 2015 – Wildfires have ravaged both populated and unpopulated regions of Southern California at an increasing rate over the past few decades, and scientists from three University of California campuses and partner institutions are predicting that by midcentury, as a consequence of climate change causing hotter and drier summers, a lot more will go up in flames. In a paper...

UCI study finds dramatic increase in concurrent droughts, heat waves

Written on August 31, 2015.

Researchers use unique statistical analysis to identify dual climate threat Brian Bell / UCI Irvine, Calif., Aug. 31, 2015 – Droughts and heat waves are happening simultaneously with much greater frequency than in the past, according to research by climate experts at the University of California, Irvine. Their findings appear today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A team from UCI’s Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing examined data gathered from ground...

Hydrological hat trick

Written on August 31, 2015.

UCI water and drought expert Amir AghaKouchak gets work published in three major journals within two weeks Brian Bell / UCI Here in drought-stricken California, lots of families have dinnertime discussions about water, but rarely do they have the same depth and insight as those happening in the AghaKouchak household. Amir AghaKouchak, assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine, is an expert on drought and water issues; and his wife,...

Hot, Dry and Human-caused

Written on August 26, 2015.

UCI and other scientists say Californians must learn to live within the state’s new climate Aug. 26, 2015 – California’s current extreme drought must be a lesson for managing water in a warmer, more densely populated world, say UCI and fellow drought experts writing in the journal Nature. Civil & environmental engineer Amir AghaKouchak, political scientist David Feldman and ecology & evolutionary biologist Travis Huxman call for greater recognition of the role...

UCI: We’re the coolest

Written on August 11, 2015.

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row Cathy Lawhon, UCI Irvine, Calif., Aug. 11, 2015 – If it’s cool you want, look no further than the University of California, Irvine. For the second year in a row, the campus is No. 1 in Sierra magazine’s annual “Cool Schools” ranking of the nation’s greenest colleges. It’s the first time any university has repeated a No. 1 appearance and the sixth year UCI has placed among the top 10. “We’re thrilled that...

Grad Student Receives DOE Fellowship

Written on August 10, 2015.

Elias Massoud, a civil and environmental engineering doctoral student, has received a Science Graduate Student Researcher Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy. The fellowship encompasses a paid internship from January through May 2016 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Massoud will work on testing different aspects of Earth’s systems in LANL’s Vegetation Dynamics Research Lab. Massoud, whose UC Irvine adviser is Assistant Professor Jasper Vrugt, researches ways to improve...

Economic slump, not natural gas boom, responsible for drop in CO2 emissions

Written on July 21, 2015.

The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession – not the reduced use of coal, research from the University of California Irvine, the University of Maryland, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis shows. Brian Bell, UC Irvine Irvine, Calif., July 21, 2015 – The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013...

UCI Combustion Lab to Participate in New Consortium

Written on July 20, 2015.

July 20, 2015 – The UC Irvine Combustion Laboratory is part of a new collaboration seeking to improve ties among academia, federal laboratories and industries involved with atomization. The Atomization Technology Innovation Consortium (ATIC), created with a $485,000 planning grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will work to accelerate innovation, technology transfer and implementation of atomization technologies across a broad range of industries....