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UCI air quality symposium will mark designation of Rowland Hall as historic landmark

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EVENT:  UCI will host a two-day symposium on air quality research and a ceremony in honor of Rowland Hall’s designation as a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society. The building was the site of groundbreaking research on chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone loss by Nobel laureates F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina in 1974 and is a leading atmospheric chemistry research center today. WHEN/WHERE:AirUCI symposium: 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 18 (including...

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UCI receives $700,000 EPA grant to study climate change, air quality

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded UCI $701,304 to study the impact of climate change on air quality. “This grant offers an exciting opportunity to learn about air pollution in the future from both state-of-the-art experiments and computer modeling techniques,” said Donald Dabdub, UCI professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering. “We know that both ammonia and organic compounds will be emitted more strongly in the future, and this can bring about new chemical reactions,...

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UCI study finds dramatic increase in concurrent droughts, heat waves

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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...

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