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Something in the air

Written on February 27, 2012.

UCI-led team makes key discovery about smog in their innovative lab. Janet Wilson, University Communications Clutching a large, perforated disc dubbed “the showerhead,” chemist Veronique Perraud perches beside what appears to be a huge, hissing missile. So it goes at UC Irvine’s Atmospheric Integrated Research unit, one of the world’s leading air pollution laboratories. Situated in a suburb of smoggy Los Angeles, AirUCI’s innovative experts are making news again, providing...

New Exhibit on Sherwood Rowland’s Ground-Breaking Research

Written on December 12, 2011.

UCI Libraries The UCI Libraries new exhibit, Discovery of a Lifetime: F. Sherwood Rowland and the Ozone Layer, is now on display in the Langson Library Muriel Ansley Reynolds Exhibit Gallery. This exciting new exhibit celebrates the research contributions of world-renowned atmospheric scientist F. Sherwood “Sherry” Rowland, 1995 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, and UCI Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry in Earth System Science. Dr. Rowland generously donated his professional...

F. Sherwood Rowland, UCI Nobel Laureate, Has Groundbreaking Climate Research on Exhibit

Written on November 18, 2011.

Matt Coker, OC Weekly An exhibition celebrating the research contributions of Nobel laureate and UC Irvine chemistry professor F. Sherwood “Sherry” Rowland opens this evening in the Langson Library at UCI. Ralph J. Cicerone, the National Academy of Sciences president who was UCI’s dean of the School of Physical Sciences when Rowland shared the Nobel for Chemistry in 1995, and university Chancellor Michael Drake will share remarks at a 6 p.m. reception, which is followed...

Deep Green: Long-Term Zero-Carbon Power for the 21st Century

Written on November 15, 2011.

Tatiana Arizaga, School of Physical Sciences E-Newsletter On October 18, 2011, Dr. Shaka gave a lecture as part of the 2011-2012 Discover the Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series in which he proposed nuclear technology as the solution to obtaining clean energy. Dr. Shaka believes that continued burning of fossil fuels, with the large influx of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, could prove to be an enormous and expensive future problem. Furthermore, even if such changes...

Bacteria Responsible for Missing ‘Atmospheric Brooms’ That Sweep the Sky Clean

Written on September 19, 2011.

James Mitchell Crow, RSC: Advancing the Chemical Sciences Hydroxyl radicals play a central role in cleaning pollutants from our atmosphere – but the ultimate source of Earth’s ‘atmospheric brooms’ has proven difficult to track down. An international team of researchers have now found that the answer could lie not in the air above us, but in the ground beneath our feet. Previous research has established that up to one third of the hydroxyl radicals formed in the lower...

After 2 Studies, Methane Puzzle Persists

Written on August 12, 2011.

Joanna M. Foster, The New York Times One climate-science conundrum, two research teams, two independent approaches, two seemingly conflicting conclusions. The unsolved mystery, or perhaps now, twice-solved mystery: Why did atmospheric methane levels, steadily on the rise since record-keeping began, abruptly level off and stabilize in the last three decades? Methane, which is primarily found deep within the earth and deep within the guts of microbes, is one of the most potent greenhouse...

Working together, we can change history

Written on August 29, 2010.

The China Post news staff, The China Post In 1973 two chemists working at the University of California, Irvine, began studying the effects of chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs. These chemicals had been used for decades as agents in the production of Styrofoam and acted as the main refrigerants in air conditioners, refrigerators and freezers. CFCs were used in hair spray, perfumes and many more industrial and household items. Chemists Frank Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina found that chemicals...

Termite insecticide a potent greenhouse gas

Written on January 20, 2009.

An insecticide used to fumigate termite-infested buildings is a strong greenhouse gas that lives in the atmosphere nearly 10 times longer than previously thought, UC Irvine research has found. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications An insecticide used to fumigate termite-infested buildings is a strong greenhouse gas that lives in the atmosphere nearly 10 times longer than previously thought, UC Irvine research has found. Sulfuryl fluoride, UCI chemists discovered, stays in...

South to the pole

Written on December 15, 2008.

UC Irvine chemist Murat Aydin will spend his holiday drilling into the South Pole’s thick ice to collect trapped air that is up to 100 years old. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications UC Irvine chemist Murat Aydin will spend his holiday drilling into the South Pole’s thick ice to collect trapped air that is up to 100 years old. His goal: to analyze trace amounts of gases to see how their levels have changed over time. “It’s almost like studying history – the history...

AirUCI expands horizons

Written on September 29, 2008.

UCI is ramping up its focus on air quality and climate change research in an effort to tackle some of today’s most pressing environmental challenges. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications UCI is ramping up its focus on air quality and climate change research in an effort to tackle some of today’s most pressing environmental challenges. AirUCI, the group that explores atmospheric issues, has become an official organized research unit, nearly tripling the number of scientists...

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