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THREE IN UCI PHYSICAL SCIENCES BECOME 2021 AAAS FELLOWS
They join a list that includes scientists like Thomas Edison.
Jul 21, 2022
Researchers used LANDSAT satellite data to document how tree-cover changed in California from 1985 to 2021, being shrunk by wildfires, logging, and droughts.
Jul 21, 2022
The finding could help the South American city design greener infrastructure in the future.
Jul 20, 2022
An increase in catastrophic wildfires has reduced California tree cover by 6.7% since 1985, and researchers fear the lost trees will never grow back.
Jul 20, 2022
Three questions with Benis Egoh, UCI assistant professor of Earth system science, who explores arboreal ecosystems.
Jul 20, 2022
UCI researchers seek solutions to the many effects of climate change
Jul 20, 2022
The process is about as low-tech as it gets. Standing on the Newport Pier, Melissa Brock slings a plastic bucket tied to a rope over the side, drops it below the ocean surface to fill it with chilly…
Jul 19, 2022
Alumni of UCI Physical Sciences are invited to this year’s Celebrate Physical Sciences on Saturday, September 24 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Celebrate Physical Sciences will be a fun-filled morning on…
Jul 18, 2022
California's forests are in rapid retreat, which bodes ill for the future.
Jul 15, 2022
UCI oceanographers design an open-source program for in-depth ocean modeling.
Jul 14, 2022
Wildfires and climbing temperatures have caused a 6.7 percent decline since 1985.
Jul 8, 2022
Program supports research by assistant professors.
Jun 23, 2022
The sheer acreage consumed by fire in California in recent years is numbing: more than 2.5 million acres last year, and 4.3 million acres the year before that.

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.