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2011-2012 Cicerone Fellowship

Applications are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 Ralph J. and Carol M. Cicerone Graduate Fellowship in Earth System Science. This fellowship provides support for an ESS doctoral student to broaden his or her training by cutting across traditional disciplinary boundaries. See http://ess.uci.edu/opportunity/ciceronefellows for more information

Previous recipients include Ray Anderson and Francesca Hopkins.

May 13, 2011
Famiglietti briefs Kofi Annan on center's water work

May 13, 2011
Former desert resort to become UC Irvine research center

The Desert Club near Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is being donated to the school for the study of the desert ecosystem and the relationship between human development and the natural environment.

May 12, 2011
Press Release: Desert Club to become UCI field research station, thanks to generous gift

Climate change, water supply and visitor use of parkland will be studied

— Irvine, Calif., May 12, 2011 —

A stunning and historic clubhouse at the doorstep of California’s largest state park will be turned into a long-sought UC Irvine field research center for biologists, astronomers, anthropologists and others, thanks to a generous gift from Audrey Steele Burnand, who has deep ties to the property and the small town in which it’s located.

May 12, 2011
UCI to Open Desert Research Center

A 1940s social club at the edge of Anza Borrego Desert State Park will become UC Irvine’s new desert research center, where scientists will investigate everything from climate change to the effects of human presence on the park’s plants and animals.

May 12, 2011
Historic Borrego home to become research center

BORREGO SPRINGS — The historic Desert Club in Borrego Springs, once envisioned to be the centerpiece of a thriving desert city much like Palm Springs, will soon become a field research center for biologists, astronomers, anthropologists and others.

May 12, 2011
There's good news for aspiring geoscientists. Job opportunities at all career stages are on the rise.

May 11, 2011
Eric Saltzman elected as a 2011 AGU Fellow

Professor Eric Saltzman was elected to be a 2011 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). "Being elected a Fellow of the AGU is a huge honor," agreed Saltzman, whose work focuses on trace gas effects on climate. "It's really a reflection of all the great work done by my students and postdocs over the years."

Apr 29, 2011
More dangerous than Japan radiation

West Coast inhabitants have learned by now that we live downwind from the crippled nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan. The plume of radioactive material poses a real threat near the source, where images include health workers wearing protective "moon suits," infants probed by Geiger counters, and contaminated smoke and steam spewing from the damaged reactor buildings. These emissions are carried our direction in the global wind belt called the prevailing westerlies.

Apr 18, 2011
EPA: West Coast radiation still very low

Detectors on the West Coast that are part of a nationwide network continue picking up only trace levels of radioactive material from crippled reactors in Japan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday.

The levels remain 100,000 to a million times below any that would trigger health concerns, officials said.

Mar 25, 2011

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