The IGPP is a Multi-Campus Research Unit of the University of California established in 1946, with existing branches at the UCLA, UCSD, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Riverside campuses, and the Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories.  The IGPP charter defines its mission: to promote and coordinate basic research on the understanding of the origin, structure, and evolution of the Earth, the Solar System and the Universe, and on the prediction of future changes, as they affect human life.

Research at the UCI IGPP branch addresses fundamental questions of global environmental change affecting the coupled system of atmosphere, ocean, and land, and occurring on the time scale of a human life.

Global environmental problems such as climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion involve complex interactions between atmosphere, ocean and land systems.  UCI’s IGPP branch includes members of the Departments of Earth System Science, Chemistry, and Mathematics in the School of Physical Sciences and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the School of Engineering.  As a group, we take an integrated approach that combines field and laboratory measurements with modeling and theoretical studies.  Understanding of the Earth as a coupled system of atmosphere, land and ocean is required to plausibly predict future changes in the Earth System.

Link to System-wide IGPP web page