New Employee

Activate your UCInet ID
Please activate your UCInet ID at www.activate.uci.edu -- usually day 2 of employment You can also get your UCI email address once your UCInet ID activated

Parking in Campus
Parking Permit (Campus) $72 for General, $91 for Reserved 200 Public Services Building – www.parking.uci.edu You may potentially choose sustainable transportation that allows you a total of ~45 times temporary parking for your car per year while riding for the rest of time.

Self-Service Portal
For most benefits including your check, insurance enrollment, tax forms and retirement plans, you could manipulate in UCPath starting from the year of 2020: https://ucpath.uci.edu/

CORE safety training
To complete your CORE safety training, please visit: www.uclc.uci.edu

Irvine Housing
Please submit your application to Irvine Campus Housing Authority (https://icha.uci.edu/) for being considered as a tenant as early as possible (It could take 12-18 months for you to wait on the list, so hurry up). If living in campus is not available, you could check any of the apartments community by commercial company such as the Irvine Company Apartment Homes

Other Items Upon Arrival

  • Email a photo of yourself to Elliot McCollum to be used as your profile picture
  • Email to Yue Li with a brief introduction of yourself and this would be introduced to the whole department to let everybody else knows you
  • Purchase discounts tickets from Student Government at the Student Center Bank account membership in School’s First Federal Credit Union at the Student Center. (For international scholars, you could also choose the nearby Chase Bank for creating your account just with your contract copy, also other banks).
  • UCI Passport service: https://www.passport.uci.edu/
  • For international scholars, you could find information on Social Security Number, Taxes in the U.S. and your VISA status in UCI International Center: https://ic.uci.edu/students/currentStudents/employment/, You could always email the International Student Center to ask about your VISA issue such as travel signature
  • A fan of sports? Check out the Anteater Recreation Center: https://www.campusrec.uci.edu/, as you may pay $112 per quarter to become a member, who could use all the workout equipment, swimming pool, basketball court and other services in the gym.
  • Sign up for the emergency alert system: https://www.oit.uci.edu/zotalert/

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.