Professor Eric Sheppard receives honorary degree from Bristol University
Professor Eric Sheppard receives honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Bristol University.
Bristol UniversityProfessor Cindy Fan addresses Hong Kong street protests in NY Times Op-Ed
UCLA Geography Professor Cindy Fan addresses Hong Kong street protests in NY Times Op-Ed.
UCLA Newsroom, New York TimesPh.D. candidate Vena Chu interviewed about remote sensing
UCLA Geography Ph.D. candidate Vena Chu interviewed about remote sensing of Greenland meltwater release to the ocean by NASA Earth Observatory.
NASA Earth ObservatoryNSF EaSM-3 East Asian Project funded
Professor Yongkang Xue is leading an international research team looking at forces driving climate change in East Asia over the next 30 years. This 4-year research project is being funded by the National Science Foundation.
Ea SM-3:Collaborative Res: Surface-induced forcing and decadal variability and change of the East Asian climate, surface hydrology and agriculture
UCLA Newsroom, NSF EaSM-3 East Asian ProjectUsing the past to understand climate change
Professor and John Muir Chair Glen MacDonald examins changes in the fossil record, plant remains, pollen, tree rings, and geochemistry over the years to understand climate change.
Thousand Oaks AcornProfessor Judy Carney in Nature Genetics
Professor Judith Carney part of an international team of researchers that has sequenced the complete genome of African Rice (Oryza glaberrima), led by the University of Arizona.
UA News, Nature GeneticsProfessor Eric Sheppard delivers AAG Presidential Address
Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2014 Past President's Address by UCLA Geography Professor and von Humboldet Chair Eric Sheppard: Thinking Geographically is now available.
Association of American GeographersReducing emissions primary way to fight climate change
Assistant Professor Daniela Cusack discusses geoengineering on the Washington Post, Southern California Public Radio (KPCC, 89.3) and on Zocalo Public Square.
UCLA Newsroom, KPCC, KPCC (audio), Zocalo, Washington Post
Professor Trimble’s book receives G.K. Gilbert Award
Stan Trimble’s new book, Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country (CRC, 2013) received the 2014 G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphic Research from the Geomorphological Research Group of the Association of American Geographers. The book was also nominated for the J. B. Jackson Prize in historical geography.
(source: AAG)
UC summit on severe drought
Geography Professor, John Muir Chair, UC Presidential Chair, and director of the Institute of Environment and Sustainaibility Glen MacDonald on living with severe drought at a UC summit in Sacramento.
