Ph.D. alumnus Tamlin Pavelsky wins White House Award

Ph.D. alumnus Tamlin Pavelsky wins White House Award

Ph.D. alumnus Tamlin Pavelsky, now Assistant Professor of Global Hydrology at UNC-Chapel Hill, has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government to early-career scientists and engineers.

Calling for an early warning system on climate change

Calling for an early warning system on climate change

Professor and Chair Laurence C. Smith was interviewed Wednesday on KPCC-89.3 FM's "Take Two" about a National Academy of Sciences report co-authored calling for the creation of an early warning system to better anticipate the more sudden and potentially calamitous impacts of climate change.

AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award

AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award

Graduate student Shenyue Jia's paper, Environmental Variability and Fluctuation of Coccidioidomycosis(Valley Fever) in California: Based on a New Framework Involving Fungal Life Cycle was chosen as an Outstanding Student Paper Award winner at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

Research selected by PNAS as a top 10 news story of 2013

Research selected by PNAS as a top 10 news story of 2013

Professor and Chair Laurence C. Smith and graduate student Scott Stephenson research's, Diminishing sea ice might open short routes for trans-Arctic vessels, was selected by PNAS as a top 10 news story of 2013.

(UCLA Today)