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NSF 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.
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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.
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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.
AAG 2014 awards
At this year's Assocation of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, UCLA Geography graduate student Dimitar Anguelov was awarded the AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group Research Award, as well as the Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty Group best paper award.
Creating an ‘easy button’ to calculate river flows from space
Geography graduate student Colin Gleason and professor and department chair Laurence C. Smith devised a new way to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to measure river flows from outer space.
UCLA NewsroomProfessor MacDonald and California Drought on NBC Nightly News
Professor Glen MacDonald speaks on NBC Nightly News about the California Drought.
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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
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.
