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.
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
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.
Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprise
New report by several federal agencies and the National Academies calls for the development of an early warning system to help society better anticipate the often unforeseen and potentially calamitous impacts of climate change.
Professor and Chair Laurence C. Smith is one of the 14 leading scholars in this report, Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprise.
Global Warming on KCBS 740AM San Francisco
Geography Graduate student Scott Stephenson featured on KCBS 740 AM in San Francisco, CA on global warming.
Professor John Agnew named as AAAS fellow
Three UCLA scholars, including distinguished professor of geography John Agnew, have been selected as fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. Members are chosen for their distinguished efforts to advance science applications.
Pair sheds new light on L.A.’s claim to neon fame
The LA Times on the history of the first neon sign in Los Angeles, undertaken by visiting professor Dydia DeLyser with extensive research done in the department Air Photo Archives.
Tracking Record Atlantic Ice Melt
Professor and Vice Chair Larry Smith tracks record Arctic ice melt in Greenland.
Professor Carney will receive AAG Award
Professor Judy Carney will receive the Association of American Geographer's (AAG) Distinguished Scholarship Honors.
What Killed Off the Wooly Mammoths?
Professor Glen MacDonald featured in Discover Magazine on the impact of humans and climate in What Killed Off the Wooly Mammoths?
Editor’s Choice Award for Graduate Student
Graduate student McKenzie Skiles receives an Editor's Choice award for her paper, Dust radiative forcing in snow of the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2. Interannual variability in radiative forcing and snowmelt rates, published in Water Resources Research.
