January 22, 2025
January 22, 2025 —
UC San Diego achieved a top rating in the global Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS). Based upon its score, the campus is currently 3rd in the nation among Platinum-rated institutions.
January 15, 2025
January 15, 2025 —
UC San Diego and the University of Haifa expand a regional partnership to study 10,000 years of Mediterranean history and climate change, and to preserve cultural heritage through cutting-edge marine and cyber-archaeology technologies.
January 14, 2025
January 14, 2025 —
Researchers at the University of California San Diego, University of Florida and Arizona State University have been awarded $3.28 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to build OpenForest4D – a web-based cyberinfrastructure platform for next-generation 4D forest mapping...
January 14, 2025
January 14, 2025 —
In the face of mounting geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, a new Nature commentary calls for renewed efforts to preserve and enhance cross-border collaboration in scientific research.
January 14, 2025
January 14, 2025 —
New research led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography highlights the critical role of mangroves in protecting coastal communities from the devastating effects of climate change—particularly hurricanes.
December 12, 2024
December 12, 2024 —
A team of scientists and science communicators affiliated with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), part of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego, and the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz have developed an initiative called EcoViz focused on immersive technology—advanced hardware and software to simulate environments and experiences—and collaboration to address environmental challenges ranging from fire management to reef restoration and more.
December 2, 2024
December 2, 2024 —
The algorithms behind generative AI tools like DallE, when combined with physics-based data, can be used to develop better ways to model the Earth’s climate. Computer scientists in Seattle and San Diego have now used this combination to create a model that is capable of predicting climate patterns over 100 years 25 times faster than the state of the art.
November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024 —
The 2024 election has put a new administration in the White House, but the nation remains deeply divided on a large number of issues, including many policy proposals that implicate energy and climate change.
November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024 —
Seventy-five years ago, a group of California scientists was tasked with a mission. CalCOFI is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the program that has delivered is priceless in understanding the ocean off of California.
November 15, 2024
November 15, 2024 —
New research co-authored by Duncan Watson-Parris of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute finds that industrial pollution in Earth’s colder latitudes decreases cloud cover by increasing snowfall in the surrounding area.