August 11, 2022
…north of the Klamath River. Included in the analysis were data collected with airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), an advanced laser-imaging technology, during 2009-2011 and 2016. New machine learning techniques that Swirad developed helped reduce the project’s manual processing and analysis time, expediting the large-scale study. Click the image…
February 16, 2017
…counties, near the Sacramento River in April 2015. Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Research to Help Mitigate Future Shocks to State’s Water, Food and Energy Supplies The California drought may be unofficially over, but that doesn’t mean it won’t return. Policymakers, businesses and the agriculture industry can…
March 10, 2015
Attendees at the CENIC 2015 Annual Conference, “Shaking Things Up,” will be introduced to the Pacific Research Platform, a cutting-edge research infrastructure that will link together the Science DMZs of dozens of top research institutions via three advanced networks: CENIC’s California Research & Education Network (CalREN), the Department of Energy’s…
November 3, 2022
World leaders, climate experts and policymakers from nearly 200 counties are preparing to descend upon the seaside city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for a United Nations climate conference that kicks off next week.
August 18, 2021
In fiscal year 2021 (July 1-June 30), UC San Diego earned $1.54 billion in sponsored research funding, a 6% increase over the previous year. This is the largest number ever for the university and marks the 12th consecutive year the campus has earned more than $1 billion in funding to…
December 2, 2022
UC San Diego researchers have been studying sediment to better understand how mangrove ecosystems sequester carbon dioxide, a planet-warming greenhouse gas. A new study describes Scripps Oceanography-led work to examine more than 100 sediment cores from mangrove forests across Latin America.
August 14, 2023
“This summer, I am getting to further my passion for environmentalism, all while developing critical electrical engineering skills,” says Engineers for Exploration intern Jordan Reichardt.
May 12, 2016
…The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently declared the third large-scale coral bleaching event in recorded history, however monitoring is slow, expensive and labor intensive. Enter the high-resolution satellites. Kline’s goal will be to determine if these bleaching episodes can be quantified by remote sensing, creating a “bleaching detection tool”…
October 18, 2018
…on the beach. Isabel Rivera-Collazo has been traveling to this location to perform research for nearly 25 years, since her days as a college student. An environmental archaeologist at UC San Diego, she has pursued her research operating under the maxim that archaeology doesn’t move. Now, recent events have caused…
April 22, 2021
…sea level, temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels are climbing, but what’s less clear is what that’s doing to our health Tarik Benmarhnia didn’t plan on ending up here, in an office overlooking the pier at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. As a young student in France, he started…
