March 7, 2013
…percent of the annual air-conditioning energy use in a single-story building. Weather tracking for solar optimization San Diego is known for its sunny skies and temperate climate, but rain or shine, UC San Diego students and faculty have found both cloudy skies and warm summer days to be equally useful…
October 24, 2019
…animal feeding operations cause pollution of our waterways, oceans, and air. Can you tell the difference? Burger King has been challenging customers to see if they can taste the difference between an Impossible Whopper and a traditional beef Whopper. UC San Diego alumna Liz Specht says in the near future…
April 8, 2021
…her research on plastic pollution. With the help of Linsey Sala, Brandon documented microplastics in salps, pelagic invertebrates that form long, colonial chains. In a 2019 study, she estimated the ocean is contaminated by 8.3 million pieces of so-called mini-microplastics per cubic meter of water, a million times more than…
