May 2, 2022
…hot. A traveling sun burned butterscotch through the towering eucalypti. A flock of ravens was wheeling high overhead in lazy circles, croaking warnings to me before settling into the branches to rule sentinel over the sprawling university campus. As I made my way from the Library, I glanced down at…
October 1, 2020
…been notoriously difficult to carry out due to lack of reliable data. The satellite-based InSAR (interferometric synthetic aperture radar) is used to make high-resolution maps of land surface motion in space and time, including measurement of subsidence (or sinking). Subsidence can occur when large amounts of groundwater are removed from…
May 12, 2016
…coral bleaching, and Jennifer Burney of the School of Global Policy and Strategy is developing methods to assess ecosystems in semi-arid regions. These projects are the perfect lab for students to learn how to conduct research, Goldblatt said. The initiative was launched in 2015 by unique, two-year access to DigitalGlobe…
October 6, 2016
…force behind Kapono’s academic career is a desire to reconcile traditional ecological knowledge with western science. Infused with a body of ancestral wisdom passed down for generations about the Earth and environment, his goal is to build a complementary foundation of scientific expertise from a different perspective. Kopano works jointly…
March 7, 2013
…hot, you can literally burn you hand on it,” Kleissl said. A reflective or “cool” roof has the ability to reflect the visible, infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths of the sun, reducing heat transfer to the surface. Such roofs can be found on top of the Price Center, Atkinson Hall, the…
November 1, 2018
…question-driven research,” said Jennifer Burney, an associate professor who joined the GPS faculty in 2011. “It is really grassroots, interdisciplinary research: political scientists are working with physicists, economists are working with climate scientists. The faculty here really care about important issues. They are motivated by big crucial questions, and there…
June 7, 2022
…sets in research and patient-care settings.” Salad Omar Bachelor of Arts in Economics For as long as he can remember, Salad Omar was told by his mother that he would earn a college degree one day. As a woman growing up in Somalia, Omar’s mother never learned to read or…
November 5, 2020
…quantitative cell biology, she burned to do something that stood apart from traditional community science outreach projects designed for young minds. She believes that there is an intrinsic value to people of all ages learning about science, and science outreach can go beyond encouraging kids to become scientists. She wanted…
