March 14, 2013
…blended right in with waves of chatter from a throng of high school students from The Preuss School UCSD. Their March 1 visit was part of an immersion program to introduce Preuss students to the rich arts programs at UC San Diego. The students participate in tours, conversations with artists,…
June 5, 2014
…the physics of standing waves with a rope and vibrating plates sprinkled with sand, to explaining the Hubble Space Telescope’s Deep Field Survey, to finding out on a stovetop whether dissolved solids in boiled water escape with steam (if you’re wondering, they sometimes do). Her high-energy productions, sometimes illustrated with…
December 17, 2020
…colleagues, Dzieciuch is measuring heat content in the Arctic Ocean, comparing their data to that collected by a similar project done 25 years ago. The project is documenting rapid environmental changes there. Dhruv Grover, research faculty member at the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind. Grover’s DURIP award will support…
August 27, 2020
…El Niño, shorter-term marine heat waves in the summers of 2018 and 2019, and northward extensions of pelagic red crabs and pyrosomes to Northern California and Oregon. CalCOFI has provided important—and sometimes the first—measurements of these evolving events, particularly of planktonic and larval fish communities. Spring 2020 passed under our…
November 21, 2023
“Hurricane Hunter” aircraft will fly over the Pacific Ocean starting this November as part of Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program (AR Recon), led by the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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.
October 22, 2020
…of climate change, such as increasingly frequent and intense heat waves or persistent air pollution. More ideas yet to come, as Al-Delaimy, Forman and Ramanathan will continue meeting with interested community groups. Download “Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility” from Springer Nature.
April 7, 2022
…the Labor Day extreme heat wave, exporting power during nine of the SDG&E grid’s most vulnerable hours to help avoid regional public safety power shutoffs. UC San Diego received $39 million from the National Science Foundation to build a world-class research platform with the objective to decarbonize the electric grid,…
November 9, 2023
In honor of Veterans Day, Nov. 11, UC San Diego Today asked members of the campus community to tell us about the U.S. military service members and veterans in their lives and share messages of gratitude for their contributions to their nation.
November 2, 2023
Artificial intelligence in all its varied forms is rapidly accelerating, transforming our everyday lives and providing a powerful tool for scientific research. But what does it all mean and what does the future hold? Six UC San Diego experts share their insights.
