“It’s not just a California problem, it’s a global problem,” Brett Sanders, Ph.D., professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine, explained to Irvine Weekly. Now, thanks to a $675,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Sanders and his team of researchers in Irvine and Houston are remotely monitoring the volume of sand on beaches and coastal dunes via satellites. Read More