Without regular sand replenishment to provide a buffer to hold the ocean back, damage to homes and infrastructure will become a more common occurrence, said Brett Sanders, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine. “Once the beaches are gone, we are quickly seeing damaging impacts to infrastructure. As soon as the beaches are gone, we lose railroad service, we see displacement of land, concrete gets cracked,” Sanders said.

Passenger train service through San Clemente is set to resume again following several shutdowns caused by a sliding slope under 

Michelle Khine, a research scientist, entrepreneur, mentor, and professor of biomedical engineering at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, still gets to play with her favorite childhood toy. More than 10 years ago, as a founding professor at the University of California, Merced, Khine came up with an elegant, effective and inexpensive solution to creating microfluidic chips using Shrinky Dinks^®, a thin plastic that can be cut into any shape and baked into a smaller, thicker size.