Media Watch Archives
Feature: Saving Iran's great salt lake
Science -
Some Iranian officials have tended to blame the weather – droughts and rising temperatures. But others concede that policy has had a major impact. Water management in the basin “has played the central role in the lake’s demise,” says Soroosh Sorooshian, director of the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing at the University of California, Irvine.
Increasingly, droughts and heat waves are happening at the same time
The Christian Science Monitor -
California's four-year drought is a case in point, says Amir AghaKouchak, a civil engineer at the University of California, Irvine and the new study's senior author. Looking only at 2014 and using precipitation as the indicator, "it is a serious drought, but it is not that extreme," he says.
Partners in crime: U.S. heat waves, droughts occurring together more frequently
USA Today -
The double whammy of overlapping droughts and heat waves is happening more frequently than it used to, according to a new study by climate scientists. “Heat waves can kill people and crops while worsening air quality, and droughts exacerbate those serious impacts,” said lead author Amir AghaKouchak, an environmental engineer from the University of California, Irvine.
Water and climate: Recognize anthropogenic drought
Nature -
California's current extreme drought must be a lesson for managing water in a warmer, more densely populated world, say Amir AghaKouchak and colleagues. ... Amir AghaKouchak is an assistant professor in the Center for Hydrology and Remote Sensing, ... David Feldman is a professor in the Department of Planning, Policy and Design, ...and Travis Huxman is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [at UCI.]
UCI grad named a Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change winner
Orange County Register -
Nithin Jilla, a 22-year-old University of California, Irvine graduate, is one of only two winners of the Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change 2015 from the United States, and the only winner from the United States for his age group. … I was out of college and I was working on building AppJam+, a project that began during my career at UC Irvine.
Global warming worsened the California drought, scientists say
The Washington Post -
Amir AghaKouchak, a hydrology professor at the University of California, Irvine who said in June that science did not support connecting the drought to warming, said the report’s results show that human influences are having an effect.
Eyewitness News 5:00PM
ABC7 -
We’d like to introduce to a pretty impressive young man. He graduated high school in May, and college in June, at the age of 15. Tjah'Mari DuCloux ... attended Riverside City College and just graduated with three ... associate degrees. He says he owes a lot of his success to mom. ... Up next, UC Irvine, to major in mechanical engineering. Tjah'Mari tells us, what he really wants to do is be an entrepreneur.
Blueprints become reality for Team Orange as components arrive to begin building its Solar Decathlon home
Orange County Register -
Founder of the U.S. Department of Energy competition ... [Richard] King’s stop provided an unexpected burst of excitement to Team Orange, a collaboration among four Orange County schools: UC Irvine ... Recent UCI graduate Andy Truong is heading the project’s construction management and plumbing teams. ... Gregory Washington, dean of UCI’s engineering school, said the competition gives students experiences that are impossible to replicate in a classroom setting.
California's drought spurs unexpected effect: eco-friendly development
NPR -
Alex McDonald, of the University of California, Irvine, is project manager for Team Orange County, a group studying drought-friendly housing models. "The industry ... is trending toward this notion of net-zero," he says, referring to communities that produce as much energy as residents use.
Should we be expecting El Niño to blow us away with rain?
LA Weekly -
Amir AghaKouchak, UC Irvine hydrologist, engineer and climatologist, is an expert in such matters. He says it's too soon to tell. But he does admit that the signs so far are pointing in the direction of a strong El Niño winter and spring.