Media Watch Archives
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.
The Loh Down on Science - Calamari camo
Southern California Public Radio -
Squid, also known as calamari, are geniuses of camouflage. But how do they do it? University of California, Irvine scientist Alon Gorodetsky knows. His lab studies materials inspired by the skin cells of squid.
UCI professor breaking ground in wireless tech
Orange County Register -
UC Irvine's professor Syed Jafar, 39, of Irvine is one of three winners of the Blavatnik Family Foundation's annual national young scientist award for his work on wireless technology.
With one-third of largest aquifers highly stressed, it's time to explore and assess the planet's groundwater
National Geographic -
“In most cases, we do not know how much groundwater exists in storage,” write the authors of a study published last month in Water Resources Research (WRR), a journal of the American Geophysical Union. ... One-third of the world’s 37 largest aquifers are highly stressed to over-stressed, according to a companion study published in the same issue of WRR. ... Scientists at the University of California, Irvine led both studies, with doctoral student Alexandra Richey serving as lead author.