In this workshop, a group of expert panel members discusses common challenges and good practices to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, experience, and best practices to establish a stakeholder relationship that will be of great benefit for future professors and scientists.
Dr. Amir Haghverdi is selected to receive the 2021 Universities Council on Water Resources ( UCOWR) Early Career Award for Applied Research. The UCOWR Early Career Award for Applied Research recognizes outstanding early contributions in applied research related to water. The successful candidate should have a significant record of research accomplishment and show promise of...
A new study finds that California’s commuters are likely inhaling chemicals at levels that increase the risk for cancer and birth defects. As with most chemicals, the poison is in the amount. Under a certain threshold of exposure, even known carcinogens are not likely to cause cancer. Once you cross that threshold, the risk for...
The University of California, Riverside, has won a $10 million grant to develop artificial intelligence that will increase the environmental and economic stability of agriculture in the Western U.S. This Sustainable Agricultural Systems grant is one of nine given by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, annually to...
The Department of Environmental Sciences joins in solidarity with our Black community of students, staff, and colleagues to strongly condemn racism. View our Plan to Action
Grasslands across the globe, which support the majority of the world’s grazing animals, have been transitioning to shrublands in a process that scientists call “woody plant encroachment.” Managed grazing of drylands is the most extensive form of land use on the planet, which has led to widespread efforts to reverse this trend and restore grass...
The longer your commute, the more you’re exposed to a chemical flame retardant that is a known carcinogen and was phased out of furniture use because it required a Proposition 65 warning label in California. That is the conclusion of a new UC Riverside study published this month in the journal Environment International. While much...
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Excess selenium from fertilizers and other natural sources can create air pollution that could lead to lung cancer, asthma, and Type 2 diabetes, according to new UC Riverside research. The UCR research team conducted previous studies in the Salton Sea area, which contains selenium-rich wetlands and soils toxic to birds and fish. The researchers’ studies...
Beyond a number of other projects that he has diligently facilitated over the years, Brandon has been leading his own research on boulder displacement during shallow landslide events in the Box Springs and Blue Mountains of southern California. Over the past year, he was awarded undergraduate research and travel grants from the Environmental Sciences Department...
he National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has awarded nearly $500,000 to Elia Scudiero, a professional researcher in the environmental sciences department, for a project helping California’s farmers use water more efficiently while protecting crops. The Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement New Investigator grant Scudiero received is...
Amir Haghverdi, an assistant cooperative extension specialist of irrigation and water management in the environmental sciences department, has been awarded a nearly $500,000 Food and Agricultural Science Enhancement New Investigator grant by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture. National Institute of Food and Agriculture Food and Agricultural...
In addition to the AGU Student Travel Grant, Ryan Khoury has received the Marsh Environmental Sciences Travel Award from the UCR Environmental Science department. Ryan will present his NO2 study under the supervision of Assistant Professor King-Fai Li during the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Ryan Khoury, a senior undergraduate student in UCR Environmental Science, has been awarded the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting General Student Travel Grant. In December 2018, Ryan will present his research project that is performed under the supervision of Assistant Professor King-Fai Li during the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. Ryan has been studying...
Amninder Singh has been selected to receive a prestigious graduate fellowship from NWRI-SCSC. Amninder was awarded for his proposal entitled "Using Smart Irrigation Technologies to Optimize Recycled Water Application for Turfgrass Irrigation to Conserve Water, Maintain Turf Quality, and Sustain Soil Health". Throughout his research, he will be also exploring the suitability of smart irrigation...
Isis Frausto-Vicencio is a first year PhD student has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her proposal "Linking Greenhouse Gases to Health: Methane Hotspots as a Proxy for Toxic Air Pollutants." Isis will examine patterns of methane and toxic air pollutants in the Harbor area of Los Angeles, an area...
Science is the best way to drive the change I want to see in the world. Collaboration helps me to amplify everything I do to a global audience. By the end of my PhD, I want to say I helped build the foundation for my rapidly developing field, Plastic Pollution. Around the world people are...
The Albert Marsh Environmental Sciences Scholarship will be used to fund my attendance of the 2017 American Association for Aerosol Research Conference in Raleigh North Carolina. At this conference, I will present my work investigating the chemical drivers of optical properties of a variety of organic aerosols. Aerosols are known to affect the earth's radiation...
