IoES in the News
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Daniel Swain in the Washington Post—Historic California snow starts to melt, but is ‘just a taste’ of what may come
The San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Basin are the areas of highest concern for flooding “In the southern Sierra right now, the snowpack upstream of certain reservoirs is enough to…
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Daniel Swain in Mendocino Beacon—The California chill: State recorded fifth-coldest March in 129 years amid storms, snow
Last year’s March was the 11th warmest in the 129 years of record keeping. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, posted Monday on Twitter that “a few regions of Northern California just experienced their…
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James McWilliams in nature.com—Wind-current feedback is an energy sink for oceanic internal waves
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Marilyn Raphael, director of the IoES and UCLA geography professor to discuss Antarctic sea ice and climate change at Penn State
Marilyn Raphael will speak as part of the E. Willard Miller Endowed Lecture on April 14
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Kevin Njabo in openDemocracy Podcast—Borders & Belonging: does brain drain hurt the Global South?
First, we’ll hear from someone who is himself part of the brain drain, Kevin Njabo. He’s the Africa director and associate adjunct at the Center for Tropical Research, University of California,…
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Daniel Swain in Newser—California Snowpack Is Huge, and ‘Big Melt’ Poses Risks
Calling it the “big melt,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain pointed out that “all of that water is going to have to come downhill sooner rather than later.”
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Beate Ritz in The Hill—Lithium-contaminated water in pregnancy could be linked to increased risk of autism
Consuming lithium-contaminated tap water during pregnancy could be associated with an increased risk of newborn autism development, according to a new study from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Glen MacDonald in the Guardian—Communities of color take the ‘biggest hit’ in Los Angeles’ unequal spread of greenery
The city will see continued heatwaves, but a new study says heat-damping urban vegetation is unevenly distributed
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Narayan Gopinathan in UCLA Daily Bruin—UCLA plans to add more EV charging stations, support sustainable transportation
UCLA Transportation is planning to expand sustainable transportation and electric vehicle charging facilities on campus in an effort to reduce UCLA’s contributions to transportation emissions. Narayan Gopinathan, an environment and…
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Daniel Swain in Davis Enterprise—UCLA ’scientist-communicator’ returns to UCD for a climate seminar
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Daniel Swain in KQED—This Winter’s Floods May Be ‘Only a Taste’ of the Megafloods to Come, Climate Scientists Warn
“As disruptive as this year’s events have been, we’re nowhere near to a plausible worst-case storm and flood scenario for California,” said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in Yahoo Finance—New Speakers Announced for the 2023 Global Inclusive Growth Summit
Step into a world of innovation at the 2023 Global Inclusive Growth Summit, presented by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and The Aspen Institute on Thursday, April 13, 2023.
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Beate Ritz in Cardiovascular Business—Longevity, cardiovascular durability improve with just 1 or 2 walks per week
Weekend warriors who take brisk walks of around four miles just once or twice per week enjoy lower cardiovascular and all-cause mortality than their sedentary peers.
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Susanna Hecht honored by American Association of Geographers
Susanna Hecht, director of the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies, received the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography from the American Association of Geographers in Denver on March 24.…
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Thomas Gillespie in Mirage News—Drought-induced vegetation browning disproportionately affects LA’s disadvantaged communities
In previous studies, the loss of urban greenness has been shown to increase the incidence of mental illness and affect cognitive function in schoolchildren. Extreme heat exacerbated by that loss…
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Glen MacDonald in Mirage News—Drought-induced vegetation browning disproportionately affects LA’s disadvantaged communities
The findings showed that during drought, more affluent places such as Pasadena, Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles remained greener than lower-income areas such as East Los Angeles, Inglewood and…
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Daniel Swain in LA Times—Prepare for the latest blow: Rain, snow and high winds hit California
“Yet more rain, yet more heavy mountain snow, more travel disruptions,” Daniel Swain, UCLA climate scientist said Monday. He called it “another moderate to strong storm,” though not comparable to last week’s…
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Daniel Swain in LA Times–When everyone sounds like a weather forecaster, whom should you trust?
This winter, as atmospheric rivers slam into California one after another, Daniel Swain isn’t just worried about rain and flooding. The UCLA climate scientist, who has devoted his life to studying weather,…
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Alex Hall in NY Times–What Does All This Rain Mean for California’s Drought?
And, as Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, pointed out to me, disputes over the dwindling Colorado River still…
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Daniel Swain in WFLA News Channel 8—California’s all-time snowpack record within reach
“There is more snow water equivalent in the Southern Sierra than at any point since at least the 1950s … and likely longer than that,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist…
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Gregory Pierce in NewScientist—Around 2 billion people don’t have access to clean drinking water
An international pledge to ensure that all the world’s population has access to safe drinking water by 2030 is woefully off track, according to a major UN report
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Edward Parsons on KCRW PressPlay—World must halve CO2 emissions in 7 years to avoid catastrophe
The planet is approaching catastrophic levels of global warming and irreversible damage within the next decade, according to the most definitive report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on…
Awards
Elijah Catalan selected for 2023 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award
Elijah Catalan has been selected for a 2023 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA), which is sponsored by the Ecological Society of America. Along with 15 other graduate…
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Daniel Swain in The Hill—Much of California has escaped drought, but what lies ahead?
“This has been really disruptive in these communities and will have significant impacts on agriculture coming out of the Salinas Valley probably for a while,” Swain said during virtual office hours on Friday.
