Sustainable California

Atmosphere

From weather and climate change to air quality and human impacts, explore how UC is researching our effect on everything in the atmosphere, how it sustains life, and how we can ensure it will continue to bring health and vitality to California into the future.

Water's Signature

12/4/2018

Katherine Markovich, PhD teamed up with fellow graduate students Stephen Maples and Lauren Foster in the NSF Climate Change Water and Society Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (CCWAS IGERT) to study water resources in Chile. Using water's signature, the isotopic values for snow, rivers, and groundwater, Dr. Katie Markovich is developing an understanding of Chile's water portfolio under different climate conditions. Like many of Graham Fogg's students at UC...

UC Merced's TEEL and the Hydrogen Economy

7/5/2018

Global warming due to CO2 emissions from fossil fuels remains an urgent issue that must be addressed. With the largest share of energy-related CO2 emissions in the US from coming transportation, it is critical to replace fossil fuels for powering vehicles. A team of researchers from UC Merced is developing hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for powering vehicles at TEEL, the Thermal and Electrochemical Energy Laboratory. Working on novel catalyst synthesis, membrane electrode...

Onward Water

5/5/2017

Water managers in the state are responding to climate change by working with the University of California, measuring snow melt, and the timing and availability of water in the Sierra Nevada. This information will lead to better planning downstream.

Onward Climate

5/5/2017

Roger Bales, Director Sierra Nevada Research Institute, UC Merced, describes climate change and the effects on the environment.

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