Fire scientists typically respond to agency opportunities and conduct research in response to past wildfires. But it is time they take more proactive, integrative, predictive approaches toward mitigating and adapting to this potentially devastating consequence of climate change, a group of...
Lorena Anderson
MERCED, Calif. — People talk about climate change all the time.
But researchers at the University of California, Merced, are working to find out exactly how it will affect the millions of people who depend on the San Joaquin River for their drinking...
Campus diners who take out their meals are helping save the environment one container at a time.
UC Merced is the first campus west of the Mississippi to use the new OZZI container-recycling system, and in just the week since the container-collection...
MERCED, Calif. — Researchers at UC Merced are taking an important step toward a statewide water-monitoring system by installing wireless sensors across the American River basin.
The system, which is also being used in the Sierra Nevada, is designed to...
The risk of losing your home to a wildfire could double within the next 40 years, according to modeling done by UC Merced Professor Anthony Westerling.
In a paper prepared for the California Energy Commission and released today, Westerling and coauthor...
There’s a reason the UC Merced plasma lab is isolated behind a locking fence near the entrance to campus.
There’s some serious heat being produced down there.
Engineering professors Gerardo Diaz, Wolfgang Rogge and Yihsu Chen and a group of students are...
They traveled nearly 20 hours by plane and bus across 5,700 miles to spend three weeks in the Central Valley sun.
Fifteen engineering students from Dankook University in Yongin, Gyeonggi, South Korea, have come to UC Merced to get hands-on experience in...
California’s Central Valley environment is getting healthier, but not fast enough. Its air quality is still among the worst in the nation, according to a report released today.
The Sierra Nevada Research Institute at the University of California, Merced...
Making an entire campus sustainable takes a lot of planning, education and work.
But those efforts are what earned two of UC Merced’s sustainability leaders systemwide recognition.
Former Director of Energy and Sustainability John Elliott and Special...
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