Kathleen Treseder thinks a lot about potential solutions for problems like erosion. She studies and teaches climate change at the University of California, Irvine. She says many of the expensive homes along Orange County’s coastline might withstand waves lapping at their porches, but they could be taken out by a storm surge.
Three University of California, Irvine researchers will receive more than $8 million in climate action gran ts to support projects that will help advance progress toward California’s climate goals.
Bees that build microbreweries, ride a miniature merry-go-round and possibly even wear diapers. In biologist Tobin Hammer’s UCI lab, all sorts of unusual projects unfold.
In searching for the genetic mechanism behind this difference, the UCI biologists selected as their subject Heliconius charithonia, in which visual capacity is sexually dimorphic. When they finished assembling the first complete genome for this species, they learned that its W – or female – chromosome contained the opsin gene.
Congratulations to Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professors John C. Avise and Adriana Briscoe on being named Fellows of the California Academy of Sciences.
In a fascinating new study, the bonnethead shark has been identified as the first known omnivorous shark, i.e., one that obtains nutrients from eating both plants and meat.
In new research published in the journal, Science, Professor Manny Azizi and his colleagues, Sarah Bergbreiter (University of Maryland) and S.N. Patek (Duke University), describe a new mathematical …
April 19, 2012 News Release Humanities dean and evolutionary biologist are elected to membership Irvine, Calif., April 19, 2012 —Vicki Ruiz, UC Irvine dean of humanities and professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies, and Steven A. Frank, UCI professor of...
Jan. 26, 2012 Press Release Irvine, Calif., January 26, 2012 —Location matters for birds on the hunt for caterpillars, according to researchers at UC Irvine and Wesleyan University. Findings suggest that chickadees and others zero in on the type of tree as much...