Gaurav Sant (Henry Samueli Fellow Civil and Environmental Engineering, California NanoSystems Institute) completed research that indicates a path to carbon-neutral cement. This would have a direct impact on the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge because cement is responsible for 7% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions.
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A “Thinking L.A.” event, jointly sponsored by UCLA and Zocálo at the RAND Corporation Tuesday evening, explored the roots of the fervor surrounding fracking in California. Aradhna Tripati (department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences) and Edward Parson (UCLA School of Law and Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment) weigh in on the conversation.
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Thomas Smith (department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) will help lead the Bird Genoscape Project, an initiative to create the first maps identifying the population-specific migration paths of several bird species and their sub-groups to determine where conservation is needed most to combat the effects of climate change. These findings will be directly relevant to the plans for the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.
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Climate modeling expert Alex Hall co-authored a research paper forecasting and analyzing the “personalities” of Santa Ana and summer fires. According to the report, both types of wildfire are expected to burn more ground by midcentury.
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Eric Hoek (Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Madelyn Glickfeld (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability) served as panelists on the UCLA-Zócalo “Thinking L.A.” panel, discussing whether engineering solutions can carry California through its drought.
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