UCLA faculty voices: No quick fix for those melting glaciers
Daniela Cusack (department of Geography) declares there is no easy fix for climate.
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Archive Tag: Research
New lab in Santa Monica Mountains will aid conservation scientists
A $500,000 gift from Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky will add a laboratory to the La Kretz Field Station located in Malibu. Much of the research conducted there, including that of Sustainable LA faculty member Brad Shaffer, will contribute to the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.
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No way around it: Reducing emissions will be the primary way to fight climate change, UCLA-led study finds
An interdisciplinary team of professors from UCLA and five other universities concludes definitively that we have to cut down on the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere. Daniela Cusack, an assistant professor of geography and a faculty member of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, was the lead author of the study.
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Using knowledge to quench a thirst
A UC-wide initiative to provide expertise in addressing California’s drought and water-related issues includes input from Glen MacDonald (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and department of Geography) and Jay Famiglietti of the Scholarly and Technical Advisory Committee.
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UCLA Engineering’s mobile plant hits the road to treat polluted water
Yoram Cohen (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering) has designed a water treatment pant called the Smart Integrated Membrane System- Brackish Water (SIMS-BW). The plant is a demonstration-scale field lab designed to test purification and desalination technologies developed at UCLA.
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