The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, directed by climate researcher Aradhna Tripati, is the first university-based center dedicated to diversity in the field.

Source: UCLA Newsroom http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/new-center-at-ucla-raises-everyones-voices-for-environmental-science

AOS Professor David Neelin was awarded the Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award from the American Geophyiscal Union. Congratulations on the award and honor David!

Source: https://eos.org/agu-news/2017-agu-section-and-focus-group-awardees-and-n...

AOS Professor Alex Hall was recently featured on the New York Times article, "California Today: The Extreme Heat to Come". Dr. Hall is interviewed in the article talking about the increasing frequency of extreme heat days - defined as when the temperature reaches to 95F or above - in California. 

The New York Times article is found here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/california-today-extreme-heat.html

A team of UCLA oceanographers towed a small boat to Louisiana to study water currents in the Gulf of Mexico last month.

Congratulations to AOS grad student David Gonzalez for reaching the finals of the 2017 UCLA Grad Slam, which is a campus-wide competition that showcases and awards the best 3-minute research presentations by graduate students. https://grad.ucla.edu/life-at-ucla/events/2017-ucla-grad-slam/ The finals for the UCLA wide competition is Tuesday April 25th 5 pm at the UCLA California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI), with the first place winner traveling to San Francisco to compete in the UC