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2023 Department Orientation
September 11, 2023
UCLA receives $4.1 million commitment to Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department
August 8, 2023
AOS Leadership Announcement
June 9, 2023
9th Annual Michio Yanai Distinguished Lecture
May 26, 2023
KUO-NAN LIOU MEMORIAL LECTURE
April 20, 2023
Alex Chang and Sara Graves win the 2022 AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Presentation Awards.
April 16, 2023
Alex Hall appointed interim director of UCLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
March 20, 2023
Fact Checks: AOS Contributing to Debunking Misinformation
February 9, 2023
Emeritus Professor Richard Turco wins the Future of Life Award
February 6, 2023
AOS-led study reveals increased atmospheric dust is masking greenhouse gases’ warming effect
January 18, 2023
AOS-led study reveals more accurate modeling for predicting wildfire smoke injection
October 10, 2022
2022 AOS Undergraduate Student Orientation
September 18, 2022
Symposium In Honor of Professor Akio Arakawa
September 16, 2022
Roger Wakimoto elected as an AMS Honorary Member
September 12, 2022
Yu Gu selected as AMS Fellow
September 2, 2022
AOS PhD Candidate De’Marcus Robinson receives 2023 Knauss Fellowship
August 4, 2022
AOS Associate Researcher Dr. Adam Kellerman winner of NSF ANSWERS Award
June 13, 2022
2022 Michio Yanai Distinguished Lecture
May 5, 2022
Blue Talk: A prelude to the UN Ocean Conference
April 14, 2022
Celebrate Women’s History Month with six inspiring women in atmospheric sciences
March 10, 2022
Professor Tina Treude’s Research on organisms thriving in deep subseafloor
January 28, 2022
AOS Professor’s Study among top UCLA News Stories
December 17, 2021
Roger Varney joins AOS as Assistant Professor
October 5, 2021
Jacob Bortnik awarded AGU’s highest award for mid-career scientist
September 16, 2021
Aradhna Tripati wins AGU’s Willi Dansgaard Award and Ambassador Award, and is elected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences
September 14, 2021
Andrew Stewart wins the AMS Fofonoff Award
August 23, 2021
Rong Fu wins the AMS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology
July 28, 2021
Machine Learning for the Physical Sciences with Dr. Jacob Bortnik
July 6, 2021
2021 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, Science, Engineering, & Math
May 4, 2021
2021 Michio Yanai Distinguished Lecture
April 23, 2021
AOS Front and Center on UCLA Main Website
April 19, 2021
Dr. Kuo-Nan Liou, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Director of Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering
March 25, 2021
Dr. Akio Arakawa, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus
March 25, 2021
Pollution at street level is worst with buildings in tight rows
March 19, 2021
Student Spotlight for the Undergraduate Research Center – Sciences
March 15, 2021
AOS and Climate Sciences related news for Black History Month
February 22, 2021
Geochemistry Fellowship: Aradhna Tripati
February 22, 2021
Student Spotlight: De’Marcus Robinson
February 22, 2021
Faculty Spotlight: Rong Fu
February 22, 2021
Student Spotlight: De’Marcus Robinson
February 19, 2021
Geochemistry Fellowship: Aradhna Tripati
February 19, 2021
AOS and Climate Sciences related news for Black History Month
February 19, 2021
Faculty Spotlight: Rong Fu
February 9, 2021
Student Spotlight: Zoe Pierrat
November 16, 2020
AOS at annual Physical Sciences outreach event, Exploring Your Universe, this Sunday 12-5pm!
October 29, 2020
AOS Graduate Student Zoe Pierrat on KLCS PBS show Sustaining US
October 20, 2020
AOS Undergraduate Student Orientation
September 21, 2020
$4.1 million gift to support endowed chair in oceanography, key to the future of the Planet
July 20, 2020
Statement on George Floyd
July 10, 2020
FINESST Awards
June 23, 2020
AOS 2: Air Pollution
May 26, 2020
AOS 1: Climate Change
May 26, 2020
AOS Summer Courses
May 7, 2020
Dust in Earth’s atmosphere
May 4, 2020
California Climate Expedition
October 24, 2019
Society of Women Geoscientists
October 22, 2019
Professor Emeritus Richard Thorne
July 15, 2019
FIREX-AQ Project
June 11, 2019
AOS Graduate Student Alex Arnold Wins UC President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership
May 28, 2019
Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
March 18, 2019
PhD Candidate Ken Zhao: Research on how the seafloor has great implications for sea levels
January 17, 2019
Summer Weather Summary by AOS Meteorologist James Murakami Highlighted
September 14, 2018
Alex Hall on PBS Show “Sustaining California”
July 13, 2018
Henry “Hank” Weiss Memorial Climate Education Endowment
June 18, 2018
AOS Associate Professor Aradhna Tripati Confirms Study Showing Glaciers on Greenland over 35 Million Years Ago
March 13, 2018
AOS Announces New Climate Science Major
March 5, 2018
AOS Professor Alex Hall to lead environmental bike expedition along California’s coast
February 21, 2018
Professor Danielle Bianchi Awarded 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship
February 21, 2018
Victor Pinto Wins AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award
February 2, 2018
What to Know and Do About Freeway Pollution
January 13, 2018
How cities can fight air pollution
December 6, 2017
Relocating bus stops would cut riders’ pollution exposure, AOS study finds
December 6, 2017
New Graduate Admissions Date for Fall 2018
December 6, 2017
Climate Crusader: Alex Hall
September 25, 2017
Professor Kuo-Nan Liou Awarded with the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal
July 26, 2017
New center at UCLA raises everyone’s voices for environmental science
July 14, 2017
David Neelin Awarded with the Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award
June 30, 2017
Professor Alex Hall featured on the New York Times
June 26, 2017
UCLA oceanographers embark on voyage to study Gulf of Mexico currents
May 19, 2017
AOS Graduate Student David Gonzalez Reaches UCLA Grand Slam Finals
April 21, 2017
The Problem with Dust
April 11, 2017
Welcome to Pablo Saide
April 11, 2017
Welcome Adjunct Professor Hui Su
March 23, 2017
AOS Research shows how warming trends affect the Sierra Nevada
March 10, 2017
Cenlin He Recongized by American Geophysical Union with Outstanding Student Paper Award
January 23, 2017
Professor Paulson Featured on Phys.org
December 14, 2016
UCLA, NASA JPL use new instrument to shed light on plant fluorescence
November 22, 2016
Congratulations to Yukitoshi Nishimura for winning the AGU Macelwane Medal
July 25, 2016
2016 UCLA Grad Slam – Rose Tseng
March 3, 2016
AOS Research to Improve Climate Change Models
December 11, 2015
Daily Bruin Coverage of Students Using the Zodiac
November 20, 2015
Jeroen Molemaker on NBC 4 Discussing El Nino
October 27, 2015
Professor David Neelin Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
September 11, 2015
UCLA’s Weatherman: James Murakami
August 24, 2015
Neil Berg Interviewed on KCET Addressing Climate Change
March 25, 2015
Professor Alex Hall Featured in LA Times Article
December 12, 2014
UCLA researchers project Southern California rainfall levels through end of century
December 12, 2014
Professor C. Roberto Mechoso Honored by the University of the Republic, Uruguay
November 24, 2014
UCLA researchers address challenges cities face from climate change
November 19, 2014
Assistant Professor Aradhna Tripati Receives the E. O. Wilson award from the Center for Biological Diversity
November 7, 2014
Ladder Faculty Search in Atmospheric Dynamics
October 24, 2014
AOS Professor Alex Hall Mentioned in LA Weekly
September 25, 2014
UCLA scientists play key role in developing new Santa Ana Wildfire Threat Index
September 18, 2014
With NSF grant, UCLA scientists to predict climate change in key coastal regions around the world
September 2, 2014
Ladder Faculty Search in Space Physics
August 1, 2014
Jonathan Mitchell’s Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Science
July 24, 2014
Carmageddon or Carmaheaven? Air Quality Results of a Freeway Closure
June 17, 2014
Professor Alex Hall on Years of Living Dangerously
May 30, 2014
Ellyn Gray Wins a Dean Prize for Outstanding Research
May 16, 2014
Ladder Faculty Search in Dynamic Meteorology
October 11, 2013
ATMOS researcher receives NSF grant to study climate change
July 24, 2013
Climate study predicts dramatic loss in local snowfall
July 24, 2013
UCLA Study shows warming in Central China greater than most climate models indicated
May 1, 2013
Air Pollution goes further from Freeways in morning
April 2, 2013
The Santa Ana winds: Where do they come from?
April 1, 2013
Air Pollution goes further from Freeways in morning
April 1, 2013
Akio Arakawa elected to Royal Meteorological Society
March 25, 2013
Jonathan Mitchell and Aradhna Tripati named as Hellman Fellows
March 2, 2013
Researchers discover third Van Allen belt
March 1, 2013
Curtis Deutsch receives Moore Foundation Marine Microbiology Investigator Award
March 1, 2013
‘Carmaheaven’: Closure of I-405 in 2011 improved air quality up to 83 percent
September 28, 2012
Rob Fovell elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
September 7, 2012
NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission
August 1, 2012
Yuri Shprits wins major award
July 24, 2012
Lunjin Chen selected as recipiant of 2012 AGU Fred Scraf Award
June 7, 2012
AOS Professor Liou wins major international award
June 7, 2012
Scattering by chorus waves as the dominant cause of diffuse auroral precipitation
June 7, 2012
AOS Professors Curtis Deutsch and Holger Brix with Hartmut Frenzel (and others) publish a paper in Science magazine detailing Climate-Forced Variabilty of Ocean Hypoxia.
June 7, 2012
UCLA joins Southern California Marine Institute to revitalize marine research in Los Angeles
June 7, 2012
AOS Professor Hall predicts more hot spells in Southern California
June 1, 2012
Lunjin Chen selected as recipiant of 2012 AGU Fred Scarf Award
June 1, 2012
Special Seminar: Michael Mann
February 13, 2012
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January 12, 2012