Announcements

We are delighted to share recent recognition of Seth Lunine’s community-engaged teaching and scholarship, which continues to bring well-deserved attention to the impactful work happening in our department and in partnership with communities across the Bay Area.

Chancellor Rich Lyons praised Seth Lunine (PhD '13) in an email sent yesterday to Cal alumni, parents, and friends. Lyons highlighted Lunine's innovative work...

"Tropical forests include the warmest and wettest of globally distributed biomes, but with additional warming, large areas of the tropics will be pushed to higher temperature states beyond current conditions. We may create a climate that has been absent on Earth for millions of years: the ‘hypertropics’."

Professor Jeff Chambers and colleagues have recently published a critical finding in the journal Nature, demonstrating how the world's most extensive tropical forest is facing a new and deadly climate regime...

We are delighted to share that Sibahle Ndwayana, a Ph.D. candidate in Geography, has been awarded the Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca Fellowship by UC Berkeley’s Center for African Studies. This competitive fellowship provides $10,000 in support of dissertation research and recognizes outstanding scholarly promise in African studies.

The Rocca...

Glaciers are more than stunning landscapes—they hold vital clues about our planet’s past and future climate. In a new feature by Berkeley Social Sciences, Professor Kurt Cuffey explains how glaciology reveals critical insights into global warming, from polar amplification to rising sea levels. Read the whole story here!