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UCI School of Physical Sciences award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education

2013

Ice Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise Team (IMBIE)

NASA Group Achievement Award

American Meteorological Society (AMS)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

International Glaciological Society (IGS)

European Geophysical Union (EGU)

Satellite detection of varying seasonal water supply restrictions on grassland productivity in the Missouri basin, USA

Below-surface water mediates the response of African forests to reduced rainfall

Planning for a Changing Mountain Hydroclimate: Using Large Ensembles to Assess Future Risks (Invited Presentation)

Self‐Consistent Ice Mass Balance and Regional Sea Level From Time‐Variable Gravity

Evaluation of Regional Climate Models Using Regionally Optimized GRACE Mascons in the Amery and Getz Ice Shelves Basins, Antarctica

Isabella Velicogna is a Professor of Earth System Sciences at the University of California Irvine and a Faculty Part time at NASA/Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. She uses novel geophysical methods and satellite remote sensing techniques to understand the physical processes governing ice sheet mass balance and the hydrologic cycle of high latitude regions, with an emphasis on time-variable gravity from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, follow-on gravity missions, and other geophysical data (GPS, precipitation reanalysis, laser altimetry, regional climate models, and in situ observations).

Physical Climate

Sea Level Rise

GRACE Satellite

Climate Change

UCI Department of Earth System Science Faculty Profile

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UCI Researchers Receive More Than $8 Million to Advance California's Climate Goals

Women on the front lines of climate science

Parts of Greenland now hotter than at any time in the last 1,000 years, scientists say

A forgotten Cold War experiment has revealed its icy secret. It’s bad news for the planet.

Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is breaking up faster

How climate change moved Earth's axis

Professor, Earth System Science, Physical Sciences Associate Dean Graduate Studies, Equity and Inclusion

As a result of climate change, we are experiencing massive changes in the water and ice cycles around the planet. These changes are observed with unprecedented precision using measurements of time-variable gravity from space to provide invaluable information about our changing planet, including how fast ice sheets are melting and contributing to sea level rise, how much humans pump from aquifers, and how terrestrial water storage changes in response to drought.

Professor Velicogna’s research group focuses on studying the cryospheric components of the water cycle and their response to climate forcing. In particular, the group studies Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, their contribution to sea level rise, and the evolution of the Arctic water cycle in response to climate change.

In the lab, she uses multisensor geophysical techniques, especially satellite time-variable gravity (GRACE) and altimetry (ICESAT, ERS, Envisat), as well as passive microwave and GPS, in combination with in-situ data, global climate model outputs and re-analysis data. Her work has implications for future sea level rise, Earth system modeling and global land water cycle. The impacts are not only scientific but also societal. The team is studying the changes in land ecosystems associated with changes in land hydrology, and they developing tools to better predict the regional patterns of sea level rise.

Breakfast Lecture Series: Weighting Changes in Water and Ice from Space by Isabella Velicogna

Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate? Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial in Denial101x, a MOOC from UQx and edX.

Denial101x isn’t just a climate MOOC; it’s a MOOC about how people think about climate change.

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UQx DENIAL101x 2.7.1.8 Full interview with Isabella Velicogna

GRACE: Isabella Velicogna, University of California, Irvine

15. Panel 2: GRACE: Isabella Velicogna, University of California, Irvine

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