2025-05-16
- We'll again be participating in a FREE interdisciplinary Earth Sciences summer camp for kids on campus. Learn more & sign up:Earth, Society & Environment (ESE) Camp for Kids | School of Earth, Society & Environment | Illinois
2025-05-12 - In 2023, global temperatures spiked in a way that puzzled scientists, sparked headlines, and led many people to wonder whether the climate was entering an unpredictable new phase. The spike stood out so dramatically that some called it mysterious or unprecedented.But the spike wasn't so mysterious for Shiv Priyam...
2025-03-26 - Join us for the 2025 Ogura Lecture featuring honoree, Professor Adam Sobel, Columbia University
2024-12-05 - Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and Friends are cordially invited to upcoming receptions at the 2024 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting and 2025 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. We hope to see you there! SESE Reception at AGU: Monday, December 9, 2024 6:30-8:30 p.m. Grand Hyatt Washington, Franklin/McPherson Room 1000 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20001...
2024-12-05 - Prof. Atul Jain has been named to the 2024 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list. The list recognizes researchers and social scientists who have demonstrated exceptional influence, as reflected through their publication of multiple papers frequently cited by their peers during the last decade. Read more at this College of LAS article:...
2024-10-14 - Prospective Graduate Student Webinar Calling all prospective graduate students! We will be hosting a webinar on Nov. 7 at 7 pm CT, where you can hear from current students and meet potential faculty advisors. Sign up here to register: https://forms.gle/9ZqgAJwpBuBnXmf17
2024-09-30 - Congratulations to CliMAS professor Atul Jain for securing new NASA funding to develop the Land-Earth System Digital Twin (L-ESDT)! This innovative project bridges the gap between the virtual and physical worlds by creating a digital counterpart of real-world entities, systems, and processes. It involves developing and maintaining a highly detailed and dynamic digital replica using advanced...
2024-09-26 - Whether they’re on a boat in the middle of a lake to extract sediment cores, deploying a weather balloon in the middle of a blizzard, or sailing around the Aleutian Islands to study microbes in the deep sea, university students play a vital role in advancing science supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Collecting cores In September 2023, Ryan Thigpen, Mike McGlue...
2024-09-20 - WBEZ, Chicago's National Public Radio affiliate, created a nice story featuring the urban field work underway as part of the Department of Energy-funded CROCUS project: https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2024/09/19/chicago-scientists-turn-to-...
2024-09-04 - L. Ruby Leung Lecture: Beckman Institute
2024-09-04 - The AMS Fellows Committee elected Professor and Head Steve Nesbitt as Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Nesbitt joins other CliMAS active faculty members Prof. Jeff Trapp and Prof. Sonia Lasher-Trapp as Fellows. The criteria for election as Fellow "shall have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications...
2024-09-03 - Meet new CliMAS faculty member: Shiv Priyam Raghuraman Professor Raghuraman comes to the University of Illinois from the University of Miami and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where he was a postdoc researcher focusing on climate issues. His research is on radiative forcing and feedbacks and clouds. Why does he find that so appealing? “I like...
2024-08-29 - Dr. Annareli Morales was recently awarded a highly selective award by the American Meteorological Society for her distinguished research career and her efforts in promoting the Latinx community within the atmospheric sciences. Annareli grew up in Chicagoland (shoutout to Cicero) and graduated from the University of Illinois with a double major in Atmospheric Sciences and Geology in...
2024-07-08 - CliMAS professor, Atul Jain, has been selected for the Distinguished Alumni Award of IIT Delhi for 2024! The award is in recognition of his outstanding contributions and leadership which has brought recognition to the Institute. Founded in 1961, the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi is a globally-recognized university and is one of the 23 IIT campuses encompassing the...- 2024-07-08 - Students training mobility service dogs, a collaborative effort to study deadly tornadoes, and an emerging game studies program are featured in “Unique Illinois”, a new 30-minute documentary premiering July 10th at 4:30pm CT on the Big Ten Network. Each segment features stories or experiences exclusive to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Stories in the documentary include...