What's the latest in climate research?

The Climate Gap: Climate Change and America's Poor. A new study from UC Berkeley has found that low-income communities and people of color in the United States will suffer the most from the health and economic consequences of rising global temperatures. (July 2009; image: Flickr user HB Art (cc: by-nc-sa))

If you'd like to learn more about the current state of climate science, you should take a look at what the Lawrence Hall of Science has to offer. One online exhibit, Global Warming: Is the Science Settled Enough for Policy?, examines this complex question with climatologist Stephen Schneider, using the Science on a Sphere® visualization system.

Increases in mysterious underground tremors observed in several active earthquake fault zones around the world could signal an increased likelihood of a major quake, according to a new UC Berkeley study. Check out the full story on the Berkeley News site. (July 2009)

Meet two UC scientists who explore the cosmos from the Berkeley campus.

• Steven W. Stahler, research astronomer, Dept. of Astronomy
• Steve Croft, postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Astronomy

I arrived at Cal from Mrs. Costello’s 5th grade class at Havens Elementary School. My Science@Cal adventure took me far from the UC Berkeley campus, all the way to the CDMS underground laboratory at Soudan, Minnesota. The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) underground lab searches for unseen ‘dark matter’ particles in our universe. These particles are called ‘dark matter’ because they do not reflect light.

If you're a teacher, check out MARE (Marine Activities, Resources & Education) at the Lawrence Hall of Science! It's a set of resourches for teaching about the ocean at the K-8 level. You can also learn more about the world's biomes at an online exhibit at the UC Museum of Paleontology.

Join host Harry Kreisler in conversation with Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion and Professor of Astronomy Gibor Basri. View the webcast here.

Join UC Berkeley journalism students as they take a compelling look at the impact of pollution on our lives — at home and afar. View this webcast at the UCTV website.

Why do these Cal scientists study the ocean and water? How does their research relate to our everyday lives? Read on!

• James K. B. Bishop, faculty senior scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• Ashok Gadgil, senior scientist and deputy director of strategic planning, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• Inez Fung, co-director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment

These in-depth articles look at the work done by three ocean scientists at Cal:

"Field Notes from Joey Pakes." Find out why this cave-diving graduate student is utterly obsessed with an obscure little crustacean called the remipede.