News Archive - Environment

New Study Redefines Understanding of Where Icebergs Put Meltwater into the Southern Ocean

Findings published December 16 in Science Advances provide the climate science community with the groundwork to include Antarctic icebergs in global climate models.

SDSC’s ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer Formally Enters Production

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego announced that its new Expanse supercomputer formally entered service for researchers following a program review by the National Science Foundation, which awarded SDSC a grant in mid-2019 to build the innovative system.

I See You: Honey Bees Use Contagious and Honest Visual Signal to Deter Attacking Hornets

UC San Diego-led research is providing new details about honey bees and their defenses against preying hornets. Using a common iPad, James Nieh and his colleagues conducted the first study that demonstrates that a contagious warning signal counters “fake news” in social insects.

UC San Diego Student Team Shines at Supercomputing 2020 Conference

A team fielded for the first time by SDSC and UC San Diego achieved 4th place overall out of 19 teams in the Student Cluster Competition, held during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20).

Researchers Reveal Switch Used in Plant Defense Against Animal Attack

Researchers have identified the first key biological switch that sounds an alarm in plants when plant-eating animals attack. The mechanism will help unlock a trove of new strategies for improved plant health, from countering crop pest damage to engineering more robust global food webs.

SDSC Receives Two ‘Best’ HPCwire Awards for 2020

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego received two HPCwire awards for 2020, including ‘Best Use of HPC (High-Performance Computing) in the Cloud’, and ‘Best Use of HPC in Energy’.

Environmentally Friendly Method Could Lower Costs to Recycle Lithium-Ion Batteries

A new process for restoring spent cathodes to mint condition could make it more economical to recycle lithium-ion batteries. The process consumes 80 to 90% less energy than today's methods, emits about 75% less greenhouse gases, and uses environmentally benign, inexpensive ingredients.

National Science Foundation Forms Throughput Computing Partnership

SDSC is part of a multi-year NSF award to harness the computing capacity of thousands of computers assembled in a network of campus clusters to substantially cut time to science results that might take years to be done in days, especially for applications that are parallel by design.

UC Researchers Pioneer More Effective Method of Blocking Malaria Transmission in Mosquitoes

UC scientists have made a major advance in the use of genetic technologies to control the transmission of malaria parasites. They employed a strategy known as population modification, which uses a CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive system to introduce genes preventing parasite transmission in mosquitoes.

A Gift with ‘Seed Value’

Climate change advocate Marshall Saunders was widely known as a man who paired a deep respect for others with determination to make a difference.