A Sampling of Clips for
March 6th, 2007
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Asian Air Pollution Affecting Weather
Los Angeles Times, March 6 -- Asia's growing air pollution — billowing plumes of soot, smog and wood smoke — is making the Pacific region cloudier and stormier, disrupting winter weather patterns along the West Coast and into the Arctic, researchers reported Monday. The research team, which included atmospheric scientists from Caltech, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UCSD, linked the changing cloud patterns to the increasing pollution through a series of computer studies. More
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Alzheimer's Expert Praised at Service
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 6 -- Hundreds of faculty members, top federal research directors and friends spent yesterday afternoon praising the late Dr. Leon Thal, a UCSD physician, scientist and national expert on Alzheimer's disease. Thal, who led a federally funded consortium of research centers dedicated to stopping the disease, died Feb. 3 when his single-engine plane crashed just west of Borrego Springs. He was 62. More
Tech Researchers Calculate Digital Info
The Washington Post, March 6 -- A new study that estimates how much digital information is zipping around (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff. (Quotes James Short and Roger Bohn of UCSD, who were not involved with the report) More
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Forecasters Spar over La Niña Formation
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 6 -- Is La Niña looming? If it is, our region could face yet another dry winter next year, but long-range forecasters disagree whether the weather phenomenon is on the horizon. Climatologists at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Climate Research Division say it's too early to tell if La Niña is on the way. More
Second Life:
the Coolest New Marketplace in the World
KVOA, Ariz., March 6 -- "Second Life was just unfundable," says the man who dreamed up this virtual world, UCSD alumnus Philip Rosedale. Funny how things change when you give people the ability to fly. Now everyone, including businesses of all sizes, wants a piece. More
Cardiovascular
Research Grid Receives $8.5M
GRIDToday, March 5 -- The Cardiovascular Research Grid is expected to be a boon to the large community of heart researchers who will use these digital tools to find new ways to prevent, detect and treat life-threatening cardiac ailments. To launch this effort, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has approved an $8.5 million grant to be allocated over a four-year period that began March 1. The digital project will be based at the Institute for Computational Medicine at Johns Hopkins, in collaboration with Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Center for Research in Biological Systems at UCSD. More