For the past five years, Goabaone Jaqueline Ramatlapeng, a National Geographic Explorer and UC Davis earth and planetary sciences doctoral candidate, has studied the water chemistry of the Okavango Delta, the largest freshwater wetland in southern Africa. Recently, she received $100,000 from the National Geographic Society to further her research.
Shellfish, along with other marine organisms, are facing a crisis, one that affects the
integrity of their shells. As carbon dioxide emissions increase in the atmosphere, so too
does the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by our oceans, leading to ocean
acidification. Graduate student Meghan Zulian has devoted her doctoral studies to
understanding how ocean acidification, and more broadly climate change, affects
culturally, economically and ecologically important shellfish, including abalone
As dean of the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis, the largest college on campus that more than 14,000 undergraduate students call home, Estella Atekwana envisions the college as a bridge that helps students make their dreams a reality while being a powerhouse for interdisciplinary research.
A fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America, geochemist Kari Cooper, a professor of earth and planetary sciences in the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis, won the American Geophysical Union’s Norman L. Bowen Award, which honors a mid-career or senior scientist for outstanding contributions to the fields of petrology, volcanology and geochemistry.
An international research team led by a UC Davis alum has created a new method to reconstruct the drift path and origin of debris from Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which went missing over the Indian Ocean with 239 passengers onboard.
Over the course of her career, Distinguished Professor Isabel Montañez has created a
research niche in the fields of geochemistry and paleoclimatology: applying an Earth
systems science approach to recreate Earth from eons past. For her monumental work
in the geology field, Montañez recently received the Geological Society of America’s
Arthur L. Day Medal.
Krypton from Earth’s mantle, collected from geologic hotspots in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, reveals a clearer picture of how our planet formed, according to new research from the University of California, Davis.
The dwarf planet Vesta is helping scientists better understand the earliest era in the formation of our solar system. Two recent papers involving UC Davis scientists use data from meteorites derived from Vesta to resolve the "missing mantle problem" and push back our knowledge of the solar system to just a couple of million years after it began to form. The papers were published in Nature Communications Sept. 14 and Nature Astronomy Sept. 30.
Distinguished Professor Isabel Montañez’s commitment to undergraduate learning and development was recognized today (May 4) with the 2021 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement.
Three professors from the University of California, Davis, are among the newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, as announced on April 26.
