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California plastic ocean debris bill dies in committee

IoES Associate Director Mark Gold is quoted in an Associated Press article about new legislation aimed at reducing the amount of plastic bags and bottles that end up in the ocean.
Posted: 5/28/2013

Bacteria Beach: “A day at the beach should never make you sick!”

Leave it up to us, the Heal the Bay Beach Water Quality Team, to determine when it’s safe for you to swim.
Posted: 5/13/2013

Malibu Creek Watershed - Ecosystem on the Brink

A scientific roadmap for protecting a critical natural resource.
Posted: 3/18/2013

Going, going, gone? Vanishing DDT is big surprise at ocean deposit off Los Angeles

IoES Associate Director Mark Gold is quoted in an Environmental Health News article about decreased pesticide deposits in L.A. County waters.
Posted: 3/13/2013

Refreshing the Clean Water Act

The LA Times featured an Op-Ed by IoES Associate Director Mark Gold about the federal law turning 40 this week.
Posted: 10/17/2012

The Lost Wetlands of Los Angeles

KCET.org featured a story about a new report on Ballona Creek co-authored by IoES Adjunct Professor Travis Longcore.
Posted: 3/6/2012

Mark Gold named to UCLA environmental post

Gold will serve as the Institute's Associate Director.
Posted: 1/10/2012

Ocean's harmful low-oxygen zones growing, are sensitive to small changes in climate

IoES Affiliate Professor Curtis Deutsch co-authored a new study about how climate affects the growth of harmful ocean zones that threaten marine life.
Posted: 6/17/2011

Heal the Bay 2011 Beach Report Card

Water quality at LA County beaches worsened between 2010 and 2011 and water quality statewide dipped slightly but remained “very good to excellent,” according to the annual report released May 25 by environmental group Heal the Bay.
Posted: 5/25/2011

Man-made rock reef is part of a welcome seaweed change

The LA Times reported on IoES Corporate Partner Southern California Edison's creation of an artificial reef 50 feet below the waves to support a new kelp forest.
Posted: 5/9/2011

Scientists worry about oil 'iceberg' in Gulf

Richard Ambrose, professor of environmental health sciences, was interviewed on the Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s "The World Today" about the clean-up following the BP oil rig explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010.
Posted: 4/28/2011

Reflections on the Gulf Oil Spill—One year later

On April 20, 2010 an explosion rocked the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling rig. On April 22, 2010 Deepwater Horizon sank, leaving the well gushing at the sea floor and causing the largest offshore oil spill in United States history. Two UCLA experts weigh in on the anniversary of the disaster.
Posted: 4/26/2011

U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Job Recruitment

New environmental science-related opportunities are available with the newly re-organized bureau. BOEMRE will be hiring environmental scientists in the coming months to do work in fields ranging from environmental studies to NEPA review to environmental compliance.
Posted: 4/15/2011

Announcing the Glickfeld Family Scholarship

This new award is for students pursuing an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science.
Posted: 2/8/2011

Learning vessel

The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability will support a new research and teaching boat.
Posted: 2/2/2011

UCLA joins Southern California Marine Institute to revitalize marine research in Los Angeles

UCLA joins a a strategic alliance of 11 major universities in southern California dedicated to advancing ocean studies.
Posted: 12/17/2010

Gulf Oil Spill Continues to Grow

Richard Ambrose, director of UCLA's Environmental Science and Engineering Program and a professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health, was interviewed Friday on ABC News about the environmental impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted: 5/4/2010

UCLA engineers develop faster method to detect bacterial contamination in coastal waters

Method cuts testing time from a day or more to less than an hour.
Posted: 3/11/2010

10 questions: ocean protector Richard Ambrose

Whether he's scuba diving in the Channel Islands, inspecting coastal Californian wetlands for signs of recovery or poking around in tide pools, Professor Richard Ambrose's research is almost literally a day at the beach.
Posted: 10/19/2009

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