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Microbes and Climate

Naomi Levine of biological sciences and earth sciences digs up information on climate by studying oceanic phytoplankton and bacteria. Read More

Climate Change in the Amazon

USC Dornsife researchers study the Amazon to discover effects of climate change — and find hidden secrets in river water, sediment and leaves. Read More

Where Earth and Life Sciences Merge

Graduate students from throughout the world attend a USC Dornsife summer course in geobiology. Some of their research takes place at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island. Read More

Averting the Apocalypse

As the inaugural speaker of the USC Dornsife Sustainability Task Force’s Distinguished Lecture Series, renowned ecologist William Schlesinger warns against the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” threatening a sustainable future. Read More

Food Revolution

Students spend Spring break at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island studying the science of sustainable food. After lessons on aquaculture and aquaponics, they get their hands dirty creating compost in an edible garden. Read More

Solving a Geologic Riddle

Geologist Meghan Miller works with scientists worldwide to study why curving mountain chains form where some tectonic plates collide. Their research appears online in Nature. Read More

Strides in Earthquake Science

Headquartered at USC Dornsife, the Southern California Earthquake Center has greatly improved the region’s seismographic network since the 1994 Northridge earthquake — 20 years ago today. Read More

Floating Mountains

The Atlas Mountains in Morocco are buoyed up by superhot rock, a USC Dornsife study recently published in Geology finds. Read More