Adapted from UCLA Newsroom
UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
Professor Gregory Okin, chair of UCLA’s Department of Geography, is among a group of ten UCLA researchers recently named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society, the association announced on March 27.
Okin joins 471 newly elected AAAS fellows recognized for their significant contributions to the advancement of science and its applications in service to society. They will be celebrated at a forum in Washington, D.C., June 7.
This year’s class of fellows are the embodiment of scientific excellence and service to our communities,” said Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS. “At a time when the future of the scientific enterprise in the U.S. and around the world is uncertain, their work demonstrates the value of sustained investment in science and engineering.”
Okin, a member of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, studies how physical, chemical and biological processes act across landscapes to produce observed environmental patterns and how these patterns modulate large-scale interactions within the Earth system. Much of his research, which makes heavy use of remote sensing and spatial modeling, focuses on plant-soil-atmosphere interactions in the world’s drylands, which cover 40% of the Earth’s land surface.
Founded in 1848, the nonprofit association, which publishes Science and its family of related peer-reviewed journals, has more than 120,000 members across nearly 100 countries and includes more than 250 affiliated societies and academies of science serving 10 million members.
This story was adapted from an article originally published via UCLA’s Newsroom.