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After more than a decade of collaborative work, a significant new book advancing the science of water and society has been published with the involvement of Murugesu Sivapalan, professor of geography and geographic information... Read full story GGIS professor contributes to major open-access volume on human–water systems

Twelve scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been named to the 2025 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list. The list recognizes researchers and social... Read full story CliMAS faculty rank among world’s most influential – Illinois News Bureau

The voyage of the HMS Challenger in the 1870s was a sprawling 3-1/2-year expedition to explore the world’s oceans. The scientists aboard the vessel collected 100,000 specimens of sea creatures, discovered 5,000 new species, mapped the ocean floors and took hundreds of measurements of sea... Read full story Book from ESEC professor looks at treasure trove of scientific data from 19th-century HMS Challenger voyage