Your Gift Matters
All gifts to Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, no matter their size, help the Department maintain and strengthen its international reputation for excellence, as well as its impact in the community. Your gifts are more important now than ever.
You can make a gift to support Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA online, by mail, or by contacting EPSS’s Development Officer Emily Bisno at (310) 963-8319 or ebisno@support.ucla.edu.
Areas to Contribute to
EPSS Chair’s Discretionary Fund
The EPSS Chair’s Discretionary Fund provides support across the entire department for students, faculty, research, and teaching. This fund has a widespread impact on EPSS, from student awards to instructional enhancement and equipment upgrades, to support for alumni and outreach initiatives including colloquia, public seminars and lectures, and community outreach events.
EPSS Student Fieldwork Fund
EPSS students, faculty, and researchers participate in field trips as part of regular teaching and research activities. This is tremendously important to our students’ growth, providing hands-on learning experiences that better research in the field and improve our understanding of Earth and other planets. This fund helps us provide students with field gear they will need to participate, maintain our field vehicles, and more.
Special Programs
The UCLA Meteorite Collection is the largest on the West Coast, containing over 3700 samples from 1500 different Meteorites. In addition to the groundbreaking research we are able to conduct on these Meteorites, we also have a gallery open to the public, displaying about 100 of these samples. Giving to this fund supports the acquisition, proper storage, display, and curation of the UCLA Meteorite Collection.
The mission of UCLA SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is to find evidence of other civilizations in the universe and extract information encoded in extraterrestrial signals. Under the leadership of Professor Jean-Luc Margot, your gift to UCLA SETI will support this search, including telescope time, big data tools, AI accelerators, and the Citizen Science Collaboration, where you can help us with the search.
UCLA DIYnamics is a project led by Professor Jonathan Aurnou to develop and produce affordable and accessible Earth Science demonstrations and teaching materials that intuitively and experientially explain geophysical fluid dynamics phenomena, such as tornadoes and atmospheric rivers, from the elementary to the University level. Your support will help grow this project to reach more students and expand the DIY science offerings.