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Marina Jurica joined CBS News Los Angeles in September 2023 after spending four years with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. She worked on many Earth missions there including SWOT, Sentinel-6, NISAR, ICE-SAT2, and the landing of the Perseverance Mars rover. Previously she worked for 20 years as an Emmy award winning meteorologist in the most dynamic weather markets across the country including Minneapolis, MN, Cincinnati, OH, Orlando, FL, Lexington, KY and Fresno, CA as the first female Chief Meteorologist.
Marina did her undergraduate and graduate studies in atmospheric science and music performance at UCLA and Mississippi State University and is currently getting her PhD in climate science. She is studying the atmospheric effects on melting glaciers from above and below in places across the world like Greenland and Alaska and how we can adapt to these changes globally. She is very passionate about our changing climate and looks forward to bringing you up close and personal stories about our changing Earth and how space technology is helping us change with it.
She also loves to educate the future generation of scientists speaking to classrooms across the globe.
Fun facts: Marina is a very proud second-generation UCLA Bruin and attends all the football and basketball games. Both her parents were born in Croatia, and she speaks the language fluently and travels back there often. She got a full scholarship to UCLA for opera performance and has performed on Broadway, has had many musical theater leads across the country, she's sung with orchestras from the Hollywood Bowl to the Orlando Philharmonic, and has performed the national anthem for many professional sports teams including the Wild, Magic, Reds, Twins, Angels, Timberwolves, and at Pauley for UCLA hoops!
In her spare time, Marina loves traveling with her husband and future paleontologist son John on dinosaur digs across the planet!
Scientists are using the cutting-edge satellite technology from the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) to rethink how we understand earthquakes.
As climate change brings stronger storms and longer dry spells, Los Angeles is rethinking how it handles water, working to slow it down, soak it in, and store it for the future.
As the climate warms, the Earth is not just facing hotter days; there is a new era of dirty air.
Restoration for the Los Angeles River has been underway for several decades, but the recent wildfires and drier climate could put progress in jeopardy.
KCAL News' Meteorologist Marina Jurica took a trip to Norway to study climate change in the Arctic Circle.
The next president could have a big impact on climate change policies. Here are 11 ways the issue could impact your health, bills, natural disaster recovery and more.
Home insurance premiums have at times risen 40% faster than inflation. Extreme weather events are likely to make the expense worse.
Homicide, named by one study in 2022 as the leading cause of death of pregnant women in the U.S., is also among the risks inflated by extreme temperatures.
U.S. energy infrastructure has proven to be problematic as-is, and threats to its reliability are growing. Experts say there's a solution.
Temperatures for the Inland Empire, valleys, and High Deserts will be well above early-mid June for at least another week.
Gray whales migrate more than 10,000 miles a year, swimming from the chilly waters of the Arctic to their warm breeding rounds in Baja California. But ongoing climate change is putting the species at risk of possible extinction.
Clouds will start to increase Friday with rain moving into Ventura County around 7pm. Bands of heavy rain will move through Los Angeles and surrounding counties all weekend long.
This will be our coldest storm of the season so far as we enter into March like a lion.
