The Los Angeles Times featured a story on the new Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at UC Santa Cruz.
Geologist Gary Griggs was featured in coverage of fossil whale bones discovered near Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz, including stories from the Huffington Post, KSBW TV, KGO TV, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Monterey County Herald, Contra Costa Times, RedOrbit, Inside Bay Area, NBCNews, and ABCNews.com.
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in coverage of research on the formation of unusual meteorites called pallasites, including stories from the Huffington Post, Space.com, NBCNews.com, PhysOrg, RedOrbit, and Science Codex.
Santa Cruz community radio station KUSP aired a report on the sea otter, kelp forest and climate change study published by Chris Wilmers in environmental studies and James Estes in ecology and evolutionary biology.
KSCO radio interviewed environmental studies chair Karen Holl about Proposition 30 on the November 6 ballot.
Environmental studies professor Jeff Bury was quoted in a Nature article on receding glaciers in the Peruvian Andes. Bury is part of a team of researchers looking at how shrinking glaciers will affect the water supply of millions of people.
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was featured in a Popular Science article about sea foam. Kudela was also quoted in a Bay Citizen story about a red tide that killed abalone and other sea life off the Sonoma Coast.
Physicist Bill Atwood was quoted in Nature story about a planned upgrade to the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Astronomer Raja Guhathakurta was quoted in a Sky & Telescope story about dwarf galaxies.
Chemist Rebecca Braslau got a second round of publicity for her work on a spray to detect poison oak oil, with stories in the Sacramento Bee, Modesto Bee, San Luis Obispo Tribune, Miami Herald, and PhysOrg.
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