Environmental Studies
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Tracking collar showed Mountain View puma was looking for his own space
The San Jose Mercury News talked with environmental studies associate professor Chris Wilmers in the aftermath of a young mountain lion's visit to downtown Mountain View. Local television stations KPIX, KTVU, and NBCBay Area did follow-up reports with Wilmers on camera explaining how the puma's tracking collar showed his movements leading up to his capture.
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3 Enormous Benefits to Charging the Right Price for Parking
Atlantic Cities blog wrote about assistant professor of environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball's study of a demand-pricing-for-parking experiment in San Francisco.
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UCSC environmental studies department receives $2 million gift
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about the Packard grant, and the Good Times made mention of it, too.
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Here, Drink A Nice Glass Of Sparkling Clear Wastewater
Environmental studies professor Brent Haddad was quoted on NPR's "All Things Considered" in a story on recycling and purifying wastewater.
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Strawberry growers seek pesticide alternatives
The Associated Press talked to environmental studies professor Carol Shennan of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems for an article on alternatives to fumigants in strawberry fields. The article was published in several newspapers in the western U.S.
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Scientist Chris Wilmers seeks to help cougars survive
The San Francisco Chronicle published a page-one feature profile on environmental studies professor Chris Wilmers and his research on mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Loophole allows fumigants on California’s organic strawberries
KPIX, CBS 5 in San Francisco, interviewed environmental studies professor Carol Shennan for a story on organic strawberries and fumigants.
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Wolves help preserve berries for imperiled Yellowstone bears -study
Reuters quoted Chris Wilmers, associate professor of environmental studies, as an outside expert in an article on wolves in Yellowstone.
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Local lions
The California Academy of Sciences has produced and is showing a video on the mountain lion research associate professor of environmental studies Chris Wilmers is conducting. Santa Cruz Style magazine also published an article on Wilmers and his work with pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Losing a single pollinator species harms plants
A paper co-authored by environmental studies doctoral candidate Heather Briggs on the effects that a loss of bees has on plants was covered by the New York Times, Nature, the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, Digital Journal and Science Daily.
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Family mourns camp counselor killed by tree near Yosemite
The Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and the Associated Press among others reported on the tragic death of UCSC environmental studies student Annais Rittenberg July 3 from a falling tree at a Sierra camp where she was the art counselor. The incident received coverage around the country.
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Declining fortunes of Yellowstone’s migratory elk
Chris Wilmers, associate professor of environmental studies, and Taal Levi, who received his Ph.D from UCSC, contributed a piece to a forum discussion of a study of migratory elk in the Yellowstone region. The study and forum were published in Ecological Society of America's journal Ecology.