Social Sciences
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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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The strange sexual quirk of Filipino seafarers
Sociology professor Steve McKay was quoted extensively in an Atlantic article on Filipino merchant seaman and some of their unique self-enhancement practices. McKay is chair of the Labor and Migration section of the American Sociological Association.
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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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Break ups are both harder and easier today
A columnist writing on divorce in Psychology Today quoted from psychology professor Steve Whittaker's study on breakups and Facebook.
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Immodest proposal
The New York Times Sunday Magazine referred to psychology grad student Rachael Robnett's study that found not one male or female surveyed preferred that a woman propose marriage to a man. The mention was in the "One-page Magazine" feature.
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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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Stanford, UCSC study predicts oil demand to peak around 2035
The Santa Cruz Sentinel printed an article on economics professor Adam Millard-Bell's paper predicting a decline in the demand for oil.
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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.
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The Other Mexicans: Indigenous people come from a world apart from Spanish-speaking Mexicans
National Geographic online quoted Jonathan Fox, professor and chair of Latin American and Latino studies, in an article on indigenous immigrants from Mexico who speak neither Spanish nor English.