Earth & Planetary Sciences
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Scientists retrieve temperature data from Japan Trench observatory
Data recovered in an unprecedented series of operations will reveal frictional heat generated by fault slip during the Tohoku earthquake
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Astrophysics internships bring community college students to UCSC
The astrophysics program is reaching out to community college students through a new summer internship program.
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Marine scientist Adina Paytan receives prestigious international award
IMS researcher Adina Paytan has been awarded the Excellence Award of the Werner Petersen Foundation.
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UCSC alumna Kathy Sullivan named acting administrator for NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has appointed UCSC alumna Kathryn Sullivan to serve as acting administrator for NOAA.
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Scientists collect first intact samples from an Antarctic subglacial lake
A research team including UCSC scientists successfully drilled through the Antarctic ice and sampled a subglacial lake.
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Year of the Slug: A look back at 2012 at UC Santa Cruz
Higgs boson, condors, pumas, the Grateful Dead Archive … 2012 was yet another year of discoveries, breakthroughs, newsmakers, and honors for UC Santa Cruz. Here’s a look back at a few highlights of the year at UCSC.
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Scientists develop new approach to support climate projections
A recalibration of climate sensitivity based on records of past climates agrees with IPCC estimates for the future.
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Giant impact scenario may explain the unusual moons of Saturn
The middle-sized moons of Saturn may have been spawned during giant impacts in which several major satellites merged to form Titan.
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White shark diets vary with age and among individuals
Many white sharks shift from fish to marine mammals as they mature, but individual sharks show surprising variability in a study by UCSC researchers.
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Moore Foundation grant funds study of Tohoku earthquake fault
New grant funds seismologist Emily Brodsky’s research on the devastating Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011.
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Study reveals complex rupture process in surprising 2012 Sumatra quake
The April 2012 great earthquake near Sumatra involved a complicated faulting process unlike anything seen before.
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Study suggests large methane reservoirs beneath Antarctic ice sheet
The Antarctic Ice Sheet could be an overlooked but important source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.