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UCSC researcher aims to fill gaps in Pajaro Valley air monitoring data, help farmworkers deal with pollution health impacts
Javier González-Rocha, an assistant professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, has been working to identify air monitoring data gaps in the Pajaro Valley to better inform farmworkers and the local community.
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How an H5N1 Outbreak in Elephant Seals Can Inform Pandemic Readiness
Johnson’s collaborator UC Santa Cruz physiological ecologist Roxanne Beltran, who regularly studies the elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park, will also integrate her spatial mapping of the seals to address the same seal-to-seal transmission question from an ecological angle.
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A Landslide in Alaska Set Off a Tsunami. There May Be More to Come.
“The bar is, can we do better than missing most of these,” said Noah Finnegan, a geomorphologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study. “So getting a handle on why these precursors happen and what their relationship is to catastrophic collapse is an area many people are interested…
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7 Books That Use Family Archives to Break Generational Silence
Tamiko Nimura of Electric Literature named Emeritus Literature Professor Karen Tei Yamashita’s book Letters To Memory in its list of acclaimed books that tell untold stories by delving deeply into family archives. “It’s difficult to describe this inventive journey through family history, wartime incarceration and resettlement, but it’s poetic, funny, and deeply intelligent,” writes Nimura.
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The 18 Best Books of 2026 (So Far) – Esquire
In an Esquire books roundup, reviewer Adam Morgan said that Emeritus Literature Professor Karen Tei Yamashita deserves to be a literary household name and that he “devoured” her ambitious fifth novel, Questions 27 & 28, titled after the “so-called loyalty questionnaire” that 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced to take during their internment in concentration camps.
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AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch
Brant Robertson, a UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist, has had a front-row seat to this step change in science while supporting or using data from these missions. Robertson has spent the past 15 years working with Nvidia to apply GPUs to the problems of understanding space, first through advanced simulations testing theories about supernova explosions, and…
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Officers recall rescue of Bordeaux, sea lion found on Google campus in Sunnyvale
University of California, Santa Cruz professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Daniel Costa said that sea lions are also more comfortable around humans. “Sea lions are probably losing a little bit of their fear of people as they get more accustomed to it,” Costa said. “So, my first thought is that sea lion you guys…
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Apple at 50: How Cupertino’s tech giant changed what technology feels like
When Apple unveiled the App Store in 2008 with 500 apps, it helped launch a new economy, said UC Santa Cruz lecturer Nolan Higdon, who studies the tech industry. Tech companies had struggled to make money from the internet after the dot-com bust, but the App Store and the iPhone’s booming popularity fueled an explosion…
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How the K-shaped economy explains why it feels like we are in a recession
Some economists, like Pascal Michaillat at the University of California, Santa Cruz, pay special attention to labor market indicators to get a better sense of whether the economy has entered a recession. Michaillat said he looks at labor market data because this is the same data you’d want to use to look at whether we’re…
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Misinformation swirls online following White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting
Nolan Higdon, a professor of political history and media education at UC Santa Cruz, says several factors have created this environment. He noted that the “media diet” from legacy journalism, independent media, and social media influencers often prioritizes content that appeals to a divisive nature.