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Grapes of Ash: How smokey air is polluting California’s wines
Chemist Phil Crews was featured in a KAZU news story about his research on smoke taint in wines.
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Surge of desert surf parks stirs questions in dry California
Ruth Langridge, a senior researcher on water law and policy issues in the Politics Department, spoke with the Associated Press about water use and development planning in California's deserts.
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California’s radical plan to defend homes from sea level rise: move them
Geologist Gary Griggs and ocean scientist Borja Reguero were quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about efforts to deal with coastal erosion in California.
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Remember Uranus?
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney and planetary scientist Francis Nimmo were quoted in stories about a possible NASA mission to Uranus in the Atlantic, Science, Science News, Verge, Sky & Telescope, Washington Examiner, and other media outlets.
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Weekly Wisdom interview with Chancellor Cindy Larive
Chancellor Cindy Larive from UC Santa Cruz joined Bridget Burns from University Innovation Alliance and Doug Lederman from Inside Higher Ed for their Weekly Wisdom podcast.
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Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women
UCSC Arts Division Dean Celine Parreñas Shimizu's book, The Hypersexuality of Race, is quoted in this Nation piece that outlines the connection between anti-Asian violence in the United States and America's earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korea, Vietnam.
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Millions of Years Ago, These North American Forests Disappeared for Good
Paleobiologist Paul Koch was quoted in a Discover news story about the transition from forests to grasslands in North America tens of millions of years ago.
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Watsonville is in the Heart launches digital archive
Sociology Professor Steve McKay, Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder, graduate student Meleia Simon-Reynolds, and Tobera Project founder Roy Recio were quoted by The Pajaronian in a story about the Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive launch.
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4 solutions for trees and forests threatened by a hotter world
Environmental Studies Professor Karen Holl discussed the challenges, risks, and best-practices for tree-planting campaigns with National Geographic for their May 2022 special issue on saving forests.
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From traditional practice to top climate solution, agroecology gets growing attention
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Maywa Montenegro discussed the growth of agroecology with Mongabay for an article about how food systems could become more resilient while helping to fight climate change.