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Photos capture coyotes hunting and eating baby seals for the first time
Motion-triggered cameras have captured these wild canines dragging baby seals away from mainland beaches. This discovery has sparked questions about how these predators use the shore as part of their menu. Led by UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. student Frankie Gerraty, the investigation uncovered details of coyote hunting patterns near seal rookeries. Also in USA Today,…
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Title 42 Isn’t About Public Health — It’s About Keeping Immigrants Out
Associate Professor of Sociology Juan Pedroza says erroneously linking immigrant communities to the spread of infectious diseases has been a common anti-immigration strategy throughout U.S. History. “You can find in the United States plenty of evidence of people saying that immigrants are bringing disease and will be contaminating the nation, including public health,” he said.
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Closing out Black History Month, one UCSC study shows some disparities
For Black History Month, KION covered a study out of UCSC's Institute for Social Transformation that highlights the ongoing disparity faced by black communities living in the Monterey and San Benito counties. The study considered issues like educational attainment, poverty levels, and access to health care.
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UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. candidate writes environmental children’s book
Brook Thompson, a Ph.D. student in environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz, shared some of her life experiences in her new children’s book, “I Love Salmon and Lampreys: A Native Story of Resilience,” which will be published March 4.
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Beyond staying the course
In this op-ed, Nirvikar Singh, a distinguished professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, argues that many policies available to the Centre (and potentially states), none radical, can even lead to faster growth in the short run while India’s demographics are still favorable.
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Strontium: the metal with remarkable powers to help track ancestral roots
A new strontium isotope map of Sub-Saharan Africa developed by Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze could help descendants of the transatlantic slave trade to finally trace their roots. So far, the map has been used to precisely trace the origins of two people found in the Anson Street African Burial Ground: Kuto and Banza (both named…
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What's Next for Lithium Valley
Politico’s California climate reporter Blanca Begert hosted a panel discussion with Chris Benner of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Manuel Pastor of the University of Southern California, two experts with a new book out about the Salton Sea region. The event was on Feb. 19 at 12pm at the UC Student and Policy Center.
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Study Finds Important Marine Species Vulnerable to Changing Climate
Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate's effect on California's coastal waters, a new study led by Timothy Frawley, an assistant project scientist at UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of Marine Sciences, finds.
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How marine biologists are using elephant seals as nature's 'artificial intelligence'
Marine biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, led by Roxanne Beltran, have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart sensors that can measure anything from physical environmental characteristics – like temperature of air or water – the salinity of the ocean, location and how deep the seals are diving, according to a…
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UC Santa Cruz’s eXperimental Theater gives ‘The Comedy of Errors’ new energy
UC Santa Cruz’s production of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors received a rave review highlighting its brilliance and humor. Special commendations were given to director and Professor in the Department of Performance, Play and Design Patty Gallagher, who is a Shakespeare expert.