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We thought these places were useless. They may help save the world.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton explained how the soggy, anoxic environment of peatlands make them ideal for sequestering carbon from organic matter. “Those organisms that would break down organic matter and decompose it and recycle it back into nutrients and CO2, they can’t work efficiently. And so the organic matter tends to pile up.”
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Photos | UC Santa Cruz team prepares for premier of Shakespeare’s ‘The Comedy of Errors’
This inside look at UC Santa Cruz’s upcoming performance of Comedy of Errors gives audiences a behind the scenes look at the production. These pictures give a look into the production during their dress rehearsal.
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UC Santa Cruz brings Shakespearean comedy to the stage
UC Santa Cruz is bringing back its love for Shakespeare. For several decades the university staged the Bard’s productions every summer until losing funding. The upcoming production of Comedy of Errors will rejuvenate student and audience passions for plays.
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Monterey County declares emergency
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Javier Gonzalez-Rocha was quoted in a story from The Parajonian about the lack of air-quality sensors in the Pajaro Valley.
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Debunking myths perpetuated by Donald Trump about undocumented immigrants
Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, a professor emerita of education at UC Santa Cruz who has worked extensively with immigrant children and their families, co-authored this op-ed debunking a variety of myths the current president relies on when targeting undocumented immigrants.
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UC Santa Cruz report details socioeconomic challenges for Black populations in Monterey, San Benito counties
Compared to other racial groups, Black residents of Monterey and San Benito counties face higher rent burdens, higher incarceration rates and lower levels of education, among other findings, according to a report published last month by UC Santa Cruz researchers. The researchers, Professor Chris Benner and Gabriella Alvarez, say this report underlines the need for implementing programs and…
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Pinpointing the origins of people taken from Africa for the slave trade
Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze explained that, in the past, archaeologists who worked on ‘slave cemeteries’ in the African Diaspora could only use isotope ratios and genetic analysis to identify that an individual must have been born and raised somewhere on the African continent. “Now, with strontium isotopes being mapped for most of sub-Saharan Africa, we…
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An African strontium map sheds light on the origins of enslaved people
Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze and colleagues spent more than a decade amassing nearly 900 environmental samples from 24 African countries and combined those measurements with other published data to create a strontium map of sub-Saharan Africa and have demonstrated how it can be used to shed light on the transatlantic slave trade.
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Lures that attract seed-dispersing bats could aid tropical reforestation
Environmental Studies Professor Karen Holl commented on new research, saying that reforestation impacts from attracting seed dispersing bats will depend upon whether or not the dispersed seeds actually germinate and contribute a lot to forest regrowth. Instead of bat lures, Holl recommends planting forest islands, which offer habitat and attract seed dispersing animals over time, contributing…
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Scientists have some novel ideas to save the ice caps. Here are the most out-of-box suggestions
While theories are abundant in glacial engineering, making them a reality would prove difficult. It would take decades to make the necessary measurements to understand what it would actually take to perform such interventions, Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist at UC Santa Cruz, pointed out.