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ECO Magazine
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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ABC News
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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Santa Cruz Sentinel
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.
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The Washington Post
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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Santa Cruz Sentinel
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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Santa Cruz Sentinel
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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The Parajonian
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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Fresno Bee
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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Lookout Santa Cruz
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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Nature
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…