Media Coverage
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This Year’s Powerful El Niño May Preview California’s Climate Future
“Things climate-wise are intensifying in many instances and getting worse,” said Ruth Langridge, the report’s coordinating lead author and researcher at UC Santa Cruz. “We’re going to be seeing more unprecedented heat waves. The projections show that droughts will intensify and storms will intensify.” Additional coverage by the Los Angeles Times and Mercury News.
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Deckers Brands appoints Rati Sahi Levesque to board
Deckers Brands appointed Rati Sahi Levesque to its board of directors. Levesque holds a B.S. in Economics from UC Santa Cruz.
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New Walton-Verona Independent Supt. Dylan Smith starting enrichment programs for elementary students
New superintendent Dylan Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in politics from UC Santa Cruz.
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Nicotine exposure before birth may weaken immunity for life
Researchers in Camilla Forsberg’s lab at UC Santa Cruz found that exposure to nicotine alone altered immune system development, with effects that lasted into adulthood.
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“Hispanic Heritage” Is Hemispheric Sovereignty
Lily Balloffet, a Latin American historian who teaches Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz, writes an essay arguing that Latiné Heritage Month is best taught through the idea of sovereignty as an everyday defense of autonomy.
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Turner Prize-nominated artist Isaac Julien joins the BBC to talk about his film work Lessons of the Hour
Turner Prize-nominated artist Isaac Julien joins the BBC to talk about his film work Lessons of the Hour – which is screening from this weekend until next April at Perth Museum, on the site where the renowned 19th century social reformer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave speeches to packed out audiences almost 200 years ago.
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Support on the Grow for Climate-Smart Vegetable Farming
Darryl Wong, executive director of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology, discusses his research on no-till organic vegetable farming, and the California Department of Food & Agriculture is funding work by Professor of Plant Ecophysiology Jarmila Pittermann and graduate student Viridiana Castro.
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All eyes are on this new El Niño forecast for California
“Every couple inches of sea level rise doubles the risk in California in terms of flooding, and those water levels, already riding pretty high, are going to get a lot higher in the coming months,” Patrick Barnard, who directs research at the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz, told SFGATE. “Everything’s lining…
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UCSC study on mosque parking
Mosques face more pushback over parking requirements than churches when applying for building permits, according to a new study from UC Santa Cruz professor Mark Massoud.
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Strawberry farmer hopes steam holds the key to healthy soil and a better crop
Using a machine to inject steam into the soil before planting can kill key soil-borne diseases and weeds and improve crop productivity, said Jenny Broome, a UC Santa Cruz researcher working on the project. The AP story ran in more than 30 outlets nationwide.
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Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill
“We have shown that in years with poor winter sea ice extent there is a reduction in subsequent pregnancy rates that we believe is the direct result of prey limitation,” said Ari Friedlaender, an ecologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz who has studied whale foraging behavior in Antarctica for more than two decades.
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‘Nature-Based’ Solutions Could Save Insurers and Policyholders Billions
UC Santa Cruz coastal resilience expert Mike Beck, who co-authored the Nature article, regularly works with insurance and risk modeling companies to refine wetland models and says the industry has made significant progress over the past decade.