Media Coverage
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Lovers Point Beach closure extended after dead whale washes ashore
A coordinated response is now underway following the stranding of the deceased humpback whale, led by the Marine Mammal Stranding Network at UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, in partnership with the City of Pacific Grove, Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, NOAA Fisheries and other local partners.
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The Magic of Seabird Colonies, and One Scientist’s Unique Way to Mitigate the Crises They Face
I was feeling down about it, but luckily, I had an upcoming call with Aspen Ellis. Ellis is a PhD candidate at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) who has studied seabirds for more than a decade. When I mentioned this issue, she knew it all too well.
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How Mangroves And Wetlands Can Help Protect Coastal Communities From Storms
Michael Beck, director of the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, joined FOX Weather to explain how coastal communities can strengthen their defenses against storms through natural infrastructure. New visualization tools show how mangroves, wetlands and other coastal ecosystems can help reduce flooding and lessen the impacts of extreme weather.
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Yosemite National Park’s permissive new fishing policies spark controversy
Devon Pearse, an ecology professor at UC Santa Cruz and lead scientist at the California nonprofit Friends of the River who has previously studied Yosemite’s trout, told SFGATE that he’s skeptical the decision was based on science, and suspects instead it was likely politically motivated. In recent weeks, President Donald Trump signed an executive order…
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CZU Lightning Complex fires weren’t first of its kind, UC Santa Cruz researchers say
As factors including climate change increase fire risk, collective land management and risk mitigation will be key to avoiding massive fires, said UCSC professor of anthropology Andrew Mathews, who led the research team.
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UCSC and NASA team up to launch new educational and career-development program
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) is teaming up with NASA to launch a program that creates educational and career development opportunities for students. The program is in collaboration with the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Mountain View. The agreement, which runs through December 2028, will see both institutions develop new research…
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NASA’s Webb telescope discovers a planet where rock clouds vanish every night
“With the Hubble telescope, when we used to do this type of observation, we got an average view of the whole planet with data from the clouds and the atmosphere squished together and indistinguishable,” said first author Sagnick Mukherjee, a postdoctoral fellow at Arizona State University who was a student at Johns Hopkins and UC…
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California’s salmon fishery is reopening after a population crash led to a 3‑year closure, but that doesn’t mean all is well
Written by UC Santa Cruz’s Eric Palkovacs (professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; director of the Institute of Marine Sciences) and Steven Lindley (Fisheries Collaborative Program researcher)
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The silent majority: RNAs that don’t make proteins
“You can think of them as acting as scaffolds, where they can bring in other binding partners,” says Susan Carpenter, a cell and molecular biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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What Dreams Really Are
Distinguished professor emeritus G. William Domhoff speaks about his new book “Dreams, Sleep, and Consciousness.”
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‘They’re torturing me’: ICE uses solitary confinement to scare people into self-deporting
Craig Haney, a UC Santa Cruz psychology professor and solitary confinement expert, described social isolation as a “psychological toxin.” He said solitary confinement can cause depression, anxiety, hopelessness, the atrophy of social skills, and in more severe cases, hallucinations, cognitive impairment and PTSD. “It’s cruel because it hurts people,” Haney said of solitary confinement. “It’s…
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Redistricting battles and primary fights reshape political landscape ahead of midterms
Nolan Higdon, a political history lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, said the redistricting push will make things more difficult for Democrats but may not be a decisive blow. “A lot of this redistricting is attempting to cut into any lead Democrats may have in the general,” Higdon said. “But this could be something that backfires…