Media Coverage
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Why Whales Don’t Choke
Biologist Ari Friedlaender was quoted in stories in the New York Times and Smithsonian about the anatomical features that enable lunge feeding in baleen whales.
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Meet The Chilean Scientist Finding Out What Is The Deal With Seals
Forbes ran a profile of biologist Ana Valenzuela-Toro and her research on the evolutionary history of marine mammals.
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Entangled humpback whale’s sad fate has researchers calling for action on fishing nets
Biologist Ari Friedlaender was quoted in a Guardian story about a humpback whale entangled in fishing gear in Antarctica.
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The plight of Moss Landing’s Olympia oysters
Biologist Kerstin Wasson was quoted in a Monterey Herald story about Olympia oysters in Elkhorn Slough.
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Sounds from Human Activity Highly Disruptive to ‘Unicorns of the Sea’
Biologist Susanna Blackwell was quoted in a story in EcoWatch about the effects of ocean noise on narwhals.
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Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Will do its Own, Wide-Angle Version of the Hubble Deep Field
Astronomers Brant Robertson and Nicole Drakos were quoted in a Universe Today story about their work on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope project.
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Grounded by conflict and COVID, Colombia’s bird tourism struggles to soar
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela spoke with Mongabay about the potential and challenges for bird tourism in Colombia.
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The #BettyWhiteChallenge highlights the growth of animal philanthropy and the role of rescues
Anthropology Professor Melissa L. Caldwell wrote for The Conversation about the "compassion economies" that support animal rescue in the United States.
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Landmark Colombian bird study repeated to right colonial-era wrongs
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela spoke with Nature about an effort to create a new reference survey of Columbia's birds, with community leadership.
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The Truth Behind Pseudoscience
A Good Times cover story on pseudoscience, written by students in the UCSC Science Communication Program, featured several faculty experts, including geophysicist Elise Knittle, anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman, and hydrologist Andrew Fisher,
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Santa Cruz’s notorious lagoon about to get an upgrade
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News article about plans for managing the lagoon at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River.
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Black Hair in Video Games Is Terrible. These 3D Artists Are Changing That.
Vice News interviewed Assistant Professor of Digital Arts and New Media A.M. Darke about an open source database project that's working to build authentic representation of Black hairstyles in video games and animation.