Media Coverage
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The Zombees Are Here (And That’s Probably OK)
Stacey Philpott, an ecology professor at UC Santa Cruz, has studied how honeybees and yellow-faced bumblebees interact with A. borealis, and her work suggests that honeybees fall victim to the fly more often in specific environments, like urban gardens.
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Why Brown Dwarfs May Explain the Main Differences Between Stars and Planets
The atmospheres of brown dwarfs can be surprisingly similar to those of gas giant planets, too, complete with multi-layered clouds and powerful wind-driven storms. That makes them great windows into the atmospheric processes that shape our own solar system’s giant planets, as well as the super-Jupiter exoplanets discovered outside our stellar neighborhood, according to a…
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Which fault line do you live on? An earthquake guide for California.
While both the northern and southern sections of the San Andreas fault are locked, storing up energy that needs to be released, the central part is creeping and less charged.”The true nightmare scenario is that the southern San Andreas has so much extra energy in it because it’s so overdue that it blows through the…
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Watch orcas and dolphins team up to hunt—a possible scientific first
“In nature, mutualism—where both parties benefit—is the most likely reason that you would have two disparate groups coming together,” says Ari Friedlaender, professor of ocean sciences at UC Santa Cruz, who wasn’t involved in the study. Additional coverage in Smithsonian magazine.
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Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him
Dana Frank, research professor and professor emerita of history, wrote an opinion article about the recent pardon of Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández and how the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations stood by him for the eight vicious, destructive years he was in power
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The Surveilled Classroom
Professor of Literature Jody Greene was quoted in a story about professors and students who are worried that what they say in class could end up on the internet.
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Learning a second language can protect your brain. Here’s how.
Assistant Professor of Languages and Applied Linguistics Ariel Chan contributed to a National Geographic article exploring the ways in which speaking multiple languages can slow the aging process in the brain.
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Did wolves save Yellowstone’s aspen trees?
“Elk have declined a lot since wolves were reintroduced, but it’s not clear that that’s due to wolves,” said Chris Wilmers, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of another recent study that assessed the impacts of large carnivore recovery across North America.
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The Surveilled Classroom
In-class political activism was not top of mind when colleges created policies restricting students’ ability to record in classrooms. They were originally designed to prevent students from uploading course material to “pay-to-play” websites containing syllabi, quizzes, and other ways to get easy answers, said Jody Greene, an associate provost at the University of California at…
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Ask Lookout: Why has Santa Cruz’s water demand dropped?
The decline stems from both cultural shifts and better fixtures in homes – things like low-flow toilets and high-efficiency washing machines – said Brent Haddad, director of the Center for Integrated Water Research at UC Santa Cruz.
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Have Wolves Saved Yellowstone’s Aspens?
“Most ecologists suspect that wolves and other predators have something to do with the decline of elk,” said Environmental Studies Professor Chris Wilmers. “But how much can be attributed to wolves, how much can be attributed to predators in general, how much is attributed to those other causes hasn’t been worked out yet.”
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Farmworkers Brave Deadly Heat, Pollution, and ICE Raids
It can be hard to trace the poor health of farmworkers to any one cause. Ecosyndemics is the term that Matt Sparke, a professor of geography and globalization at the University of California, Santa Cruz, uses to describe the compounding health impacts from environmental pollution.