Media Coverage

The New Yorker magazine referenced a book by literature professor Susan Gillman, Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult, in an article about a new television series,“Lovecraft Country,” on HBO.

Guam Pacific Daily News ran a story about linguist Sandra Chung’s new grammar book on the structure of the CHamoru language, based on her fieldwork on Guam and in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Biologists Eric Palkovacs and Krista Oke were quoted in coverage of their research on the declining size of Alaskan salmon, including stories from UPI, CNN, CBC News, Seattle Times, Fresno Bee, Environmental News Network, Science Times, Yahoo News, Seafood News, Terra Daily, Oceanographic magazine, Science Daily, and other media outlets.

Biologist Ari Friedlaender was featured in a Science news story about scientists studying how the decrease in human activities during the pandemic lockdowns has affected wildlife.

Biologists Tim Tinker and Brent Hughes were featured in a Guardian story about the effects of sea otters on seagrass beds in Elkhorn Slough.

Earth scientist Emily Brodsky was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the use of artificial intelligence to study volcanoes.

Ecologist David Herbst was quoted in a Durango Herald article about the effects of low flows and rising water temperatures on trout streams in Southwest Colorado.

Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo and astronomer Jonathan Fortney were quoted in a story in the Atlantic, MSN, and other outlets about why there are so many research missions to Mars while other planets get less attention.

The Washington Post quoted emerita linguistics professor Judith Aissen about the work of anthropologist Robert M. Laughlin, the former longtime curator of Mesoamerican ethnology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

The New York Times published a story about Lookout Local, a new local news company started by Ken Doctor (Merrill '71) that will debut this fall. 

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about melting ice shelves in Antarctica.

Vice Chancellor for Research Scott Brandt was quoted in coverage of the partnership between UCSC and the County to expand the testing capacity of the UCSC Molecular Diagnostic Lab, including stories in the San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, KTVU, KSBW, and NBC Bay Area.