Media Coverage
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Associated Press
In the Arizona desert, a farm raising fish raises questions about water use
The seafood industry needs to reduce its reliance on catching small wild fish to feed bigger farmed ones that humans eat, said Pallab Sarker, an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who studies sustainability in the aquaculture industry. He said seabirds and mammals rely on small species like anchovies and mackerel commonly…
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Bloomberg Opinion
Big Waves and High Tides Can Be Just as Insidious as Hurricanes
“Large waves and high tides are already beating up the shoreline,” said Gary Griggs, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A 2019 study by a UC Santa Cruz associate professor, Borja Reguero, and others used satellite data and modeling to suggest waves had grown 0.47% more powerful…
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Lookout Santa Cruz
A dawn bus ride, a Capitol showdown and a last-minute deal: How Santa Cruz activists fought health care cuts
Students from UC Santa Cruz’s Everett Program for Technology and Social Change travelled to Sacramento to urge California lawmakers to reject Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed cuts to Medi-Cal for undocumented immigrants.
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KALW
Celebrating Pride while fighting Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies
Phil Hammack, professor of psychology & director of the Sexual & Gender Diversity Lab at UC Santa Cruz, discusses how LGBTQ+ communities are celebrating and fighting back against the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ policies.
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Space.com
Pluto’s hazy skies are making the dwarf planet even colder, James Webb Space Telescope finds
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet’s atmosphere. The discovery of the haze was predicted back in 2017 by planetary scientist Xi Zhang of the University of California, Santa Cruz, to explain why Pluto’s thin atmosphere is so leaky. Additional…
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The Fulcrum
Scams Targeting Immigrants Take Advantage of Fears of Immigration Status and Deportation
Juan Pedroza, a sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said uncertainty and rapid changes to immigration laws and regulations “opens up new opportunities for scam artists to get creative.”
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USA Today
A fog-free San Francisco? Scientists ponder California’s climate future
Peter Weiss, a faculty researcher and lecturer at the UC-Santa Cruz department of environmental sciences, said that despite a growing narrative of waning fog along the California coast, the data to support it is “very spotty,’’ with few academic studies in the last decade. Also in the Salinas California.
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U.S. News and World Report
Wake Up, America. Cutting Health and Science Funding Costs Lives
Nobel Laureate and UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Carol Greider coauthored an opinion article explaining why billions of dollars in NIH funding is worth the price. The article calls on senators to demand that the Trump administration reverse devastating cuts to the NIH that will cause unnecessary deaths, cost billions in economic activity, and have…
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Tech Explorist
Webb confirms Pluto’s atmosphere cools with haze
After New Horizons’ Pluto flyby, UC Santa Cruz‘s Xi Zhang proposed in 2017 that Pluto’s atmosphere is dominated by haze particles, making it unlike any other in the solar system. He suggested that these particles heat up and cool down, controlling Pluto’s entire energy balance.
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Vancouver Tech Journal
Genome BC backs DNA-based environmental monitoring in rural and Indigenous communities
This project, led by Caren Helbing (University of Victoria) and Rachel Meyer (University of California Santa Cruz), adapts a U.S.-based tool for Canadian use. The platform allows users to view and share biodiversity data from eDNA samples. It builds on previous work from the iTrackDNA initiative, which helped establish Canada’s national eDNA standards.
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Axios
This seagull took an 80-mile truck ride twice to find food
“It was surprising and comical, so much so that we wanted to look closely into this one individual’s behavior to understand how this happened,” Megan Cimino, a researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz and lead author of the study, told Axios. Additional coverage by SFGate and Smithsonian Magazine.
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New York Times
David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.