Media Coverage
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Seismic biomarkers in Japan Trench fault zone reveal history of large earthquakes
Earth scientist Heather Savage and ocean scientist Pratigya Polissar were quoted in coverage of their research on seismic faults in the Japan Trench, including stories in PhysOrg, Science Daily, Scienmag, Long Room, and other media outlets.
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What’s tangling up the humpback whales? A food chain snarled by climate change
Applied math and fisheries researcher Jarrod Santora was quoted in coverage of his research on whale entanglements, including stories in the Los Angeles Times, KQED News, Monterey Herald, Scientific American, San Jose Mercury News, Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Forbes, Guardian, and other media outlets.
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The Complicated Business of Racial Segregation
Medium did a nice writeup about a series of studies coauthored by economist Justin Marion that looked at the economic dynamics of movie theatre segregation in the 1950s.
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Emerging field of ‘forensic genealogy’ links DNA testing and family histories to solve cold cases
Biomolecular engineer Ed Green was featured in a story about DNA testing and forensics that ran in the San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, Monterey Herald, and Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Young galaxies transformed the early universe by blowing bubbles
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was quoted in a Popular Science article about the earliest galaxies.
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Vera Rubin gets a telescope of her own
Astronomer Natalie Batalha was quoted in a New York Times article about the naming of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory by the NSF (renaming what had been the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in honor of Vera Rubin).
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All hail the mushroom
Biologist Christian Schwarz was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the annual Fungus Fair.
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King tides rolling in along the coast Friday
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News article about king tides.
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Controlled explosions pave the way for Thwaites glacier research
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a story in Eos about his team's research on the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.
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How genetics and social games drive evolution of mating systems in mammals
Biologist Barry Sinervo's research on the evolution of mating systems was featured in Santa Cruz Tech Beat, Science Daily, Technology.org, and other media outlets.
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Theater Revival
Landscape Archtiecture writes that the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz "has been carefully rebuilt in all its modernist glory."
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Meet the deep-diving, ear-splitting 4,500-pound rock star of Año Nuevo
An article in Bay Nature about the elephant seals at Año Nuevo features UCSC biologists Daniel Costa, Patrick Robinson, Colleen Reichmuth, and Caroline Casey.