Media Coverage
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How a record-breaking El Niño could supercharge California’s winter storms
“The most valuable property is on the sand,” said Gary Griggs, a coastal scientist and professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. “This winter in particular, I think it’s going to show what these communities are up against.”
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Predicting harmful algal blooms
Scientists can now predict harmful algal blooms. A group at UC Santa Cruz is predicting blooms up to seven weeks before they happen. Ocean Sciences professor Raphael Kudela said the key is looking not at the algae, but at a type of plankton that eats it. Additional coverage in the East Bay Times.
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Berry steam treatment pilot program gets underway in Santa Cruz County
The $175,000 project was funded by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, in partnership with Safe Ag Safe Schools and UC Santa Cruz.
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Study shows new mosques face more pushback over parking spots
Co-author Mark Massoud, a law and policy professor at UC Santa Cruz, says legitimate fears can be weaponized at planning commission hearings and city council meetings.
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New research shows mosques face more pushback over parking requirements
Mark Massoud is a professor at UC Santa Cruz, and coauthor of the study. “ If someone comes to a planning commission hearing, and they say ‘I don’t want Muslims in my neighborhood these people, especially in progressive cities and towns like here in California, will probably not be taken seriously,” he said.
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UC Santa Cruz tests hot steam as alternative to farm fumigants
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz are exploring ways to help farmers go fully organic. A new steam technology could offer an alternative to pesticides and fumigants. Researchers are testing whether hot steam can protect crops without relying on traditional pesticides or fumigants.
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California may see dreaded ‘perfect storm’ at terrible time: Thanksgiving and Christmas
Storm surge is made more likely and severe by El Niño, which can amplify the wave heights and winds of individual storms. Flooding would be further worsened by runoff from rainfall. “The major damage to California’s coast has generally occurred during El Niño years,” said Gary Griggs, a professor of earth sciences at UC Santa…
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Fix it or trash it? How to decide how long to keep your car and home appliances.
Elliott Campbell, a professor of environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his colleague Roland Geyer analyzed thousands of data points from the transportation sector to model lifetime vehicle emissions.
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Mountain lion spotted at Bay Area park near playground and school
A UC Santa Cruz study published this year found that most mountain lions actively avoid heavily used recreation areas, particularly near busy trails.
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Bay Area gets second-ever September coastal flood advisory as seas rise with El Niño
Gary Griggs, a professor of earth sciences at UC Santa Cruz, said sea levels could rival the highest on record in San Francisco. The previous record was set in January 1983, during another El Niño.
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A Century of Sand Debt Comes Due in Malibu
California’s major coastal dams have trapped an estimated 152 million cubic meters of sand that would otherwise feed the state’s beaches since 1885, according to research by Gary Griggs, a coastal geologist at UC Santa Cruz who has spent five decades documenting the state’s disappearing shoreline.
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Banning H-1B teachers is a recipe for disaster
Professor and chair of Education Lora Bartlett co-authored an opinion article arguing that if the ban passes, the consequences will be immediate and predictable, including more out-of-field teaching and long-term substitutes. But the most common teacher shortage stopgap in Texas is employing instructional staff without any formal training at all.