Media Coverage
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Video simulation shows 12m-high tsunami battering New Zealand coast
Geophysicist Steven Ward was quoted in news coverage of his simulations of a tsunami that could be generated by a megathrust earthquake off the coast of New Zealand, including stories in the New Zealand Herald, MSN News, Daily Star, and other publications.
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Q&A: Conn Hallinan on Fake News
The Santa Cruz Good Times interviewed former Kresge Provost and longtime journalism lecturer Conn Hallinan about what ails the media.
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An artificial intelligence is generating an ‘infinite’ podcast
Computational media grad student James Ryan was featured in a Motherboard (Vice Media) story about his podcast generated by artificial intelligence.
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How to restore our kelp forest
Ecologist Mark Carr was quoted in an article about kelp forests in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Monterey County Herald.
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Scientists have reconstructed the genome of a bird extinct for 700 years
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in a Scientific American article about the genome of the little bush moa, an extinct bird that lived in New Zealand.
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Truth before beauty: Our universe is uglier than we thought
Physicist Michael Dine was quoted in a New Scientist article about theoretical physics.
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New soft robots can sense world around them
Computer engineer Michael Wehner was quoted in coverage of his research on soft robotics, including stories in R&D Magazine, Nanowerk, ScienMag, Engineer, and other media outlets.
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Five years after tragic deaths, Santa Cruz Police Department officers’ legacies live on
Mary Beth Pudup of Community Studies was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the legacy of alumna Elizabeth Butler, a police detective who was killed in the line of duty five years ago.
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From turtles to whales, marine animals have the same moves
Biologist Daniel Costa was quoted in coverage of an analysis of tracking data from a wide range of marine animals, including stories from Atlas Obscura, Science Daily, ScienMag, NewsCaf, and other media outlets.
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UCSC art professor on championing environmental change since 1969
The Santa Cruz Sentinel interviewed artist, environmental activist, and eminent UCSC professor of art Newton Harrison, a keynote speaker at the fifth annual UC Santa Cruz Climate Science and Policy Conference.
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Real-life ‘Casablanca’ story is even more dramatic than the Hollywood classic
The Times of Israel quoted Alma Rachel Heckman, the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and assistant professor of history and Jewish studies, in an article about a new book that explores the story of the many Jewish refugees in the Vichy Moroccan port of Casablanca fleeing the Holocaust.
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The search for primordial black holes continues
Physicist Christian Johnson was quoted in an Astronomy story about the search for primordial black holes.