Media Coverage
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Replacement road over landslide blocking Big Sur to cost $40M
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a widely published Associated Press story about the cost of rebuilding the stretch of Highway 1 in Big Sur that was covered by a landslide.
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Experts: Rising seas demand a unified Bay Area defense
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in an article in the San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel about how the San Francisco Bay Area is threatened by rising sea level.
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Universities rush to add data science majors as demand explodes
Computer scientist Lise Getoor and statistician Abel Rodriguez were quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about data science.
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UC Santa Cruz strawberry research boosted by $2.5 million grant
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported on a $2.5 million USDA grant that will extend the reach of new strategies being developed by Environmental Studies Professor Carol Shennan to fight soil diseases in commercial strawberry production.
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Wetlands stopped $625 million in property damage during Hurricane Sandy. Can they help Houston?
Coastal scientists Mike Beck and Sid Narayan were quoted in news coverage of their research on the effectiveness of coastal wetlands in preventing flood damage, including stories from PBS Newshour, the Atlantic, Buzzfeed, Daily Good, Newsy, and other outlets, an opinion piece in The Scientist, and a story that ran on more than 100 German…
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Climate Change Is Driving These Cute Mountain Critters Out of Their Homes
Biologist Joseph Stewart was quoted in coverage of his research on local extinction of pikas in the Sierra Nevada due to climate change, including stories from LiveScience, Discover, Gizmodo, Daily Mail, KQED News, Scientific American, SFGate, Environmental News Network, Lake Tahoe News, and other media outlets.
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Century-old seal pelts reveal changes in Ross Sea ecosystem
Biologists Daniel Costa and Luis Huckstadt were quoted in coverage of their research on Weddell seals in Antarctica, including stories from PhysOrg, SciNexx, Daily Catch, Science Daily, and other media outlets.
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Incredible storytelling computer developed using an IBM 650 in the 1960s is rediscovered
Computer scientist James Ryan was quoted in stories in the Daily Mail, Long Room, and other media outlets about a 1960s-era computer program he rediscovered which was able to generate simple stories.
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How should we talk about race and class in the Trump era?
Humanities dean Tyler Stovall was a guest on a one-hour KALW (San Francisco Public Radio) program that featured a conversation about race In the wake of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, focusing on the question: "How should we talk about issues like race, class, and labor in the Trump era?"
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UC Berkeley proclaims ‘year of free speech’
The Santa Cruz Sentinel quoted feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker in a story about how the new UC Berkeley chancellor declared "a year of free speech” in which the university will recount the origins of its free speech legacy and invite both conservative and liberal speakers to campus.
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West Coast ocean fog carries mercury, a neurotoxin, to land, science reveals
Environmental toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias was featured in a story about his research on mercury in coastal fog in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Monterey Herald.
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Close to Home: NEA helps keep poetry, arts in schools
A story in the The Press Democrat noted that many past champions from the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Out Loud program in Sonoma County who were motivated, but dealing with other challenges like low income or new language, now have degrees from UCLA and UCSC and are launching careers.