Media Coverage
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Herpers help scientists protect cold-blooded wildlife
Biologist Barry Sinervo was quoted in a KAZU radio story about citizen scientists documenting snakes and amphibians in the local area.
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Tech improves study, understanding of elephant seals
Biology graduate student Sarah Kienle is featured in a story about her research on elephant seals in the San Luis Obispo Tribune and the Cambrian.
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‘Grolar’ bear may be product of warmer Arctic
Biologist Beth Shapiro is quoted in a story about grizzly-polar bear hybrids in the Toronto Star, Guelph Mercury, and other Canadian news outlets.
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At 80, Carla Bley Keeps Looking Toward The Next Composition
Music professor Amy Beal was quoted on National Public Radio's All Things Considered program about the 80th birthday of the highly innovative American jazz composer and band leader, Carla Bley. Beal also interviewed Bley for Keyboard magazine.
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Scientists want to bring back woolly mammoths — But why?
Biologist Beth Shapiro is featured in NBC News coverage of efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth.
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Temperature influences gene expression, life cycle in vibrio cholerae
Microbiologist Fitnat Yildiz was quoted in coverage of her research on cholera bacteria, including stories in Medical News Today, Science Daily, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.
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Bay Area tsunami risk very low, scientists say
Geophysicist Steven Ward is featured again in the second part of a story about tsunami risk in the San Francisco Bay Area on NBC Bay Area News.
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Galactic 'gold mine' explains the origin of nature's heaviest elements
Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is featured in an article about the origins of gold and other heavy elements from the Kavli Foundation, Science Newsline, and Space Daily.
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Fault types determine Bay Area tsunami risk
Geophysicist Steven Ward is featured in a two-part television report on NBC Bay Area News about the tsunami risk in the S.F. Bay Area.
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UC Santa Cruz establishes permanent Silicon Valley home
The San Jose Mercury News published an article about UC Santa Cruz’s Silicon Valley campus.
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Ecology: The sea-otter whisperer
In a book review in Nature, Jane Lubchenco applauds James Estes's new book chronicling his 45 years studying the complexities of an apex predator.