Media Coverage
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Strawberries + Pesticides: How California’s farmers are looking for new solutions
Researcher Joji Muramoto with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems is featured in Modern Farmer in an article on Anaerobic Soil Decomposition used by strawberry growers in lieu of pesticides.
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Craig Reinarman: It’s High Time
Craig Reinarman, professor of sociology and legal studies, and alumna Wendy Chapkis, professor of sociology at the University of Southern Maine, are the authors of a package of articles on federal drug policy in Contexts, a quarterly magazine of the American Sociological Assn. that brings social research to general readers.
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Jellyfish app reveals secrets of tentacled tenants
The San Jose Mercury News ran a front page story about an app developed by ocean scientists Chris Edwards and Steve Haddock to enlist citizen scientists in tracking jellyfish blooms. The story also ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Monterey Herald.
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Acid flashback: Santa Cruz bird frenzy, Hitchcock and a biological whodunit
KQED News ran a story about the 1961 Santa Cruz bird invasion, its role in the Hitchcock movie "The Birds," and the role of UCSC scientists in figuring out that the algal toxin domoic acid was behind in the incident.
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During El Niño, erosion accelerates at Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about erosion at Lighthouse Point.
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Pocket DNA sequencers make real-time diagnostics a reality
Biomolecular engineer Mark Akeson was quoted in a Science magazine article about DNA sequencers using nanopore technology he helped develop.
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Mercury splatters the central U.S.
Environmental toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias was quoted in a story in Scientific American and Salon about rising mercury levels in rainfall.
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NASA's working on a telescope with an even wider eye than Hubble
Astronomer Brant Robertson was quoted in a CNET story about NASA's plans for the WFIRST telescope.
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How oil and gas production triggers earthquakes in California
KQED Science covered seismologist Thomas Geobel's research on earthquakes induced by wastewater injection in oil and gas drilling operations.
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Cleverness isn’t everything for a gaming artificial intelligence
Computer science grad student James Ryan and his game project Talk of the Town are featured in articles in New Scientist and Gamasutra about artificial intelligence and games.
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"71. Realizing Lucy"
The Columbia Daily Tribune publiished ”71. Realizing Lucy," a poem by associate professor of literature Ronaldo Wilson that is part of a series of 72 persona poems from his forthcoming collection, ‘Lucy 72."
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UC Santa Cruz scientist: Mercury levels on rise
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about environmental toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias and his research on mercury levels in rainfall.