Media Coverage
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Toxic algae bloom shuts down West Coast fisheries
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela continues to be featured in ongoing coverage of the toxic algae bloom on the West Coast, including a Los Angeles Times story that ran in numerous other media outlets, as well as stories from Yahoo News, KCBS Radio, Vancouver Sun, Daily Mail, and others.
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Valley of the Dead, Santa Cruz: How to connect to the history of the Grateful Dead
McHenry Library's Grateful Dead Archive was featured in a Metro Silicon Valley story on where to learn about the band's place in history, which noted that "the University of California Santa Cruz has been entrusted with the massive task of presiding over the official Grateful Dead archive."
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Real-time campus shuttle tracker is up and running
Santa Cruz Tech Beat ran a Q&A with the team that created the new Bus Tracking System (BTS) for campus shuttle buses, including computer engineering prof. Katia Obraczka, graduate student Kerry Veenstra, and undergrads Wade “Simba” Khadder and Kevin Abas.
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Documentary ‘Sand Wars’ highlights local, global sand crises
Geologist Gary Griggs is featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the documentary 'Sand Wars.'
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Traces of earliest stars that enriched cosmos are spied
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was quoted in a New York Times story about the discovery of a distant galaxy whose stars are made of only hydrogen and helium. The story also ran in the San Francisco Chronicle and other outlets.
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On Hawaii, a big telescope stirs conflict
Astronomer Michael Bolte was quoted in a Marketplace radio story about conflicts over the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii.
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Toxic algae bloom might be largest ever
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in ongoing coverage of a large bloom of toxic algae along the west coast, including stories from the Seattle Times, KCET Los Angeles, Yahoo News, Reuters, Globe and Mail, Guardian, SF Gate, Tech Times, Nature World News, Juneau Empire, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and other media outlets.
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U.S sprawl peaked in 1994 and has been declining ever since
CityLab, a blog on The Atlantic.com that follows urban issues, wrote about a paper by environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball on the rise and fall of urban sprawl. The Associated Press also wrote about the study; its report appeared in the New York Times and other outlets. Pacific Standard magazine reported on the findings as…
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Transforming food systems with Agroecology
Foodtank.com, a website focusing on food and food justice issues, published an interview with emeritus professor Steve Gliessman in advance of his agroecology short course which will take place on campus in July.
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The Grateful Dead Are Releasing An 80-Disc, $700 Collector's Box Set
Stories about the Grateful Dead's plan to help celebrate their 50th anniversary with the release in September of an 80-disc box set, including an essay by UC Santa Cruz's Grateful Dead Archivist Nicholas Meriwether, appeared in Forbes, Billboard, and on CBS-KPIX TV (San Francisco).
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UCSC Social Documentation program students screen short films at Del Mar
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an article about the ninth annual exhibition of thesis films from the Film and Digital Media Department’s masters program in Social Documentation at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz.
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Wave of Protests Spreads to Scandal-Weary Honduras and Guatemala
The New York Times quoted history professor Dana Frank in a story about the wave of protests against corruption scandals sweeping across Latin America that has now reached Central America.