Media Coverage
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5 Dramatic Ways California Is Tackling Drought
Hydrogeologist Andy Fisher is featured in a National Geographic video accompanying their multimedia coverage of the California drought.
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Abduction of Girls an Act Not Even Al Qaeda Can Condone
The New York Times interviewed Paul Lubeck, emeritus professor of sociology, about the origins of Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamic insurgent group suspected of kidnapping hundreds of school girls.
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Tracking collar showed Mountain View puma was looking for his own space
The San Jose Mercury News talked with environmental studies associate professor Chris Wilmers in the aftermath of a young mountain lion's visit to downtown Mountain View. Local television stations KPIX, KTVU, and NBCBay Area did follow-up reports with Wilmers on camera explaining how the puma's tracking collar showed his movements leading up to his capture.
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Peregrine Falcons On The Rebound: Nest Atop Downtown SF PG&E Building
KCBS radio interviewed wildlife biologist Glenn Stewart about the peregrine falcons nesting on the PG&E building in San Francisco. Stewart banded the chicks in the nest this week.
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Falcon Watching Goes High-Tech Atop San Jose City Hall
Broadcast stations KCBS, CBS5 KPIX, KTVU and ABC7 KGO followed biologist Glenn Stewart, director of the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, as he rappelled down San Jose City Hall to place leg bands on four peregrine falcon chicks that had hatched on a ledge. KCBS, CBS5 KPIX, and the San Francisco Appeal also…
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The Unorthodox Whales of Sri Lanka
Marine biologist Asha de Vos was interviewed on KUSP Radio's 7th Avenue Project about her research on blue whales in Sri Lanka.
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Domoic acid: behind health warnings, a marine mystery
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Monterey Herald about a harmful algal bloom currently affecting wildlife in Monterey Bay.
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Data storage company with UC Santa Cruz roots sold for $175 million
Computer scientist Scott Brandt was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the sale of a data storage company started by his former graduate student.
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Scientists vexed in probe of North American starfish deaths
Marine ecologist Pete Raimondi is featured in continued coverage of sea star wasting disease, including widely published story from Reuters, as well as articles in Science, the Orange County Register, Guardian, Daily Mail, The Conversation, LiveScience, and others.
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UCSC ocean ecology and art collaboration receives NEA grant: Interactive art by UCSC student to be installed on San Francisco waterfront
The Santa Cruz Sentinel interviewed Jennifer Parker, chair of the art department, and Gene Felice, a DANM graduate student, for a story about UCSC receiving an NEA grant that will support installing interactive art about ocean ecology on the San Francisco waterfront. "Solving real-world problems requires collaboration across academic boundaries," Parker noted.
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Alice Waters Throws Chez Panisse Feast for Sauper's SFIFF Film 'We Come as Friends'
Indiewire wrote about a special dinner at Chez Panisse, hosted by Alice Waters to celebrate a film screening by Hubert Sauper at the SF Film Festival, that included UCSC film and digital media professor B. Ruby Rich, noting that Rich is now the editor of Film Quarterly.
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Christa Martin: Louise Leong's toy world
The Santa Cruz Sentinel profiled recent art graduate and Irwin scholar Louise Leong, "who counts crafting toys as just one of her many creative talents that also include sculpture and printmaking."