Media Coverage
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Sea Star Wasting Disease Affects Monterey Bay
Biologist Allison Gong is featured in a Monterey County Weekly article about sea star wasting disease in Monterey Bay.
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Saving Paradise
Marine biologists Giacomo Bernardi and Nicole Crane are featured in the Good Times cover story about their work to restore marine habitat on the remote atoll of Ulithi in Micronesia.
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Sardine disappearance was foreseen but ignored
Research on sardines by fisheries biologist Juan Zwolinski was cited in articles about the imminent collapse of the west coast sardine fishery, including stories in New Scientist, Associated Press, SFGate, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Oregon Live, News Daily, Democratic Underground, and others.
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Ocean predators' West Coast hot spots at risk despite sanctuaries, study says
A study of human impacts on marine predators along the west coast, led by marine scientists Daniel Costa and Sara Maxwell, was covered in the Los Angeles Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Patch, LiveScience, Science Daily, PhysOrg, RedOrbit, Bright Surf, Science Codex, and others.
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Where have all the otters gone?
A Santa Cruz Sentinel article about sea otters featured several researchers affiliated with UCSC, including Tim Tinker, Melissa Miller, and Nicole Thometz.
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Memory Upgrade
Computer scientist Darrell Long is quoted in a Science News article about efforts to develop "storage class" memory for the computer industry.
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Ax Falls for Antarctic Projects After Shutdown
A story from Discovery News, Live Science, NBC News, and Yahoo News about the impact of the government shutdown on Antarctic research projects noted that while most of the WISSARD project has been canceled, UCSC glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk's group will be able to conduct a limited survey at the research site.
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With ban on lead in hunters’ bullets, California hopes to protect condors
A Washington Post story about California's ban on the use of lead ammunition to protect endangered condors cited research on lead poisoning in condors by environmental toxicologists Don Smith and Myra Finkelstein.
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UCSC astrophysicist lands lucrative prize for young professors
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about astrophysicist Charlie Conroy, who won a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Coverage also included stories in the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Patch.
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Newsom, ACLU look to legalize marijuana
Sociology professor Craig Reinarman was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle in an article about Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the American Civil Liberties Union opening a campaign to legalized marijuana in California.
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Earth's super-siblings grew up very differently
Planetary scientist Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a New Scientist article about the formation of "super-Earth" planets.
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Sun turns dirty water into clean fuel
Coverage of a solar-microbial device for producing hydrogen fuel, developed by a team led by chemist Yat Li, included stories from Nanotechnology Now, Santa Cruz Sentinel, ChemEurope, Technology News, Chemical Engineering Progress, Breakthrough Technology Alert, Nature World News, Science Daily, PhysOrg, RedOrbit, EarthSky, Product Design & Development, Science World Report, Business Standard, FuelCellsWorks, Indian Express,…