Media Coverage

An opinion piece in the Huffington Post about lead-based ammunition and its harmful effects on condors and other wildlife includes quotes from environmental toxicologist Don Smith.

The Watsonville Register-Pajaronian ran a story about ocean scientist Raphael Kudela's research on algal blooms in Watsonville's Pinto Lake.

Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about a global accord to enable sharing of genetic and clinical data.

Biochemist David Deamer's research on the origins of life is featured in an article on Santa Cruz.com.

"For one sleepless week in early September 2009, Garth Illingworth and his team had the early Universe all to themselves." So begins a Nature news story about the discovery of the most distant galaxies ever seen by Illingworth and his colleages at UCSC.

The San Jose Mercury News ran a story about efforts to recreate the passenger pigeon led by researcher Ben Novak in biologist Beth Shapiro's paleogenomics lab at UCSC.

Paleogenomics expert Beth Shapiro was quoted in a National Geographic story about a frozen mammoth carcass found in Russia that researchers say includes 10,000-year-old mammoth blood. Shapiro was also interviewed on CNN and quoted in an article about the controversy over "de-extinction" in the Detroit Free Press.

The Santa Cruz Weekly ran a profile of Jeanna Hurd-Parham, the official wig designer for the UCSC Opera, spotlighting her work on the Music Department's spring production of Così fan tutte.

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk is featured in an article in the July/August issue of Discover magazine about his team's successful project in Antarctica to drill through the Whillans Ice Stream and sample the subglacial water.

Biologist Dan Costa was quoted in a Popular Mechanics story about the use of satellite tags on marine animals to not only track their movements but also record environmental data.