Media Coverage
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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,…
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Banning Lead Ammunition Could Give Condors a Chance
Environmental toxicologist Myra Finkelstein was quoted in stories from National Geographic News and KQED Science about California's new ban on the use of lead bullets by hunters.
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Young Mountain Lion Caught on Camera Teasing Its Captured Brother
An article in Wired featured the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project which had captured a young male mountain lion in a trap. Later a nearby motion-sensing camera showed his presumed litter mate investigating the trapped sibling.
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'It's heartbreaking': Shutdown could ruin years of Antarctic research
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk is featured in a story from NBC News, Discovery News, Yahoo News, and LiveScience about how years of work by his team on the WISSARD project in Antarctica is in danger of being wasted as a result of the federal government shutdown.
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Yellen expected to be tapped as Fed chief Wednesday
The San Francisco Chronicle quoted economics professor Carl Walsh in an article on the expected nomination of Janet Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve Board. The same article was also published by the Davis Enterprise.