Media Coverage
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When your local reflecting pool or pond turns green with algae, don’t reach for chemicals – nature has better solutions
“Trying to kill algae with chemicals is a common response when community ponds or other water features go green. But as a scientist who studies freshwater ecology, I can tell you there are better solutions that cost far less, last longer and carry less risk of harm to pets and wildlife,” writes UC Santa Cruz Professor…
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Can Food Improve Mood?
When most people think about mental health, they think about therapy, medication, stress management, or perhaps childhood experiences. Rarely do they think about what’s on their plate. But according to Dr. Andrea Cook, a UCSC professor, licensed clinical psychologist, and certified health coach, that may be changing.
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Look, choose: the museum is a dream. The visions of Isaac Julien in the gres art 671 cultural space
An Italian newspaper covered Museum Dreams, a major immersive exhibition and retrospective by pioneering British filmmaker and UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Isaac Julien that’s on display through early October. The article mentions the Moving Image Lab at UC Santa Cruz that Julien co-leads with Professor Mark Nash.
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NASA satellite spots El Niño driving higher seas toward California
“For this winter in particular, there is a very reasonable likelihood that we’re going to see sea levels that are consistent with what we predict for the 2050s,” Michael Beck, the director of the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz, told SFGATE. “If you look at this somewhat positively, you could say that this…
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As Waves Pound Pacifica, Surfers Pitch a Reef to Defend the Shore
Pacifica still needs to study the reef’s scale, how much sand is needed and its environmental impacts, said Borja Gonzalez Reguero, a professor with the Coastal Science and Policy Program at UC Santa Cruz. “So far it’s a concept, but it could be a viable one,” Gonzalez Reguero said. He qualified that by saying the…
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A $20 Minimum Wage Sounded Like a Win—Until These 5 Consequences Kicked In
California’s $20 minimum wage sounded like a win—until these five ripple effects hit workers, prices, and jobs. Here’s what leaders need to know to design business models that actually work. A recent University of California Santa Cruz study quantified a pattern every leader should recognize before issuing a mandate: When you impose rapid cost change on a complex system, you get unintended…
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Mountain lions avoid busy trails to reduce conflict with people
“If you’re a hiker or mountain biker in these spaces, mountain lions already know you’re there, and they’re avoiding the area,” explained Chris Wilmers, a UC Santa Cruz Professor. Additional coverage in KAZU, The Denver Gazette, The Times of India, GearJunkie, The Inertia, Half Moon Bay Review, and Nautilus.
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Animals Facing Greatest Risk of Death From El Niño Marine Heat Waves
“It’s hard to predict which ecosystem components will be impacted. During the last major heatwave, impacts were felt across the entire food web including fisheries,” Heather Welch, an associate project scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz who researches climate variability and change in ocean ecosystems through the lens of marine predators and fisheries,…
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Deadly parasite is flourishing in a California river
Miles Daniels, an associate researcher at UC Santa Cruz, said there’s a risk the adult fish could die before reaching spawning grounds as they’re exposed to more pathogens on their route. “The longer you’re in a room with someone that’s sick, the more likely you’re going to get infected,” he explained. “The longer the fish…
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The mystery eating Ocean Beach alive
One of Ocean Beach’s foremost sand sleuths is UC Santa Cruz researcher Patrick Barnard, who spent two decades analyzing San Francisco’s shoreline for the U.S. Geological Survey. Barnard said humans have been wrestling with the sand for nearly two centuries. He cites data from as far back as the Gold Rush, when excessive mining injected…
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How 30 minutes of recess could change how your child learns
Educators point out that schools are responsible for developing the whole child, and that recess is not a break from learning — it is an integral part of it. “Having kids sit in their seats for six hours a day is not necessarily a recipe for success,” said Rebecca London, a sociologist at UC Santa Cruz…
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Universities Hiring Student Expression Specialists
Two public universities—the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Santa Cruz—are each hiring a student affairs professional whose job will focus entirely on student speech and free expression.