Media Coverage
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
TEDxSantaCruz announces speakers for first conference in five years
Economics Professor Galina Hale and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela are among the selected speakers for an upcoming TEDxSanta Cruz event, which will also feature UCSC alumni and a current graduate student.
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New York Times
Dozens of Artists, 3 Critics: Who’s Afraid of the Whitney Biennial 2024?
University of California, Santa Cruz Arts and Humanities Professor Sir Isaac Julien’s masterful video and sculpture installation is a highlight of the show. It remakes the dialogue between the Harlem Renaissance philosopher Alain Locke and the collector-philanthropist Albert C. Barnes, and there is an absorbing discussion of how Europeans and Americans viewed African sculpture — and the responses of…
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
New succulent species named by UC Santa Cruz botanist
Emeritus Director of Research at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden Stephen McCabe has helped name yet another succulent species in the genus Dudleya, called Dudleya chasmophyta, or the crevice-loving Dudleya, which is found exclusively on a cliff band in Orange County. Additional coverage in the East Bay Times and Mercury News.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rare screening of Talking Heads concert film coming to Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz partnered with San Francisco’s Noise Pop Industries for unique showing of the remastered version of the Talking Heads concert-movie "Stop Making Sense"
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EarthSky
Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have a habitable ocean, or not?
Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, noted that our own moon is still seismically active, even though models suggested it shouldn’t be. He said: "The moon is one place where we know we have tidally driven quakes."
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Santa Cruz Local
Proposed fishing bans spark debate in Santa Cruz County
UC Santa Cruz ecologist Mark Carr completed some of the analyses of how Marine Protected Areas have impacted the Central Coast over the past decade. Carr said fishing bans might help kelp forests in Southern California, but won’t have the same impact in Monterey Bay.
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Scientific American
Planet-Eating Stars Are Surprisingly Common, New Study Suggests
The circumstantial evidence tentatively suggests that 8 percent (or more) of all stars likely to be planet-devourers, says Ricardo Yarza, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. But “estimating this rate is quite challenging.”
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Fast Company
California is wrestling with electricity prices. An income-based, fixed-charge rate structure might be the best solution
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Yihsu Chen offers his perspective on how the California electricity market can be made as efficient and equitable as possible in the face of the rise of small-scale solar. Also published in The Conversation.
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Smithsonian
Why Did Seals and Sea Lions Never Commit to a Life Fully at Sea?
Finding and uncovering fossil pinnipeds in the first place is a challenging task. “Some creatures are more likely to enter the fossil record than others,” says University of California, Santa Cruz, paleontologist Ana Valenzuela Toro, “and pinnipeds have an unusual amphibious lifestyle that exposes them to very different processes depending on where they die.”
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KQED
Marin County Approves Contract to Prepare for Rising Seas and Extreme Storms
Creating a new department to tackle sea-level rise, however, will be complex, and Gary Griggs, a distinguished professor of sciences at UC Santa Cruz, said putting the onus on one agency to prepare for sea-level rise could be shortsighted. “I’m a little cautious of a whole new department,” he said, especially when staff in existing…
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Scientific American
Orion’s Twin Rogue Planets Inexplicably Blaze with Intense Radio Waves
“The Orion Nebula is just so far away that I would never have expected there to be detectable radio emission,” says Melodie Kao, a planetary radio expert at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not part of the team.
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PBS
Can science save the northern white rhino from extinction and even bring back the dodo?
"Identical copies of things are never going to happen. But that's not the way evolution works anyway. If we think about de-extinction in a logical, ethical, ecologically sustainable way, it can't be this purist ideal of what the extinction means. Instead, it has to be this creation of something new that's adapted for the habitat…