Media Coverage
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The Atlantic
Oppenheimer Nightmares? You’re Not Alone.
Veronica Tonay, a licensed psychologist and a retired professor at UC Santa Cruz, spoke to The Atlantic about her research on dream theory as it relates to nightmares about the new film Oppenheimer.
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Washington Post
A North Korean defector captivated U.S. media. Some question her story.
Christine Hong, a literature professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a board member at the Korea Policy Institute who has studied defector narratives, discusses North Korean defector Yeonmi Park's accounts of her life with the Washington Post.
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New York Times
She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter.
Tim Tinker, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz who has spent decades studying the marine mammals, speaks about sea otter behavior.
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Washington Post
NASA releases spectacular image to celebrate James Webb Space Telescope
Brant Robertson, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, notes that the Milky Way is beautiful and brings up the question of how the galaxy formed.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Five Astounding Orca Behaviors Explained, From Ramming Boats to Hunting Great White Sharks
Salma Abdel-Raheem, an elephant seal researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz, described orcas interaction with elephant seals in the Smithsonian Magazine.
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Audubon
A Photographer Documents Kelp Forests’ Decline and Efforts to Bring Them Back
Marine ecologist Mark Carr from the University of California, Santa Cruz talks about sea urchin feeding habits with Audubon.
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KQED
This Snail Goes Fishing With a Net Made of Slime
Peter Macht, aquarium curator at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center at UC Santa Cruz, explained how wormsnails capture food for KQED.
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Earth.com
Study reveals a widespread decline of snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere
Earth.com covered Professor of Statistics Robert Lund's research which used a rigorous statistical approach to find that snow cover has declined in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere over the last half century.



