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When former University of California, Santa Cruz graduate students Alexis Chaine and Daizaburo Shizuka started banding birds on their campus arboretum, they hoped to explore crown plumage variation among various visiting sparrows. Soon after, they noticed that the birds they banded, among them Golden-crowned Sparrows, consistently returned to the same section of the arboretum. This…

Kresge College is included in this list of buildings, sites, streets, design movements and architects that have received updates this year. The 1973 U.C. Santa Cruz dormitory complex by the postmodernist architects Charles Moore and William Turnbull Jr. and the landscape architect Dan Kiley — a self-styled Mediterranean village tucked in a redwood grove —…

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as…

Heatwaves can have a devastating impact on some marine predators such as sharks but other species can adapt, scientists have discovered. Heather Welch, associate specialist with the Institute of Marine Sciences, noted that, "instead of being a story about winners and losers, this is a story of how variable marine heatwave impacts can be. To understand…

Astronomers have monitored the trailing gas tail of HAT-P-32 b created from helium flowing from its atmosphere with telescopes from Earth. "We have monitored this planet and the host star with long time series spectroscopy, observations made of the star and planet over a couple of nights," research lead author and University of California Santa…

Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica. The findings may seem intuitive, but Natalia Ocampo-Penuela, a University of California, Santa Cruz conservation ecologist not involved in the study, said it’s…

Ecologist Alexa Fredston has found that bottom-dwelling fish may be more resilient to the effects of marine heatwaves than previously thought. Additional coverage in Le Figaro, Axios, Agence France-Presse, and The Hill.

"ASASSN-14li is exciting because one of the hardest things with tidal disruptions is being able to measure the mass of the unlucky star, as we have done here," says Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, an astrophysicist at University of California, Santa Cruz and co-author of the new work.

A 2019 study, led by Borja G. Reguero, a researcher in the Institute of Marine Sciences, found that the rising sea-surface temperatures were influencing global wind patterns and making waves stronger.

Mrs. Crook’s most recent book is “Prosperity’s Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China (1940-1941),” which is based on her prewar field notes. One of its editors, Gail Hershatter, a history professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said the book offers a unique look at a rural society that even in…

Disease-resistant plants can alter airflow in ways that keep plants dry and healthy and create physical barriers that block pathogen movement. Especially if they’re tall, resistant plants can act like fences that diseases have to hop over. “Somebody did a nice experiment taking dead corn stalks and just plopping them in the bean field,” says…

This LA Times feature follows Gary Griggs, an oceanographer at UC Santa Cruz, as he explains issues of erosion on California's coasts and the sacrifices that must be made to address them. This feature is an excerpt of an upcoming book, "California Against the Sea: Visions for our Vanishing Coastline."