Media Coverage
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Santa Cruz County vector control ramping up invasive mosquito monitoring efforts
Biologist Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about efforts to control invasive mosquitoes.
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How the Tonga eruption rang Earth ‘like a bell’
Geophysicist Ricky Garza-Giron was quoted in a Popular Science article about the massive Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption.
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Avian Flu Claims at Least 7 California Condors—and a Beloved Bay Area Peregrine Falcon
Zeka Glucs, director of the Predatory Bird Research Group, was quoted in a Bay Nature article about condors and peregrine falcons dying from avian flu.
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Researchers help guide the future of technology
On Talk of the Bay, Zac Zimmer and Theresa Hice-Fromille explored how the machines we create reflect our biases and discussed recommendations for developing more inclusive and responsive technologies.
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Psychoactive drug use revealed via 3,000-year-old hair
In a podcast for NPR, Benjamin Breen, associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, spoke about the results of a new study finding that Bronze Age people used psychoactive drugs, perhaps as part of ancient rituals, as evidenced by the presence of chemicals in 3,000-year-old hairs found in a burial cave in Menorca off…
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UC Santa Cruz professor says rising sea levels are a growing threat to coastal California
Geologist Gary Griggs was featured in a KCBX Radio news story about the impacts of global warming and sea level rise on the California coast.
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Drugs in the Bronze Age: NPR podcast features interview with associate professor of history Benjamin Breen
In a podcast for NPR, Benjamin Breen, associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, spoke about the results of a new study finding that Bronze Age people used psychoactive drugs, perhaps as part of ancient rituals, as evidenced by the presence of chemicals in 3,000-year-old hairs found in a burial cave in Menorca off…
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UCSC Professor Emeritus John Brown Childs on why transcommunality resonates with Soledad prison students
Lookout Santa Cruz profiled Professor Emeritus John Brown Childs in advance of his Emeriti Faculty Lecture on teaching transcommunal peacemaking to students at UCSC and Soledad Correctional Training Facility.
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After the storms: UC Botanical Garden’s rescue operation to save a paradise lost
Arboretum Director Martin Quigley was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about storm damage to plants at UC botanical gardens.
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Retired head of science at NASA to discuss life on other worlds
Astronomer Natalie Batalha was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about an upcoming discussion of the search for life on other planets, which she will moderate, at the Rio Theater.
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NASA's Webb telescope captures new views of stars, galaxies and the early universe
Astronomer Brant Robertson was interviewed on a CBS News '60 Minutes' segment about the James Webb Space Telescope.
