TuesdayNewsdayVol. 5 - Issue 3 - October 02, 2018 |  |
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 Selka, a young female sea otter, helped scientists at Long Marine Lab learn how sea otters use their senses to find and identify food underwater. |
Suspecting that sea otters do not rely on smell or vision to locate dinner in the cloudy waters of Monterey Bay, researchers at UC Santa Cruz wondered whether the dexterous creatures might depend instead on the sensitivity of their whiskers and paws to hunt by touch. |
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 | A course last year connected first-year graduate students with environmental problems in the Salinas Valley Basin to foster collaboration with off-campus stakeholders.
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 | "At Capacity"—a documentary film made by 19 students—will screen twice at the 2018 Santa Cruz Film Festival, which takes place downtown Oct. 3–7.
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 | Ocean scientist Phoebe Lam is one of three chief scientists on the U.S. GEOTRACES GP15 cruise who will sample the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Tahiti. |
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 | Astronomer Alexie Leauthaud said the results place new constraints on the nature of the mysterious dark energy that is accelerating the expansion of the universe.
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