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Wildfires once fueled extinctions in Southern California. Will it happen again?
“This paper provides a picture of how climate change can completely transform ecosystems,” said Jarmila Pittermann, a plant physiologist at UC Santa Cruz who researches extinction. “It is super-convincing and a massive warning to all of us.” Additional coverage in the Smithsonian Magazine.
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Art As a Radical Tool for Realizing Abolition
Three years into launching their multimedia initiative Visualizing Abolition, the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Professor Gina Dent and Dr. Rachel Nelson have built a consortium of musicians, scholars, and artists whose relationships to the criminal legal system vary.
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How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth
Ari Friedlaender researches whale behavior at UC Santa Cruz and has amassed a great deal of data on what behavior that could help move Earth Species closer to developing algorithms that can work across the full spectrum of the animal kingdom.
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Scientists solve the genetic puzzle of sex-related Y chromosome
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga and UCSC genomicist and postdoc Monika Cechova were quoted extensively in coverage of the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome. Additional coverage in CNN, STAT, Popular Science, USA Today, Business Insider, and many others.
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Bay Area Red Tide Crisis Ends, Watchdog Group Declares Algae Bloom Over
The microscopic critter looks like a swimming potato chip with a tail, said Raphael Kudela, a phytoplankton ecologist at UC Santa Cruz. He said the organism thrives in the bay because the shallow water warms up quickly. “It’s just really happy when it’s in the bay,” he said. “As long as it’s happy, it’s just…
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Why fidgeting is good for you
Professor of Computational Media Katherine Isbister's research on fidget objects is cited in a BBC story.
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Meet the fearless scientists saving Antarctic whales… With crossbows and tiny inflatable boats
Ari Friedlaender, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is featured in this piece on researchers who study a variety of whales in the Antarctic Ocean.
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UC admits record number of California first-year students for fall 2023, led by Latinos
The University of California admitted a record number of California applicants for fall 2023, as campuses received more funding to increase coveted seats, according to preliminary data released Tuesday. Michelle Whittingham, UC Santa Cruz associate vice chancellor of enrollment management, said the campus plans to enroll 4,189 first-year students this fall and winter thanks to such…
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Pictures mislead: Ample evidence the Earth is round and sea levels are rising | Fact check
The long-term tide gauge at Fort Denison “has recorded a gradual … but fairly consistent rise in sea level of 0.1mm/yr or 3 inches/century,” said Gary Griggs, a professor of earth sciences at UC Santa Cruz.
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As Algal Bloom Returns to the Bay, Is Swimming Safe for Humans (and Pets)?
Not every red tide, or algal bloom, is toxic — although they can be. The species behind the recurring algal bloom in San Francisco Bay is called Heterosigma akashiwo and isn’t known at this time to be toxic to humans. The microscopic critter looks like a swimming potato chip with a tail, said Raphael Kudela, a phytoplankton ecologist at…