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California spends $12.8M more on the Salton Sea, finally appoints analyst to study seawater importation
The Palm Springs Desert Sun shared the news that Environmental Studies Professor Brent Haddad is expected to lead a review of proposals to rewater the Salton Sea for the state Natural Resources Agency.
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Op-Ed: How to save beaches and coastlines from climate change disasters
Marine scientist Mike Beck published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, with an accompanying video, about the value of natural defenses against coastal flooding.
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Why some physicists are skeptical about the muon experiment that hints at "new physics"
Physicist Bruce Schumm was quoted in a Salon article about new results from a particle physics experiment called Muon g-2.
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Peregrine Falcon Chicks Hatch in Nest at Top of PG&E’s San Francisco Headquarters
Zeka Glucs, director of the Predatory Bird Research Group, was featured in coverage of peregrine falcon chicks hatching in a nest box on the PG&E building in San Francisco, including stories from KPIX (San Francisco CBS), KION, KTVU, and NBC Bay Area TV news.
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Watching flames turn to forests
Environmental studies Ph.D. candidate Justin Luong spoke with Good Times about a new project with the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, the California Native Plant Society, and citizen scientists to monitor ecosystem recovery following the CZU Lightning Complex fires.
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White Shark Influx in Monterey Bay Linked to Climate Change
Shark researcher Salvador Jorgensen was featured in a NBC News story about white sharks in Monterey Bay.
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Rush to rescue thousands of endangered abalone buried in Big Sur landslides
Biologists Pete Raimondi and Wendy Bragg were featured in a San Francisco Chronicle story about efforts to save black abalone buried by debris flows and landslides on the Big Sur coast.
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Searching for Exoplanets
Astrobiologist Natalie Batalha was interviewed on KQED Newsroom about the search for exoplanets and life on other planets.
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Nathaniel Mackey’s Long Song
The New Yorker magazine published a feature story about acclaimed poet and UCSC professor emeritus of literature, Nathaniel Mackey.
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What A Decade Of Counting Seeds Tells Us About Future West Coast Forests
KAZU visited UCSC's Forest Ecology Research Plot to learn about long-term monitoring efforts with Environmental Studies Professor Greg Gilbert, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Kai Zhu, and ecology and evolutionary biology student Ishana Shukla.