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Study outlines ways to reduce flood risk while protecting natural habitat
Ocean sciences grad student Juliano Calil was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about his research on flood risk reduction and habitat restoration. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey Herald, and Inside Bay Area.
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'Cement Ship' remains a Central Coast landmark
Biologists Mark Carr and Dan Costa were quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the "cement ship" at Seacliff and its effect on coastal ecology. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey Herald, and Inside Bay Area.
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Agroecology advocates meet at UCSC for international conference
The Santa Cruz Sentinel visited the International Agroecology Shortcourse being held on campus and co-sponsored by UCSC and the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
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Abruptly warming climate triggered megabeast revolutions
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in a story about megafauna extinctions during the Pleistocene in Ed Yong's blog for National Geographic.
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Protests light up long Honduran night
The Miami Herald published an op-ed by history professor Dana Frank about the tens of thousands of people in Honduras who over the past few months have lit their torches in protest against the government’s corruption.
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Is it Time to Rethink the Selfie as a Feminist Political Statement?
A paper by History of Art and Visual Culture assistant professor Derek Conrad Murray in the journal Consumption Markets & Culture (Routledge, UK) titled "Notes to Self: The Visual Culture of Selfies in the Age of Social Media," generated stories in Good magazine, Medical Daily, Yahoo News (Germany), Stile (Italy), Bluewin (Switzerland), and HelloGiggles.com.
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UC Santa Cruz awarded $2 million for human genome variation map
Genomics researcher Benedict Paten was quoted in coverage of a major grant from the Keck Foundation for his work on a Human Genome Variation Map, including stories from the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Genome Web.
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UCSC students create new tools to archive and explore computer game culture
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about a web-based tool for finding computer games developed by grad students James Ryan and Eric Kaltman, and also quoted professor of computational media Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
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Are there any habitable exoplanets that can hear us?
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in stories from Wired, USA Today and the Associated Press about discoveries of potentially habitable planets.
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Prospecting for genetic gold
Biologist Beth Shapiro was featured in a Science magazine story about her research on ancient DNA recovered from mammoth, bison, horse, and other mammal bones exposed by mining in the Yukon.