Media Coverage
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Jupiter’s Hot Youth May Have Melted Its Icy Moons
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in a Scientific American story about Jupiter's moons.
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California Overhauls Its Sea Level Rise Plan as Climate Change Reshapes Coastal Life
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a KQED News story about planning for sea level rise along the California coast.
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Gigi the elephant seal spent 342 days on ocean migration. What can she teach scientists?
Biologist Salma Abdel-Raheem was quoted in a San Luis Obispo Tribune story about an elephant seal named Gigi that came ashore after 342 days at sea at Piedras Blancas, where Abdel-Raheem and other UCSC researchers recovered the tracking instruments Gigi was carrying.
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‘Just an extraordinary time out there right now’: Santa Cruz County flower season in full bloom
Arboretum Director Martin Quigley was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about wildflower 'superblooms'.
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Will Earth ever lose its moon?
Astrophysicist Madelyn Broome was quoted in a LiveScience story about the moon's increasing distance from Earth.
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De-extinction: Bringing animal species back from the brink
Biologist Beth Shapiro was interviewed for a segment about "de-extinction" on CBS News 'Sunday Morning'.
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Meet the World’s Most Hard-Core Nappers
Biologists Dan Costa, Terrie Williams, and Jessica Kendall-Bar were featured in widespread media coverage of their research on the sleep behavior of elephant seals, including stories in the Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, BBC, NPR, Guardian, The Hill, Courthouse News Service, Reuters, Science News, New Scientist, National Geographic, Gizmodo, and many other media…
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Giant orbital magnetic moment appears in a graphene quantum dot
Physicist Jairo Velasco Jr. was featured in a Physics World article about his research on graphene quantum dots.
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Why the Bay Area is home to one of the most effective carbon sinks in the world
Marine scientist Adina Paytan was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about the effectiveness of wetlands for absorbing carbon from the atmosphere.
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One penguin species declines, while another thrives on the western Antarctic Peninsula
Marine scientist Megan Cimino was quoted in a WHYY News story about how climate change is affecting penguin populations in Antarctica.

