Media Coverage
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Our galaxy is due to crash into its neighbor—but when?
Astronomer Brant Robertson was quoted in a National Geographic story about predictions of an eventual collision between the Milky Way galaxy and the nearby galaxy Andromeda.
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Black market poachers coming for California’s coastal succulents
Botanist Stephen McCabe was quoted in an article about poachers collecting rare succulents from the wild in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Chico Enterprise Record, and other newspapers.
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CruzHacks has established its credibility inside and outside of Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Tech Beat ran a story about the UCSC hackathon, CruzHacks 2019.
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Desalination could cause ecological sea change
Ocean scientist Adina Paytan was featured on the Scientific American podcast "60-Second Science" discussing her research on the ecological effects of desalination plants.
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Calif. professor: Self-driving cars could more than double traffic in San Francisco
Environmental Studies Associate Professor Adam Millard-Ball's research on self-driving cars attracted widespread attention and generated stories in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Telegraph, the Daily Mail, MIT Technology Review, and other media outlets.
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Scientists to team up with whale-watching crews, tourists to study the giant mammals in Monterey Bay
Biologist Ari Friedlaender was quoted in a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Monterey Herald, and San Jose Mercury News about his efforts to work with whale-watching crews to collect information about whales in Monterey Bay.
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Study of brine discharge from desalination plant finds good news and bad news
Ocean scientist Adina Paytan was quoted in coverage of her research on the environmental impact of desalination plants, including stories in PhysOrg, BrightSurf, Technology Networks, Bioengineer, and other media outlets.
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Archaeologists Find New Way to Determine Sex of Cremated Individuals
Professor Emerita Alison Galloway was quoted in a PBS Nova report about new methods to determine the sex of cremated human remains.
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MaNGA data release includes detailed maps of thousands of nearby galaxies
Astronomer Kevin Bundy was featured in coverage of his team's release of thousands of galaxy maps, including stories from PhysOrg, Science Daily, Space Daily, SpaceRef, Daily Heralds, and other media outlets.
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‘This is shocking.’ An undersea plague is obliterating a key ocean species
Biologists Mark Carr and Melissa Miner were quoted in widespread coverage of the ecological effects of sea star wasting disease, including stories in Science, Atlantic, Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, Gizmodo, Smithsonian, Earther, and other media outlets.
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Hispanic-majority counties as likely to cooperate with ICE as regions with fewer Latinos: study
The San Jose Mercury News covered new research by Juan Pedroza, assistant professor of sociology, that analyzed the demographics of deportation and revealed a "protective effect" for non-citizens living in communities that are 20-40 percent Hispanic.
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UC Santa Cruz Hires Its First Activist In Residence
Local NPR affiliate KAZU Radio did a story about Isaí Ambrosio, the new activist-in-residence hired by Sylvanna Falcon, associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and the director of the Research Center for the Americas.