Media Coverage
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Study looks at impact of H-2A program on Washington farmworkers
Study author Rosa María Navarro, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, interviewed 75 growers, government officials and farmworkers, and surveyed another 179 workers.
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Super El Niño could bring increased storms and flooding to California’s Central Coast
Gary Griggs, a coastal geologist, oceanographer, and distinguished professor at UC Santa Cruz, explained, “Just like the weather changes from winter to summer, the weather also changes over many years. Several years. And we get what we now know as an El Niño every several years for reasons we don’t completely understand.”
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California professor: AI surpassed me as a scientist. What now?
Op-ed by J. Xavier Prochaska, distinguished professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz
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‘How do you buy time?’ Scientists look to slow an Alaska glacier’s march to the sea
“It’s basically a block of ice that’s sliding over the top of underlying geology,” said Slawomir Tulaczyk, who researches ice sheet collapse and sea level rise at the University of California Santa Cruz.
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California graduates appear in Santana, Becky G’s new music video. Here’s why
UC Santa Cruz graduates are getting an unexpected encore with Becky G, this time sharing the spotlight with Bay Area music legend Carlos Santana. The Mexican American pop star’s music video for “Mi Gran Amor,” released Friday, Aug. 14, draws in part footage from her appearance at the university during graduation season, a visit that…
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Finding the source of ‘earworms’ – why that song is stuck in your head
The authors point to experience sampling as the fix, which is exactly the method a University of California, Santa Cruz team used when it found that 44.7% of earworms matched the original key.
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UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College collaborate on student housing project
UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College are partnering on a groundbreaking housing project to provide more options for students facing housing challenges. The Costa Vista Student Housing project is the first in California to establish a student housing partnership between a community college and a University of California campus, built on Cabrillo College property.
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UC Santa Cruz researchers to study Southern California wetlands
A research group out of UC Santa Cruz is taking their wetland monitoring work down to Southern California. The new data will strengthen our understanding of how restored wetlands keep carbon out of the atmosphere, and could even inform state policy. “There’s more carbon sequestered per area in wetlands than in tropical Amazon forests,” said…
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New Science Says Scrapping A Working Gas Car For An EV Is Usually Greener
J. Elliott Campbell of UC Santa Cruz and Roland Geyer of UC Santa Barbara have now done the lifecycle work that question needed. Their new study in Science compares continued operation of functional combustion vehicles with permanently scrapping them and replacing them with battery-electric vehicles.
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High seas, heat, heavy rain: El Niño is on track to be the strongest on record
Patrick Barnard, research director at the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz, is quoted.
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These Are the 11 Most Beautiful College Towns Across the U.S.
Santa Cruz is a beautiful college town with plenty to do, from its long wharf rife with eateries and fun bars to many natural sites to hike.
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County to explore steam as alternative to pesticides
UCSC researchers are leading the research component, and have previously studied steam treatments on farms in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties with support from a separate California Department of Food and Agriculture Biologically Integrated Farming Systems grant. Sanford described results from that earlier work as promising.