Media Coverage
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Here’s what the ‘extraordinary’ new El Niño forecast means for California
Now is the time to prepare, according to Patrick Barnard, who directs research at the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz. “We don’t know where we’re going to get intense rainfall, but we do know that virtually every coastal community in California is going to see higher sea levels and larger waves…
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Local researchers fill gaps left by state and local agencies after the Vistra battery fire
Don Smith, an environmental and neurotoxicologist at UC Santa Cruz, studied hair follicles from 85 volunteers – 160 hair segments – organized through the community group Never Again Moss Landing. While the metal levels varied substantially from person to person, Smith found “clear evidence of elevated exposure to battery-related materials.”
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Researchers took DNA from 115 ancient bison. What they found will help the bison of today
Writing in Science, the researchers say their findings could help guide conservation efforts. “Ancient DNA is rewriting the story of one of America’s most iconic conservation successes,” says Beth Shapiro from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Additional coverage in Science Magazine.
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Can steam replace chemical fumigants? Watsonville berry growers will put it to the test
The county is also partnering with UC Santa Cruz researcher Jenny Broome, who has experience examining alternative farming practices, to spearhead the research aspect of the program, said Sanford. He added that Broome is interested in looking at crop performance data and exploring how viable this method is in controlling soil-borne pests.
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How to catch the summer’s brightest meteor shower over the Bay Area
“What’s happening is that Earth is crossing the path of a very old comet that, over its lifetime, has left this trail of tiny fragments of ice and dust up in the sky,” Bruce Macintosh, director of University of California Observatories and an astronomy and astrophysics professor at UC Santa Cruz, told SFGATE.
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San Jose airport plans sensory room for neurodivergent children
Vera Umansky, a doctorate candidate in developmental psychology at UC Santa Cruz who is autistic and also contributed to the advisory panel, said such outreach work makes a difference. “By having actual autistic people and people who are part of the community take part in these conversations, we can make sure that the actual needs of…
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Your gas car works fine. Consider an EV anyway, scientists say.
A few years ago, environmental scientist Elliot Campbell went around asking people why they would, or would not, switch to an electric vehicle. A surprising number of them asked him a question in return: Because building an EV generates emissions, isn’t it better for the planet just to keep my gas car running for as…
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Keeping your old gas car may produce more emissions than you think
A new study by Elliott Campbell, an environmental studies professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, found that replacing a working gas car with an electric vehicle lowers carbon emissions in 92% of U.S. vehicle scenarios.
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Scrapping your gas-powered car right now would actually be better for the planet than fixing it, study says
Elliott Campbell, an environmental studies professor at the University of California Santa Cruz, admits he thought it would make some environmental sense to repair and keep using a gas-powered car, rather than switching. “But as you see in the study, for all cars—even new cars that are really efficient, even for the most efficient hybrids—it…
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Japan quake conspiracies revive HAARP claims, but experts say Alaska facility can’t trigger tremors
Emily Brodsky, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, also told AFP in an email on August 6 that “there is no evidence that electromagnetic pulses can be used to deliberately induce earthquakes.”
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The keepers of the Grateful Dead’s history
In 2008, a little over a decade after the formal, but by no means spiritual, end of the band, truckloads of archival materials were donated to the University of California, Santa Cruz Library’s Special Collections.
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Complete Reference Genomes Set New Genomics Milestones
A consortium team from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) Genomics Institute used the consortium’s methods to create a complete reference genome for the marmoset, a small primate increasingly used to study neurodegenerative diseases.