Media Coverage
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AP
Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
“It’s like the Wild West. Everybody is on the bandwagon, everybody wants to do something,” said Adina Paytan, who teaches earth and ocean science at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Trump is turning off the lights on biomedical research: Why it matters for Santa Cruz
Guest commentary by UC Santa Cruz Science Division Professors Needhi Bhalla, Susan Carpenter, and Carol Greider: "A total of $59 million and 102 research projects, in addition to $145 million in local economic impact is what’s at stake in Santa Cruz if these proposed NIH funding cuts go through. From life-saving drugs to cutting-edge cancer…
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Guardian
Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists
Professor Alexie Leauthaud-Harnett, a co-spokesperson for Desi and a cosmologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said: “What we are seeing is deeply intriguing. It is exciting to think that we may be on the cusp of a major discovery about dark energy and the fundamental nature of our universe.” Also covered by the…
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Ask Lookout: What happened to the walking path on Capitola's Depot Hill?
Gary Griggs, UC Santa Cruz professor of earth and planetary sciences, notes that Depot Hill is “probably the most rapidly eroding section of cliff in Santa Cruz County.” He added that the buff has eroded about a foot each year over the past century.
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KAZU
As investors fret over a coming recession, a UC Santa Cruz economist says it has already begun
U.S. financial markets have been in turmoil for weeks, as investors debate whether President Trump's trade war and falling consumer confidence could trigger a full-blown recession. But a UC Santa Cruz economist says that a model he helped develop, which is attracting growing attention, shows that the economy is already in a recession and has been for nearly a…
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Monterey County Weekly
Local promotores trained on climate change impacts are now teaching fellow farmworkers.
UC Santa Cruz has been working with local organizations for two years on Campo-Sano, a research project investigating the impact of climate change on the well-being of farmworkers. That work included development of a bilingual app with an anonymous tipline about unsafe conditions. Professor Matthew Sparke, leader of the project, says adoption of the app…
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USA Today
Schools closed and went remote to fight COVID-19. The impacts linger 5 years later.
New research on the lingering effects of the pandemic on teachers from University of California, Santa Cruz Professor of Education Lora Bartlett and her colleagues show that the pandemic-era "hastened a downward spiral in career satisfaction and longevity for teachers. The biggest declines in satisfaction took place in places where teachers described experiencing a lack of support…
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KQED
Daffodils Signal Resilience in Santa Cruz Mountains, Almost 5 Years After CZU Fires
Karen Holl, an ecologist from nearby University of California, Santa Cruz, weighed in that a species like California poppies would have been her first choice, though daffodils are not listed on the California Invasive Plant Council’s problem invasives list. “Daffodils should be confined to gardens,” Holl said.
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The Atlantic
Who Wants to Live in the Palisades Now?
Move everyone out of the wildland-urban interface and you may have taken away the people who were clearing brush and otherwise reducing the fire risk for the city nearby, said Miriam Greenberg, a sociology professor at UC Santa Cruz. Leaving these areas untouched, Greenberg said, means “the potential for future disasters increases significantly for those…
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Scientific American
Life on Earth May Have Been Jump-Started by ‘Microlightning’
Professor Emeritus of Biomolecular Engineering David Deamer was quoted in a Scientifc American story on how wet-dry cycles may have contributed to the origins of life on Earth.
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NPR
Ocean plant cell discovery might revolutionize farming
It's one of the holy grails of biotechnology, says Jon Zehr, the ability to engineer plants that could snatch nitrogen out of the air and use it to grow without any of the pollution, energy, or expense that current fertilizers require. Additional NPR coverage.
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CNN
Fact check: Trump falsely claims ‘I invaded Los Angeles.’ His water releases didn’t go to LA
President Donald Trump continues to claim that he sent fire-plagued Los Angeles the critical water he says California’s leaders refused to provide. In reality, the water was directed to a dry lake basin elsewhere in the Central Valley – more than 100 miles north of Los Angeles. “The only way that water got to LA is if an Angeleno…