Black Professors and Students Share How Their Identity Shapes Their Academic Experiences

February 28, 2019 by

Four Black faculty and students at UCSB share their thoughts on how their identity affects their academic experiences.
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‘Train Locally, Deploy Globally’ with AI

February 14, 2019 by

To help scientists in “applying artificial intelligence (AI) to help understand and protect the planet”, Microsoft and National Geographic have partnered up to sponsor AI for Earth Innovation Gran...
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UCSB Researcher Studies Carbon Storage in Soil

February 7, 2019 by

“What we found that was really interesting was that the absorption capacity for carbon really depends on climate to a very great extent,” Chadwick said.
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Let’s Tau-lk about Tau: Exploring the Protein

January 31, 2019 by

The Han research group has found a method that can track the healthy to pathological transition of the protein tau, which is implicated in diseases including Alzheimer's.
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Gut Feeling: Studying Interactions in the Microbiome

January 24, 2019 by

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It’s not just the individual microbes but, rather, it’s the microbes in their context," Jones said.
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UCSB Researchers Help Develop New Technique to Detect Changes in Bone Structure

January 10, 2019 by

The micro-Texture technique can still produce high-resolution data that can help in diagnosing and monitoring diseases without the need to acquire an entire 2-D magnetic resonance image.
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UCSB Researchers Study Diet of Population With ‘World’s Healthiest Arteries’

November 29, 2018 by

As the Tsimané and Mosetén populations experience an ongoing nutrition transition, the study illustrates the link between diet and an increase in noncommunicable chronic diseases.
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Improving Shark Sanctuaries

November 15, 2018 by

UCSB researchers set out to understand shark movement in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean consisting of hundreds of small atolls and islands. I...
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UCSB Researcher Studies Optimization of Wind Farm Performance

November 8, 2018 by

While the performance limits for a single wind turbine have been established, the same couldn’t be said of the power output from a large wind farm.
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Exploring How Team Dynamics Affect Team Performance

November 1, 2018 by

"We found that the role of dynamics of team collaboration predicts the team performance more [accurately] than team compositional features alone," said Kim.
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UCSB Researcher ReFINes Method to Detect Sharks

October 18, 2018 by

“We wanted to see if we could detect white sharks from a water sample using eDNA,” Lafferty said.
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UCSB Researcher Studies Possibility of Greater Wildfire Frequency in Future

October 4, 2018 by

Based on the climate models, climate warming may enhance the impacts of ENSO, including proportionally stronger changes to the risk of wildfire in fire-prone places.
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Going with the Flow

August 9, 2018 by

As riffles and pools provide the foundation for stream habitats and environments, they can reveal much about the basic ecology of streams.
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UC’s Communication Strategies for Carbon Neutrality

July 23, 2018 by

The CNI states it will need continuing efforts by stakeholder groups and multifarious parties, as well as engagement and cooperation across the UC community to reduce the university's carbon footprint...
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UCSB’s Own BIFROST

July 13, 2018 by

Like a faucet for light, BIFROST features a unique web interface that will allow researchers to log on to the instrument, select a desired wavelength or tuning range, and simply begin their work.
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