Natalie Overton

July 25, 2019

The Art of Change: Dissecting the Role of Lobbying in Climate Policy

By Natalie Overton

Meng and Rode were able to measure exactly how the Waxman-Markey bill was affected by the lobbying money surrounding its approval in the House and its no-show in the Senate. 

August 24, 2018

UCSB Researchers Work Toward Agricultural Carbon Solution

By Natalie Overton

Williams and his team explored the algorithm of maximizing crop yield while minimizing carbon loss to the atmosphere in three different world regions.

May 4, 2017

Parrotfish More Concerned With Food Than Predators

By Natalie Overton

While the Daisy Parrotfish are not at the top of the marine food chain, their priorities do not lie in avoiding potential predators but rather finding their next meal.

October 27, 2016

The Santa Barbara Basin: Home of the Largest Underwater Bathtub Ring Caught on Camera

By Natalie Overton

“We expected to find changes in the biological community,” he said, “but we did not expect to find a mile-long colonization of bacteria.”

May 19, 2016

Students Grow Produce in Unlikely Places

By Natalie Overton

The Edible Campus Program and the Department of Public Worms have begun turning large and unused concrete spaces into vertical, sustainable farms to combat hunger.

May 5, 2016

UCSB Takes on 40 Acres of Restoration

By Natalie Overton

UCSB is undertaking restoration projects to maintain ecosystems during land development

April 28, 2016

Campus Dining Offers More Vegan Choices

By Natalie Overton

Veganism is trending in both the food industry and in student requests for more vegan options on the menu, and the dining commons have heeded the call.

April 21, 2016

Farmers Market: As Local as it Looks?

By Natalie Overton

Nexus Staff Writer Natalie Overton questioned a few food stands about their locality at Wednesday’s farmers market

March 3, 2016

Sylvester’s Guide to Roadside Geology

By Natalie Overton

Since his retirement, Arthur Sylvester has been researching and leading student tours all throughout Southern California.

February 18, 2016

Fit AND Fat: The Downfall of BMI

By Natalie Overton

Everyone has heard of it; some know it all too well. The Body Mass Index (BMI) has served as the go-to source for affirmation and criticism of health for too long, according to UCSB researcher and graduate student Jeffre...

February 17, 2016

The Force in Our Stars

By Natalie Overton

Matteo Cantiello, postdoctoral fellow, Jim Fuller, a professor at California Technical University, and Lars Bildsten, the director of Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), have been “listening” to the stars...

February 11, 2016

Science Through the Lens of an Artist

By Natalie Overton

  At first glance, the whirling, shimmering zigzags of color seem like a modern tech-art combination — so distant from their roots in the detailed scientific processes that inspired them. These works of art are ab...

January 28, 2016

Isla Carte Working to Launch a Sustainable Food Cart on Campus

By Natalie Overton

Student-run food program Isla Carte is holding monthly tasting events for their proposed food cart program expected to launch in fall of 2017.

January 21, 2016

Saved By the Bell

By Natalie Overton

Declines in mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa and Rana sierrae) populations were first recognized in the 1970s. Since then, according to National Park Service, the population size has decreased 92%, and in 2013 t...

January 14, 2016

Emotional Theory: Getting Physical

By Natalie Overton

When I arrived at his office half an hour early, the door was open. Sitting comfortably at his neatly paper-laden desk was UCSB Researcher and Sociology professor, Dr. Thomas Scheff (or “Doc”, as his students call hi...

December 31, 2015

Santa Barbara Allergist Suggests A Nutty Solution for Peanut Allergies

By Natalie Overton

One in 50 children between the ages of five and 11 have a peanut allergy. The CDC reports that peanut allergies have risen by 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, accounting for over three million cases in the United States...