Sean Crommelin

August 17, 2020

Researchers Uncover Miniaturized Relative of Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs From Triassic Madagascar

By Sean Crommelin

Although a complete skeleton of K. kely has not been recovered, fossil fragments have given researchers a good idea of what the animal was like. 

August 14, 2020

Building Wheat to Take the Heat

By Sean Crommelin

There is much interest in making wheat resilient to drought and better cope with its varietal stressors, such as heat. 

July 23, 2020

Bright Ideas: UCSB Researchers Establish a Laboratory Culture of Bioluminescent Ostracods

By Sean Crommelin

Establishing a laboratory culture of V. tsujii allowed the team to make observations regarding the ostracod's development.

July 19, 2020

Friends of the Island Fox Bolsters Research and Conservation Initiatives With Much-Needed Funds

By Sean Crommelin

Friends of the Island Fox works alongside the patchwork of organizations governing the Channel Islands in their “efforts to preserve and protect the island fox."

July 6, 2020

Researchers Reconstruct Oceanic Nitrous Oxide Emissions, Revealing Intriguing Patterns

By Sean Crommelin

The researchers used 158,000 measurements in their reconstruction and —among other things— uncovered a seasonal pattern in nitrous oxide emissions.

July 3, 2020

Research Into This Elegant Wildflower Brings Climate Center Stage

By Sean Crommelin

Peach sought to examine the effects that particular conditions correlated to climate have on the floral reproductive traits of the wildflower.

June 18, 2020

Why Are the Police So Afraid of Transparency and Accountability?

By Sean Crommelin

Sean Crommelin examines the lack of accountability in our current law enforcement and expresses the importance of expelling officers with histories of misconduct.

June 13, 2020

The Remarkable Recovery of the Channel Island Fox

By Sean Crommelin

In the late 1990s, the foxes were on a precipice. Now —two decades later— they stand as symbols of an incredible success story in conservation.

June 9, 2020

Advancing Green Chemistry With Professor Adeyemi Adeleye

By Sean Crommelin

Adeleye spoke on two particular ways that his graduate students have been developing methods and processes to improve pollution remediation with green chemistry. 

June 5, 2020

UCSB Researcher Illuminates Serotonin Trajectories, Density in the Brain

By Sean Crommelin

New research describes using fractional Brownian motion to create predictive “descriptions and manipulations” of the serotonergic matrix.

May 28, 2020

UCSB Researchers Investigate the “Untapped Gold Mine” of Wastewater Testing for COVID-19

By Sean Crommelin

Sewage surveillance has been employed to track the presence of opiates in wastewater previously. Now, scientists are using it to track COVID-19 in the population.

May 21, 2020

Partisanship, Racial Politics, Public Health and the Planet

By Sean Crommelin

Ian Carrillo seeks to add another dimension to a debate in environmental sociology.

May 13, 2020

A Touchy Subject: UCSB Researchers Model Signals of Touch in the Human Hand

By Sean Crommelin

The researchers used a dimensionality reduction model to simplify the tactile signals of the hands. These were detected by sensors on an apparatus.

May 9, 2020

Experiments With Drosophila Flies Raise Questions About Function of Opsins

By Sean Crommelin

For over a century, opsins have historically been observed operating in rhodopsin, a light receptor.

April 27, 2020

27-Year Monitoring Project Reveals Regional Effects of ENSO on Sea Urchin Settlement

By Sean Crommelin

Inspired by similar sites in Japan and the East Coast, Schroeter’s team initially conceived the project as a means to monitor enhancement strategies for red sea urchins as a commercial fishery.

April 23, 2020

Clear As Mud: Planktonic Remains in Millenia-Old Mud Reveal Climate History of Pacific

By Sean Crommelin

The scientists' findings and modeling are part of ongoing research that hopes to understand the effect changes in climate may have on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).