Environment & Ecology

UCSB Researchers Piece Together Detailed Kelp Forest Food Web, Incorporating Parasites

May 2, 2021 by

Morton hopes that the higher resolution of this food web will aid in efficiency and clarity for future research.
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Forks in the Road Emerge in India’s Quest to Expand Renewables

April 25, 2021 by

The country hopes to install more than 400 gigawatts of wind and solar generation by the year 2030.
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UCSB Lecturer Partners with CEC in Advocacy of Sustainable Living

April 23, 2021 by

The campaign, known as Earth Day Every Day, represents the culmination of five years of accumulated lifestyle changes carried out by Williams and her husband.
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Following Widespread Die-offs, Researchers Investigate the Dangers Droughts Pose to Oaks

April 7, 2021 by

Anderegg and his collaborators have studied oaks across the west in North America, hoping to understand what resilience individual species of trees have to drought.
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As Santa Barbara and California Pursue Decarbonization, Electrification Presents New Opportunities

March 30, 2021 by

“It’s easy to get stuck in the mindset that Santa Barbara is so small when, actually, we can create a lasting impact on a global scale,” Parenteau said.
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Following Negotiations, Environmentalists and Indigenous Activists Must Raise $20 Million in 90 Days To Protect West Mesa

March 22, 2021 by

If 90 days have elapsed and the funds have not been procured, Save the San Marcos Foothills has agreed not to further oppose the development.
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UCSB Researchers Uncover a Hydrocarbon Cycle Beneath the Ocean

March 14, 2021 by

Prior to these findings, the extent of the ocean hydrocarbon cycle was largely unknown, according to Love.
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Tracing the Spread of Early Humans Across East Asia

March 12, 2021 by

New knowledge supplied by better technology allowed Kennett and his research group to determine the timing of ancestry change and population movements. 
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Blum Center at UCSB Hosts Public Forum To Discuss Post-Pandemic Green New Deal

March 3, 2021 by

The forum focused on how the pandemic and recent socio-political shifts have impacted the prospects for “transformative economic and environmental change."
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Planned Development Next To San Marcos Foothills Preserve Faces Legal Challenges

February 17, 2021 by

The San Marcos Foothills Preserve is a protected area encompassing 200 acres of oak savanna and grassland between Santa Barbara and Goleta.
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UCSB Professors, With Co-Authors From UC Davis and UC Riverside, Publish Book on the Sierra Nevada

February 17, 2021 by

California’s quintessential mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, extends 400 miles from the southernmost tip of the Cascades down to the Transverse Ranges in southern California. 
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A Time For Reflection At Terror Rift

February 5, 2021 by

Luyendyk, Sorlien and their collaborators have been working with seismic reflection data to construct seismic profiles and visualize faulting along the Terror Rift. 
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UCSB Researchers Find Significant Gaps in Widely Used Fisheries Datasets

December 7, 2020 by

Blasco’s hope is that studies like this will shine a spotlight on the work that those working with the FAO, RAM and the IUCN still have ahead of them.
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At Valentine Camp, a Plan is Hatched to Fix California’s Drought-stressed, Overstuffed Forests

December 1, 2020 by

In one 155-acre plot of land in Mammoth Lakes, researchers are trying to better understand how California’s overgrown forests can be rehabilitated through both selective burning and thinning.
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The Future of Forests in the Warming, Drying American West

November 18, 2020 by

"Physiology is very important in understanding forest mortality, but we are still missing some key mechanisms in being able to predict it at large spatial scales,” Trugman said.
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