Science & Tech

UCSB Ecologist Looks to AI To Improve Wildlife Camera Trapping

November 5, 2021 by

The data analyzed in this study was taken from a long-term camera trap project in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique.
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UCSB Professor Urges Centrality of Women in Biomedical Research

November 4, 2021 by

Emily Jacobs gave a lecture last week in the library entitled, “The Uncharted Mind — The Scientific Body of Knowledge: Whose Body Does it Serve?”
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Despite Public Outrage, Pine Mountain Remains Threatened By Logging

October 29, 2021 by

The project threatens 755 acres of conifer forest and chaparral on a mountain ridge in Los Padres National Forest.
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River Flows Across You: Game Theory in the Harirud Basin

October 28, 2021 by and

The Harirud flows west from the snow-capped peaks of the Hindu Kush. From this origin, the river traverses Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan.
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Thinking Globally and Acting Locally: Ian Shive and the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network Celebrate New Hospital

October 22, 2021 by

Shive is an author, photographer, filmmaker and conservationist, whose most recent works include the Discovery+ series “The Last Unknown” (2021).
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB

October 21, 2021 by

A look at soil, fish and psychology training programs with UCSB researchers.
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Los Ingenieros Engineers a Space for Underrepresented Students in S.T.E.M.

October 15, 2021 by

For decades, Los Ingenieros has sought to create a community for underrepresented students in the College of Engineering.
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Mechanical Engineering Professor Receives $1.8 Million NSF Grant

October 14, 2021 by

“The grant will provide opportunities for training students in how to incorporate biological circuits and elements into designer materials and then the deployment of those materials in useful device...
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Simply Stated: Is There Such a Thing as “Good Fire?”

October 14, 2021 by

Is the Alisal Fire a “good fire” or a “bad fire?” Well, it depends.
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The Psychological Science Behind Pseudoscience

October 8, 2021 by

How do pseudoscientific beliefs, as they are called, spread and come to be accepted by many as fact? 
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Mathematics Professor Xin Zhou Invited To Speak at International Congress of Mathematicians

October 8, 2021 by

The ICM is considered to be “the most influential meeting in pure and applied mathematics, as well as one of the world’s oldest scientific congresses.”
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The State of COVID-19 Boosters in the United States

October 7, 2021 by

Although the COVID-19 vaccine remains highly effective against COVID-19, this effectiveness decreases over time.
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Campus Point: New and Exciting Research at UCSB

October 7, 2021 by

A look at crops, climate and bears with the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management.
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Simply Stated: It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity

October 7, 2021 by

I find that being near a body of water does much for the mind and soul. But, my God, what it does to the hair.
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Back From the Brink: 20 Years of Snowy Plover Conservation at Coal Oil Point Reserve

September 30, 2021 by

A challenge since the program was established has been balancing recreational access to Sands Beach with the interests of the plovers.
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