Science & Tech

September 23, 2021

As Oceanic Oxygen Levels Drop in Warming Seas, Fish Flee to Shallower Waters, Researchers Find

By Sean Crommelin

Often, the major focuses of ocean climate change are bold and visible: The melting Arctic ice sheet, bleached and weakened tropical reefs and ocean acidification come to mind. However, an equally important, but often-o...

September 23, 2021

Professor Mostofi Uses WiFi Signals for Crowd Counting

By Devanshi Tomar

Since 2009, UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Yasamin Mostofi and her lab have pioneered groundbreaking sensing methods using everyday radio frequency (RF) signals. Their ...

September 21, 2021

In a Landscape of Wet-Dry Whiplash, UCSB Researcher Develops New Method to Predict Water Deficits During Growing Season

By Sean Crommelin

In order to avert catastrophe and mitigate the worst human impacts of drought, many researchers have devised ways to predict the effects of natural disasters.

August 29, 2021

To the Limit: Long-Term Study Reveals How Kelp Forests Respond to Repeated Disturbances

By Sean Crommelin

The researchers were particularly interested in how the different layers of vegetation throughout the kelp forest would adapt to the loss of the canopy.

August 26, 2021

With California Heating Up, UCSB Researchers Study the Future of the State’s Fires

By Sean Crommelin

In their most recent research, Tague and her collaborators focused on the Big Creek watershed in the southern Sierra Nevada, a region which is particularly sensitive to climate change.

August 10, 2021

Looking Back at the Campaign to Save the West Mesa

By Sean Crommelin

Now, as part of Phase 2, fundraising is being done to create an endowment and restore the West Mesa.

August 3, 2021

UC Researchers Dive Deeper Into the Nitrogen Cycle at Sedgwick Reserve

By Sean Crommelin

“Although it's interesting that rock is delivering nitrogen to ecosystems, at least in Sedgwick it’s not going to be a big contributor to the functioning of the system,” Chadwick said.

July 18, 2021

Researchers Study PTSD-related Symptoms Among LGBTQ Latinx Immigrants

By Sean Crommelin

Researchers discovered that not even high levels of social support insulated SGM Latinx immigrants from developing symptoms.

June 26, 2021

With Life Cycle Assessment, Researchers Peer Into the Environmental Legacy of Products

By Lizzy Mau

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a way of measuring the environmental impacts in the stages of a product's life.

June 20, 2021

UCSB Researchers Study “Collective Intelligence” In Effort to Understand Why Some Groups Fly While Others Flounder

By Sean Crommelin

Kim and her collaborators carried out a meta-analysis on 22 studies evaluating collective intelligence in 1,356 groups and 5,279 individuals.

June 20, 2021

Thinking Ahead: How Do UCSB Students Feel About Climate Change?

By Sean Crommelin

Julia Fine worked alongside an array of collaborators to better understand how UCSB students relate to the climate crisis.

June 12, 2021

Fleshing Out the Meaning of Regenerative Agriculture

By Shereen Mohammadzadeh

While regenerative agriculture is still very much a fluid concept, its momentum is steadfast.

May 23, 2021

UCSB Researchers Uncover Pharmaceutical Potential in the Microbiota of Animal Digestive Tracts

By Sean Crommelin

From fungi within these animals, the researchers found a host of genes which encode for biosynthetic enzymes and in turn natural products.

May 23, 2021

Unlearning the “In-group Versus Out-group” Instinct

By Sean Crommelin

Liberman has been conducting research with the hope of understanding how parents can raise their children to avoid falling into the trap of stereotyping.

May 20, 2021

New Evidence from Yucatán Caves Pour In, Suggesting Region Was Wetter Millennia Ago

By Sean Crommelin

The team learned this by examining the isotope composition of stalagmites, mounds of mineral deposits found on the floors of caves that grow upward as water drips from cave ceilings.