Science & Tech

October 10, 2019

Potential Positive Impacts of Seaweed on Climate Change

By Hannah Hirou

A recent UCSB study examined the potential impacts of seaweed aquaculture on carbon offsetting.

October 3, 2019

UCSB Selected to Host New Quantum Foundry

By Jacqueline Wen

The NSF has granted UCSB $25 million over six years to advance the “discovery and control of materials that support protected quantum states with unprecedented coherence and scalable entanglement."

October 3, 2019

Genetic Variation Can Affect Embryo Formation

By Jacqueline Wen

Because humans and other vertebrates share a common regulatory mechanism for endoderm development with nematodes, the study’s results may have potential implications for drug therapies.

September 26, 2019

UCSB Continues to Perform Well on 2019 Sustainable Campus Index Metrics

By Sean Crommelin

UCSB is among 134 institutions which have been awarded with a gold rating or higher by the AASHE, out of the 970 campuses currently registered.

September 26, 2019

Mechanism to Develop Mineralized Skeletons Likely Evolved Independently Across Diverse Taxa

By Sean Crommelin

A paper from UCSB researchers details how they managed to pinpoint evidence of biomineralization in a wide variety of fossils from the Cambrian period.

September 19, 2019

UCSB Researchers Discover Mechanism Potentially Accelerating Progression of Polycystic Kidney Disease

By Jacqueline Wen

While researchers in the natural sciences field studying kidney stones have observed dilated tubules before, “it has not previously been recognized as an active protective mechanism,” the paper states.

September 19, 2019

Evaluating Cumulative Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems

By Hannah Hirou

Recently, UCSB researchers published a paper that addressed for the first time the combined impact humans are having on our marine ecosystems.

September 12, 2019

Epigenetics, Corals and Climate Change

By Hannah Hirou

Moeller and other marine scientists received a $3 million, five-year funding from the NSF to set up long-term research on the coral reefs around Moorea in French Polynesia.

September 4, 2019

UCSB Researchers Examine Effective Communication of Environmental Issues

By Jacqueline Wen

Their findings suggest that the same types of messaging frames can be effectively used to communicate to conservatives and liberals, rather than speaking to each group individually.

August 27, 2019

SBWCN: Animal Rescue Stories from the Community

By Emily Komessar

Local community members share rescue stories of animals they and SBWCN helped.

August 22, 2019

A Look Into Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network

By Emily Komessar

Located in Goleta, the animal rehabilitation center has cared for over 3,100 patients so far in 2019.

August 14, 2019

UCSB Researcher Uses Hypothetical Mussel Farms To Study Aquaculture Productivity in Southern California

By Hannah Hirou

The researchers predicted the profitability of 223 hypothetical mussel farms along the coast from Point Conception to the Mexico border in a region known as the Southern California Bight.

August 8, 2019

2019 Karp Discovery Award Will Further UC Women’s Brain Initiative

By Jacqueline Wen

The idea for the initiative emerged when the researchers saw that replication across current, public studies on the short- and long-term effects of the birth control pill on the brain didn't yet exist.

August 1, 2019

Eating for Two: MSI Researchers Study How Urchins Make Kelp More Palatable for Benthic Feeders

By Sean Crommelin

Sea urchins, much maligned throughout the California coast for destroying kelp forests, might not be quite the pests that they appear to be.

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.