Science & Tech

January 24, 2019

Gut Feeling: Studying Interactions in the Microbiome

By Jacqueline Wen

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It’s not just the individual microbes but, rather, it’s the microbes in their context," Jones said.

January 17, 2019

Microbial Assassins: Changing the Face of Modern Antibiotics

By Sunidhi Sridhar

"We can equip helpful bacteria with a toxin-delivering system to target and destroy harmful ones. Such specificity could give us more control over our microbiome and our health," Song said.

January 17, 2019

Underneath the Surface: Shrinking Groundwater in the United States

By Sunidhi Sridhar

The team calculated the degree of separation between fresh groundwater and brackish groundwater in over 25 sedimentary basins throughout the United States.

January 10, 2019

UCSB Researchers Help Develop New Technique to Detect Changes in Bone Structure

By Jacqueline Wen

The micro-Texture technique can still produce high-resolution data that can help in diagnosing and monitoring diseases without the need to acquire an entire 2-D magnetic resonance image.

November 29, 2018

UCSB Researchers Study Diet of Population With ‘World’s Healthiest Arteries’

By Jacqueline Wen

As the Tsimané and Mosetén populations experience an ongoing nutrition transition, the study illustrates the link between diet and an increase in noncommunicable chronic diseases.

November 15, 2018

Improving Shark Sanctuaries

By Jacqueline Wen

UCSB researchers set out to understand shark movement in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean consisting of hundreds of small atolls and islands. Instead, they discove...

November 8, 2018

UCSB Researcher Studies Optimization of Wind Farm Performance

By Jacqueline Wen

While the performance limits for a single wind turbine have been established, the same couldn’t be said of the power output from a large wind farm.

November 1, 2018

Exploring How Team Dynamics Affect Team Performance

By Jacqueline Wen

"We found that the role of dynamics of team collaboration predicts the team performance more [accurately] than team compositional features alone," said Kim.

October 25, 2018

English in the Field: Conducting Interdisciplinary Research

By Sunidhi Sridhar

Six undergraduates presented interdisciplinary work as part of a collaborative project between CCBER and the English Department.

October 18, 2018

UCSB Researcher ReFINes Method to Detect Sharks

By Jacqueline Wen

“We wanted to see if we could detect white sharks from a water sample using eDNA,” Lafferty said.

October 11, 2018

UCSB Researchers Develop Smartphone App to Efficiently Diagnose Urinary Tract Infections

By Kelly Shi

A team of UCSB researchers and colleagues developed a new smartphone app that identifies bacteria and diagnoses urinary tract infections in just one hour.

October 4, 2018

UCSB Researcher Studies Possibility of Greater Wildfire Frequency in Future

By Jacqueline Wen

Based on the climate models, climate warming may enhance the impacts of ENSO, including proportionally stronger changes to the risk of wildfire in fire-prone places.

September 27, 2018

UCSB Researchers Create a New Genome Editing Method

By Matt Shamshoian

This unique method of genome editing gives scientists complete control over when and where genetic material is delivered to cells, allowing for detailed study of genetic changes at different points in a cell’s life cyc...

September 20, 2018

UCSB Researcher Works toward Island Restoration

By Ruth Sanchez

Understanding how to effectively restore an ecosystem after it has been altered by an invasive species is one component of UCSB research Hillary Young’s work.

September 13, 2018

Citizen Scientists Help Track Endangered Fish in Unique Project

By Matt Shamshoian

The project relies on citizen scientists who upload pictures of the giant spotted sea bass in the wild and a powerful algorithm that accurately identifies individuals.

September 5, 2018

Fishy Business: Wealthy Nations Overrepresent in Industrial Fishing

By Simran Kaur

The dominance of wealthier countries in global industrial fishing can be highly detrimental for low-income countries that predominantly rely on seafood for nutritional sustenance.