Science & Tech

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.

August 27, 2018

UCSB Researcher Makes Headway in Cause of Brain Wrinkles

By Shwena Dhar

How the brain's self-assembly takes place and what physics come into play is fundamental to our understanding of the complex organ.

August 24, 2018

UCSB Researchers Work Toward Agricultural Carbon Solution

By Natalie Overton

Williams and his team explored the algorithm of maximizing crop yield while minimizing carbon loss to the atmosphere in three different world regions.

August 13, 2018

More than Meets the Eye

By Simran Kaur

The researchers’ analysis of extensive genetic data revealed that eyes originated at least eight times in cnidarians.

August 9, 2018

Going with the Flow

By Jacqueline Wen

As riffles and pools provide the foundation for stream habitats and environments, they can reveal much about the basic ecology of streams.

August 2, 2018

Doing More Harm Than Good?

By Simran Kaur

We over-respond to a particular wildfire, rather than having measured, consistent and persistent engagement with that risk.

July 30, 2018

UCSB Researchers Work on NASA’s EXPORTS Campaign

By Kirstie Allen

EXPORTS is designed to assess all the main pathways in which organic carbon is transported from the upper ocean into the ocean interior in the biological pump at the same time under varying environmental conditions.

July 23, 2018

UC’s Communication Strategies for Carbon Neutrality

By Jacqueline Wen

The CNI states it will need continuing efforts by stakeholder groups and multifarious parties, as well as engagement and cooperation across the UC community to reduce the university's carbon footprint.

July 13, 2018

UCSB’s Own BIFROST

By Jacqueline Wen

Like a faucet for light, BIFROST features a unique web interface that will allow researchers to log on to the instrument, select a desired wavelength or tuning range, and simply begin their work.

July 6, 2018

UCSB Joins Large-Scale Cancer Research Consortium

By Jacqueline Wen

Using broad evolutionary and ecological perspectives to look at cancer across the tree of life could help make great strides in cancer prevention and treatment mechanisms, according to Boddy.

July 6, 2018

Pacific O.R.C.A. Expedition

By Kirstie Allen

The OBSs will sit about 4,500 meters — a little under three miles beneath the ocean’s surface — for 15 months, recording earthquakes across the globe.

June 29, 2018

Where There’s a Whale, There’s a Way

By Jacqueline Wen

Without updating protection policies to reflect the right whale’s shifting distribution, the researchers predict the right whale may go extinct in as soon as 27 years.