Science & Tech

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.

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.