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Nov 4, 2024 · Mapping Alzheimer’s: UCSB’s Cristina Venegas follows a genetic puzzle tracing Alzheimer’s roots from Colombia. Coral underpin ecosystems as vibrant as they are. But these iconic animals face many challenges in the 21st century. October 28, 2024.
UCSB faculty and students among the American Geophysical …
Sep 23, 2024 · Two UC Santa Barbara faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), joining a distinguished group of 54 individuals in the 2024 Class of Fellows. Professor Naomi Tague, from the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, studies ecohydrology, exploring how water, ecosystems and climate interact.
Dead coral skeletons hinder reef regeneration by sheltering seaweed
Sep 26, 2024 · Researchers working at reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia found that the network of dead coral skeletons left in place by bleaching events caused critical processes to break down, ultimately preventing reefs from recovering.
University progresses on development plans to expand student …
Feb 22, 2024 · With a goal to expand residential housing for students, UC Santa Barbara continues to advance on a development plan that will create 3,500 new student beds on the main campus, in accordance with the targets highlighted in the university’s 2010 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP).
Researchers create the first ever visualization of photoexcited …
Oct 10, 2024 · UC Santa Barbara researchers have achieved the first-ever “movie” of electric charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials. Using scanning ultrafast electron (SUEM) techniques developed in the Bolin Liao lab, the research team has directly visualized the fleeting phenomenon for the first time.
Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable ...
Jan 24, 2024 · The work revealed that groundwater is dropping in 71% of the aquifers. And this depletion is accelerating in many places: the rates of groundwater decline in the 1980s and ’90s sped up from 2000 to the present, highlighting how a bad problem became even worse.
Free film series hits the panic button at Carsey-Wolf Center
Sep 19, 2024 · Free film series hits the panic button at Carsey-Wolf Center. A fall lineup of films at UC Santa Barbara will dive deeply into realms of social anxiety, moral vice and political subversion with a range of free screenings that include a …
Help is on the way: UCSB staff train to pitch in during a disaster
Jul 8, 2024 · For three consecutive Wednesdays this spring, 15 UC Santa Barbara staff members met at the EOC for a specialized disaster response program called CERT, or Community Emergency Response Training.
Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans …
Aug 22, 2024 · A team led by researchers at UC Santa Barbara has added another sense to the mosquito’s documented repertoire: infrared detection. Infrared radiation from a source roughly the temperature of human skin doubled the insects’ overall host-seeking behavior when combined with CO 2 and human odor.