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Colin Kelley, a postdoctoral researcher in the UCSB Geography Climate Hazards Group, is the first author of a widely circulated article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Colin P. Kelley, Shahrzad Mohtadi, Mark A. Cane, Richard Seager, and Yochanan Kushnir. Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought. PNAS 2015: 1421533112v1-201421533). The following is a write up of the...

Throughout the month of February, the UCSB VIPER lab personnel ate food that started with a different letter of the alphabet every day. Inspired by Dar Roberts‘ shenanigans from earlier years, Seth Peterson and Sara Baguskas rallied the VIPER lab and set the ground rules. February 1st started off strong with foods starting with the letter A, such as alphabet pasta with arrabbiata sauce, apple cake, and acorn squash. Throughout...

The following article was written by Tomasz Nowakowski for Phys.org and was posted on February 24, 2015, with the title above: The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite is on its way to do something epic. NOAA’s spacecraft, sent to monitor space weather, will use its Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) to capture the entire sunlit face of our planet and collect valuable atmospheric data. EPIC, built by Lockheed...