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In a July 29, 2014 edition of The UCSB Current, Julie Cohen sums up UCSB research into “the mixed impacts of the world’s largest — and threatened — parrotfish” in an article titled “Underwater Elephants”: In the high-tech world of science, researchers sometimes need to get back to basics. UC Santa Barbara’s Douglas McCauley did just that to study the impacts of the bumphead parrotfish...

An article in The UCSB Current, written by Andrea Estrada, titled “Smarter Than a First-Grader, and posted July 21, 2014, is subtitled “UCSB researcher shows that New Caledonian crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect water displacement tasks”: In Aesop’s fable about the crow and the pitcher, a thirsty bird happens upon a vessel of water, but when he tries to drink from it, he finds...

Alumni Richard Middleton (PhD 2006), now a Research Scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory, recently wrote to say: Ooooh no! Just found out that my Master’s Mentor, Peter Fisher, has died, aged 59. The University of Leicester tribute describes him thus: “He was fun, rude, honest and loving – a great person to have as a mentor, a colleague and a friend.” For...