The following Climate Central article was written by Alison Kanski and posted July 28, 2015, with the title above: Radiocarbon dating has been helping put the planet’s history in the right order since it was first invented in the 1940s, giving scientists a key way to determine the age of artifacts like the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Shroud of Turin. Thanks to fossil fuel emissions, though, the method used to date these famous...
Read MoreUCSB Geography alumna Elisa Frank (MA 2009) was recently interviewed by David Robson, a feature writer for BBC.com’s Future series. “Coffee in crisis: The bitter end of our favourite drink?” was posted on July 29, 2015: As we sip our lattes and espressos and read the daily headlines, climate change can seem like a distant threat. But travel a few thousand miles to the source of your caffeine fix, and the turbulence...
Read MoreGeography Professor Susan Cassels, in collaboration with Prof. Eli Rosenberg at Emory University and Prof. Steven Goodreau at the University of Washington, has received an NIH R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research grant award. The 2-year joint research effort, “Mathematical models to inform effective home-use HIV testing strategies for MSM,” will identify how rapid home-use HIV testing strategies may impact HIV incidence...
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