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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...

A newly discovered member of the Megaloptera family may earn an entry into The Guinness Book of Records as the largest aquatic insect in the world. Its wingspan is a whopping 8.2 inches (21 cm). Images of the huge insect appeared on China’s ECNS website on July 21, 2014 and have since gone viral on the internet. The specimen was discovered in the mountains of Chengdu in Sichuan province. (All photos are credited to China News...

The following is from Chapter 7, “Technologic Revolution,” of Susan Baumgart’s “Department History – A Lively Chronicle: 1963-2000.” The Advent of Computers: Dozier and Strahler team-taught the first Department computer course in Spring 1975, Geography 170 “Univariate Statistics.” The course used an IBM main frame, a PDP-11 minicomputer belonging to the university and available through...