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UCSB Geography graduate student Kate Voss just received the following announcement from Alberto Montanari, Editor in Chief of Water Resources Research: “Dear Dr. Voss: Starting in 2011, Water Resources Research has instituted the Editor’s Choice Awards. Editors’ Choice Awards are given to about 1% of published articles in any calendar year to provide professional recognition to scientists and students for their...

The following care2.com article was written by Crystal Shepeard and posted July 13. 2014 with the title above: Lauren Arrington was in the process of trying to figure out her sixth grade science project when she noticed a lionfish while fishing in the Loxahatchee River in south Florida. Lionfish had been spotted in Florida as early as 2010 and have since spread to many of its waters. Surprised to find it, the 12-year-old wanted to see...

According to a USGS news article, “Monitoring wildlife in the Arctic is difficult. Study areas are cold, barren, and often inaccessible. For decades, scientists have struggled to study animals, like polar bears, which live in these remote areas. Now researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey have begun testing a new, yet counterintuitive solution – rather then get close to the animals, monitor them from afar. Scientists...