Most Americans agree that climate change is occurring, but they disagree about the causes and tend to base their opinions upon their politics rather than upon scientific knowledge. This tendency, recently reported in survey-based research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, is referred to as “biased assimilation”: “Most people gather information about climate change not directly from...
Read MoreExcerpts from “Open-Ocean Barrier Islands: Global Influence of Climatic, Oceanographic, and Depositional Settings,” Matthew L. Stutz and Orrin H. Pilkey, Journal of Coastal Research: Volume 27, Issue 2: pp. 207 – 222. (2011) doi: 10.2112/09-1190.1 (source): Earth has 657 more barrier islands than previously thought, according to a new global survey by researchers from Duke University and Meredith College. The...
Read MoreThree UCSB professors have been elected Fellows of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) this year, including our own Oliver Chadwick; Affiliated Faculty member John Melack, Chair of the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology; and Ralph Archuleta, Chair of the Department of Earth Science and a member of the Earth Research Institute. The AGU has over...
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