News Archive

News Archive for the Year 2017 Date Title September 27, 2017 Welcome Message from New Department Chair, Stuart H. Sweeney September 27, 2017 Introducing our 2017 Incoming Graduate Student Cohort August 10, 2017 Alumni Spotlight: Justin Kiel August 8, 2017 Geography Department Welcomes Katie O’Brien June 27, 2017 Graduate Degrees Conferred 2016-2017 June 26, 2017 Undergraduate Commencement and Awards 2017 June 26, 2017 Quincy...

The following is an article by Julie Cohen, written for The UCSB Current and posted June 5, 2015, with the title “In Living Color”: Over the last few days, the waters off the Santa Barbara coast have turned a striking shade of turquoise. The mystery behind this unusual color change is a type of chalk-producing phytoplanktonic organism called a coccolithophore. But what makes these otherwise invisible life forms suddenly...

The following NewScientist.com article was written by Fred Pearce and posted on June 8, 2015 with the title “Snail’s Demise Suggests Sixth Mass Extinction Is Underway”: The meek may, as the Bible says, inherit the Earth. But the spineless are going extinct. While vertebrate species like mammals and birds are mostly surviving the human-dominated epoch of Anthropocene better than expected, invertebrate species are...