“It will take about 11 trillion gallons of water (42 cubic kilometers) — around 1.5 times the maximum volume of the largest U.S. reservoir — to recover from California’s continuing drought, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data.” The following article is from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, dated December 16, 2014 and with the title above: The finding was part...
Read More“Professor Evan Economo and researchers in the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit compared genetic sequences from hundreds species of Pheidole, a group of ants with mysteriously high diversity. They used these sequences to construct a Pheidole evolutionary tree that suggests Pheidole evolved the same way twice, to take over the New World and then the Old World.” The following article is by Poncie Rutsch, writing for the...
Read MoreUCSB researchers, including four faculty members from the Department of Geography, are participating in a multicampus UC collaboration to study how plants and animals respond to climate change. The following is a science and technology news article from The UCSB Current, written by Julie Cohen, posted December 18, 2014, and with the title above: More than half a dozen UC Santa Barbara scientists will participate in the newly funded...
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