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Hundreds of undergraduates displayed their research projects at the 2015 Undergraduate Research Colloquium. The following description is from The UCSB Current, dated May 20, 2015 and with the title above: “More than 200 UC Santa Barbara undergraduates took advantage of the opportunity to display their research prowess at the 2015 Undergraduate Research Colloquium held in Corwin Pavilion. The projects covered a wide variety of...

By the end of the century, the woodlands of the Southwest will likely be reduced to weeds and shrubs. And scientists worry that the rest of the planet may see similar effects. Jeff Tietz, in a March 12 article for Rolling Stone with the title “The Fate of Trees: How Climate Change May Alter Forests Worldwide,” goes on to summarize an interview he had with alumnus Park Williams (PhD 2009): In May 2011, a postdoctoral student at Los...

The following is a ClimateCentral.org article by Brian Kahn, published February 12 2015, with the title above: Climate change is creating an “unprecedented” risk of severe drought in the Southwest and Central Plains. Rising temperatures and decreasing rainfall mean that future drought could be more extreme than any drought seen in at least the past 1,000 years, and the effects could reverberate for urban dwellers and...