Ruth Oliver works to harness the power of big data to inform policy related to ecology and biodiversity. She uses automated biodiversity sensors — such as camera traps, audio recorders, and tracking ...

The oldest eukaryotes we've found lived exclusively on the seafloor and already used oxygen. The discovery overturns certain long-held assumptions about the group while corroborating others.

The world’s forests form a vast network of carbon reservoirs, keeping carbon sequestered from the atmosphere where its presence is disrupting Earth’s climate systems. Many corporate, national and ...

Rae Wynn-Grant received her BS in Environmental Studies from Emory University, her Master of Environmental Science from Yale University, and her PhD in Ecology and Evolution from Columbia University.

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have for the first time observed Goldstone modes — elusive, charge-neutral quasiparticles — in a twisted tungsten diselenide superlattice. Using an ultrafast imaging ...

Sonia came to science writing after working many years as a journalist. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in English, she’s thrilled to be writing for her alma mater and working with the ...

Team UCSB-WA (left to right): coach Wesley Hung ‘24 (CoE Computer Science), Ezra Furtado-Tiwari ‘28 (CCS Computing, Mathematics), Om Mahesh ‘28 (CCS Mathematics; CoE Computer Science) and David Qiao ...

The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering (COE) at UC Santa Barbara will launch the university’s first fully online master’s degree program, an expansion of UCSB’s engineering curriculum designed ...

Stephen Sondheim had his ladies who lunch. Melinda Lopez has her students who stretch. Her new play “Standing Still” is set in a yoga studio, and features a group of people who come together for a ...

Insights from a recently held global collaboration workshop on fatal whale-vessel strikes are poised to strengthen protections for the magnificent creatures around the world. Co-hosted by UC Santa ...

Jia-Ching Chen's interests are in China's role in shaping the global green economy and the spread of Chinese planning expertise through its international development activities. He also has ...

Thanks to a new nonprofit — the Electrochemistry Foundry (ECF) — and construction begun under its auspices, UC Santa Barbara is poised to join a group of collaborating partners in a new era of battery ...