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April 7, 2021 at 10:30 pm by Sean Crommelin During the historic California drought from 2012 to 2015, warm temperatures and piddling precipitation took the state for a whirl unlike any other. In the 2015 wet season, the Sierra Nevada snowpack reached its lowest peak in half a millennium, while reservoirs left boats grounded and farmers with little water to tend their crops and livestock.  The canopy of a valley oak tree (Quercus lobata). Courtesy of Leander Anderegg Governor Jerry Brown’s yearslong Emergency Drought Declaration instituted increased water efficiency standard...

March 3, 2021 at 9:00 am by Sean Crommelin On Wednesday, Feb. 24, the Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality and Democracy at UC Santa Barbara hosted a public forum, “The Green New Deal in Action,” to discuss the relevance of the mammoth policy initiative to residents of the Santa Barbara area and other communities in the Central Coast. A booth hosted by Sunrise Movement during the pre-pandemic Dec. 6, 2019 climate strike. Sophia Lovell / Daily Nexus Over 130 people attended the public forum, including UCSB students, I.V. residents and others in the broader Goleta area. Champ...

February 28, 2021 at 8:55 pm by Sean Crommelin Increasingly, disciplines like physics have found a home in research into biology — particularly research looking at the functioning of biological systems within and between cells. A row of yeast cells with glowing-green polarization caps. Courtesy of Carlos Gomez Researchers working at UC Santa Barbara, including Samhita Banavar, a former graduate student in the department of physics who is now at Stanford University, Otger Campàs, with the California NanoSystems Institute, Michael Trogdon and Linda R. Petzold in the departmen...

February 25, 2021 at 8:00 am by Sean Crommelin Over the past two decades, American universities have become more racially diverse. From 1996 to 2016, the percentage of undergraduate students of color in the United States increased from 29.6% to 45.2%, according to a report by the American Council on Education. Currently, Tettegah and her collaborators have been gathering data from students as part of a broader self-assessment of UCSB’s current climate and practices.  Emily Liu / Daily Nexus Despite these gains, however, S.T.E.M. fields remain skewed, with Black and Hispanic ...

February 17, 2021 at 1:00 am by Sean Crommelin Save the San Marcos Foothills, an organization led by Channel Islands Restoration and established to protect undeveloped property next to the San Marcos Foothills Preserve, carried out a demonstration on Monday, January 8th to announce a series of legal actions to the public. Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, a Barbareño Chumash Elder, spoke alongside members of Channel Island Restoration and Save the San Marcos Foothills. Sean Crommelin / Daily Nexus The San Marcos Foothills Preserve is a protected area encompassing 200 acres of oak savan...