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February 17, 2021 at 12:30 am by Sean Crommelin Jeff Dozier, distinguished professor emeritus and the founding dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, first sought to understand snow grains while at 20,000 feet in the Hindu Kush mountain range of Afghanistan.  A six meter deep snow pit located near Emerald Lake. Courtesy of Jeff Dozier. “My colleagues, two partners that I was with at the time while climbing, asked ‘Are we in avalanche danger?’ And we had no clue whether or not we were,” Dozier said. “I realized that there was just ...

February 5, 2021 at 11:30 am by Sean Crommelin “All work that is done in Antarctica is hard and difficult,” Bruce Luyendyk, a professor emeritus and oceanographer with the Earth Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara, told me over Zoom. Research icebreaker N.B. Palmer in the sea ice of McMurdo Sound. Mount Erebus is in the background. This ship was used in UCSB surveys of the Terror Rift in the Ross Sea by Luyendyk and his students. Courtesy of Bruce Luyendyk The temperature is miserably, sometimes even incomprehensibly, cold. The weather can be inclement and stormy. On m...

January 31, 2021 at 11:30 pm by Sean Crommelin In 2010, Raytheon, a major U.S. defense contractor, unveiled the XOS 2, a robotic exoskeleton which imbued wearers with the power to effortlessly lift hundreds of pounds. Designed to be used by the military, the development of XOS 2 drew significant media attention and was even dubbed by Time Magazine as one of the 50 best inventions of the year. Now, fast-forward 10 years later, and one observes interest coming from firms outside of the military as well. How is this relevant to workers themselves during the burgeoning age of blue-colla...

However, the strength of the relationship was not quite as strong as others have proven to be, such as social distancing policies.

January 30, 2021 at 11:45 pm by Sean Crommelin Yesterday, California Senator Monique Limón, U.S. Representative Salud Carbajal and California Assembly Member Steve Bennett hosted a town hall over Zoom regarding the status of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Santa Barbara County. Joined by them were Dr. Van Do-Reynoso, the Santa Barbara County Public Health director, and Barry L. Zimmerman, the Ventura Healthcare Agency chief deputy director, who spoke on the vaccines themselves and phases of distribution across both Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. A vial containing the Pfizer-...