News

Prof. Matt Jackson in the Earth Science Dept is currently located in Iceland 

Dave Valentine has been named Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

Is there an active plate boundary between East and West Antarctica within the Ross Sea’s Terror Rift?

A team of UCSB and WHOI researchers recently discovered that “just two types of marine cyanobacteria are adding up to 500 times more hydrocarbons to the ocean per year than the sum of all other types of petroleum inputs to the ocean, including natural oil seeps, oil spills, fuel dumping and run-off from land.”

Morgan Raven's paper, Oceans Without Oxygen, was recently published in Science.

Joseph Acaba was chosen to be part of the Artemis Team of astronauts 

Kelly Tingle was one of three graduate students to win the Paleontological Society's Best Poster Award

Dave Valentine has been featured in an LA Times article 

Brad Hacker has been named the 2020 recipient of the Norman L. Bowen Award

Doctoral student Amy Moser won a 2020 Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award