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Yann Ricard is the recipient of the Staff Citation of Excellence Award, an honor given to only 10 staff members on campus! 

PhD student Chris Everett was a winner of the UCSB Graduate Student Association 2020-2021 Excellence in Teaching Award.

A discovery by Professor David Valentine and his research team picked up interest this week 

Dave Valentine has been featured on CBS Saturday Morning National 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