News

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.”