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A box of mounted and labeled iridescent bees.
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Gayle Laird ©2021 California Academy of Sciences
Museum collections hold a wealth of data just waiting to be brought into the digital age.

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An aerial shot of a pumping plant for the California Aqueduct. The channel continues through pipes into the background toward parched hills.
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halbergman via iStock
While reducing demand is important, most successful cases of groundwater recovery also involve moving huge amounts of water to meet demand.

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white man with beard at sunset at beach with sunlight peering from behind his shoulder
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Matt Perko
Daniel Masterson, UC Santa Barbara

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close up of photonics chip
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Jeff Liang

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UCSB Chancellor Dennis Assanis pictured with nonprofit CEO Melissa James
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Jeff Liang
UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Dennis Assanis in discussion with REACH President and CEO Melissa James

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child at table with big colored crayons drawing on white paper
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Stephen Andrews, Unsplash

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two researchers in blue, one holding a crab
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Matt Perko
Sophia Lecuona Manos, right, is one of several student researchers who discovered a new crab egg predator in the lab of UCSB parasitologist Armand Kuris, left, holding a yellow rock crab.

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A cyclists speeds down a bike path.
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Matt Perko
Integrating infrastructure for pedestrians, bicycles and motor vehicles makes for a healthier, more vibrant community.

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group shot of UCSB's Surfrider Battalion team
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Kailyn Heck
Surfrider Battalion team at Fort Hunter Liggett, pictured clockwise from top left: Madison Mohun, Yevgeny Beams, Darius James Khatami, Caz Arroyo, Zachary Trebotich, Jonathan Saenz, Fionn Bailey, Winston Bergseid, Jake Bermillo, Nicolas Gandolfo, Katelyn Hamel and Mia Lee

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A visualization of a magnetar with tilted accretion disk and energetic polar jets.
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Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully of LCO
A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova.

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Tiffany Chung in front of her map artwork at the UCSB AD&A museum
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Matt Perko
Tiffany Chung with her hand-embroidered maps in “Tiffany Chung: indelible traces” at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

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An anemometer against clouds and sky.
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Pixfly via iStock
3D printed instrumentation means that national meteorological services in Africa can take full ownership of their networks, building, repairing and sustaining them independently.

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red and purple blotches like blurry watercolor strokes like floating in yellowish gell with pick splotches and red strokes
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National Cancer Institute
Acute Myelocytic Leukaemia

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four dancers with flowy yellow skirts
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Stephen Sherrill
"We Were Light" by Annalise Evans, UCSB Dance Company

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professors Tobias Fischer and Ben Halpern discuss AI in their research during a library speaker series
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Johannes Steffens
Earth science professor Tobias Fischer (left) and Bren School professor Ben Halpern at UCSB Library's "AI in Action" spreaker series

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Two padlocks appear floating in space linked by a colorful infinity symbol
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Brian Long
A new project aims to understand theoretical aspects of quantum cryptography that could be used to protect computing in the future.