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Tycho Saariste
Helena Arahuete, Interior of the Roscoe house ("House above the Morning Clouds"), 2009
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![Flames from the Thomas Fire reflect in the waves at night.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/Thomas-Fire-Faria-Beach-cropped-Noozhawk.jpg?itok=YGnOu1vN)
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Ray Ford / Noozhawk
Flames from the Thomas Fire reflect in the waves just west of Ventura. Its proximity to the ocean provided researchers a unique opportunity.
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Courtesy of NPS
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Cynthia De La Rosa
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![UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/francisco-lomeli-2-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=Rf7dXYzd)
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Paul Meyers
UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí at the International Latino Book Awards, October 2023
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Alice Kitterman/U.S. National Science Foundation
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Sonia Fernandez
Student Health Services' Pharmacy Director Randy Lina
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![The surface of Lake Superior from the back of a research vessel.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/Lake-Superior-cruise-small-Alex-Phillips.jpg?itok=UkfgTBz2)
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Alexandra Phillips
The sulfate poor waters of Lake Superior could provide insights on the biochemistry of Earth's early ocean.
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Courtesy photo
Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay have been playing together for about a decade.
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![A roadcut slices through the Great Unconformity.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/Great-unconformity-small-Adrian-Tasistro-Hart.jpg?itok=2Ujnlq98)
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Adrian Tasistro-Hart
Cambrian Sawatch sandstone from the Sauk Transgression caps 1 billion-year-old Pikes Peak granite (pink) marking the Great Unconformity in a roadcut in Manitou Springs, Colorado.
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A trawler off the coast of South Africa
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![A large pile of small blue plastic objects rises from a relief map of Manhattan](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/cumulative-plastic-waste-adjusted-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=jKRy1dij)
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Courtesy Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory
This image of a blue plastic pile represents the cumulative amount of plastic waste that would be generated between 2010 and 2050 — enough to cover the entire island of Manhattan, and ten times the height of the Empire State Building — under a business-as-usual scenario where no aggressive policy actions are taken.