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Fall colors fade into the distance in the rolling terrain of the Ozark Mountains.
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Benjamin Klinger via iStock

For nature-based climate solutions to work, they must be restructured
a black bird on a patio chair
A great-tailed grackle on a patio chair

Both flexibility and persistence make some birds successful in human-made environments
The sun glistens through water droplets on blades of grass.
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Matt Perko

Grasses are spendthrifts, forests are budgeters, in a nuanced account of plant water use
Aerial image of a lagoon wetland.
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David Huang
San Dieguito Lagoon, one of Beheshti’s primary research sites.

Kat Beheshti earns early career distinction for contributions to coastal science and resource management
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UCSB to host UC application workshop for local high school students
open book with Persian writing and drawing
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Persian poet Saadi Shirazi's 13th-century hand-colored volume.

Rare Iranian treasures, from Qajar era to 1979 Revolution gifted to UCSB Library
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Professor Chris Van de Walle receives prestigious Welker Award
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Biochemist Yang Yang becomes UCSB’s first Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
A barracuda school off Bikar Atoll, Marshall Islands.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
Monitoring fishing activity far from shore presents a challenge for resource management and marine conservation.

Satellites show that strictly protected marine areas exclude industrial fishing
photographs of audio recording equipment and a rare bible creating a title page to introduce the article

Beyond the Classroom: A video tour of Special Research Collections
drone footage of river with water based plastic trash collectors
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Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory
A depiction of various river plastic collection technologies utilized for data collection

How plastic pollution flows from rivers to oceans — and how to stop it
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Summer research program provides pipeline to advanced degrees
white man in front of blackboard
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Matt Perko
Joseph Polchinski at UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, where he advanced pivotal ideas in string theory and quantum gravity.

Polchinski archive opens digital window into renowned physicist’s work
Rare earth element names with suffix “ium.”
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Matt Perko

A simple filter for rare earth elements will ensure a clean domestic supply of these crucial metals
Sara Poot Herrera a woman smiling
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Jeff Liang
UCSB Distinguished Professor Sara Poot Herrera

How to build global community through Mexican literature
Old, abandoned barn in a large field with white wildflowers and prairie grass.
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Richard McMillin via iStock
While global trends dominate environmental outcomes, decisions about recultivating or rewilding abandoned fields can influence habitat health.

Protecting nature may depend on where — not just how — we farm
dead tree on salt island in the Dead Sea

Dead Sea’s salt giants offer rare glimpse into Earth’s geological past
Headshot of Dennis Assanis overlaid on aerial view of campus
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Dr. Dennis Assanis

Dr. Dennis Assanis appointed as UC Santa Barbara’s next chancellor
woman working at a desktop computer with a sleeping baby on her chest
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To benefit from the internet, ‘not all screens are created equal’
book cover art of many Asian men coming out of a door down a rainbow
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Top Shelf Productions
Book cover art for “It Rhymes with Takei,” illustrated by Harmony Becker

Star Trek actor George Takei and coming out in 2005
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