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Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology

A forest smothered in vines.
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Jonathan Hammond via iStock
Kudzu got a foothold in North America in 1876 and has since gotten a stranglehold on the forests of the Southeast.

Vast botanical data help solve Darwin’s puzzle of why some exotic plants become pests

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a young lady with a yellow bandana sits at a table, smiling at the camera
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Schmidt Family Foundation renews multi-year funding of UCSB’s Environmental Solutions Fellows Program
a gray whale blows in in the San Francisco Bay
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The new technology will detect whales by sensing the heat of their blows with thermal imaging

New AI system uses cameras and thermal sensors to steer ships clear of gray whales in the San Francisco Bay
Whale fluke, with cargo ship in background
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Asha de Vos

Global workshop focuses on protecting whales from ship strikes
wildfire smoke rises behind a row of houses

Wildfire resilience has always been the goal. Now it's a number
giant kelp on a sandy beach

Kelp forests connected to sandy beach food webs
closeup of a black bird called a grackle

Grackle research reveals behavioral flexibility and adaptation in action
Headshots of Alice Alldredge, Lars Bildsten and Henry Yang overlaid on a photo an academic building
Left to right: Alice Alldredge, Lars Bildsten and Henry Yang have been elected as members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Three UCSB professors elected as members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
hands holding a tiny crab
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Matt Perko

Beyond the Classroom: The Research Experience and Education Facility (REEF)
underwater photo of a coral reef

Researchers uncover a ‘treasure trove’ of bioactive molecules in coral reefs
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UCSB professors honored by Ecological Society of America
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.

UCSB students discover new crab egg predator
illustration of swimming microbes on dark background
Microbes are responsible for much of carbon sequestration in the ocean

The mystery of the missing deep ocean carbon fixers
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