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![Maps and cityscapes on a grid.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/SM_GIS_layers-NSF-cropped.jpg?itok=air5fttc)
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Alice Kitterman/U.S. National Science Foundation
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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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![Two pianists play facing each other on a darkened stage](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/Titanium-hero-opt.jpg?itok=y1qEznuI)
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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 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.
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![Two actors in 1920s attire sitting on a couch, laughing, in a black and white image](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/hay-fever-hero-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=7xygpX_M)
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Jeff Liang
“Hay Fever” will run from Nov. 14-19 in the Performing Arts Theater on campus.
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![Walter Capps speaking from a podium](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/Capps-campaigning-1996-uc-santa-barbara_0.jpg?itok=2YrsiINw)
Walter Capps on the campaign trail, 1996