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artist rendition of asteroid hitting Earth's atmosphere

Researchers model airbursts, a common yet little-understood cosmic impact process

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UCSB, Community Environmental Council to hold Living with Fire Summit

Charting the course of rivers
Headshot of Herbert Kroemer
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Herbert Kroemer

Library acquires papers of Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer
SEM image of shocked quartz
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Shocked quartz grains, with fissures filled with meltglass

Shocked quartz reveals evidence of historical cosmic airburst
Theo world map fading into blue water.
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UC Santa Barbara leads $9 million research project on ocean cycles
Icebergs float of Greenland in the arctic sea.
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Legions of icebergs brought the Atlantic circulation to its knees during the last glacial period.

Historic iceberg surges offer insights on modern climate change
A river meanders through forests and fields in Columbia.
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Meandering rivers create a dynamic landscape, depositing sand bars and eroding steep banks as they undulate across their floodplains.

Managing meandering waterways in a changing world
a photo cradle attached to the rail of steps leading to beach
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Sonia Fernandez
The CoastSnap cradle on the steps to East Campus Beach

UC Santa Barbara researchers launch CoastSnap, citizen science initiative to monitor coastal changes
the sun sinks behind the horizon of the Black Sea

Anoxic marine basins are among the best candidates for deep-sea carbon sequestration
early evening stars over a desert landscape

Farmers and ranchers in the Southwestern U.S. face challenges due to human-induced atmospheric warming
A roadcut slices through the Great Unconformity.
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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.

Geologists link continental flooding to subduction, with consequences for geologic gaps and the rise of complex life
illustration of comets in Earth's night sky

A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant
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