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![Theo world map fading into blue water.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-06/Ocean-globe-iStock.jpg?itok=ErLcHv47)
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Philip Hoeppli via iStock
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![Icebergs float of Greenland in the arctic sea.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-05/Icebergs-iStock_0.jpg?itok=fTtG4ws0)
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Explora_2005 via iStock
Legions of icebergs brought the Atlantic circulation to its knees during the last glacial period.
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![A river meanders through forests and fields in Columbia.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/Columbian-river-iStock.jpg?itok=Wh9xfAKO)
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EGT via iStock
Meandering rivers create a dynamic landscape, depositing sand bars and eroding steep banks as they undulate across their floodplains.
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![a photo cradle attached to the rail of steps leading to beach](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/CoastSnap-header-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=POrTjSY2)
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Sonia Fernandez
The CoastSnap cradle on the steps to East Campus Beach
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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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![The cover of “Mighty Bad Land” with Mount Luyendyk in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/mighty-bad-land-cover-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=Lh2U8OZT)
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Bruce Luyendyk
Peak 1070 — near one of the team’s field camps — was renamed Mount Luyendyk in honor of the author’s contribution to our knowledge of Antarctica.
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![dune plant and dune fence](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/beach-bur-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=ft81tuYR)
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Karina Johnston
Beach bur, a native plant that helped to form dunes on a section of Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles
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![walking on shore on left glitching on right](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/climate-science-ucsb.jpg?itok=EBJ4nbGp)
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Amelie Funk
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![an orange garibaldi with a scientific diver in the background](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/garibaldi-and-diver-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=QuFsTbh6)
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Chris Honeyman
A research diver conducts periodic monitoring of a kelp forest marine protected area