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![A scalloped hammerhead prowls a reef in the Galapagos Marine Reserve, Ecuador.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/Galapagos-Marine-Reserve-shark-%20Cori-Lopazanski.jpg?itok=iaf49CvW)
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Lopazanski et al.
The Galapagos Marine Reserve is one of many marine protected areas around the globe that safeguards biodiversity, cultural heritage and marine resources.
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![researchers working with Senegalese partners](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/David-Lopez-Carr-senegal-uc-santa-barbara-small.jpg?itok=BUIEM6ZZ)
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UCSB geographer David López-Carr, center left, and Stanford University health and environmental scientist Andrea Lund, center right, working with Senegalese partners
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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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![Diatoms under the microscope.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/Diatoms-istock.jpg?itok=xTPFrrmk)
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Elif Bayraktar via iStock
Diatoms are one of the largest groups of phytoplankton, which serve as a foundation of the ocean’s food web.
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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
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![A thinning forest on a hill.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/Tree-mortality-colorado-Lee-Anderegg1.jpg?itok=t0YQ5VY4)
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Lee Anderegg
A forest community changes as trembling aspen succumb to drought in southwestern Colorado.
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![Burning hillside at Sedgwick Preserve](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-06/burning-hillside-sedgwick.jpg?itok=gZ2acnfq)
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Matt Perko
A flame torched hillside at Sedgwick Reserve is the site of a prescribed burn.
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![People discuss matters of water policy over an aquifer.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-06/groundwater-stakeholders.jpg?itok=vpqhNd8k)
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iStock/ Matt Perko
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![oil and natural gas infrastructure in the Permian Basin](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-06/oil-gas-permian-basin-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=o_oh51YE)
Oil and gas extraction infrastructure in the Permian Basin