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Courtesy of NPS
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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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![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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![woman walking at labyrinth](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/sporty-labyrinth-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=s3zNVJMg)
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Elena Zhukova
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![The head of a California red-legged frog peers out from lily pads](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/california-red-tailed-frog-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=PApF2X3g)
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Gary M. Fellers/USGS
California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) surfaces in a pond in Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif.
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![fishers just off a Pacific island shore](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/Abaiang-2019-fisheries-eurich-uc-santa-barbara-small.jpg?itok=L99hz-XQ)
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Jacob Eurich
Fishers coming home on a paddle canoe after fishing on the fore reefs of Abaiang, Kiribati
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![Bolivian tribe receiving health education regarding COVID-19](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/COVID-health-education-gurven-uc-santa-barbara-small.jpg?itok=2HMq_XRn)
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Michael Gurven
A health educator conveys information about COVID-19 transmission to members of Bolivia's Tsimané population
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Michael Gurven
The Tsimane Health and Life History Project mobile field team, consisting of UCSB anthropologist Michael Gurven, center bottom, and including UCSB undergraduate researcher Tianyu Cao (far right), is composed of several Tsimane anthropologists, a Tsimane health promoter, as well as a Bolivian physician and biochemist.
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Courtesy Image
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Damian Kao Alvina G Lai Evangelia Stamataki Silvana Rosic Nikolaos Konstantinides Erin Jarvis Alessia Di Donfrancesco Natalia Pouchkina-Stancheva Marie Sémon Marco Grillo Heather Bruce Suyash Kumar Igor Siwanowicz Andy Le Andrew Lemire Michael B Eisen Cas
The genome of the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis, a model for animal development, regeneration, immunity and lignocellulose digestion. VijayRaghavan K, ed. eLife. 2016;5:e20062. doi:10.7554/eLife.20062.