Nov 1, 2009 The notorious "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya in 1898 likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates....
Oct 21, 2009 UCSC researchers will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study hidden processes that govern the dynamics of the West Antarctic ice sheet....
Oct 15, 2009 Popular Science names Nathaniel J. Dominy one of this year's "Brilliant 10" young scientists and researchers....
Oct 2, 2009 The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was a wakeup call to the Central Coast and San Francisco Bay Area, which had gone decades without a major earthquake....
Aug 24, 2009 Sunset magazine and the California Coastal Commission have named Gary Griggs and Julie Packard among their 2009 California Coastal Heroes....
Jul 15, 2009 Marcia McNutt, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UCSC, will be nominated as director of the U.S. Geological Survey....
Jul 7, 2009 Preparations are under way for an international marine research expedition to investigate the role of the Bering Sea in climate change....
May 29, 2009 UCSC undergraduate Dominic Papia has been selected for a prestigious summer internship at one of Japan's premier research centers....
Apr 21, 2009 B.S., Earth sciences ...
Feb 16, 2009 After installing a network of monitoring stations in Costa Rica, researchers have detected slow slip events ("silent earthquakes") along a major fault zone beneath the Nicoya Peninsula....
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