News Archive 2016-2017

Fortune Op-Ed by Nicholas Pinter: "Trump Killed Obama's Flood Protection Rule Two Weeks Ago". From NPR: "Early Data From Harvey Shows Epic Flooding".
Kari Cooper was a guest on Science Friday (August 18th). "For A Volcanic Prediction, Gaze Into The Crystalline Debris"
From Quanta Magazine: "What Made the Moon? New Ideas Try to Rescue a Troubled Theory". Simon Lock and Sarah Stewart's synestia model is one of the new theories for how the moon came to be.
From the California Aggie: "Magma reservoirs more similar to snow cone than vat of boiling lava". Kari Cooper is researching what happens underneath a volcano through indirect examinations.
From the Atlantic Online: "Why Are There so Many More Species on Land When the Sea Is Bigger?" - Geerat Vermeij has written about the land-sea species discrepancy with his collaborator Rick Grosberg.
From Science: "Rapid cooling and cold storage in a silicic magma reservoir recorded in individual crystals." Kari Cooper and grad student Allie Rubin's research is helping volcanologists gain a new understanding of what is going on inside the magma reservoir that lies below an active volcano.
From wareable.com: "The best - and weirdest - things we saw at Augmented World Expo 2017"- the Augmented Reality Sandbox, created by researchers at UC Davis, is featured.
From UC Davis: "Tiny Shells Indicate Big Changes to Global Carbon Cycle" - Future Conditions Not Only Stress Marine Creatures but Also May Throw off Ocean Carbon Balance. Lead author on the study is former Earth and Planetary Sciences grad student Catherine Davis. Tessa Hill and Ann Russell are co-authors.
From UC Davis: "Synestia, a New Type of Planetary Object" - Sarah Stewart and visiting Harvard graduate student Simon Lock propose a new type of planetary object. Listen to the podcast
From the egghead blog: "Refining the Ocean's Thermometer" - Chronicling Earth's past temperature swings is a basic part of understanding climate change. One of the best records of past ocean temperatures can be found in the shells of marine creatures called foraminifera.
UC Davis Capitol Speaker Series: "California, Flood Risk, and the National Flood Insurance Program: Examining the question: Could a state flood insurance program be right for California?" by Nicholas Pinter
From Salon: "The overlooked risk of levees as rainfall rises" - Nicholas Pinter discusses levees.
Tessa Hill is the Keynote Speaker at the Women of MPS event on May 10. The focus of this event is to encourage interest and success in the mathematical and physical science fields and strengthen our campus community.
From the UC Davis Blog: What Can I Do with My Major? A Word From Two Marine and Coastal Science Majors
"How 'Incompetent Rock' Led to the Oroville Dam Crisis" - from KQED. Eldridge Moores spent a couple of days with KQED in the Yuba River region looking at the geology.
"How giant marine reptiles terrorized the ancient seas" from Nature Online. Ryosuke Motani discusses recent research on the "beautiful, and beautifully adapted" ichthyosaurs.
Learn more about our UC Davis 2017 Grad Slam top ten finalist Geology Graduate students: Carina Fish and Michael Huh. The Final Round will be held on April 14th at 1:00 pm in the Manetti Shrem Museum.
From KQED Radio: "Over 100,000 Evacuated From Oroville Dam Emergency" - Professor emeritus Jeffrey Mount is one of the featured guests. They discuss the state of the dam, the ongoing impacts on surrounding communities and the condition of the California's water infrastructure. From PBS NewsHour: "Precarious Oroville Dam highlights challenges of California water management"
"KeckCAVES Virtual Reality Software Now for Gaming Headsets" - from UC Davis News. Virtual reality software used by scientists at the University of California, Davis, to study everything from earthquakes to molecular biology in a 3-D "caveâ can now run on some off-the-shelf gaming VR headsets.
"Trump's Pledge to 'Open Up the Water' for Valley Farms: Easier Said Than Done" - from KQED Science. Jeff Mount, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and Professor Emeritus, discusses California's water issues.
2/1/2017 update - "Drilling into heart of Iceland volcano complete"
"Deep in the Heart of Iceland, There's a New Way to Tap the Earth's Energy" from Smithsonian Online. Robert Zierenberg is a principal investigator on the Iceland Deep Drilling Project.
Sarah Stewart will be a guest on this week's edition of Science Friday, 11/11/2016. She will be discussing the formation of the Moon. Listen in from 2-4 EST (11-1 PST).
"New Theory Explains How the Moon Got There" - from UC Davis News. Sarah Stewart is senior author on the paper. Read the Nature paper: "Tidal evolution of the Moon from a high-obliquity, high-angular-momentum Earth". From the NY Times: "If a 'Big Whack' Made the Moon, Did it Also Knock the Earth on Its Side?"
"Atom-by-Atom Growth Chart For Shells Helps Decode Past Climate" - from the Egghead blog. "We've gotten the first glimpse of the biological event horizon," said Howard Spero, a study co-author and UC Davis geochemistry professor.
"What the Ancient CO2 Record May Mean for Future Climate Change" from UC Davis News. "Climate change not only impacts plants but that plants' responses to climate can in turn impact climate change itself, making for amplified and in many cases unpredictable outcomes," said lead author Isabel Montañez.
From Science Friday: "For Oysters, Challenges and Hope in the Changing Ocean". Ira Flatow and Tessa Hill experiment with ocean acidification on stage at the Mondavi Center, UC Davis, California
Science Friday- September 24, 2016 at 8:00pm. Host Ira Flatow and crew will be in Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, talking with UC Davis scientists and recording the discussion, which will then be edited into a Science Friday episode. Tessa Hill, associate professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Bodega Marine Laboratory and Oliver Kreylos, associate researcher, Department of Earth and Planetary Science are amongst his guests.
From EOS: "Augmented Reality Turns a Sandbox into a Geoscience Lesson" - The prototype of the AR Sandbox was developed at the Keck Center for Active Visualization in Earth Science (KeckCAVES) at UC Davis.
From NPR: "Outdated FEMA Flood Maps Don't Account For Climate Change" - with Nicholas Pinter.
"From Classroom to Canyon" Experience UC Davis Students' Journey of Science, Discovery and Education in the Grand Canyon Through Interactive Multimedia Project. http://grandcanyon.ucdavis.edu