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By Melinda Burns
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Friday, July 06 2007 |
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That recent heat wave was a nice surprise, but forecasters say the familiar morning fog will return this weekend and likely stick around for weeks to come. July is historically the foggiest month of the year here, with more than five hours of fog daily, on average. So let’s roll out those “lazy, hazy, crazy days” of Bummer Summer, when the offshore fog bank does not “creep in on little cat feet” but squats sullenly on the city until well after noon. “July really is the gloomiest month of the year in Santa Barbara,” said Park Williams, a Ph.D student in geography at UCSB who studies local fog patterns. |
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By Anna Davison
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Tuesday, June 05 2007 |
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Nanoscience research at UCSB has been given a multimillion-dollar boost by a UCSB professor turned businessman who helped transform the field, and by his former wife.
Virgil Elings and Betty Elings Wells have contributed $12.5 million to the California NanoSystems Institute. The new building that houses the institute will be named Elings Hall, campus officials announced Monday.
“It really gives us the funds for visionary new projects in both research and education,” said the institute’s scientific director Evelyn Hu.
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By Melinda Burns
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Monday, June 04 2007 |
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Straining the limits of the imagination, a team of 26 scientists, including several researchers from UCSB, has theorized that a comet exploded over Canada 12,900 years ago with the force of millions of atomic bombs, igniting continental wildfires, destroying the culture of a prehistoric people and wiping out the big mammals that roamed the land, from woolly mammoths to sabertooth cats.
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By Melinda Burns
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Sunday, May 13 2007 |
The first-ever “BioBlitz” on the West Coast, a 24-hour ecological survey in the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, ended Saturday afternoon with the announcement that 807 species had been identified, from microscopic algae to spiders to the elusive coyote. |
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By Anna Davison
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Friday, April 20 2007 |
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Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert came to Santa Barbara Thursday to talk about tracking down evidence of climate change. If we want to see how the planet will react to the greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere right now, she says, we’ll have to wait a while – and by then it could be too late. |
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