by Becky Bach | May 19, 2014 | Posts
In a dire drought like this one, most people aren’t worried about the connection between groundwater pumping and seismicity. Yet in addition to the slew of other ensuing problems, over pumping the Central Valley’s groundwater basic might lead to more earthquakes,...
by Becky Bach | Apr 30, 2014 | Posts
Just before sunrise, Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan spotted a strange glow circling the horizon of the moon. He was expected to see some light from the sun, rays from the outer corona just as in sunrises on earth, but the shape and behavior of the glow—a...
by Becky Bach | Mar 12, 2014 | Posts
Several dozen United States senators started the week without sleep—an all-nighter to draw the nation’s attention to climate change policy. They’re aiming for a bill to minimize its damage. Planning preventative policies is great, a handful of experts said at Climate...
by Becky Bach | Feb 19, 2014 | Posts
As pressure mounts to extract minerals from the deep sea, a growing group of scientists is calling attention to the gap between mining momentum and scientific know-how. Dozens of mining projects have been proposed, but the regulatory and scientific framework to...
by Becky Bach | Dec 7, 2013 | Posts
Following the recent sexual harassment scandal at Scientific American, heated ethical debates dominated the science journalism digisphere. We —the ten budding writers in the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program class of 2014, led by our instructor, Nature...
by Becky Bach | Nov 4, 2013 | Posts
A beach-baked couple beat me into Togo’s a few weeks ago. The sandwich maker, a 20-something fellow who was gloomily plopping mayonnaise onto bread, muttered hello. “We’re great. We’re in Santa Cruz,” the man chirped. “But I’m not doing as well as you are, I’m...
