Lab Manager
“It’s only through studies like this that focus on how animals perceive and react to the stimuli in their environment—which can either attract them or repel them—that we’ll gain the…
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Featured: Eric Abelson
ScienceDaily
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Boise State Public Radio
One student's experience documenting light pollution in Idaho's Dark Sky Reserve.
The California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) is a unique, critically important step forward in the use of comprehensive landscape genetic data to modernize natural resource management at a regional scale. This dedicated issue of the JOH contains 17 CCGP papers, including the Editor's Choice lead article by La Kretz Center Director Brad Shaffer and the CCGP Executive Committee describing the project inception, goals, and deliverables.
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
Featured: Erin Toffelmier and Mark Gold
The article authored by La Kretz postdoc Zac MacDonald concludes that ecologically mediated selection is contributing to variation within forest tent caterpillars (M. disstria), and that divergent adaptation related to both environmental conditions and host association should be considered in ongoing research and management of this important forest pest.
Featured: Zachary MacDonald
Fast Company
“When you’re talking about a 10-year lifespan on a bike, you strive to design parts that will last just as long,” says Antoine Kunsch, sustainability program manager at Lyft. “Taking…
Featured: Antoine Kunsch
The Verge
For Lyft, the deal is about ensuring that its huge, nationwide fleet of electric bikes and scooters aren’t ending up in a landfill at the end of their lifespan — which…
Featured: Antoine Kunsch
Folha de S.Paulo
Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greets Chadian environmentalist and SDG advocate, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaks, during the COP27 climate conference in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm…
Featured 2019 Pritzker Award Winner: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Los Angeles Times
Featured Faculty: Gregory Pierce
UCLA Newsroom
Featured Faculty: Richard Jackson
LAist
UCLA engineering professor Rajit Gadh said the million electric vehicles in California today alone could be their own massive battery in conjunction with large-scale renewable energy run by utilities.
Featured Faculty: Rajit Gadh
Berkeley Lab News Center
“India has embarked on very ambitious electrification policies prior to this,” said Deepak Rajagopal, an author of the report and a faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab and UCLA. “We find…
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
MoneyGeek
Considering the federal incentives for solar technology in the recent Inflation Reduction Act, why have some states not added additional state-level incentives to make solar panel usage even more enticing?
Featured Faculty: Deepak Rajagopal
La Kretz Center Director Brad Shaffer has been chosen to join the External Expert Advisory Board (EEAB) of the Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) Project (https://biodiversitygenomics.eu). BGE is a multi-partner international…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
KQED
Marin County residents are wrestling with officials they don’t trust for agency over climate plans and flood protections. “The problem is we built our infrastructure assuming these events were very…
Featured: Daniel Swain
Brad Shaffer, La Kretz Center director, was the keynote speaker for the conservation section of the 4th Genomes of Animals & Plants Virtual Conference (GAP22.2), hosted by Cantana Bio (formerly…
Featured Faculty: H. Bradley Shaffer
UCLA Newsroom
Low-income homes in California are more likely to have their power disconnected about two to three months after days when the temperature exceeds 95 degrees Fahrenheit than they are at…
Featured Faculty: Alan Barreca
Scientific American
“The old aphorism that ‘when it rains, it pours’ is literally true in this context. It actually encapsulates a lot of the complexity that’s here,” Swain says. This is something…
Los Angeles Times
In a paper published in the journal Current Biology, UCLA researchers found that the 2018 Woolsey fire had greatly increased the odds of a mountain lion being struck fatally by a motorist or killed by a fellow panther in a territorial dispute.
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Featured: Rachel Blakey and Seth Riley
New Scientist
In the 15 months after the Woolsey fire in Los Angeles, mountain lions were more likely to cross busy roads, travel further and move around during the day, putting the already vulnerable group of cats at increased risk
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Featured: Rachel Blakey and Seth Riley
Smithsonian Magazine
With less suitable habitat, the big cats traveled further and crossed dangerous roads more often
Featured Faculty: Daniel Blumstein
Featured: Rachel Blakey and Seth Riley