IoES in the News
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Paul Barber and Zack Gold in UCLA Newsroom: New environmental DNA program makes conservation research faster, more efficient
A team of UCLA researchers recently launched the Anacapa Toolkit — open-source software that makes eDNA research easier, allowing researchers to detect a broad range of species quickly and producing sortable results that are…
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Robert Wayne in UCLA Newsroom: Sea otters have low genetic diversity like endangered species, biologists report
UCLA professor Robert Wayne was on a team of life scientists to discover sea otters have low genetic diversity, which could endanger their health as a species. “Sea otters may…
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Daniel Swain in the Guardian: California’s wildfire season is starting and officials are bracing for the worst
It is difficult to predict how bad the rest of this fire season will be based on the number of fires so far, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at…
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Congo Basin Institute and Tom Smith in National Geographic: Cameroon’s embattled ebony trees get a lifeline—from guitar maker
Bob Taylor met Tom Smith, director of UCLA’s Congo Basin Institute, who had worked in Cameroon for decades and knew as much about its forest ecology as Taylor knew about…
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Daniel Swain in CurbedLA: 90 degree temps in the LA forecast through Tuesday
The Bay Area, however, might see record heat, according to UCLA climate scientologist Daniel Swain. On Twitter, he says Southern California “should still be quite warm to hot—just not as…
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Stephanie Pincetl in L.A. Times: Here’s how city dwellers can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming
That can be a challenge, since many people want to keep up with ever-changing trends, said Stephanie Pincetl, director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA, who was…
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J.R. DeShazo in Parentology: How Cuts to EPA Funding Could Impact Children
“EPA’s latest cuts to children’s health research are part of a pattern that could diminish the importance of science in decisions that affect the well-being of American families,” J.R. DeShazo,…
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Alan Barreca in Arizona PBS: Could climate change and lower birth rates be linked? UCLA researcher says yes
UCLA professor Alan Barreca, who teaches sustainability and has a background in economics, studied 80 years of U.S. birth data and concluded that if the Earth continues to warm as…
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Daniel Swain on The Weather Channel: Where Will All the Water Go?
Daniel Swain (University of California, Los Angeles, and NCAR) has been studying the weather whiplash plaguing California in recent years, as the state lurches between wet years (including 2018-19) and…
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Gregory Okin in Washington Post: Want your pet to go vegetarian? There are complications — even dangers — to that
Gregory Okin, a geography professor at University of California at Los Angeles, calculated that if American dogs and cats formed their own country, it would rank fifth in the world…
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Daniel Swain in KQED: Bay Area Logs Especially Wet May
“The weather pattern literally looked like something straight out of January, but it’s May,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA. “This regression back towards winter like conditions is…
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Daniel Swain in KQED: PG&E Wants to Make a Massive Investment in Weather Stations
The winds near Paradise were blowing hard and fast, propelling the fire forward, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. However just a few miles away in the Sacramento…
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UCLA Law Professor Gives Talk on Green New Deal and Clean Air Act
UCLA Law School professor Ann Carlson discussed what proponents of the Green New Deal could learn from the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1970 at the Law School…
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Peter Kareiva in the Daily Bruin: Study says aquaculture may be viable source of food, if done in the right areas
In a yearlong study, UCLA researchers found ocean farming could alleviate a large portion of global hunger, promote biological diversity and minimize the impact of carbon emissions from land farming.
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Monica Smith US News and World Report: What We Can Learn From Ancient Cities
In her new book, “Cities: The First 6,000 Years,” University of California—Los Angeles-based anthropologist Monica Smith plums the history of urban settlements, puncturing some myths along the way. While we’re…
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J.R. DeShazo in SF Gate: California utilities’ planned blackouts prompt residents to adopt solar power
The cost of solar and energy storage has dropped in the past decade, making it an attractive option to some. But JR DeShazo, a professor of public policy at the…
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Jon Christensen in India Currents: Shifting the Sources of Drinking Water in California
Even at a time when the California snowpack is 161% of the historical average for April, water experts are concerned about water optimization, usage, storage and conservation. “We’re evolved into…
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Peter Kareiva to join panel at Aquarium of the Pacific
There’s been a growing excitement around the opening of Pacific Visions, the Aquarium of the Pacific’s first major expansion, which will be officially unveiled on Memorial Day weekend. This Thursday,…
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Daniel Swain on KCRW: LA sees weird weather this May
It was Bike to Work Day in LA, but the weather gods had other ideas. A storm came through this morning, which is pretty unusual for Southern California in the…
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Daniel Swain in New York Times: Atmospheric Rivers Are Back. That’s Not a Bad Thing.
Remember atmospheric rivers? Earlier this year, they hit California’s collective consciousness in a big way, as the state reeled from the catastrophic flooding, mudslides and pounding rain they brought with…
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Luciana Alves in Nature: Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses
Luciana Alves co-authored (through the GFBI consortium) a paper led by Brian Steidinger (Stanford) that hit Nature’s front cover. They present a global map of the symbiotic status of the world’s…
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Dan Blumstein in Science: Fear the cats! Bold project teaches endangered Australian animals to avoid deadly predator
For nearly 5 years, Katherine Moseby, Michael Letnic at UNSW and Daniel Blumstein at the University of California, Los Angeles, have been placing bilbies and another threatened species into large fenced…
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Tom Smith & Congo Basin Institute in Forbes: Sustainable Guitars – Giving Back To The Trees And Communities That Helped Create Music
Tom Smith, professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has research interests in evolutionary biology and conservation. Smith has worked in Cameroon for more than 30 years seeking win-wins…
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Monica Smith on WNYC
Monica L. Smith, professor of anthropology at UCLA, talks about her book, Cities: The First 6,000 Years.
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New study evaluates potential for ocean farming
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have just published one of the first comprehensive global evaluations of the potential for sustainable aquaculture under current governance, policy and…
