2018 News

October 16, 2018

UC Santa Barbara researchers lead a collaboration to investigate the columbine genome.

July 19, 2018

UCSB researchers find that eyes originated in jellyfish at least eight separate times, helping to illuminate how evolution produces complex visual organs.

June 4, 2018

UCSB’s 2018 commencement activities to celebrate 6,784 graduates

May 31, 2018

Umi’s worked in the coastal oceans of Antarctica and in the kelp forests near Santa Barbara.

May 14, 2018

Community ecologist Keenan Stears finds that global change may alter the way that hippos shape the environment around them.

March 26, 2018

Biologists discover that female purple sea urchins prime their progeny to succeed in the face of stress.

March 26, 2018

Researchers estimate the vulnerability and extinction risk of migratory species from different regions and ecosystems worldwide.

March 1, 2018

Douglas McCauley is named an early career fellow of the Ecological Society of America.

February 28, 2018

UCSB biologists document the secondary extinction of a disease-carrying mosquito following rat eradication on Palmyra Atoll.

January 31, 2018

Through a Smith Fellowship, marine ecologist Kurt Ingeman is studying the recovery trajectories of predators and prey.