Category: Department Updates
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Ocampo-Peñuela collaborates on and co-authors several bird conservation and birdwatching articles
Assistant Professor Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela has collaborated and mentored with several graduate students and postdocs, resulting in several publications, including: Ocampo-Peñuela was the lead author on a paper published in People and Nature that studied the global trends and drivers of birdwatching tourism, which also received coverage in the UC Santa Cruz newscenter. A related paper…
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Winton publishes two articles on peat deposits in South America
Assistant Professor Scott Winton published two articles on his findings of substantial peat deposits in the Colombian Amazon and Orinoco regions in Environmental Research Letters and in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. These works demonstrate that vulnerable ecological carbon stores exist in regions previously unrecognized as supporting peat soil formation. This research was also…
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Jinnah publishes on Solar Radiation Management, takes on chair role in department
Professor Sikina Jinnah published “Solar Radiation Management (SRM): A History of the Governance and Political Milestones” in Environmental Science and provides a chronological review of the governance history of SRM, from 2006 to 2024. Often characterized as an ungoverned space, the authors argue that the governance landscape for SRM is actually quite rich, though activity…