DECEMBER 2023

This month we are highlighting December news as well as celebrating the research stories from 2023 that generated the most interest. We are grateful to each of you for being part of the UCSC science community, and we wish you well in the new year.

DECEMBER NEWS

The edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet, where recent melting has left bare ground. (Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute)

UCSC NEWSCENTER

A new 66 million-year history of carbon dioxide offers little comfort for today

UCSC Newscenter | 2023 list of most highly cited researchers includes 18 UC Santa Cruz scientists and engineers

UCSC Newscenter | New eDNA Explorer provides a powerful new resource for conservation

NY Times | Where will the whales be? Ask the climate model

Newsweek | Astronomers detect extremely powerful cosmic ray of mysterious origin

PV Magazine | Photovoltaics for marine wildlife telemetry devices

Eos | Beavers have engineered ecosystems in the Tetons for millennia

TOP 10 STORIES OF THE YEAR

This artist’s impression (not to scale) illustrates the path of the fast radio burst FRB 20220610A, from the distant galaxy where it originated all the way to Earth, in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms. The source galaxy of FRB 20220610A, pinned down thanks to ESO’s Very Large Telescope, appears to be located within a small group of interacting galaxies. It’s so far away its light took eight billion years to reach us, making FRB 20220610A the most distant fast radio burst found to date. (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser)

UCSC NEWSCENTER

Record-breaking fast radio burst is most distant ever detected

The population of California sea lions has increased dramatically since the Marine Mammal Protection Act was passed in 1972. (Photo by Daniel Costa)

UCSC NEWSCENTER

As the California sea lion population got bigger, so did male sea lions

UCSC Newscenter | Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals

UCSC Newscenter | Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda

UCSC Newscenter | Study reveals influence of krill availability on humpback whale pregnancies

UCSC Newscenter | Elephant seals drift off to sleep while diving far below the ocean surface

UCSC Newscenter | Astronomers observe the first radiation belt seen outside of our solar system

UCSC Newscenter | Shrinking age distribution of spawning salmon raises climate resilience concerns

LA Times | The most famous extinction event in the planet’s history is happening again—in Santa Cruz

UCSC Newscenter | One of the planet’s most important carbon sinks is revealing its secrets

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