ESPM's Professors Ron Amundson and John Battles and alum Erik Oerter and ERG's Professor Margaret Torn and student Ian Bolliger were featured in the Berkeley Science Review on UC Berkeley climate change research.
KQED | May 03, 2016
ESPM graduate student Brian Whyte is quoted in this KQED Deep Look feature on Argentine ants and the resilience of native ant species in Jasper Ridge. Whyte also assisted with the filming and research of the ants in the video.
The Scientist | May 01, 2016
A spate of howler monkey deaths in Nicaragua, Panama, and Ecuador has researchers scrambling to identify the cause. ESPM Professor Katharin Milton says that there haven’t been reports of unusual deaths in other monkey species so far, but because howler monkeys are by far the most abundant monkey species at many sites in Central America, die-offs in their populations might be most obvious.
UC Berkeley News | April 26, 2016
ESPM undergrad Avery Hardy is part of the UC Berkeley "Unbound" team, which took 2nd place in the EPA's Campus Rainworks Challenge. Their project envisioned a new design for the Wickson Meadow area of Strawberry Creek.
TIME Magazine | April 21, 2016
Alum Hope Jahren ('Ph.D. '96) is on Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People list. Listed as one of 21 Pioneers, Jahren is noted as a scientist who is "both a leader in her field and a great writer," who uses her platform to talk about widespread sexual harassment and discrimination in science.
Eat This Podcast | April 18, 2016
ARE grad student Andrew Stevens and alum Sergio Núñez De Arco (B.S. '95) are featured on Eat This podcast on quinoa, the trendy Andean superfood. Stevens' research focuses on the effect of quinoa price increases on people of the Puno region of Peru. Núñez De Arco is the largest importer of quinoa into the US, and sees quinoa as a method of helping Bolivian farmers out of poverty
Oakland North (Graduate School of Journalism) | April 13, 2016
ERG grad student Ian Bolliger is featured in this Oakland North article on tiny houses. Bolliger's project Tiny House in my Backyard (THIMBY) is a showcase of efficient low-cost design, with a footprint about the size of two parking spaces. The article discusses where tiny houses such as the THIMBY project currently fit into CA's housing codes.