Tim's microplastic project is featured on Coastal Fund's October Project Spotlight session. He used sediment core samples to quantify microplastic pollution from the Santa Barbara Basin. Here is a great article that shares more details about his project!

"Seawater composition in the open ocean is well-studied, yet this research finds larger variability than expected, which questions many other results based on the assumption of constant seawater composition."

Check out this article that introducing Professor Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez and her colleagues' research on seawater composition! https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/020006/revisiting-ratios

Journal Article: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/36/22281

Here is a news on the UCSB current about Debora's new book “The Future of Marine Life in a Changing Ocean: The Fate of Marine Organisms and Processes under Climate Change and other Types of Human Perturbation” (World Scientific, 2019) and her interview about the book, please check it out!

https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019735/fate-ocean

Here is a link to Debora's new interview with FARO DE VIGO in Spain, please check this out!

https://www.farodevigo.es/gran-vigo/2019/09/30/viguesa-quiere-salvar-oceano/2178651.html

Here is a report about Debora's research on coccolithophores (Emiliania huxleyi) and OA in the Ocean Acidification Report March 2018! Please check out this link if you are interested: http://globaloceanhealth.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/d/B794F3A5368EF9F32540EF23F30FEDED#DEB

RECRUITMENT PERIOD

Open date: December 1st, 2016

Final date: January 31st, 2017
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

The water in the Monterey Bay  has been a turquoise color in the past few days because of the presence of coccolithophores. Read the Monterey Herald article below for details!