News & Media

Revisiting Ratios; A multinational study overturns a 130-year old assumption about seawater chemistry

September 01, 2020

"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

Check out this article on graduate student, Tanika Ladd's, current research

February 28, 2020

Tanika presented this work in February at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego. Here is a great article that shares some of the main findings!

Could Wildfire Ash Feed the Ocean’s Tiniest Life-Forms?

New book: The Future of Marine Life in a Changing Ocean!

January 14, 2020

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

VIGO A DEBATE (Cambio Climático) on TV

October 09, 2019

Here is a link to a video of TV show that Debora has recently participated in and talked about Cambio Climático (climate change) in Spain, please check this out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpitnSYNdMs&list=PLGXwb0FNyA2wwhqciXzSdXa53JvSzyqzo#action=share

La viguesa que quiere salvar el océano

September 30, 2019

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

UCSB Researchers Uncover Conditions Leading to Unusual 2015 Algal Bloom

July 11, 2019

DIR group has examined an unprecedented coccolithophore bloom during May and June of 2015 in the Santa Barbara Channel, and uncovered what conditions made this unusual 2015 Algal Bloom. Here is a link for more information and publication about this work!

http://dailynexus.com/2019-07-11/ucsb-researchers-uncover-conditions-leading-to-unusual-2015-algal-bloom/

The research report of coccolithophores on Ocean Acidification Report

April 09, 2018

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

Project ACIDD and studying impacts of the Thomas Fire on the ocean

January 01, 2018

DIR lab graduate students Tanika Ladd and Dylan Catlett were participants aboard the R/V Sally Ride for a graduate student led cruise in December 2017 in the Santa Barbara Channel. See the news articles and ACIDD project website for information about this unique and exciting experience that has led to more projects exploring wildfire ash and the impacts on coastal marine ecosystems.

ACIDD project website

Job opening for Microbial Ecology Specialist

December 21, 2016

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.

Turquoise water in the Strait of Georgia depicting a coccolithophore bloom. [photo] NASA Earth Observatory

Coccolithophores in Canadian Waters

September 06, 2016

An unprecedented and unusual color change in the Strait of Georgia marks the presence of a phytoplankton bloom. Read more in the NASA Observatory article below.

Monterey Bay coccolithophore Bloom

July 21, 2015

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!

Coccolithophores are here!

June 05, 2015

A coccolithophore bloom event occurred right on our doorstep here in the Santa Barbara Channel! Read the news links below to learn more...

UCSB Scientists Find Resilience in Shelled Plants Exposed to Ocean Acidification

April 12, 2013

Marine scientists have long understood the detrimental effect of fossil fuel emissions on marine ecosystems. But a group led by a UC Santa Barbara professor has found a point of resilience in a microscopic shelled plant with a massive environmental impact, which suggests the future of ocean life may not be so bleak.

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