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UC Santa Barbara's Top News [UC Santa Barbara's Top News] [UC Santa Barbara]( September 10, 2020 Top News [The Bernard Zakheim fresco at UCSF featuring Biddy Mason assisting Dr. John S. Griffin]( [Discovering an Icon]( A history graduate student’s research and skill set lead to the discovery of Black nurse Biddy Mason in Depression-era murals in San Francisco. [Read More ▶]( [Seawater]( [Revisiting Ratios]( A multinational study overturns a 130-year old assumption about seawater chemistry. [Read More ▶]( [Zoom Meeting]( [Zoom Backup Plan]( Information technology options are in place so remote operations can continue if Zoom services are interrupted. [Read More ▶]( [More News]( UC Santa Barbara In The News [Time Magazine]( [The Ocean Farmers Trying to Save the World With Seaweed]( In a cove in Bamfield, a coastal community in British Columbia, Canada, Louis Druehl steers his boat, The Kelp Express, a mile along the mountainous coastline. For 51 years, this boat has taken Druehl to the fortuitously named Kelp Bay where beneath the water’s surface ropes of seaweed that Druehl has been carefully harvesting for decades dangle in the cold Pacific water. [Read More ▶]( [PBS NewsHour]( [7 books that dive into the long history of America’s labor movement]( When he started writing “Beaten Down, Worked Up,” Steven Greenhouse had covered labor and workplace matters for two decades as a reporter with The New York Times. But even though he was already deeply immersed in the subject, Greenhouse also drew upon the work of a number of other labor historians, reporters and writers when doing research for his second book about American unions and workers. [Read More ▶]( [Washington Post]( [Large, intense wildfire outbreak destroys town, closes forests, with California winds raising threat further]( California is in the midst of perhaps the most challenging fire year in its history, with yet another dangerous set of weather conditions developing in a state that endured unprecedented heat and explosive blazes over the holiday weekend. [Read More ▶]( [Science Magazine]( [Ocean warming has seafloor species headed in the wrong direction]( As the world warms, many species of plant and animal will have to find new—often cooler—places to live. But things are trickier for sedentary marine creatures like snails, worms, and clams, according to a new study. It finds that in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many species are spawning earlier in the year, when currents take their larvae southward and into warmer waters—the wrong direction. For some of them, including the sand dollars beloved by beachcombers, this means their range is shrinking. [Read More ▶]( [Arts]( | [Science + Technology]( | [Society + Culture]( | [Campus + Community]( | [Athletics]( | [Calendar]( [UC Santa Barbara]( Connect with Us: [FB icon]( [Twitter icon]( [Vimeo icon]( [LinkedIn icon]( [YouTube icon]( [RSS icon]( Copyright © 2020 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. Share this email: [Email]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [LinkedIn]( Choose the emails you would like to receive by[managing your preferences.]( If you do not wish to receive any emails from UC Santa Barbara Institutional Advancement (this includes event invitations, newsletters, networking opportunities and stories of philanthropy), you can [opt out of them ALL]( using TrueRemove® View this email [online](. [UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA | 93106 US](#) [This email was sent to {EMAIL}. To continue receiving our emails, add us to your address book.]({EMAIL})