In a study appearing in Biogeosciences, the researchers designed an experiment at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in which they mixed crushed shells, or shell hash, into sand where baby Pacific littleneck clams burrowed and grew. They then monitored the clams’ growth and the water’s chemistry over a 90-day period.

A record-breaking El Niño winter and the potential loss or weakening of federal disaster management services are among the factors that could determine whether Californians face catastrophic floods this winter and beyond.

For six days, Kat Kerlin joined a class of 11 creative writers and scientists from the University of California, Davis, and two outstanding guides as they sea kayaked across the San Juan Islands, off the coast of Washington. By the end of the week, they paddled 50 miles, visited seven islands and discovered we had a lot to learn from each other, and from this place.

Scientists report fossil evidence of the first fully marine amphibian in a study from the University of California, Davis; Peking University; and the Geological Museum of Guizhou. The amphibian is an armored, giant salamander-sized, bottom-dwelling ocean creature that the researchers named Gerrothorax maritimus.

In the new exhibition "The Data at Hand: Data Physicalization of Earth and Space," UC Davis Professor of Science and Technology Studies Kayleigh Perkov curates an experience exploring how artists transform data into physical forms and examine scientific knowledge.

In a study appearing in Nature Communications, UC Davis researchers successfully advanced high-power pulse electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy operation by building an instrument that operates at a wide frequency bandwidth centered at 263 GHz.

What does it take to climb more than 23,000 feet? UC Davis chemistry professor and mountaineer Davide Donadio spent a month in Tajikistan, summiting Ismoil Somoni Peak and Korzhenevskaya Peak in the Pamir Mountains.

Dawn Sumner — a UC Davis geologist, planetary scientist and astrobiologist — is among the 53 scientists newly elected as fellows of the American Geophysical Union, or AGU, for outstanding achievements and contributions to earth and space science.  

In an effort to share all the exciting and often mind-bending revelations about the universe with the public, UC Davis scientists Lloyd Knox and Markus Luty are bringing their combined knowledge and expertise on the road for a traveling conversation called Cosmic Connections.

In a new study, a research team used advanced geochemical dating and analysis techniques to reveal that some asteroids and meteorites, such as Ryugu and Ivuna, originate from celestial bodies that formed less than 2 million years after the beginning of the solar system. This coincides with a period when the solar system was forming its first generation of planetesimals, the building blocks of planets.