A group of UC Davis researchers recently shared their experiences after completing a four-week field season at Antarctica's Lake Fryxell. The seminar titled “UC Davis in Antarctica” was broadcast via YouTube livestream from Antarctica’s McMurdo Station.

Alyssa Griffin discusses the importance of scientific diving in her research and her efforts to diversify who has access to the practice by co-developing the SCUBA DIVERsity Fellowship Program at UC San Diego.

White abalone shells ​are​ magnificent structures. Translucent during the marine snail’s juvenile days, the extremely durable shell increases in opacity as the organism ages, gaining its paint-splatter-esque red, brown and white coloring from the algae it eats. But abalone, along with other marine organisms, are facing a crisis, one that affects the integrity of their shells.