Writing - Erin Malsbury

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Featured work:

Water Contamination: Part One

Farm fertilizers contaminate thousands of wells in the Salinas Valley

Part Two

Solutions for Salinas Valley groundwater contamination exist, but adoption is slow

Part Three

Central Coast water board seeks alternatives for residents with contaminated wells

Iconic Santa Cruz surf spots could slip away with erosion

KALW - Crosscurrents

Santa Cruz celebrates 50 years of Pride

90.3 KAZU

Santa Cruz County bans plastic cigarette filter sales

90.3 KAZU

Monterey Bay gets $71 million to fight climate change

90.3 KAZU

100 roads in Santa Cruz County await repairs

90.3 KAZU

Monterey Bay Sanctuary starts microplastic monitoring program

90.3 KAZU

Santa Cruz startup 3D prints surfboards from recycled materials

KQED

At 64, Slalom Skateboarding Mom Trains for World Games

KQED

Central coast schools decode AI's role in education

90.3 KAZU

Surfboard-stealing otter keeps weaseling away from captors

90.3 KAZU

UCSC Press Releases

scientists discover first nitrogen-fixing organelle

chemists use peptides from Alzheimer's and Type II diabetes to describe five new rippled beta-sheets

scientists use Hawaiian fossils to study the past and future of climate change

New long-term NIH grant supports breast cancer research

Seismologists use deep learning to forecast earthquakes

Marine scientists explore the future of open data science

Golden-crowned sparrows return to overwintering sites in part because of their friends

UCSC Scientists Make Major Discoveries with JWST

Good Times

Microplastics Found Inside Monterey Bay Sea life

Good Times

Lasers, mushrooms and other innovations help heal fire damage

Good Times

Frans Lanting’s ‘Bay of Life’ Project Showcases Local Ecosystem

Good Times - cover story

California Sea Grant:

RICK STARR DISCUSSES SEASCAPE ECOLOGY AS 2022 ED RICKETTS MEMORIAL AWARD RECIPIENT

CA Graduate Student Awarded National Marine Fisheries Fellowship

Big Wave Surfer Maya Gabeira to Visit Bookshop Santa Cruz

Good Times

James Webb Space Telescope Sheds New Light on the Universe

Good Times

Local Water Resource Managers Prepare for Another Dry Summer

Good Times

The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary's 30th Anniversary

Good Times - cover story

Black Surf Santa Cruz Founder Talks Ocean Healing

Good Times

Controversial Monarch Butterfly Study Fuels Protections Debate

Good Times

What We're Learning from New Underwater Tech

Good Times

How Wildfire Smoke is Impacting Winemakers

Good Times

Tracking the Sounds of Blue Whales

Good Times

Is Santa Cruz County’s Pilot Pesticide Alert Program the Answer?

Good Times

How Foragers are Reconnecting with the Land

Good Times - Cover Story

Santa Cruz’s Role in NASA’s New James Webb Space Telescope

Good Times - Cover Story

Breaking Down Omicron

Good Times

Sustainable Agriculture Groups: Santa Cruz Gives

Good Times

Prescribed Burns: A Behind-the-Scenes Look into the Process

Good Times

Big Basin Recovery Spurs a Rethinking of Forest Futures

Good Times - Cover Story

Climate Activists Protest Banks Supporting Line 3 Pipeline

Good Times

As Drought Worsens, Local Agencies Seek Ambitious Water Solution

Good Times - Cover Story

How the Hush of Pandemic Lockdown Changed Wildlife Behavior

Good Times - cover story

UCSC Press Releases:

Five-year NIH grant supports collaborative research into rejuvenating the aging brain

$2 million grant revamps Chemical Screening Center

Model reveals interactions between rivers and fault lines

Unusual currents explain mysterious red crab strandings

Scientists Race to Rescue Endangered Black Abalone

Good Times - Cover Story

Advocates Call for More Transparency on Pesticide Use

The Pajaronian

Has Covid-19 Changed Climate Activism for Good?

Good Times - Cover Story

Watching Flames Turn to Forests

Good Times

New Study Reveals Otters’ Role in Protecting Kelp Forests

Good Times

Profile: 2016 Knauss Fellow Paloma Aguirre

California Sea Grant

Songbirds in Santa Cruz County Face Their Own Epidemic

Good Times

MPA update: A deep dive into the mid-depth rocky reef

California Sea Grant

What Antarctic Meteorites Tell Us About Earth’s Origins

Smithsonian Voices

Do talk back: creating conversation in computers

UCSC Science Notes

10 Popular Discoveries from 2020

Smithsonian Voices

How We Lifted Flight from Bird Evolution

Smithsonian Voices

Ancient DNA Unearths Corn's A-maize-ing History

Smithsonian Voices

How Seven of Nature’s Coolest Species Weather the Cold

Smithsonian Voices

Rare Iridescent Snake Discovered in Vietnam

Smithsonian Voices

Sport anglers reel in fisheries data

California Sea Grant

How Species Interactions Affect Evolution

Smithsonian Voices

Smithsonian Bird DNA Collected Over Three Decades

Smithsonian Voices

Five Reasons to Love Bats

Smithsonian Voices

The Scientist Using Fossils to Predict Future Extinctions

Smithsonian Voices

MPA Update: Fishing communities discuss protected areas impacts

California Sea Grant

The Scientist Discovering Deep-Sea Squids

Smithsonian Voices

North Coast, San Lorenzo Valley evacuees share anxieties, needs

Santa Cruz Local

Six Videos that Put COVID-19 in Context

Smithsonian Voices

The Scientist Studying Vulture Guts for Clues to Immunity

Smithsonian Voices

Five of Nature's Best Beards

Smithsonian Voices

The Scientist in Charge of Smithsonian’s 1.9 Million Mosquitoes

Smithsonian Voices

How Scientists Still Use the Smithsonian’s First Collections

Smithsonian Voices

Scientists to read DNA of all eukaryotes in 10 years

Smithsonian Voices

Tracking a lifetime of exposures to better understand disease

San Jose Mercury News (shared byline)

Coronavirus Reader Questions San Jose Mercury News

Observing the space between land and sea

California Sea Grant

Tackling toxic algal blooms from two directions

California Sea Grant

An invasive seaweed's secrets to success (SciShortForm Top Pick)

California Sea Grant

Kelp forests and cow burps: a Q&A about sustainable aquaculture

California Sea Grant

Saving a species amid a pandemic

California Sea Grant

Monitoring iconic kelp forests

California Sea Grant

The secret to a long life? Matching sex chromosomes

Science

Samples from famed 19th century voyage reveal 'shocking' effects

Science

Tiny organs grown from snake glands produce real venom

Science

Scientists re-create voice of 3000-year-old mummy

Science

How the Ginkgo biloba achieves near-immortality

Science

2020 Hindsight: A website for all paleo-CO2 data

Eos

Llamas could help replenish plant life after glaciers retreat

AGU Geospace

Amazon primates face barriers responding to climate change

Mongabay.com

Clearing the Air: Has COVID changed pollution levels?

KSQD 90.7 FM

Recruiting and Investing in Doctors

Monterey Herald

Piecing Together Plastic Problem

Monterey Herald

Rise in Drug Use Raises Alarms

Monterey Herald