Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz is committed to examining and addressing environmental challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective. Our curriculum and scholarship is designed to emphasize experiential learning and to bridge the natural and social sciences.

Check out this op-ed in Los Angeles Times about restoring the Salton Sea, written by Brent Haddad, professor of Environmental Studies UC Santa Cruz and Robert Glennon, professor emeritus of law at the University of Arizona latimes.com/opinion/story/…

UCSC will become an Agricultural Experiment Station (aka “Land Grant”) campus, announced today by UC President Drake news.ucsc.edu/2022/11/aes-de…

Here is a helpful press release by UC Santa Cruz (from the UCSC Department of Environmental Studies) summarizing our main results and the importance of this team effort published in IOPscience.

Congratulations to Chris Benner, ENVS professor, who received a major new grant to support inclusive community development throughout California news.ucsc.edu/2022/12/benner… via UC Santa Cruz

Senior Agroecology major Thaddaeus Mammo was interviewed by the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation to discuss his senior thesis work. #GreenLegacyInitiative Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 UC Santa Cruz youtube.com/watch?v=oOtUOn…