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February 8, 2024

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Reinforcing the diverse ways people access seafood can ensure healthy communities in the face of change

Understanding and bolstering existing pathways for acquiring seafood — as opposed to creating new programs and processes — can promote food system resilience in the Pacific Islands.

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Logan Asperian, Lauren Barley, Macielle Villaseñor, Rachel Burnett and Vincent Cuenco off the coast of Santa Cruz Island

Coastal Media Project student documentaries to screen at Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Joining the star-stacked big-budget features common to the festival, now in its 39th year, the 15-minute documentaries “841” and “The Salt on Our Skin” were conceptualized, shot, edited and screened in nine weeks last summer.

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Is housing a human right?

The 2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate examines the economics, politics and social issues around the question of housing as a human right.

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Featured Events

Blue Note Records 85th Anniversary Celebration

February 8, 2024

Pianist Gerald Clayton, former music director of the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour, has organized a new ensemble to express the heart and soul of jazz, Blue Note style.

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California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

February 8, 2024

Los Angeles Times reporter Rosanna Xia and director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center, Charles Lester, discuss sea level rise and the challenges looming over the California coast.

World Music Series: Irish, Scottish & Celtic Music with The Decent Folk

February 14, 2024

This Santa Barbara-based band performs raucous Irish ballads, songs, jigs and reels.

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UC Santa Barbara in the News

Discover Magazine • January 25, 2024

Our Human Ancestors Started Hauling Fish Out of the Water 2 Million Years Ago

“No one ‘invented’ fishing,” writes Brian Fagan, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization. “Everyone knew fish were there for the taking at specific times and places.”