UCUC SANTA SANTA CRUZ CRUZ REVIEW FALL 2004 Making Movies and other stories, inside CONTENTS FROM THE CHANCELLOR By Martin M. Chemers UC Santa Cruz Features rika Zavaleta and defining characteristic L. Delaney, faculty representatives, Brian Fulfrost are using Review of UC Santa Cruz’s faculty, and others, I have strived to maintain Estate-of-the-art GIS Acting Chancellor students, and alumni is an in- the momentum of our progress as a Martin M. Chemers Teaming Up to Save technology to plot the precise locations of two California tense desire—and the ability— leading campus. At the top of my list Vice Chancellor, University Relations California’s Oaks. 8 varieties of oak trees—and A Ronald P. Suduiko to make a positive difference in of priorities: maintaining academic in the process, are identifying the world. Consequently, the results excellence and highest quality in all Associate Vice Chancellor Making Movies . 10 the environmental factors Communications that may be responsible of our campus’s teaching, research, our endeavors, building strong and Elizabeth Irwin for the trees’ declining and public service have significant productive relationships with our Editor Bringing Organic Produce jim mackenzie numbers. 8 Jim Burns impact in a variety of fields and often neighbors and research partners into the Mainstream . 14 aron Platt’s seven- drive progress in important ways. throughout the region, and solidifying Art Director/Designer minute“short,” which Jim MacKenzie This orientation toward meaning- gains from organizational planning. began as a project in his A dan coyro On the Verge of a Associate Editors UCSC film production class, ful achievement is exemplified in the My efforts are widely shared, both Mary Ann Dewey Medical Breakthrough . 16 was honored—and shown stories you will find in this issue of At the top of my list of priorities: on and off campus. This past year, Jeanne Lance five times—at the 2004 Review magazine. You’ll read about generous donors boosted campus Writers maintaining academic excellence Sundance Festival, the faculty research to prevent extinction progress with gifts totaling a record- Louise Gilmore Donahue Child’s Play. 20 prestigious event that each Jennifer McNulty and highest quality in all our year showcases the very best of oak species and to bring new treat- setting $32.2 million. On November 6, Scott Rappaport in independent ment for diabetes; you’ll learn how many campus friends will attend the Doreen Schack Studying the Edges . 22 endeavors, building strong and Tim Stephens jones r. r. cinema. 10 our students already are contributing Second Annual Scholarships Benefit Cover hen alumnus Drew to social commentary through their productive relationships with Dinner, and students will be able to Photograph of Aaron Platt and Goodman cofounded award-winning films and are stretch- our neighbors and research continue their education as a result of Irene Gustafson by r. r. jones WEarthbound Farm Departments ing boundaries to understand ecolog- the support generated there. More Office of University Relations 20 years ago, he couldn’t partners throughout the region, Carriage House imagine that the company ical puzzles. And, you’ll meet an than ever, as costs increase and public University of California would one day be producing alumnus whose organic produce has funding is reduced, private support is 1156 High Street and solidifying gains from From the Chancellor . 1 packaged organic salad Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 become a household standard and essential for our continued success. mix—a product that would organizational planning. voice: 831.459.2501 be on the shelves of more another alumnus whose best-selling In brief, UC Santa Cruz—your fax: 831.459.5795 Campus Update . 2 than 70 percent of children’s books have enchanted a UC campus—is thriving. I invite e-mail: [email protected] web: review.ucsc.edu jones r. r. U.S. supermarkets. 14 generation. vice chancellor last fall, and then, you to enjoy this publication, and Produced by UC Santa Cruz Public Affairs. Alumni News. 24 raduate student These stories and others presented in April, to welcome the duty and I thank you for your continued 9/04(04-046/75M) Cynthia Hays, whose here represent just a few examples honor of serving as your acting interest and support. UC Santa Cruz (USPS 650940) Gresearch has been Alumni Notes . 26 of achievement by members of the chancellor. Vol. 42, No. 2 / September 2004 supported by the ARCS UC Santa Cruz is a series of administrative Foundation, is studying campus community. It was to this Since then, building on the With best regards, publications published in August, September, November, and March by University marine algae in order to dynamic organization that I arrived exceptional accomplishments of for- Relations at the University of California, understand a question that as social sciences dean in 1995— mer chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood Santa Cruz. Periodicals postage paid at Santa has confounded ecologists: Cruz, CA 95060. Postmaster: Send address and I was delighted and honored and working in close partnership What determines an changes to the University of California, Santa Cruz, University Relations, 1156 High Street, organism’s natural first to accept appointment as inter- with Interim Campus Provost and Martin M. Chemers Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077. jim mackenzie geographic range? 22 im campus provost and executive Executive Vice Chancellor Margaret Acting Chancellor UC Santa Cruz Review / Fall 2004 1 CAMPUS UPDATE This ‘spring break’ trip supports botzheim luke courtesy of noaa courtesy Mexican community Biologist tells story of was particularly interested in how the seals hunt for food pring break just isn’t what jim mackenzie adventure, discovery beneath the ice. it used to be. For 51 UCSC The researchers used an array Sstudents, a trip to Mexico in Antarctica of high-tech equipment to gain this past spring meant building access to the hidden life of the a house one day, and repairing n six trips to Antarctica, seals beneath the ice. A compact roofs, digging trenches, in- biologist Terrie Williams instrument package, including stalling toilets and showers, and Students (l-r) Hamza El-Falah, I endured brutal conditions on a small video camera mounted painting for another two days. Margot Brown, and Junko Nakajima the coldest, driest, windiest con- harmlessly on the backs of prestigious Knauss Fellowship in marine policy has given grad- Instead of lounging around build housing in Tecate, Mexico. tinent on Earth in order to learn the seals, revealed scenes never uate student Kristan Blackhart the opportunity to spend a year in a hotel, the students slept on the secrets of the mysterious before witnessed by humans and A working at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the floor of a community center participated in an unusual proj- Weddell seals, the only wild provided the first physiological (NOAA) offices outside Washington, D.C. One of Blackhart’s tasks with no indoor plumbing— ect that was part work program mammals capable of surviving measurements from actively during the fellowship is coediting the sixth edition of “Our Living until they installed it themselves. and part cultural exchange. On Oceans,” a status report on the nation’s living marine resources. Antarctic winters. hunting seals. Despite the lack of ameni- the trip arranged by the non- Blackhart, right, is shown with Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, In her new book, The ties, the students said their profit Corazón organization, who is head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration. Graduate student Mara Ranville and Jugdeep Aggarwal, director of UCSC’s W. M. Keck Hunter’s Breath, Williams inter- time in Tecate, Mexico, was the students got to know the For Blackhart’s story—and profiles of other current students— Isotope Laboratory, show off the lab’s new ThermoFinnigan Neptune mass spectrometer. weaves two amazing stories better than the typical spring- townspeople by working along- go to: www.ucsc.edu/students/profiles/. from those expeditions: One is break trip. “I think this is more side future homeowners and UCSC dedicates new UCSC, the campus’s analytical the story of the seals and their terrie williams courtesy fun. This is so much more other local residents. facilities are unrivaled on the remarkable adaptations to life Study finds Dutch drug Reinarman, professor of soc- rewarding. We’re making our News of the students’ isotope laboratory West Coast. on and beneath the Antarctic iology at UCSC, coauthored mark on Mexico, and they’re efforts caught the attention of “Thanks to the generosity sea ice, while the other is a hu- policies don’t increase the article, which compared making a mark on us,” said California governor Arnold c santa cruz dedicated of the W. M. Keck Foundation, man story of adventure and dis- the cannabis (marijuana and Jennifer Low, who was a first- Schwarzenegger, whose Office the W. M. Keck Isotope UC Santa Cruz’s research covery in one of the most pun- marijuana use hashish) habits of users in year student at College Ten. on Service and Volunteerism U Laboratory in June with a capabilities have achieved a ishing environments on Earth. Amsterdam and San Francisco to “It’s one of the best experiences featured the project on its web symposium on isotope analysis. new level, making the campus The scientific question that n the first rigorous study test the premise that punishment I’ve had.” site and honored the students The naming of the facility rec- a center of excellence in the re- Williams and seven fellow scien- comparing marijuana use in for cannabis use deters use and The students—mostly from with awards in a campus cere- gion for trace metal tists set out to answer was a sim- Ithe Netherlands and the thereby benefits public health.