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SIL Contacts
Visiting the UCSC SILUC Santa Cruz is located on Monterey Bay in central California about 75 miles south of San Francisco, 45 miles north of Monterey and Carmel, and just over the coastal mountains from Silicon Valley and the San Jose International Airport. See Driving Directions below. UCSC's Stable Isotope Laboratory is located in the Earth and Marine Sciences Building (see map below). Facilities are found in the C-Block in rooms C514A (Dual-Inlet Instruments), C512 (Continuous Flow Instruments), and C406 (Enriched Isotope Facility)." Parking On Campus Parking is most reliably found in the Core West Parking Structure (truncated as "est Structure" on left side of map below) on the corner of Heller and McLaughlin Drives. You are advised to obtain a parking permit at the base of campus if you plan on being on campus for more than 3 hours. Short-term parking is typically available on level 2 of the Core West Parking structure. Short term parking permits can be purchased in the Core West Parking Structure. Complete information about all parking options can be found at the red kiosk near the main campus entrance at the intersection of Bay and High Streets. The kiosk, which is open 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. M-F, provides parking permits, maps and other help for visitors. There is a campus map and noted parking areas (about a 5-10 minute walk from our building) online at: UCSC Campus Maps top of page
Directions to the UC Santa Cruz Campus:From Oakland: Take Interstate 880 South to San Jose, where the freeway becomes Highway 17. Continue on Highway 17 South to Santa Cruz. As you enter the city of Santa Cruz, follow Highway 1 North (toward Half Moon Bay) along business Highway 1 (Mission Street). Travel approximately 0.8 mile southwest along Mission Street to Bay Street in Santa Cruz. Turn right on Bay Street and proceed up the hill to the main campus entrance. From San Jose: Take Highway 17 South to Santa Cruz. As you enter the city of Santa Cruz, follow Highway 1 North (toward Half Moon Bay) along business Highway 1 (Mission Street). Travel approximately 0.8 mile southwest along Mission Street to Bay Street in Santa Cruz. Turn right on Bay and proceed up the hill to the main campus entrance. From San Francisco: Take Highway 101 South or Interstate 280 South to Highway 85 South. Take 880 South (which becomes Highway 17) to Santa Cruz. As you enter the city of Santa Cruz, follow Highway 1 North (toward Half Moon Bay) along business Highway 1 (Mission Street). Travel approximately 0.8 mile southwest along Mission Street to Bay Street in Santa Cruz. Turn right on Bay and proceed up the hill to the main campus entrance. From Sacramento: Take Interstate 80 West to the exit for Interstate 680 towards San Jose. In San Jose, Interstate 680 becomes Interstate 280 North. From 280 North, take Highway 17 South. As you enter the city of Santa Cruz, follow Highway 1 North (toward Half Moon Bay) along business Highway 1 (Mission Street). Travel approximately one mile southwest along Mission Street to Bay Street in Santa Cruz. Turn right on Bay and proceed up the hill to the main campus entrance. From Los Angeles: Take Interstate 5 North. Take Highway 152 West, to Watsonville. Take Highway 1 North to Santa Cruz (toward Half Moon Bay). On Business Highway 1 (Mission Street), travel approximately 0.8 mile southeast to Bay Street in Santa Cruz. Turn right on Bay and proceed up the hill to the main campus entrance. |
 NEWS & EVENTSDiversity of great white shark diet was shown to be greater than previously thought based on research by UC Santa Cruz colleagues Sora Kim, Paul Koch, and James Estes along with co-autor M. Tim Tinker of the U.S. Geological Survey. This work was highlighted in the Los Angeles Times. SIL Co-Director Paul Koch has been named Dean of the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical and Biological Sciences. Madagascar Lemur extinctions and ecological retreat followed arrival of humans according to UCSC Graduate Student Brooke Crowley, Professor Paul Koch and co-authors. Their findings were recenlty published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. SIL Co-Director Paul Koch was quoted in the New York Times on research showing that a tiny Paleocene horse Sifrhippus, the first horse, grew even smaller during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum climatic warming event. SIL Co-Director Christina Ravelo has been selected as an American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow. SIL Co-Directors Paul Koch and Jim Zachos's research on Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) climatic warming event is featured in an National Geographic article "Earth Before the Ice" in the October 2011 issue. SIL Co-Director Paul Koch has been appointed Interim Dean of the UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical and Biological Sciences. SIL Co-Director Jim Zachos elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. UCSC's SIL new ThermoScientific MAT 253 isotope ratio mass spectrometer coupled to a Kiel Automated Carbonate Device begins regular operations. UCSC's SIL retires its 15 year-old dual-inlet Optima following a very productive career. The instrument generated over 40,000 data points. Two Tsavo Lions In Famed Killings Get Partial Reprieve according to UCSC Graduate Student Justin Yeakel. Listen to Justin's inteview on National Public Radio's All Things Considered: SIL co-director Christina Ravelo (Ocean Sciences) sails as co-chief scientist on Integrated Ocean Drilling Project (IODP) Expedition 323 to investigate Bearing Sea Paleoceanography.
SIL co-director Christina Ravelo (Ocean Sciences) gives the 2008 Emiliani Lecture at the American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco on "Lessons from the Pliocene Warm Period and the Onset of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation".
UCSC SIL has been funded by the National Science Foundation for a new Dual-Inlet Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer with individual acid drip system for very small calcium carbonate samples. SIL co-director Jim Zachos (Earth and Planetary Sciences) recieves prestigious Humbolt Research Award. See Humbolt Award for details. SIL Co-Director Jim Zachos has been selected as an American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow. In recognition of the new continuous flow instruments added to the UCSC stable isotope facility a Symposium is being run to highlight the new analytical capabilities. |
