Kat Kerlin

2 weeks ago | dailydemocrat.com | Kat Kerlin

3 Pioneer High School student athletes sign on to play football and baseball at the next level

3 weeks ago | phys.org | Kat Kerlin |Gaby Clark |Andrew Zinin

Where do you go when you're a fish and you need a skincare treatment? Coral reefs contain natural "beauty salons," lively social hubs of activity where fish "clients" swim up and wait to be serviced by smaller fish cleaners. The little cleaners dart under and around their much bigger clients—even entering their mouths—cleaning their scales of bacteria and parasites like a team of car washers servicing a Buick. Sometimes cleaners even rub against their clients, providing a soothing massage.

3 weeks ago | ucdavis.edu | Kat Kerlin

Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare treatment? Coral reefs contain natural “beauty salons,” lively social hubs of activity where fish “clients” swim up and wait to be serviced by smaller fish cleaners. The little cleaners dart under and around their much bigger clients — even entering their mouths — cleaning their scales of bacteria and parasites like a team of car washers servicing a Buick. Sometimes cleaners even rub against their clients, providing a soothing massage.

4 weeks ago | davisenterprise.com | Kat Kerlin

For the study, published in ASLO, the journal of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, scientists analyzed an 18-year record of underwater irradiance at Lake Tahoe, which is renowned for its clear blue waters. They found up to a 100-fold difference in UV radiation between a wet and dry year.

1 month ago | davisenterprise.com | Kat Kerlin

The call of American bullfrogs was deafening when scientists from UC Davis first began researching the impact of invasive bullfrogs on native northwestern pond turtles at Yosemite National Park. “At night, you could look out over the pond and see a constellation of eyes blinking back at you,” said UCD Ph.D. candidate Sidney Woodruff, lead author of a study chronicling the effects of removal.