September 7, 2000

Climate Change Theory Gets a New Reading (an interview with David Lea)
September 27, 2000 Researchers Receive Federal Funds to Study Marine Organism and Potential Products on Oil Platforms
9/27/00 UCSB Press Release
11/9/00 Tower Creatures - Creatures Clinging to Oil Platforms Could Help Fend Off Disease
May 8, 2000 James P. Kennett Elected as New Member of the National Academy of Sciences
November 6, 2000 James P. Kennett Elected as AAAS Fellow
November 22, 2000

Tiny Glass Nanostructures Revealed-Galen Stucky
December 6, 2000 An Exotic Undersea Census (an interview with Milton Love)
January 25, 2001

Ancient Coral Reef Record Gives History of El Nino-David Lea
February 17, 2001 Scientific Theory Of Marine Reserves
2/17/01 Scientific Theory of Marine Reserves to be Released (UCSB Press Release)
2/18/01 Marine Life Thrives in Reserves Worldwide study points to need for protected areas (San Francisco Chronicle)
February 17, 2001

James P. Kennett named UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer
April 30, 2001

James P. Kennett honored as new member of AAAS
June 2, 2001 Miriam Polne-Fuller, 2001 UCSB Teaching Award Recipient
July 18, 2001 Award-Winning Teen from Hawaii Gets Close Look at Marine Science at UCSB
July 22, 2001 San Diego beaches may not be cleaned up to protect Grunion spawning sites
Summer 2001 James P. Kennett awarded the Shepard Medal for Marine Geology
May, 2002 William Murdoch elected to AAAS.
2002 Tessa M. Hill graduate student in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science has received the Gretchen L. Blechschmidt Award for 2002 from the Geological Society of America.
2002 MSI Director Steven Gaines has been appointed as acting Vice-Chancellor of Research at UCSB.
2002 Dr. Jack Engle has been chosen by the Western Society of Naturalists as Naturalist of the Year. The award is given each year to an individual who has throughout their career devoted themselves to the study of Natural History and, especially, to an individual who has passed their knowledge and enthusiasm on to others. (See WSN News)
Summer 2003 David A. Hart has won the Discovery Channel's 2002 Young Scientist Challenge. Part of his award includes a trip to MSI in the summer of 2003.
Summer 2003 Miriam Polne-Fuller, research biologist at MSI, has received the first "Golden Anchor" award from the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum for her outstanding educational contributions and her years of dedication to the community.
2003 Dr. Steven Gaines, Director of the Marine Science Institute, has received a Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship. He is one of only five individuals selected this year to receive a Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship, the world's most prestigious award honoring and investing in applied ocean conservation science and outreach.
March, 2004 UCSB donates patent rights for novel use of heart drugs to combat global parasitic disease. UCSB reserch biologist Mark Walter and zoology professor Armand Kuris have found a way to control in vitro the parasite that causes shistosomiasis.
March, 2004 Internationally recognized ecologist and UCSB professor William W. Murdoch has been named this year's Faculty Research Lecturer, the highest honor bestowed by the university faculty.
2004 Dr. Roland Knapp wins the U.S. Forest Service's 2003 Excellence in Wilderness Stewardship Research Award.