#35 Feb. 24, 2026
Eric Zimmerman
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IMPORTANT REGISTRATION DATES & DEADLINES:
NOW! Start of Spring
Quarter
Registration Pass #2.
Check GOLD for your pass day and time!
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View Winter
Quarter Registration Deadlines here.
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Pass Times & Info here.
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ES IS ON INSTAGRAM!
Follow @ucsb_envstudies on Instagram!
Great way to connect with fellow students,
discover new
opportunities, and stay up to date on the latest news, events,
and program
highlights. Don’t miss out on being a part of this amazing
community!
Also not sure if you want to link it underneath but heres the link!
https://www.instagram.com/ucsb_envstudies/
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INDEX:
1) REMINDER: The Real Food Challenge
Community Potluck is
happening
- TODAY, Tuesday, February 24th, from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM at
the Isla
Vista Food Co-op.
2) Undergrad Learning Assistants (ULA) needed for Spring ENVS 193DD
3) UCSB
CUEL Career
Event: Environmental Career Panel 2/27 - All are welcome!!
- When: February 27, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm in UCSB ILP
1302
4) ELI Project Request:
Got excess fruit in your backyard? Backyard Bounty
is a
program
with the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County that collects excess
fruit
and redistributes it to communities in need.
5) APPLY:
UCSB’s Summer
Coastal Media Project Applications Are Now Open.
This twelve-credit nine-week intensive environmental media
production and
documentary studies program, June 22 – Friday, August 21,
2026.
6) UCSB
ENV
LECTURE: “Pollution and
Learning” by Patrick
Behrer,
Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank
- Mon, Mar 2, 2026, 11a, - 12 pm in Bren Hall 1414
7) Earn
$10,000 to be
a UCSB College Corps Fellow in Climate Action, Food
Security, or K-12
Education! Openings available for the 2026-2027 academic year,
applications due March 6th
8) UCSB
Earth Month
Event Registration: UCSB’s FIRST-EVER Earth Month
is quickly approaching…. We
are inviting ALL A.S. Entities to help shape it!
9) UCSB
Environmental
Justice Alliance meeting! Free dinner and engaging
discussion with three UCSB
Professors (two are ES)
- Monday, March 2, 5-7 p.m. in the auditorium at the Marine
Science Institute
10) ENV
MOVIE @
UCSB: Special theatrical
screening
of Scenes of Extraction,
with filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi in
attendance! She will join moderator
Mona Damluji (Film and Media
Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion.
- March 5th, 7pm, UCSB’s Pollock Theater
11) UCSB REEL LOUD Submission Guidelines. This year’s Reel Loud theme is “Whodunit?”
12) Last
chance: 30%
discount on tickets to Climate
Solutions Now
(Feb 23-27)
through Feb 25. This virtual Cal Poly event is open to the
general
public!
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CONTENT:
1) REMINDER: The
Real Food Challenge Community Potluck is happening this
Tuesday, February 24th,
from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM at the Isla Vista Food Co-op.
We would really love to see everyone there to share a meal and join the conversation about our campus food systems. Whether you have been involved with the club for a while or are just interested in learning more about food justice at UCSB, you are more than welcome to join us. We are looking forward to a great turnout from students, faculty, and our campus partners.
Please note that we will provide all necessary plates, cups, and utensils for the event. You only need to bring a dish to share and yourself.
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2) Undergrad Learning
Assistants (ULA) needed for Spring ENVS 193DD
Looking for ways to support your fellow students and gain
experience in
supporting teaching and learning to code? Professor An Bui is
looking to hire
1-2 Undergraduate Learning Assistants (ULAs) for Spring 2026
to support ENVS
193DD (Data Science for Environmental Studies) and
possibly
ENVS 193DS (Statistics for Environmental Studies).
See attached PDF for more details on time
commitment,
qualifications, and more. If interested, please apply via this Google Form by Sunday the 1st of
March at 11:59
PM.
See attached flier!
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3)
UCSB CUEL Career Event:
Environmental
Career Panel 2/27 - All are welcome!!
- When: February 27, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm in UCSB ILP
1302
The Greti U. Croft Center for Undergraduate Environmental
Leadership (CUEL)
invites you to an Environmental Career Panel featuring guests
from a wide range
of sectors in the environmental field! This is an exciting
opportunity to
discover what environmental career you want to pursue and ask
questions!
Learn career tips and industry insights from environmental
professionals
working for non-profits, governmental agencies, corporate
sustainability
programs, and environmental consulting firms.
Panelists:
Kathi King: Director of Education, Community Environmental
Council
Anthony Shiao: Environmental Scientist, California Dept of Fish
and Wildlife
Chris Ragland: Executive Director, Sea League
Rachel Sarnoff: Director of Communications, Cascale
Parker Grand: State Park Interpreter, California State Parks
Amy Noddings: Principal Biologist/Environmental Planner, Tetra
Tech
Deji Olukotun: Global Director, Corporate Social Responsibility,
Sonos
All are welcome to attend! We hope to see you there!
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4) ELI Project Request:
Got excess fruit in your backyard? Backyard Bounty
is a program
with the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County that collects excess
fruit
and redistributes it to communities in need.
If you live in a rental property in Isla Vista, please consider contacting your landlord regarding this program!
What is Gleaning and Backyard Bounty?
Gleaning is the ancient practice of picking agricultural
products left in the
field after harvest. The impact of gleaning is two fold: around
31% of all food
in the U.S. is wasted each year and 1/8 Americans face food
insecurity. Today,
many gleaning organizations, like Backyard Bounty, work to
mitigate food waste
by providing a way for those with surplus food to share it with
community
members facing food insecurity.
What can you do?
As part of my UCSB Environmental Leadership Incubator project, I
am hoping to
connect Isla Vista properties with underutilized fruit trees to
Backyard
Bounty, a program within the Foodbank of Santa Barbara
County. If you are
interested in getting your rental property registered with
Backyard Bounty,
please use the following email template to contact your leasing
company and/or
property owner.
For more information, please reach out to Amber Nguyen (amber...@ucsb.edu) or Nohemi Hernandez (Backyar...@FoodbankSBC.org).
Attached to this email is a poster for this project.
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5) APPLY: UCSB’s Summer
Coastal Media Project Applications Are Now Open.
This twelve-credit nine-week intensive environmental media
production and
documentary studies program, June 22 – Friday, August 21, 2026.
The UCSB Carsey-Wolf Center’s Coastal Media Project is a nine-week intensive environmental media production and documentary studies program. Working in teams, students from a wide variety of backgrounds will produce content including short documentary films that focus on our coastal environment. This twelve-credit program is designed to expand the way vital stories are told. It trains students to be thoughtful and informed environmental mediamakers with knowledge of documentary modes and a toolbox of possibilities for creative intervention, including hands-on training with state-of-the-art equipment. The program culminates in an end of summer film premiere in UCSB’s Pollock Theater.
Applications will be accepted for primary consideration until Friday, March 13, 2026. After that, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis for any available spaces in the program. Because admission is limited to 18 students, we encourage you to apply by the primary consideration deadline. All students must commit to being available to participate in the entire program in person from Monday, June 22 – Friday, August 21, 2026.
This program is open to current undergraduate
and graduate
students with any major from UCSB or other institutions by
application only. ES
professor Summer Gray is part of this program
and if you have any questions about it you can email her at:
summe...@ucsb.edu
Learn more about
the program
here and to apply
click here.
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6) UCSB ENV
LECTURE: “Pollution and
Learning” by Patrick
Behrer, Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank
- Mon, Mar 2, 2026, 11a, - 12 pm in Bren Hall 1414
Patrick's work brings together two of the
most pressing
issues in environmental economics, air quality and human capital
formation,
using credible identification strategies to deliver evidence
that speaks
directly to the inadequacy of current regulatory systems.
Patrick Behrer is an Economist on the Planet Research Team of
the World Bank's
Development Research Group. Behrer's work focuses on the
economics of air
pollution, climate change, and climate adaptation. His work has
focused on the
impacts of air pollution and climate change on human capital
formation and the
relationship between agriculture and air pollution.
See
the complete
lecture abstract and bio here.
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7) Earn $10,000 to be
a UCSB College Corps Fellow in Climate Action, Food Security, or
K-12
Education! Openings available for the 2026-2027 academic year,
applications due this quarter.
Application Deadline is March 6th!
The California College Corps Program helps create debt-free pathways to college while engaging undergraduate students across the state in solving problems in their communities. This program offers students, including DREAMers, up to $10,000 through a stipend and education award for completing 450 hours of community service in one year in areas of climate action, food insecurity, and K-12 education. UCSB will be joining Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Coastal California Civic Leadership Consortium to offer fellowships to 60 UCSB students annually who will work with local non-profits, government agencies, and community serving programs at higher education campuses.
Applications accepted through UCSB Handshake Job #10705352 "College Corps Fellowship". More on accessing Handshake:https://career.ucsb.edu/handshake-help-center.
Upcoming workshops where you can learn more!
- Application Pop Up Workshop: Thursday, February 26th, 11am - 12:30pm Student Resource --Building Multipurpose Room (SRB MPR) RSVP here
Learn more at the UCSB College Corps Website or see attached flier!
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8) UCSB Earth Month
Event Registration: UCSB’s FIRST-EVER Earth Month is quickly
approaching…. We
are inviting ALL A.S. Entities to help shape it!
What is Earth
Month? Santa Barbara is
recognized as the
birthplace of the modern Earth Day movement, ignited by the 1969
oil spill that
transformed environmental advocacy across the world. From April 11-26, UCSB Earth Month calls on organizations throughout campus to draw
on this history by hosting environmentally-focused events that educate, engage,
and unite our community around sustainability and environmental impact. This
can range from promoting recycling & composting on campus to encouraging
students to engage with nature through yoga in the park!
What’s in it for my organization? The AS Office of the President can support your event by providing
Funding to cover venue, rental, and band
fees
- Major campus-wide promotion to drive
attendance
& visibility,
Free food & beverages,
Exclusive incentive prizes including
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Questions, contact: Matthew Schoen (He/Him), Commissioner of Environmental Sustainability, Email: aso...@as.ucsb.edu
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9) UCSB Environmental
Justice Alliance meeting! Free dinner and engaging discussion
with three UCSB
Professors (two are ES)
- Monday, March 2, 5-7 p.m. in the auditorium at the Marine
Science Institute
The Environmental Justice Alliance is hosting our second winter
general body
meeting next week Monday, March 2 in the auditorium at the
Marine Science
Institute on campus! We are hosting 3 UCSB professors — David
Pellow and Lisa
Sideris from the environmental studies department, and Javiera
Barandiaran from
global studies! — for a conversation about international
conflicts & ethics
connecting to environmental justice. We will also be providing
free
dinner (vegan and vegetarian options!) for all attendees.
Questions, email as-environmenta...@ucsb.edu
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10) ENV MOVIE @
UCSB: Special theatrical
screening
of Scenes of Extraction, with filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi in
attendance! She will join moderator Mona Damluji (Film and Media
Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion.
- March 5th, 7pm, UCSB’s Pollock Theater
Join us on Thursday, March 5 at 7:00 PM for a special theatrical
screening
of Scenes of Extraction, with filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi in
attendance! She will join moderator Mona Damluji (Film and Media
Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion.
Scenes of Extraction (2023) creates an archival constellation using the still and moving images of British Petroleum, documenting the expansive colonial network behind the British energy complex that spanned across Iran, but also reached other British oil operations in South East Asia. The film weaves through decades of archival documents to parse out the visual history of the “reflection seismography” method for oil exploration, which was heavily tested across the Iranian oil belt despite its destructive nature. This technical legacy is still heavily utilized in fracking and deep-sea mining enterprises globally and forms the backbone of the global energy complex. By reading the political economy of images in relation to the extraction of crude oil, Scenes of Extraction evokes the intertwined histories of imperial and colonial extractive industries, photography, and archival practice.
The event is free and open to the public, though a reservation is recommended in order to guarantee a seat. For more information and to reserve tickets, please visit our event page.
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11) UCSB REEL LOUD
Submission
Guidelines. This year’s Reel Loud
theme is
“Whodunit?”
This year’s Reel Loud theme is
“Whodunit?” and we are
excited to invite students to begin producing their films and
artwork to submit
to the festival. We welcome creative interpretations of the
theme that push
conventional boundaries, and any submissions with elements of
mystery,
suspense, plot twists, and the unexpected will be considered.
Reel Loud is UCSB’s student-run silent film festival in which each film is accompanied by a score that is performed live on stage. Now in its 35th year, Reel Loud is a running tradition in the Film & Media Studies department that provides student filmmakers with a rare opportunity to showcase their work to a large audience. We invite film industry professionals as judges, work with other student organizations to bring dance and musical performances to the stage, and welcome visual artists to submit their work to be displayed at the event. The festival itself will take place in late May at Campbell Hall, with exact dates to come towards the end of winter quarter.
The submission deadline is May 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM and a Google Form for submissions will be released at a later date. Film and art submission guidelines are attached below.
Follow us on Instagram @reelloudfilmfestival to stay updated and feel free to reach out to us at reello...@gmail.com if you have any questions about the festival, theme, or submission process.
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12) Last chance: 30%
discount on tickets to Climate
Solutions Now
(Feb 23-27) through Feb 25. This virtual Cal Poly event is open
to the general
public!
This virtual Cal Poly event is open to the general public – all
are
welcome! Please share with your students and colleagues. Also,
please note that
any conference ticket provides access to all recordings from the
conference.
GET YOUR TICKETS (use the code FINAL30 to save 30% on an all-access student or general tickets through 2/25 at midnight)
Students can attend for free (see below).
Please help us put these opportunities in
front of as many
students as possible, by sharing this email, assigning
attendance of talks
to your classes (see below on how to get free tickets for
students), or posting
the graphics below. Our goal is to get students working on
climate solutions.
Over 80 talks will take place across 5 days on 12 tracks:
Agriculture and Carbon Farming
The Built Environment
Business Sustainability
Campus Sustainability
Climate Communications
Energy
Environmental Justice
Policy
Rights of Nature
Science and Education
Waste
Water and Oceans
Browse a few of our 80+ talks across 12 tracks:
"Lessons from political psychology: A toolkit for the modern citizen" with Catherine Garton from Stanford University
"The Winning Playbook: How Top Companies Actually Make Sustainability Pay Off" with Janice Lao from Bard College
"Freedom to Invest: Protecting Investors and Companies Ability to Invest and Operate Responsibly" with Andrew Collier from Freedom to Invest (Ceres)
"Sustainability for Competitive Advantage" with Alison Taylor from NYU Stern School of Business
"It's the Plastic... and You're Covered In It!" with Rebecca Burgess from Fibershed
"Climate Justice & Legal Accountability: The US in Global Perspective" with Nikki Reisch from Center for International Environmental Law
"Charting Your Path to a Sustainability-Focused Career" with Kalan Guiley (Boeing) and Jo Machesky (US EPA) from the Engineering for One Planet Network
“Primetime in a Warming World: Can Medical Dramas Save Lives?” with Dr. Anirudh Tiwathia from Rare's Entertainment Lab
"Regenerative Mycotecture: Using fungi to build and repair ecosystems" with Chris Maurer from Redhouse Studio Architecture
Students can attend for free!
Here’s how:
Assign participation to your students, in
some form.
E.g., offer some extra credit if they attend 3 sessions and
write a 4-sentence
synopsis of what they learned.
**We are charged for every ticket sold, even when free, and this is a fundraiser event. As such, we ask that you please incentivize your students to attend a minimum of a few talks accordingly.
Request free access through this form: https://forms.gle/Ri7aeiLtY4vydU8S8
You will receive a password for your students to get free tickets.
Recordings of the talks will be available via the event site until May 20.
Questions, contact Climate Solutions Now <climateso...@calpoly.edu>
-- Eric D. Zimmerman (he/him) Student Services Manager, Lecturer Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara To schedule a Zoom advising appointment visit: https://tinyurl.com/8nrcckds "Work Hard ~ Play Harder!"
