Media

Late-spring storm brings cloud cover, rain across Santa Cruz County – Santa Cruz Sentinel

San Francisco’s Fog Could Be a Casualty of Climate Change… But It Could Also Be a Solution – NBC Bay Area – December 28, 2022

Clouds clear for UCSC ‘fog squad’ – Santa Cruz Sentinel – October 1, 2022

The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s Fog – New York Times Interactive Story, September 14, 2022

Wildfire runoff may impede steelhead sense of smell UC Natural Reserve System Newsletter, February 1, 2022

Traces in the Fog – a poem inspired by Peter’s research by Sam Illingworth, Dec. 13, 2019

Marine Fog Brings Mercury Pollution to California Mountain Lions, Earth Island Journal, Jan 13, 2020

Santa Cruz mountain lions found with elevated levels of mercury linked to coastal fog, study finds (Interview with Peter Weiss-Penzias), KSBW Salinas, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Nov. 29, 2019

 TOXIC FOG IS BRINGING DANGEROUS LEVELS OF MERCURY TO CALIFORNIA’S MOUNTAIN LIONS, Newsweek, Nov. 27, 2019

Fog brings poison mercury to Santa Cruz Mountains — mountain lions are suffering, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 26, 2019

Research paper: Marine fog inputs appear to increase methylmercury bioaccumulation in a coastal terrestrial food web, PS Weiss-Penzias, MS Bank, DL Clifford, A Torregrosa, B Zheng, W Lin, C. Wilmers Scientific reports 9 (1), 1-11 2019

Peter Weiss-Penzias speaks on mercury in fog and mountain lions, Dec. 2019, on the Pat Thurston show, KGO San Francisco,

Peter Weiss-Penzias speaks on how his research on methylmercury in fog came to be. KZSC-FM Radio Santa Cruz, CA, November 2018.

Santa Cruz Sentinel article, Ocean fog carries mercury, a neurotoxin, to land, science reveals. August 25, 2017

Interview on ‘America in the Morning’ on the Westwood One Radio Network Jan. 18, 2016

Research paper,  Low cost system detecting fog events and triggering active fog water collector , Aerosol and Air Quality Research, May 2017

NBC Bay Area, Peter Weiss interviewed about air pollution in San Francisco, Is San Francisco’s Building Boom Taking a Toll on Poorest Neighborhoods?, May 25, 2017

Al Jazeera TechKnow documentary, The Science of Water Sustainability, April 22, 2017

Monterey Herald News article, Feb. 19, 2016

Ocean Currents podcast interview of Peter speaking about Hg in fog, Feb 1, 2016

Chemical and Engineering News article Jan. 25, 2016

Half Moon Bay Review news article Jan. 13, 2016

Atlantic Magazine City Lab Blog Post Jan 5, 2016

Popular Mechanics reprint of SF Chronicle news story Jan 4, 2016

San Francisco Magazine article Jan. 4 2016

San Francisco Chronicle article Jan. 4, 2016

Article in BayNature, Dec. 30, 2015

KCBS San Francisco radio story Dec. 26, 2015

Santa Cruz Sentinel Newspaper article Dec. 25, 2015

Science News article Dec. 18, 2015

Good Times Santa Cruz Weekly cover story Dec. 18, 2015

Gizmodo news article Dec. 18, 2015

CNBC news article Dec. 18, 2015

KQED news article Dec. 18, 2015

Popular Science news article Dec. 18, 2015

KION TV Interview   Nov. 12, 2015

Article in Good Times Santa Cruz Weekly: Foggy Notion (October 14, 2015)

NSF Discoveries Article: Mercury-laden fog swirls over coastal California, scientists find August 26, 2015

Article in Santa Cruz Sentinel Newspaper on studying fog water harvesting, August 7, 2015

Lecture given by Peter Weiss-Penzias at Moss Landing Marine Labs, 2014

Original Paper – Weiss-Penzias Total and monomethyl mercury in fog water from the central California coast, 2012

Recent Paper – Ortiz Weiss-Penzias Total and MMHg in terrestrial arthropods from central calif coast Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 2014

Radio Interview – KUSP FM 88.9 Story on Mercury in Fog, 2015

You Tube Video – Investigations of Mercury in Coastal Ocean with Kenneth Coale and MLML scientists on the R/V Pt. Sur

Recent Media Report – Estuary Magazine -MAR 2015 – Fog Hg potential impacts on coastal ecosystems