Santa Barbara News-Press: April 21, 2020

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or years, Santa Barbara has been an epicenter for the COURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO environmental movement. While the concerns over the Santa Maria Highfew graduate ecosystem came to a head in the late 1960s, were Bryan Barriga more apparent than the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, which sent more than 21,000 gallons of crude down the California coast. Since then, the county has rallied behind conservation, acting as one of the first areas to embrace Earth Day in 1970. Some 50 years later, the commitment continues, though admittedly a little different than Santa COURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO Barbara’s initial activists might Santa Maria High graduate Bryan Barriga have imagined. To honor the event’s anniversary on April 22, the Community Environmental Council will take their annual Earth Day By MITCHELL WHITE festival online. What’s typically NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER a weekend celebration at Alameda Park will now be a one-day ryan Barriga admits PHOTO he COURTESY livestream beginning at noon on didn’t have the typical Kenny Loggins will perform as Wednesday, available to view at childhood experience. part of Earth Day festivities. SBEarthDay.org. When he was Bryan’s father was Learn more on4,page A4. The adapted celebration, diagnosed with Meniere’s disease, known as the #Together- a disorder of the inner ear, and has WeEarthrise Earth Day Live Festival, be CEC’s only obbeenwill unable to work ever since. At 7, his mother and younger sister were servance of Earth Day this year. While the nonprofit’s in-perdeported tothe Mexico. son gathering had been rescheduled to July, postponed “I think it justof drove me,” Bryan By MITCHELL WHITE festivities quickly became harder to plan as rumors extendtold the News-Press during a recent NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER ing social distancing measures circulated around town. phone “I knew that I needBut not to worry, CEC’s Earth Day teaminterview. have pulled out all ed to have a better future for my ryan Barriga admits heparthe stops, ensuring the festival’s usual tenets remain. ents and I justhave wanted totypical help them didn’t the “In some regards, there’s the same flavor running through out. They’ve done soexperience. much for me just childhood it from the in-person event,” saidso Sigrid Wright, CEC CEO. I could have an education.”

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A NEWS-PRESS SERIES:“That’s SMALL BUSINESS SANTA BARBARA toThose detectrevelations the hidden beginning of “Our data platform were shared by Kathy Janega-Dykes, pres- enables the passive collec- they produce right now,” Alessio Signorini, one Alzheimer’s? tion and deep analysis of continuous behavior of the company’s co-founders, told the NewsBy MARILYN MCMAHON ident and CEO of Visit Santa Barbara, Thursday afternoon on Or if the type of mobile phone or smartwatch data alongside traditional healthcare information, Press. “You would be surprised how much data NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER the first-ever webinar hosted by the UCSB Economic Forecast you use could reveal how adherent you are to empowering individuals and innovative compa- a smartphone would produce for health. Good Project. certain medications? What if the wearable data nies to understand and influence the everyday kind of data.” eeding early warnings about a possible influx of The video callchanges examined impact onthat local tour- better health outcomes,” you compile could show inthe thepandemic’s spread behaviors create The devices in use produce millions of data COVID-19 patients, the staff at Marian Regional hospitality and business lending, and the provided a number of states. of the fluism, virus across the country? company’s website points. Medical Center began preparing the Santa Maria sobering statistics. These are some of the questions that Evidation The research projects take on a wide variety “There are all these opportunities that before hospital in early March. In a typical year, visitor spending injects— about $2 billion By WHITE and behavior data. Health seeks toMITCHELL answer. from quality ofinto life, sleep and social patterns, to track and monitor the recovery period from a we didn’t have,” said Dr. Signorini. “There is all The focus was on patient care until Sarah Phillips, a theNEWS-PRESS local economy and generates ofThe $56 million in tax STAFF WRITER technology was developed in Santa Bar- surgery, or even what sleep patterns can tell you The Santa Barbara-based company, at upwards 15 W. multiple sclerosis, heart defects, disease progresthis history of you, which is awesome to undercritical care unit clinical educator, realized that the harbara and is maintained by a local data science Figueroarevenues St., doeswhile cutting-edge research using sion, anxiety, behavior data and more. supporting more than 13,500 jobs, Ms. Jandeabout your overall health. how you really feel, what is going on in ried staff would probably need attention, too. hat if a conversation could used team. data fromga-Dykes smartphones, andbe medical Some of the data used for the research is pro- stand said. wearables, “That’s the power of the devices and the data life and (helps) to try and predict what is “There were two waiting areas near the critical care touncover detect the beginning of “Ourbyhas data platform enables theWatch passive devices to newhidden ways tothe understand how duced devices like Fitbit, Apple orcollecsmart- your On a national level, U.S. Travel Association projected they produce right now,” Alessio Signorini, one next,” he said. 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