News Archive for the Year 2009

Date	Title
December 18, 2009	Church and Davis Elected Fellows of the AAAS
December 16, 2009	All the Best to You and Yours for the New Year!
December 16, 2009	Alumna Shaunna Burbidge Featured in Associated Press Article
December 15, 2009	Chadwick Endows New Geography Scholarship
December 15, 2009	A Geographer Down Under (By Prof. Dar Roberts)
December 11, 2009	The Geography of Christmas
December 9, 2009	Hoover Dam Bypass Nears Completion
December 8, 2009	Fall 2009 Dangermond Travel Awards Announced
December 7, 2009	Goodchild Quoted in New York Times Article on VGI
December 4, 2009	Associated Faculty Member Ed Keller “Gives Back” To Santa Barbara
December 4, 2009	Gargi Chaudhuri Wins UCTC Dissertation Grant
December 3, 2009	Landon Romano Textbook Scholarship Awards for Fall 2009
December 3, 2009	Recent Transportation Studies Are for (well, about) the Birds
November 20, 2009	Outreach: Laguna Blanca School GIS Exercise
November 17, 2009	Professor Montello Returns From Death Valley
November 16, 2009	UCSB Geography News Available As a PDF
November 4, 2009	UCSB-SDSU Grad Wins Inamori Fellowship
November 3, 2009	An Angst of Dissertations
October 26, 2009	Goodchild & Raubal Receive Major NGA Grant
October 26, 2009	The 2009 Geography Fall BBQ
October 26, 2009	McFadden Receives Urban Long-Term Ecological Research Grant
October 22, 2009	Dozier Wins Microsoft Research Award
October 15, 2009	The Geography of Ellison Hall
October 5, 2009	UCSB Geography Well Represented at COSIT
October 1, 2009	Lectures Honor Reginald Golledge
September 29, 2009	Santa Barbara Tsunami Warning
September 29, 2009	The UCSB-SDSU Joint PhD Program in Geography
September 26, 2009	A Rose Is a Rose?
September 26, 2009	Farming From Space: Earth Image of the Week
September 25, 2009	Welcome To Our New Grads!
September 18, 2009	Letter from Stuart Phinn, the First Graduate of the SDSU/UCSB Joint Doctoral Program
September 16, 2009	Fire and the Forest: Fire and Fuels Treatment
September 12, 2009	Hubble Begins a New Decade of Exploration
September 11, 2009	Antarctica’s Blood Falls
September 11, 2009	Geography Faculty Members Receive $0.5 Million NSF-Biocomplexity Grant
September 7, 2009	Spatially Challenged Fruits and Veggies
September 4, 2009	Beer–The Beginning of Civilization?
September 4, 2009	UCSB Ranked Among Top U.S. Universities by Washington Monthly
September 2, 2009	Morning Glory Clouds
September 2, 2009	The Invasion of the Argentine Ants
August 31, 2009	Marine Trash Islands
August 29, 2009	Fire Rainbows
August 26, 2009	UCSB and United Way of Santa Barbara County
August 26, 2009	This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Anthropocene
August 25, 2009	Coming Soon: “Spray-On” Solar Panels
August 21, 2009	UCSB Geography and Chaparral Fires
August 14, 2009	The Golledge Slide Collection (Among Other Things)
August 11, 2009	Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks on August 11-12
August 10, 2009	Why Didn’t Ewe Think of That?
August 7, 2009	“Up Ended” From Different Angles
August 6, 2009	Global Temperature Extremes
July 14, 2009	Mediocrity Is Not an Option
July 4, 2009	Google Street View: Public Photos vs. Privacy
July 1, 2009	Space Station Appearing Nationwide Over July 4 Weekend
June 29, 2009	Three Geography Faculty Listed Among Top 20 IJGISc Downloads in 2008
June 29, 2009	A PC Proposal
June 26, 2009	Tom Pingel Wins UCGIS Student Paper Award and Best Paper Award
June 23, 2009	Love of Surfing Leads to Study of Meteorology
June 22, 2009	A Letter from Rome
June 20, 2009	Golledge Memorial Photos – and More
June 20, 2009	Undulus Asperatus – A New Variety of Cloud?
June 19, 2009	Controlled Burn on Lagoon Island Targets Rip Gut Grass
June 19, 2009	Sicily Gets the Boot
June 18, 2009	Landon Romano – A Global Presence
June 17, 2009	Annual Graduation Reception and Awards for Undergrads
June 15, 2009	Computer Bugs: On The Origin Of Species
June 11, 2009	Triple Laurels for Laurel Suter
June 11, 2009	UCSB in 3D
June 11, 2009	Golledge Featured in the Journal Nature
June 11, 2009	Jennifer King Coauthors Important Article on Photodegradation
June 11, 2009	Stacy Rebich Hespanha Wins President’s Fellowship
June 10, 2009	In the Beginning: UCSB and the Department of Geography
June 8, 2009	Opportunity for West Coast College Students
June 5, 2009	Bremer and Royal Win Fulbright Fellowships
June 5, 2009	Henson and Pingel Win UCTC Fellowships
June 4, 2009	Geog Grads Amass Awards
June 4, 2009	Dissertation Fellowship Facilitates Fieldwork
June 2, 2009	A Giant of Geography Is Gone, But His Legacy Lives On
May 29, 2009	Pultar and Williams Achieve Excellence
May 29, 2009	Geography Outreach: Isla Vista School Science Night
May 29, 2009	Karl Grossner Wins Dual Fellowships
May 28, 2009	UCSB Geography – Dousing the Public with Jesusita Fire Information
May 28, 2009	Sonoma State and UCSB Students Share Geography Honors
May 24, 2009	Moon Rock Competition
May 19, 2009	Marshall Wins Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship
May 19, 2009	Sara Baguskas Wins Converse Fellowship (and more!)
May 13, 2009	Mike Marshall Receives Switzer Fellowship
May 13, 2009	Jesusita Fire Information
May 4, 2009	Felipe Murtinho Wins Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
April 22, 2009	Our Grads Are Great – and Greatly Appreciated!
April 21, 2009	Goulias’ GeoTrans Lab Lands Major Contract
April 20, 2009	The Waldo Tobler Distinguished Lecture in GIScience
April 20, 2009	Kate Deutsch and Nate Isbell Win Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships
April 17, 2009	In Memoriam: The Artwork of Susanna Baumgart
April 14, 2009	Indy Hurt Wins Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
April 14, 2009	California: What’s In a Name?
April 10, 2009	Rick Church Authors Book on Business Site Selection
April 9, 2009	Michael Marshall Selected for AMS Summer Policy Colloquium
April 6, 2009	Ryan Perroy Wins Geomorphology Paper Competition
April 6, 2009	Ted Eckmann on Winning Geography Bowl Team
April 1, 2009	Spatial Thinking: www.teachspatial.org
April 1, 2009	Global Warming Creates Artistic K-12 Meltdown
April 1, 2009	Letter from UCLA Geography
March 30, 2009	Geog Grad Committee Hosts an AAG “Polyester Party”
March 26, 2009	Where Is the World’s Most Complex Border?
March 24, 2009	Rick Church Elected Fellow of the RSAI
March 23, 2009	Keith Clarke Discusses Impacts of Growth on the South Coast
March 19, 2009	2009 Dangermond Travel Awards
March 18, 2009	Who Gives a Hoot about the Ellison Owls?
March 17, 2009	Geographer Reginald Golledge Receives UCSB Faculty’s Top Honor
March 16, 2009	Golledge Elected Fellow of the RSAI
March 16, 2009	Confessions of a Volunteer Tourist
March 5, 2009	G110: Introduction to Meteorology
February 26, 2009	Letter from the Chair – by Oliver Chadwick
February 25, 2009	From Surrealism to GIS
February 18, 2009	The Secret Lives of UCSB Geographers
February 17, 2009	Kate Deutsch Wins AAG Student Paper Competition
February 17, 2009	Raubal Elected to Board of UCGIS
February 12, 2009	Graduate Fundraisers for AAG Party
February 10, 2009	Landon Romano Book Scholarship
February 3, 2009	Chris Funk Uses Satellite Imagery to Forecast African Drought
February 3, 2009	Alumna Selected as Finalist for Nystrom Award
February 2, 2009	José Saleta: Maestro de la Geografía
February 2, 2009	Geotrans Students in the Limelight at Annual TRB Meeting
February 2, 2009	Siegel Elected Fellow of the AGU
January 31, 2009	Community Supported Agriculture Program at UCSB
January 27, 2009	The Santa Barbara Green Flash
January 26, 2009	Keith Clarke in the Top Ten
January 22, 2009	Goulias Lands UC Lab Fees Research Program Grant
January 16, 2009	Gautier Publication Awarded a 2008 ASLI’s Choice – Honorable Mention
January 16, 2009	Katie Maynard Gets Down and Dirty with RecycleMania
January 14, 2009	Janelle Awarded AAG Honors for Distinguished Service
January 9, 2009	VIPER 411
January 7, 2009	Dawn Wright Named Fellow of AAAS
January 6, 2009	The Adventures of Crocodile Dardee Roberts