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Geography Graduate students fill their summers with unique experiences and educational opportunities. Read of some of the adventures the students shared during the Summer of 2016. David Miller During the summer of 2016 I was a research mentor for the NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), with Professor Dar Roberts of UCSB Geography as the faculty advisor for my group. SARP is an eight-week summer program that allows rising...

Geography Awareness Week 2015 As the year wraps up, we should take a minute to recognize the students and faculty from the Geography Department who worked hard during this year’s Geography Awareness Week (Nov 16-20), sharing their enthusiasm, appreciation, and knowledge of Geography. Geography Awareness Week is an annual celebration held during the third week in November to promote geographic literacy and education, organized by...

The following is a businesswire.com article that was posted December 14, 2015, with the title “AGU Recognizes Esri Contributions to Science”: Dawn Wright (PhD 1994), chief scientist at Esri, will deliver a named honors lecture at the 2015 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 14–18, at the Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California. The AGU Earth and Space Science Informatics Focus Group designated Wright...