Posts by geogadmin

The answer to the question of why these adorable tree huggers act the way they do has to do with keeping cool. Humans sweat and use evaporation to keep cool, many animals do something similar by panting or licking their fur, and almost all animals take advantage of the shade from trees. But koalas take things a step further. In an article in the Royal Society’s Biology Letters, a team of Australian and American researchers...

Dar Roberts became the Chair of the UCSB Department of Geography in September 2009, and he will hand over the reins to Dan Montello on June 30, 2014. As a token of appreciation for Dar’s service, Geography personnel chipped in to buy him a present which was presented to him at the last Geography Colloquium of the Spring Quarter (5/29). Dylan Parenti, our IT head honcho, came up with the idea of getting four Loge VIP seat tickets...

The following article, with the title above, is by Marianne Lavelle, writing for The Daily Climate, a nonprofit news service covering climate change, and a Climate Central content partner: Any Montana angler worth a double-haul cast knows that the iconic state fish, the westslope cutthroat trout, has been crowded out by the non-native rainbow trout, first introduced to these rivers by well-meaning sportsmen in the 1880s. Now those...