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The following article was kindly written by James Chan, PhD (Geography) at the request of the editor: There are many business opportunities for people with geography degrees. I have three degrees in geography and 33 years of working experience in the business world. I’d like to share my real-life experience and hope that it will offer insights and incentives to those who contemplate a career in business. Let me present my story...

UCSB’s Climate Hazards Group developed a satellite-based rainfall monitoring dataset to support the early detection of drought globally. Julie Cohen, science and technology writer for The UCSB Current, reports (May 14, 2014): Using modern weather satellites to monitor rainfall has become a robust, widely practiced technique. However, establishing a reliable context for relating space-based rainfall observations to current and...

On Monday, May 12, Geography’s Executive Officer Mo Lovegreen and her sister Kathy Scheidemen, MSO of the Earth Research Institute (ERI), came up with the idea of having a staff GeoHunt competition as part of Staff Appreciation Week. In order to keep things “in house,” they also invited staffers from the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) who share Ellison Hall with us to join in. So, what’s a...