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Two current members (Dr. Andrew Hoell and Dr. Colin Kelley) and one former member (Dr. Amy McNally, ’13, now at NASA Goddard) of the UCSB Geography Climate Hazards Group traveled to the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) in Dubai, UAE May 8-9 to meet with US and regional partners about food and water security monitoring in the Middle East and Africa. This meeting was an opportunity for US based researchers to...

UCSB Geography Professor Keith Clarke has been invited to present his paper, “The Missing Decade of Remote Sensing History: Corona and the Late 20th Century” at the Philip Lee Phillips Annual Conference of the Map Society of the Library of Congress. The conference, “From Terra to Terabytes: The History of 20th Century Cartography and Beyond,” will be held in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress in...

The following is a UCSB news article posted by Julie Cohen in The Current on May 8 with the title above: At a talk in UCSB’s Campbell Hall, radioactive isotope expert Ken Buesseler will share his expertise on the fallout expected to arrive on the West Coast later this year. The March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami and subsequent radiation releases at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were unprecedented events...