Posts by geogadmin

“Litter from modern civilization has become so pervasive that scientists conducting the first comprehensive study of its undersea distribution couldn’t find any place they looked, including in some of the deepest oceans, where it didn’t exist. Using video from underwater drones and samples dredged off the seabed, researchers from 16 European organizations say they found rubbish everywhere from the Mediterranean to...

The Dymaxion map (that strange, 20-sided globe) in the Ellison Hall lobby originally belonged to the Buckminster Fuller Institute in Santa Barbara, and when that was moved to Stanford in 1999, the map was given to the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Santa Barbara City College. SBCC gave it to UCSB Geography in 2007, and Geography Professor and Researcher Emeritus Don Janelle built the platform for it (source: personal...

Matt Conway, a UCSB undergraduate majoring in Geography, took first place in the Tom McKnight Undergraduate Paper awards at the 68th Annual Conference of the California Geographical Society, May 2-4, 2014, for his paper presentation titled “Predicting the Popularity of Bicycle Sharing Stations: An Accessibility-Based Approach.” The conference was co-hosted by the Los Angeles Geographical Society and was held in Hollywood...