Posts by geogadmin

Antonsson, Gadal, Halloran, Karaffa, Kelley, Lovegreen, Norrington, Padilla, Parenti, Ponce, Weinberg, Zhang—apart from Patricia Halloran and Ryan Kelley, you wouldn’t think that UCSB Geography staff had much Irish blood (and actually, Ryan is Hungarian, not Irish, but it’s a long story), but that didn’t stop them from celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Not only did all staff wear something green on March 17,...

The following posting introduces recent work on exploring Spatial Cloud Computing and Big Geo-Data Analytics in GIScience research by our grad student Song Gao and his advisor Krzysztof Janowicz and colleagues: The widespread use of location-awareness technologies and social media has enhanced the capability to collect large-scale spatio-temporal-semantic data for analyzing the world. At the same time, the scalable cloud computing...

The following posting, subtitled “A new study by a UCSB oceanographer uses satellite observations to assess the role of the biological pump in global ocean carbon,” is a UCSB Current Science and Technology article by Julie Cohen, posted March 11, 2014, with the title above: Nothing dies of old age in the ocean. Everything gets eaten and all that remains of anything is waste. But that waste is pure gold to oceanographer...