Posts by geogadmin

Alumna Julie Dillemuth (PhD 2008) has been selected at the subject of the National Council for Geographic Education’s “Member Spotlight” for October 2015. Read on: My first encounter with the NCGE was visiting the website to order The People’s Guide to Spatial Thinking by Diana Stuart Sinton, Sarah Bednarz, Phil Gersmehl, Robert Kolvoord, and David Uttal. I poked around the site and realized that this was a professional society I...

Not really, but you know what I mean. The weather was balmy, the ocean was calm, the food was terrific, and the company was delightful. Seriously, we lucked out on many counts – the temperature dropped a bit after our recent heat wave, the afternoon winds died away, and the water was wonderfully warm. But as for the company and the food, it was pretty much the same – anything but boring! As always, Geography’s fall...

“UC Santa Barbara scientists say record heat and drought are taking a deadly toll on California’s native trees.” The following article in The UCSB Current was written by Jim Logan and posted October 1, 2015, with the title “Hot, Dry and Dying”: If you want to see how hard California has suffered in the drought and record heat, take a stroll through a stand of oaks. You’ll likely see brown patches in the canopies and dead...