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Geography began as a “program” at UCSB under the direction of the Dean of College of Letters and Science in 1963, and by 1964, the program had two full-time instructors and offered five classes. A Geography major was established in February 1966, and its first BA was granted in June, but Geography didn’t become an autonomous department until 1974. The following is a description of those turbulent days, taken from an...

UCSB Geography’s Associate Professor Krzysztof Janowicz (“Jano”) is the Principal Investigator on two new grants. The first is a 2-year NSF collaborative proposal titled “EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: Cross-Domain Observational Metadata Environmental Sensing Network (X-DOMES)” (Jano is the UCSB PI; total funding: $55,288). Abstract: Across-domains, agencies and political boundaries, our environment is being continuously...

The following is a press release by The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI ArchPro) of Austria, posted September 7, 2015 and titled “The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project reveals traces of standing stones beneath Durrington Walls super-henge”: The remains of a major new prehistoric stone monument have been discovered less than 3 kilometres from Stonehenge. Using cutting edge,...