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The following is a University of Virginia news release written by Media Relations Associate Fariss Samarrai and posted August 7, 2015 with the title above: In 1884, a delegation of international representatives convened in Washington, D.C. to recommend that Earth’s prime meridian (the north-south line marking zero degrees longitude) should pass through the Airy Transit Circle at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. (A...

Alumnus Jordan Hastings, an accomplished practitioner, manager, and educator, has a diverse background of academic and public-sector experiences in management of geographic/scientific data, and he will be working at the Center for Spatial Studies as Assistant Project Scientist from August to December 2015. Jordan received his PhD in Geography in 2009 while simultaneously employed as the Chief Cartographer and GIS Manager for the...

“UCSB is listed among the top national universities in Washington Monthly’s 2015 rankings; the campus also is lauded as an ‘Access Improver’ for low-income students.” The following article was written by Andrea Estrada for The UCSB Current and was posted on August 24, 2015 with the title “In the Top Echelon”: UC Santa Barbara has moved up a notch in Washington Monthly magazine’s annual National Universities Rankings....