Posts by geogadmin

Professor Emerita Catherine Gautier-Downes has been in Paris during the  2015 Paris Climate Conference, acting as a Special Correspondent for the Santa Barbara Independent. As an introduction to her reports, she commented: “The 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held in Paris Nov 30 – Dec 11, 2015. Its goal is to achieve a legally binding and universal...

The following is an AAG staff article posted December 7, 2015: Janet Franklin (PhD 1988), a professor in Arizona State University’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This recognition adds to a growing list of honors for Franklin, including election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014 and selection as an ASU Regents’ Professor in...

The following is an article originally posted by Emily Upton on April 15, 2013 with the title above: There are several different ways of thinking about how many continents there are, with models ranging from 4 to 7 continents. However, in most English speaking countries, as well as other nations around the world, the 7-continent model is taught. Using this model, the continents of the world in order of size (descending) are: Asia,...