Posts by geogadmin

The following is the transcript used by Geography Chair Dan Montello while presenting the annual awards during the Department’s final Colloquium on May 28, 2015: The department gives five major graduate student awards: Excellence in Teaching, Excellence in Research, the Leal Anne Kerry Mertes Scholarship Award, the David S. Simonett Memorial Award, and the Jack & Laura Dangermond Graduate Fellowship. They all come with cash...

The following is a Wired.com article written by Betsy Mason and posted on May 22, 2015: An unprecedented effort to map the seafloor bordering California’s coastline has produced some of the most detailed, beautiful, and useful maps of an underwater landscape ever made. No fewer than 18 state and federal agencies and institutions led by the US Geological Survey banded together to make these maps. A staggering amount of work went...

The following article was written by Sarah Mirk for Yes Magazine and posted May 12, 2015: California is running dry. The drought continues to gain national attention with its fourth year of record-low rainfall. But to many people living in mostly rural, low-income communities, water scarcity is nothing new. One and a half million Californians have toxic, fertilizer-laced water pouring from their taps—runoff from farmland that...