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UCSB researchers from several different departments have joined forces and combined their expertise to help assess the potential impacts of the recent Refugio oil spill. The following are extracts relating to the Department of Geography from an article on the subject, written by Andrea Estrada and Shelly Leachman for The UCSB Current, posted May 22, 2015, and titled “Expert Response”: A large group of UCSB scientists,...

Katie Maynard, a UCSB Sustainability Coordinator who is based in the Department of Geography, has received a prestigious Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Award for 2014-2015. The annual awards are named for the former UCSB Dean of Student Residents, Margaret T. Getman, and they recognize university staff, faculty, and departments that have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the general growth and development of students...

UCSB Geography graduate student Sarah Harris took third place in the Graduate Paper Abstract competition at the 69th Annual Conference of the California Geographical Society that was held May 1-3, 2015 at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. The conference featured “excellent research, exemplary cartography, educational workshops and, perhaps best of all, world-class fellowship for geographers from around the Golden State...