Posts by geogadmin

“Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered. The tools, whose makers may or may not have been some sort of human ancestor, push the known date of such tools back by 700,000 years; they also may challenge the notion that our own most direct ancestors were the first...

The following is an advisory from Pam Lombardo, UCSB Acting Associate Vice Chancellor, Administrative Services, emailed to the campus community on May 21, 2015: We are writing to update our community on the most recent news concerning the spill and the efforts to contain and clean up the oil and to share links to additional information. The U.S. Coast Guard working with federal, state and local agencies continues to oversee the...

The following article is by Professor Emerita Catherine Gautier, posted May 20, 2015 with the title above: California is undergoing a record-setting drought that began in 2012, the worst in at least 1,200 years. It can be seen in many ways: most of the freshwater reservoirs are drying up, crops are wilting in the fields, and groundwater is rapidly depleting. Whatever definition is used for drought, based on meteorological,...