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Alumnus Landon Romano (BA 1999) leads an exciting and exotic life. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a BA in Geography in 1999, he travelled extensively and then settled in the Bay area where he worked for Veritas Software for over 4 years. He then moved to Waco, Texas in 2006 and enrolled at Baylor University in order to earn an MBA which he completed in 2008, and he has since settled in Pretoria,...

The Climate Hazards Group (CHG) is pleased to announce version 2.0 of their Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) dataset. CHIRPS, a blend of rainfall station observations, satellite temperature data, and climatology fields, first began several years ago as an internal CHG/USGS data product used to place droughts in a historical context. Beginning in May of 2014, the CHG began to release the CHIRPS...

Cagney the rubber rat, our department’s staff mascot and icon of sustainability, has travelled extensively since he made his debut in 2007 (source). He accompanied grad student Laura Harrison to New Zealand that year and information technologist Jon Hall to the US Virgin Islands in 2008, and his latest geographical jaunt has been to Bali where he’s accompanying Mo Lovegreen, our Executive Officer, and her husband Jeff and daughter...