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UCSB Geography Professor David López-Carr and graduate student Jessica Marter-Kenyon have just had an article published in Nature (Nature, 517, 265–267 [15 January 2015]; doi:10.1038/517265a), titled “Human adaption: Manage climate-induced resettlement.” The authors argue that governments need research and guidelines to help them to move towns and villages threatened by global warming. Excerpts: Inupiaq people are watching in horror...

The Transportation Research Board’s 94th Annual Meeting, January 11-15, moved to a new venue this year, the Washington Convention Center which has greater capacity. It attracted more than 12,000 registered participants, and over 5400 papers were presented. Paper presentation acceptance is now at about 65% (requires a 7500 word paper by August 1st; each paper is reviewed by three to six reviewers and is re-submitted in November...

UCSB Geography alumna Mei-Po Kwan (PhD 1994; Golledge, Committee Chair) and alumnus Sergio Rey (PhD 1994; Anselin, Committee Chair) each received the 2015 Outstanding Service Award from the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group. Li An, the SAM Chair and a professor at San Diego State University congratulated them as follows: “Congratulations to Drs. Mei-Po Kwan from the...