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Alumnus Edward Pultar (PhD 2011) recently announced his company’s latest developments, using the brainchild he and his brother created, Valarm (“Versatile Asset Locator And Remote Monitor”), a powerful software platform for collecting geo-located sensor data: We’re helping an upstream Oil & Gas company monitor their water resources. This fall we teamed up with Esri to perform water monitoring for effective...

The following is an article written for The UCSB Current by Shelly Leachman which was posted January 6, 2015 and titled “It’s Good to Be Green: UC Santa Barbara named nation’s No. 3 ‘Green School’ in new sustainability ranking”: It’s not easy being green, but UC Santa Barbara sure makes it look that way. The campus with an impressive history of environmental efforts and sustainability...

“The Tobler hyperelliptical projection is a family of equal-area pseudocylindrical map projections first described by Waldo R. Tobler in 1973. The imagery used for the map is derived from NASA’s Blue Marble summer months composite, with oceans lightened to enhance legibility and contrast” (source). “Like any pseudocylindrical projection, in the projection’s normal aspect the parallels of latitude are parallel, straight lines....