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Geography graduate students Mike Alonzo, Forest Cannon, and Susan Meerdink received Outstanding Student Paper Awards (OSPA) at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting which was held in San Francisco, 15-19 December, 2014. Typically, only the top 3-5% of presenters in each section/focus group are awarded an OSPA. With nearly 24,000 attendees and more than 1,700 sessions, the AGU Fall Meeting is the largest and most prestigious...

Geography Professor Rick Church has been selected to be President of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) for 2015. NARSC is “an international scholarly organization that focuses on regional analysis, ranging from urban and spatial economic theories to applied problems and public policies in regional development, sustainability, environmental management, transportation, land use and many other contemporary issues...

“UC Santa Barbara takes outreach to a new level, with a variety of programs that extend the campus’s impact to a host of communities — and countries.” George Foulsham, writing for The UCSB Current, December 22, 2014, goes on to laud UCSB’s outreach efforts in an article titled “Shaping the Future.” One of 2014’s many UCSB outreach programs and events that Foulsham highlights is the Department of Geography’s celebration of...