Posts by geogadmin

A recent Plos One article, titled “Plastic Pollution in the World’s Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea,” has attracted a lot of attention, if only because of the magnitude of the measured debris problem. But the volume of plastic debris estimated by the study is only part of the problem. Not only are the study’s numbers admittedly conservative, but the results...

The following is a News Release from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, dated December 4, 2014, and titled “Evidence Suggests California’s Drought is the Worst in 1,200 Years”: As California finally experiences the arrival of a rain-bearing Pineapple Express this week, two climate scientists from the University of Minnesota and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have shown that the drought of 2012-2014 has...

As of early December 2014, MIT Press has released the new book edited by Dan Montello, Karl Grossner, and Donald G. Janelle, titled Space in Mind: Concepts for Spatial Learning and Education. Dan is Professor and Chair of our Department of Geography; Karl is a geographer (with his PhD from UCSB) and Digital Humanities Research Developer at Stanford University; and Don is former Program Director of the Center for Spatial Studies here...