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Geography Professor Keith Clarke and his gracious wife Margot once again hosted a potluck dinner as an end of year holiday celebration for the Geography Department at their charming and spacious Westside home on Friday, December 5, 2014. The feast got underway at 6:00 pm and ended (presumably) when Margot kicked the last of the guests out. The tradition of faculty hosting year-end dinner parties goes back to the 1990s when the Clarke...

The following letter from our esteemed Chair, Dan Montello, was initially written for the UCSB Geography Fall Newsletter and was titled “What I Did for My Summer Vacation”: It is my pleasure to offer this, my first “Letter from the Chair.” I started in my new position as Chair of the Department of Geography last July. My duties started right away; thus, last summer was even busier than summer normally is. Like for other faculty...

The UCSB GeoTrans Student Union would like to invite you to the 2015 UCCONNECT Student Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara from February 27th to March 1st! The conference co-chairs are Jay Lee and Adam Davis, and the rest of the organizing committee are Carlos Baez, Crystal Bae, Tim Niblett, Nate Isbell, Ted Isbell, and Elizabeth McBride. Their faculty advisor is Konstadinos Goulias who is also the Associate...