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News Flash: On November 12, 2015, UCSB Geography Professor Rick Church gave the Presidential Plenary talk at the 62nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (NARSC) in Portland, OR. The title of his talk was “Tobler’s Law and Spatial Optimization,” explaining how principles of Tobler’s First Law of Geography could be used to improve the formulation of models for spatial...

A 2015 GIS Day@UCSB celebration was held on Nov. 18th, 2015, during Geography Awareness Week. As a global event, GIS Day provides a great opportunity for GIS users, researchers, and industry engineers to exchange ideas and to present works to a wide audience in order to facilitate spatial thinking and the use of GIS in our local community. To celebrate this special day for spatial studies, Geography PhD candidate Song Gao organized a...

Geography Professor and Chair Dan Montello reflects upon the discipline and the importance of Geography today: Something everyone should know about Geography is what a fascinating and relevant academic discipline it is. But I think the average person is often unaware of this. So many people seem to labor under outdated impressions that Geography is just a descriptive discipline, that it focuses exclusively on mapping and naming earth...