Posts by geogadmin

At age 31, a lovelorn Japanese man quit his job in order to trek all the way around Japan in order to propose to his girlfriend – and he did it by using a GPS logger to draw “Marry Me” (with an arrow-pierced heart for punctuation). Yasushi Takahashi mapped out his route and his future in 2008, and the home movie he made of the event not only went viral, but, in 2010, it was also recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as “the...

UCSB Geography Professor Charles Jones is quoted in an article regarding the South American monsoon in the latest AAAS journal Science. An in depth Climate Science summary of the article by Lizzie Wade, titled “Chasing South America’s monsoon,” points out that “When delegates from nearly 200 nations gather in Lima next week to begin laying the groundwork for a new international accord to curb global warming,...

Geography Professor Timothy DeVries demonstrates how climate change might affect the ratio of carbon, oxygen, and nutrients in the subsurface ocean. Julie Cohen, in a science and technology article for The UCSB Current on November 24, 2014, with the tile above, goes on to explain: The ocean is a complex ecosystem. The ocean carbon cycle is governed by the relationship among carbon, nutrients and oxygen, and the ratio between certain...