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UCSB Geography faculty members Daniel R. Montello, Werner Kuhn, Krzysztof Janowicz, and Helen Couclelis, as well as graduate students Grant McKenzie, Song Gao, Jiue-an Yang, and Bo Yan (not to mention several alumnae), took part in the Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2014) in Vienna, Austria, held September 23-26, 2014. “GIScience 2014 continues a highly successful series of...

A study from UCSB’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis evaluates reef corals’ ability to persist over various time scales. The following is a UCSB Science and Technology press release by Julie Cohen, writing for The Current on October 1, 2014 and with the title above: Contrary to the popular research-based assumption that the world’s coral reefs are doomed, a new longitudinal study from UC Santa...

Brazil didn’t do very well in the last World Cup, but it scored big time with admissions to the UCSB Department of Geography this fall. Not counting the joint PhD program with SDSU, 5 of the new international grads are from Brazil – outscoring China which only accounted for 4. The Geography Department’s Fall 2014 Graduate Orientation was held on Monday, September 29, 9:00 to 5:00, and our new grad cohort only had two...