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The following is an article on the European Space Agency’s web site, dated August 6, 2014 and with the title above: After a decade-long journey chasing its target, ESA’s Rosetta has today become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, opening a new chapter in Solar System exploration. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and Rosetta now lie 405 million kilometres from Earth, about half way between the orbits of...

The following article is from The UCSB Current, written by Julie Cohen, posted July 31, 2014, and titled “Tracking Giant Kelp From Space”: Citizen scientists worldwide are invited to take part in marine ecology research, and they won’t have to get their feet wet to do it. The Floating Forests project, an initiative spearheaded by scientists at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA, is calling on would-be researchers to examine...

As of July 1, 2014, Professor Dan Montello took over as Chairperson of the Department of Geography at UCSB. He succeeds Professor Dar Roberts. Dan joins the rest of the department in thanking Dar for the able leadership and generous service he provided for 4+ years. Dan is the 11th Chair since David Simonett led the effort to create the modern Department of Geography in the mid-1970s. A few thoughts from the new Chair:...