Posts by geogadmin

Willie McBride graduated in 2012 with Outstanding Achievement as a Geography Major (awarded to students graduating with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher), and his quest for outstanding achievements continues – he’s now in training with a friend, Dane Wilson, to make the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team of the 49er Skiff. “The 49er’s name comes from its hull length of 4.99 meters. It incorporates ideas developed in...

UCSB Geography graduate student Song Gao has landed a Software Engineering Summer Internship at the Apple Maps Group. He was inspired to apply by an Apple job posting for a Data Scientist on Linkedln. The job description was a good match for Song’s research interests and skills, particularly regarding large-scale data mining and GIS processing (check out the March 14 article about his frontier research in spatial computing using...

The return of Jaws? The following is an extract from a NOAA Fisheries Service Newsroom article, dated June 11, 2014 and with the title above: White sharks are among the largest, most widespread apex predators in the ocean, but are also among the most vulnerable. A new study, the most comprehensive ever on seasonal distribution patterns and historic trends in abundance of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the western North...