The Graduate Student Outreach Committee put on a Geography Trivia Afternoon on Friday, April 27 for graduate students, faculty, staff and undergraduates. There were 27 participants altogether: 15 graduate students, 5 faculty, and 7 staff members. The first place team was ‘Remote Senseless’ with graduate students Chris Kibler, David Miller, Sarah Shivers, Cascade Tuholske, and Erin Wetherley. The second place team our faculty team with...
Read MoreDaniel Park, a UC Santa Barbara alum who earned his BA in Geography with an Emphasis in Geographic Information Science (GIS), has been working as an Engineering Aide for Ventura Water (City of Ventura’s Water Resources & Planning Department) for the past year since graduating in Spring 2017. Park has been researching record drawings and geo-referencing them to City’s parcel layers and aerial imagery in order to...
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that Associate Professor of Geography, Joseph P. McFadden, has been awarded the UCSB Distinguished Teaching Award this 2017/18 year. McFadden was one of six Professors to receive this award campus-wide. The Distinguished Teaching Award acknowledges excellence in teaching and excellence in creative and scholarly work. Professor McFadden has demonstrated excellence in teaching across the curriculum:...
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