Posts by patty@geog.ucsb.edu

We are pleased to welcome the following faculty members to the Geography department: Kelly Caylor comes to UCSB from Princeton University, where he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Environmental Studies Program. At UCSB, he is the Director of the Earth Research Institute and Professor of Ecohydrology in the Department of Geography and the Bren School of...

Professor David López-Carr is PI and co-director of the newly established Center of Expertise on Planetary Health, which is part of a systemwide initiative called the UC Global Health Institute(UCGHI). López-Carr and Woutrina Smith, associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at UC Davis, will lead the charge investigating and initiating responses to challenges resulting from longstanding and emerging conditions such as...

Congratulations to joint UCSB/SDSU PhD student Crystal English, who was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, in the amount of $50,000. This funding supports the project titled “Development of Advanced Computational and Geographic Visualization Methods for Geospatial and Temporal Risk Assessment of Crime”. Again, congratulations to...