Posts by patty@geog.ucsb.edu

Congratulations to Geography PhD student Kate Voss, who was recently named a 2016 Switzer Fellow. According to the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, The Switzer Fellowship Program “offers one-year Fellowships to highly talented graduate students in New England and California whose studies and career goals are directed toward environmental improvement and who clearly demonstrate leadership in their field. The Fellowship...

Waldo Tobler GIScience Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Award for scientific advancement in the disciplines of Geoinformatics and/or Geographic Information Science. The prize recognizes the work of UCSB Geography Emeritus Professor Waldo Tobler, who introduced innovative methods based on digital technologies into geographic research beginning in the 1960s that emphasized theory, mathematical modeling and dynamic...

Nearly 400 people attended the first ever Esri Science Symposium as part of both the UC and the GIS Education conferences [hosted by Esri Chief Scientist and UCSB Geography alumna Dawn Wright]. A very stimulating and enjoyable time was had by all. Here are some resources to visit: Esri blog post announcing the symposium Keynote of Dr. Margaret Leinen, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and President of the American...