Posts by patty@geog.ucsb.edu


Dr. Shrad Shukla, Dr. Greg Husak,  and Dr. Chris Funk of the Climate Hazards Group have been recently awarded $600,000 by NASA-SERVIR  for a three year project titled “Enhancing Eastern and Southern Africa climate services by increasing access to remote sensing and model datasets”. The primary goal of this project is to support informed agroclimate decision-making (e.g. Food Security related decisions) by local and national...

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Congratulations to Dar Roberts, on recently  being named an American Geophysical Union Fellow, an honor given to individual AGU members who have made exceptional scientific contributions and gained prominence in their respective fields of Earth and space sciences. As quoted by Margaret Leinen, AGU President on the 2016 class of fellows: “…each played a leading role in promoting discovery and developing solutions for a...

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The Geography Department graduating class of 2016 included 67 students, 28 of whom earned the Bachelor of Arts in Geography, 25 earned the Bachelor of Arts in Geography with an emphasis in GIScience, and 14 earned the Bachelor of Science in Physical Geography. In addition to the graduating seniors, awards were given for special achievements in the Geography major. CHAIR’S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN GEOGRAPHY Awarded to the graduating...

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