The following article was written by Brian Kahn for Climate Central and was posted on June 1, 2015 with the title above: Let’s see if you can guess the source for the following quote. “We want to be a part of the solution and deliver energy to society sustainably for many decades to come.” If you guessed a major solar, wind, or renewable energy company, you’d be wrong. If you guessed six of the world’s...
Read MoreThe following is a Wired.com article written by Betsy Mason and posted on May 22, 2015: An unprecedented effort to map the seafloor bordering California’s coastline has produced some of the most detailed, beautiful, and useful maps of an underwater landscape ever made. No fewer than 18 state and federal agencies and institutions led by the US Geological Survey banded together to make these maps. A staggering amount of work went...
Read MoreThe following is the transcript used by Geography Chair Dan Montello while presenting the annual awards during the Department’s final Colloquium on May 28, 2015: The department gives five major graduate student awards: Excellence in Teaching, Excellence in Research, the Leal Anne Kerry Mertes Scholarship Award, the David S. Simonett Memorial Award, and the Jack & Laura Dangermond Graduate Fellowship. They all come with cash...
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