The following article, titled “Volvo Environment Prize 2014 – another Geographer wins this prestigious award!” is from the International Geographical Union online: Following the success in 2013 of former IGU Vice-President Qin Dahe, the 2014 Volvo Environment Prize has again been awarded to a Geographer. Professor Eric Lambin, is a remote sensing pioneer using advanced data collection and satellite images to...
Read MoreAt age 31, a lovelorn Japanese man quit his job in order to trek all the way around Japan in order to propose to his girlfriend – and he did it by using a GPS logger to draw “Marry Me” (with an arrow-pierced heart for punctuation). Yasushi Takahashi mapped out his route and his future in 2008, and the home movie he made of the event not only went viral, but, in 2010, it was also recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as “the...
Read MoreGeography Professor Timothy DeVries demonstrates how climate change might affect the ratio of carbon, oxygen, and nutrients in the subsurface ocean. Julie Cohen, in a science and technology article for The UCSB Current on November 24, 2014, with the tile above, goes on to explain: The ocean is a complex ecosystem. The ocean carbon cycle is governed by the relationship among carbon, nutrients and oxygen, and the ratio between certain...
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