Noozhawk, a Santa Barbara online publication, recently featured an article about UCSB by Shawn Warner-Garcia, a PhD student in Linguistics at UCSB. Shawn’s article came out on October 1 and was titled: “Who’s New at UCSB? Meet Several of the Incoming Graduate Students.” One of the incoming students interviewed was Fernanda Figueiredo, a new PhD candidate in Geography. Read on: Fernanda Figueiredo grew up in Brasília, the capital of...
Read MoreGIS Day is the third Wednesday of November in each year, during Geography Awareness Week. As a global event, GIS day provides a great opportunity for GIS researchers and users to exchange ideas and present works to a wide audience. Accordingly, GIS Day is celebrated by many universities, including Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkley, Penn State University, Ohio State University, SUNY Buffalo, and so forth. With a top-ranking program,...
Read MoreA 1974 article by Professor Rick Church and Dr. Charles ReVelle, titled “The Maximal Covering Location Problem,” has been cited 1,484 times (Church, Richard, and Charles R. Velle. “The maximal covering location problem.” Papers in Regional Science 32.1 [1974]: 101-118). It opens by stating: “The belief that mathematical location modeling can identify ‘optimal’ location patterns rests on the basis that some realistic...
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