A team of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a planet orbiting another star, revealing secrets of air temperatures and water. The following news release by hubblesite.org was posted on October 9, 2014, with the title above: The map provides information about temperatures at different layers of the world’s atmosphere and traces the amount and...
Read MoreUCSB Geography faculty members Daniel R. Montello, Werner Kuhn, Krzysztof Janowicz, and Helen Couclelis, as well as graduate students Grant McKenzie, Song Gao, Jiue-an Yang, and Bo Yan (not to mention several alumnae), took part in the Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2014) in Vienna, Austria, held September 23-26, 2014. “GIScience 2014 continues a highly successful series of...
Read MoreA study from UCSB’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis evaluates reef corals’ ability to persist over various time scales. The following is a UCSB Science and Technology press release by Julie Cohen, writing for The Current on October 1, 2014 and with the title above: Contrary to the popular research-based assumption that the world’s coral reefs are doomed, a new longitudinal study from UC Santa...
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