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I am thrilled to be in the Geography department, serving students! I came to UCSB in 2010 with a new career path in mind, along the lines of student affairs management, and everything is falling into place. I started out at the Biomolecular Science and Engineering program as the graduate program assistant (GPA), and six months later, I took on an additional position as the GPA for Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology. I...

The following is a University of Maryland news release, dated August 1, 2014 and titled “UMD/NASA Goddard Instrument to Fly on Space Station: Technology Enables U.S. to Monitor Forest Carbon from Space Station”: NASA has selected a proposal developed by the University of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for a new instrument that will join a growing suite of technologies deployed on the International...

“Between climate change, population growth, urbanization, chronic overuse of freshwater resources, and many other factors, we are heading towards one parched planet. In fact, the U.N. anticipates that 47 percent of the world’s population could be living under severe water stress by 2050. Agriculture is a big piece of the puzzle. Worldwide, over 90 percent of the water humans consume each day is attributable to food...