The return of Jaws? The following is an extract from a NOAA Fisheries Service Newsroom article, dated June 11, 2014 and with the title above: White sharks are among the largest, most widespread apex predators in the ocean, but are also among the most vulnerable. A new study, the most comprehensive ever on seasonal distribution patterns and historic trends in abundance of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the western North...
Read MoreUCSB Geography graduate student Song Gao has landed a Software Engineering Summer Internship at the Apple Maps Group. He was inspired to apply by an Apple job posting for a Data Scientist on Linkedln. The job description was a good match for Song’s research interests and skills, particularly regarding large-scale data mining and GIS processing (check out the March 14 article about his frontier research in spatial computing using...
Read More“National Doughnut Day is on the first Friday of June each year, succeeding the Doughnut Day event created by The Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the men and women who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I … A misapprehension has taken hold that the provision of doughnuts to US enlisted men in World War I is the origin of the term “doughboy” to describe US infantry. But, the term was in use as early...
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