Dar Roberts became the Chair of the UCSB Department of Geography in September 2009, and he will hand over the reins to Dan Montello on June 30, 2014. As a token of appreciation for Dar’s service, Geography personnel chipped in to buy him a present which was presented to him at the last Geography Colloquium of the Spring Quarter (5/29). Dylan Parenti, our IT head honcho, came up with the idea of getting four Loge VIP seat tickets...
Read MoreIn a panel hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Geography on Wednesday, May 21, UCSB Professor Dan Montello, Brian Thompson of Telegraph Brewing Co., David Walker of Firestone Walker Brewing Co., and Zach Rosen, a local cicerone, discussed the craft beer revolution. The special session was organized by Geography graduate student Sam Prentice, who is teaching California Geography (Geog 148), and was...
Read More“For most of us, crickets are probably most recognizable by the distinctive chirping sounds males make with their wings to lure females. But some crickets living on the islands of Hawaii have effectively lost their instruments and don’t make their music anymore. Now researchers report in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 29 (Pascoal et al.: “Rapid Convergent Evolution in Wild Crickets”) that...
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