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Two current members (Dr. Andrew Hoell and Dr. Colin Kelley) and one former member (Dr. Amy McNally, ’13, now at NASA Goddard) of the UCSB Geography Climate Hazards Group traveled to the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) in Dubai, UAE May 8-9 to meet with US and regional partners about food and water security monitoring in the Middle East and Africa. This meeting was an opportunity for US based researchers to...

On Monday, May 12, Geography’s Executive Officer Mo Lovegreen and her sister Kathy Scheidemen, MSO of the Earth Research Institute (ERI), came up with the idea of having a staff GeoHunt competition as part of Staff Appreciation Week. In order to keep things “in house,” they also invited staffers from the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) who share Ellison Hall with us to join in. So, what’s a...

The following is a May 12 public news release from UC Irvine with the title above and subtitled, “Volume of melted ice enough to raise global sea level by 4 feet”: A rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in irreversible decline, with nothing to stop the entire glacial basin from disappearing into the sea, according to researchers at UC Irvine and NASA. The new study presents multiple lines...