“Litter from modern civilization has become so pervasive that scientists conducting the first comprehensive study of its undersea distribution couldn’t find any place they looked, including in some of the deepest oceans, where it didn’t exist. Using video from underwater drones and samples dredged off the seabed, researchers from 16 European organizations say they found rubbish everywhere from the Mediterranean to...
Read MoreMr. Yang Lin (Ph.D. candidate in UCSB Geography) has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) from the NSF Division of Environmental Biology for his proposal, “Quantifying Changes in Lignin Chemistry During Photodegradation Versus Biotic Decomposition Using 2D NMR Spectroscopy.” According to the NSF website: “These grants provide partial support of doctoral dissertation research for improvement...
Read MoreMatt Conway, a UCSB undergraduate majoring in Geography, took first place in the Tom McKnight Undergraduate Paper awards at the 68th Annual Conference of the California Geographical Society, May 2-4, 2014, for his paper presentation titled “Predicting the Popularity of Bicycle Sharing Stations: An Accessibility-Based Approach.” The conference was co-hosted by the Los Angeles Geographical Society and was held in Hollywood...
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