Cal Poly Pomona hosted the 2014 University of California Transportation Center Student Conference on April 17 and 18. The conference was well-attended – kudos to the Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter at Cal Poly Pomona and the chair of the UCTC student conference Hector Salcedo for a job well done. Many thanks also go to the faculty advisor of the transportation students at Cal Poly, Professor Xudong Jia....
Read MoreThe following is an American Geophysical Union joint release of 17 April 2014 with the title above that features the research of alumni Phil Dennison and Max Moritz: Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years – a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to become more severe in the coming decades, according to new...
Read MoreThe Association of American Geographers (AAG) held its Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, April 8-12, 2014, and featured over 4,500 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, experts, and researchers. The AAG annual meeting has been held every year since the association’s founding in 1904. The UCSB Department of Geography was well-represented at this year’s meeting: Graduate student Andrew...
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