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The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) awards the Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship annually in order “to encourage and commend college/university graduate students at the PhD level who display exceptional interest, desire, ability, and aptitude in the field of remote sensing or other related geospatial information technologies, and who have a special interest in developing practical uses of these...

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Geography graduate student Emily de Moor is screening her film “Tar Wars” on Thursday February 6, as part of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF). It will be shown at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art at 10am alongside four other short documentaries. The film was screened on Sunday February 2 to a full audience, despite competing for attention with the Super Bowl later in the day. It also screened at the...

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“The lowest number of monarch butterflies ever recorded in their Mexican winter home has experts worrying about the future of the epic monarch migration. A new report by the World Wildlife Fund and two Mexican agencies says this year’s precipitous plunge in monarch numbers is due to the loss of the insect’s main food: milkweed. Loss of the plant’s habitat to urban sprawl and expanding agriculture is said to be...

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