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The UCSB Geography colloquia series is technically known as Geography 201, “Seminar in Geography,” and is required of all geography graduate students every quarter offered. It consists of a series of seminars on diverse problems in human and physical geography, as well as geographic techniques, by current and visiting faculty and researchers. “Colloquium,” as it is colloquially known today, began in 1979 and...

David López-Carr has been awarded a Faculty Initiative Grant from the Pacific Rim Research Program for his project titled “Developing sustainable fisheries management in the Pacific Rim under changing climate: sustainability, vulnerability, and adaptation.” The Pacific Rim Research Program is a multi-campus program established to encourage Pacific Rim research among the ten University of California campuses. It...

Have you noticed the relatively recent botanic changes to the Ellison Courtyard grounds around Ellison Hall? The delightful transition from a dense mat of overgrown grape ivy to a colorful assortment of clivias, calla lilies, pride of Madeira, day lilies, datura, split leaf philodendrons, and agaves is due to the efforts of Emmer Ruano, the UCSB groundskeeper for our neck of the woods. And Emmer’s grounds are flourishing, thanks...