Spring Insight is an annual UCSB open house which showcases all the university has to offer to admitted and prospective UCSB students and their families. This year’s event took place on Saturday, April 14, 9 am – 3 pm, and it featured campus sessions, fairs, and tours designed to cover all aspects of undergraduate life at UCSB. The Department of Geography made its presence conspicuous by creating a freestanding poster for...
Read MoreThe following is the opening to a round table discussion by the ocean science community about how GIS meets today’s challenges regarding our oceans. The discussion was initiated by our distinguished alumna Dawn Wright who authored the introductory comments and acts as moderator for the ensuing contributions: “What have we learned after 100 years? On April 15, 1912, more than 1,500 passengers and crew aboard the RMS Titanic...
Read MoreA new paper co-authored by Professors King and McFadden, with colleagues in Minnesota and Germany, was selected as a research highlight in the latest issue of the journal Nature. The results were recently published as a preprint in the journal Ecology. The field study by lead author Sonja Knapp, a postdoc at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Halle, Germany, compared plant diversity in residential yards along an...
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