The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers was held in New York City, February 24-28, and hosted over 7,000 geographers, GIS specialists, and environmental scientists whose 4,000+ presentations, posters, and workshops were dedicated to the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. A paper session titled “Reflections on Geographic Information Science” was held...
Read MoreMany thanks to alumnus John Cloud (PhD 2000) for suggesting the following article, one of several versions of the history of Smokey Bear. As John points out: “The Pacific Coast oil field near Los Padres National Forest” (in the following) which was fired upon by a Japanese submarine in WW II, which led directly to the concept of Smokey Bear, amazingly enough, was actually the Ellwood oil field, next to Goleta and the UCSB...
Read MoreThe following is a press release by The Associated Students Coastal Fund: The Associated Students Coastal Fund recently granted $7,100 to Gray Whales Count, a nonprofit organization centered on the education and research of marine mammals. The primary objective of the project is to monitor the passage of gray whales migrating northbound through the Santa Barbara Channel and to identify any changes that may have been caused by our...
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