Although the economy remains troubled and UC budgets do not look likely to improve in the near term, good news continues to echo down the halls of UCSB Geography. A number of faculty won prestigious awards, including Oliver Chadwick who was elected as Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Mike Goodchild who was named a Fellow of the University Consortium of Geographical Information Science, and Catherine Gautier who was elected a...
Read MoreThe following article is from the United Nations Environment Programme’s web site: Bergen, 22 November 2011. The UNEP/CMS Thesis Award has been conferred today to British biologist, Dr. Lucy E. King, whose research on reducing conflict between humans and elephants has triggered quite a buzz in Kenya. Her research, based on the fact that elephants are scared of being stung by bees, has led to an innovative beehive fence that is...
Read MoreWe feel “up” when we’re happy and “down” when we’re sad, Christians talk about up in heaven and down in the pit of hell, and Billy Joel’s downtown man covets an uptown girl. The north-south bias is a spatial metaphor that applies to real estate on many global levels: “Metaphors are used to help people understand abstract concepts in terms of perceptual experiences (e.g., “feeling...
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