Graduate students Laura Harrison and Danqing Xiao have received Dangermond Travel awards for the Fall Quarter. These travel expense awards are made available thanks to the generosity of Jack and Laura Dangermond and are used to help students present GIS-related work at conferences and workshops. Laura will be attending the World Climate Research Programme Open Science Conference: Research in Service to Society in Denver, CO, 24-28...
Read MoreThe following is from the 28 September insciences.org article “New analysis confirms sharks are in trouble”: Sharks are in big trouble on the Great Barrier Reef and worldwide, according to an Australian-based team who have developed a world-first way to measure rates of decline in shark populations. “There is mounting evidence of widespread, substantial, and ongoing declines in the abundance of shark populations...
Read MoreThe Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) was the first green fee in the UC system. It was created by UCSB students in the spring of 2006 with a charge to “reduce the University’s impact on the environment.” Students voted with an overwhelming majority to pay $2.60 per quarter, contributing approximately $182,000 a year towards TGIF. The fee was renewed in the spring of 2010 for another four years. One of the first projects...
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