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Geography graduate student Kitty Currier wrote the following description of her attempt to supplement her SCUBA-based observations of reefs and fish populations by using kite aerial photography (KAP) as a relatively inexpensive means of generating high-resolution aerial imagery for her marine research: I’ll be the first to admit that there are worse things than six weeks of fieldwork in the South China Sea. If the work happens...

On May 11th, 2011 Geography graduate student Kate Deutsch accompanied the dean of the UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division, Gail Morrison, as well as the campus government relations representative and one other graduate student, on a trip to Sacramento to meet with California Legislators during a UC Graduate Research Advocacy day. Two graduate students from each of the ten UC campuses were selected to discuss the impact of their...

The following is a media announcement by Duke University: Improvements in fishing equipment seem to be preventing lethal ‘bycatch.’ The number of sea turtles accidentally caught and killed in fishing gear in United States coastal waters has declined by an estimated 90 percent since 1990, according to a new study by researchers at Duke University Project GloBAL (Global By-catch Assessment of Long-lived Species) and...