The UCSB Alumni Affairs Department wished the entire campus a happy 67th birthday today, Founders’ Day 2011, because the campus was established as part of the University of California system on this day in 1944. It seems appropriate, in the context of such an historical note, to point out that 2011 also marks the 38th anniversary of the UCSB Department of Geography. Actually, UCSB Geography didn’t become an official...
Read MoreThe following is from Tilling, R., Heliker, C., and Swanson, D. (2010). Lö‘ihi: Hawai‘i’s Newest Volcano. In USGS General Information Product 117, Eruptions of Hawaiian Volcanoes—Past, Present, and Future, 2nd edition: If the hot-spot theory is correct, the next volcano in the Hawaiian chain should form east or south of the Island of Hawai‘i. Abundant evidence indicates that such a new volcano exists...
Read MoreThe 2010 report of the first Census of Marine Life marked the first attempt to provide a definitive record of all the species of plants and animals living in the sea, and it revealed that almost 250,000 species have now been identified, while predicting there may be at least another 750,000 still waiting to be discovered beneath the waves. The Census was 10 years in the making, and scientists from around the world identified more than...
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