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Grad student Pam Dalal has been awarded a major University of California Transportation Center Dissertation Grant for the Spring 2011 award cycle. “Competition for this round of UCTC dissertation grants was strong,” according to UCTC Director Robert Cervero, who added that “You might have heard that funding for USDOT’s University Transportation Centers (UTC) program, which includes UCTC, has been discontinued...

Professor Arthur Getis, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Emeritus, at San Diego State University, recently sent the following observation to UCSB Geography: “I have spoken about the transmission of infectious diseases on a couple of occasions in the Department of Geography at Santa Barbara. Now, with climate change so prominent in our minds, there is a need to know the extent of tropical disease spread. Research has begun...

The following is from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean.org: A high-level international workshop convened by IPSO met at the University of Oxford earlier this year. It was the first inter-disciplinary international meeting of marine scientists of its kind and was designed to consider the cumulative impact of multiple stressors on the ocean, including warming, acidification, and overfishing. The 3 day workshop,...