Geography graduate student Kate Deutsch has added the President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship to her impressive list of recent awards and accolades. According to the UCSB Graduate Division description, “The President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship provides financial resources to devote full attention to completing the dissertation in a twelve-month period. The award requires a clearly defined, vital mentor...
Read MoreSpatialNews.com Press Release Ocean scientist, geographer, and geographic information system (GIS) author Dawn J. Wright will join ESRI as its chief scientist on October 3, 2011. She will help formulate and advance the intellectual agenda for the environmental, conservation, climate, and ocean sciences aspect of ESRI’s work while also representing ESRI to the national/international scientific community. “As a scientist,...
Read MoreAccording to their recent press release, a delegation of Geotrans researchers from the UCSB Department of Geography, led by Professor Kostas Goulias, has just completed a tour in Greece which included participating in the EUROGEO Conference in Athens, participation in the Transportation Workshop on Advances in Activity-based Modeling workshop for the students and the faculty of the University of the Aegean in Chios, a meeting with the...
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