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Benjamin S. Halpern, a Research Biologist at the Marine Science Institute, has just announced the launch of the Center for Marine Assessment and Planning (CMAP) here at UCSB: CMAP “unites all activities at UCSB related to science, policy, management, use and conservation. These activities share a goal of pursuing effective and efficient ways to sustainably use and protect our ocean ecosystems. CMAP’s overarching mission is...

Dr. Christoph Hoelscher, a cognitive scientist from the University of Freiburg, Germany, is visiting the UCSB Geography department from April until end of June 2011. Christoph is a psychologist by training, and an assistant professor at the Cognitive Science Center in Freiburg. He is a principal investigator on projects in the SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition, Europe’s largest research center on spatial cognition. At the two sites in...

According to Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet (available on our website at Earth Gate, Weekly News) “Some streets in Ishinomaki now flood at high tide as water pours up through cracks in the ground. The massive lurch in the Earth’s surface during March’s disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan sank several coastal communities so low that they are now inundated twice a day on average by the normal rising of the...