A recent Surfer Magazine article, “Top Ten Surfing Colleges: A Guide To Getting Waves While Getting Your Degree,” rates UCSB the #1 surf college in the U.S.: “After poring over university pamphlets, surf reports, and statistics—taking into consideration surf proximity and quality, academics, cost, and lifestyle—we narrowed down America’s surf-friendly four-year schools to this hallowed bunch. And...
Read MoreThe fifth edition of Professor Keith Clarke’s popular text, Getting Stated with Geographic Information Systems, is now available in a Korean language edition published by Sigma Press, Inc. The English version, published by Pearson Education, Inc., is described as follows: “Designed to make the complexity of this essential high-tech field accessible to beginning students, this text provides a basic, non-technical, and...
Read MoreSatellite tracking of 16 humpback whales migrating across the oceans between 2003 and 2010 revealed that the cetaceans can swim legs of their journeys of more than 4,000 miles with unswerving accuracy, despite weather and ocean currents. Most of the whales maintained almost dead-straight courses during their seasonal migrations, often deviating by less than one degree and never more than about five degrees. The findings, published in...
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