An April 10 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Inventing the Science of Geographic Information Puts a Professor on the Map” by Tushar Rae features UCSB Geography’s Mike Goodchild. It begins by stating: “To say that Michael Goodchild, a professor of geography and the first appointee to the newly created Jack and Laura Dangermond endowed chair at the University of California at Santa Barbara, is...
Read MoreThe following is a press release from the International Pacific Research Center of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. The complete April 5 article, titled “Where Will the Debris from Japan’s Tsunami Drift in the Ocean?” can be found here. The powerful tsunami triggered by the 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake destroyed coastal towns near Sendai in Japan, washing...
Read MoreGeography graduate student Heather Berry is one of just 2000 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship winners this year. “The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce in the United States. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and...
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