ESRI Press has just announced the publication of a new edition of Notes and Comments on the Composition of Terrestrial and Celestial Maps by J. H. Lambert: “A historically significant work on modern map projections and their mathematical underpinnings. The original German edition introduced several distinct map projections still in use today and revealed the cartographic genius of author J. H. Lambert (1728-77). In 1972, on the...
Read MoreGeorge Foulsham, News Director at the UCSB Office of Public Affairs, just completed a live, in-depth interview with Geography Professor David López-Carr: “Here’s our video interview with David Lopez-Carr, professor of geography at UCSB, after he served as moderator of a symposium titled “Mapping and Disentangling Human Decisions in Complex Human-Nature Systems” during the annual meeting of the American...
Read MoreSeven Geography graduate students have been awarded Dangermond Travel Stipends this year. The funds are used to enable students to present GIS-related work at conferences and workshops. This year’s recipients are: Micah Brachman for a presentation of “Optimizing Safe Routes to Schools” at the AAG Annual Conference in Seattle: “California’s Safe Routes to School (SR2S) construction program funds...
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