News Archive

The UCSB Geography Newsletter is a biannual production, and electronic mailings occur in spring and fall each year. And, yes, both publication dates are calculated to “brand” the Department and to encourage donations (just before Christmas and just before tax filing). You can download a PDF of the fall edition here. The content of each Newsletter revolves around major Departmental news items since the last mailing and also...

At the current deforestation pace, 57 percent of species could be threatened, a new study suggests. The following is a sciencenews.org news flash by Chris Samoray, posted November 20, 2015 with the title above: Between 36 and 57 percent of all tree species in the Amazon probably meet International Union for Conservation of Nature standards for being a threatened species, new findings show. Under current deforestation trends where 40...

A 2015 GIS Day@UCSB celebration was held on Nov. 18th, 2015, during Geography Awareness Week. As a global event, GIS Day provides a great opportunity for GIS users, researchers, and industry engineers to exchange ideas and to present works to a wide audience in order to facilitate spatial thinking and the use of GIS in our local community. To celebrate this special day for spatial studies, Geography PhD candidate Song Gao organized a...