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Note: Professor Keith Clarke has been on sabbatical at the Department of Information Science, City University of London since last September. In March, he moves to Trieste in Italy. He will return to UCSB mid-June of this year. When I first thought of a sabbatical in London, I had images of long afternoons sipping tea in my office, pondering the great next thing in Geography, and warmly anticipating a pie and a pint for dinner while...

Alumnus Carlos de Souza Jr. received his PhD in 2005 (“Mapping and Spatiotemporal Characterization of Degraded Forests in the Brazilian Amazon through Remote Sensing”— Dar Roberts, Chair), and is now the Executive Secretary and a Senior Researcher at the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment (Imazon) in his native Brazil. Imazon is a private institute dedicated to promoting sustainable development in the...

In 1975, a major new venture was undertaken in the wholesale reconstitution of the Geography department under Professor David Simonett, a distinguished geographer from Australia. Within five years, the staff of five faculty members, all but one of them hired in 1975, had doubled to ten, extramural research funds had reached the level of $650,000 annually, and the graduate program was expanding rapidly (approval to offer the doctorate...