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Geography alumnus Ross Gerrard knows a lot about spatial relations, on and off the dance floor! Ross got his PhD in 1995 (“The Location of Service Facilities Using Modeling Sensitive to Response Distance, Facility Workload, and Demand Allocation”), worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCSB’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis until 1998, and is now an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Geography.  When he’s...

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The Fall 2006 Geography Newsletter has finally been mailed to approximately 2000 alumni and friends of the Department. It should arrive in the next few days, but, if you don’t receive a newsletter in the mail and would like one, please contact the Editor, Bill Norrington, at . You can also download a pdf version of the Fall Newsletter here. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our Newsletter, especially Natalie Wong for her...

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Maral Tashjian, our third Geography undergrad to receive a National Geographic Society Internship in the last two years, just sent the following letter to the Department (Maral, second from the right, is pictured with all the other NG interns in front of the AAG headquarter in DC):  Greetings from National Geographic!  It has been an exciting 3 months in the capital, working away at this amazing organization. Like Katy...

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