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The attached is a picture of the biggest summer squash that your editor has grown to date this year. It detached itself from the fig tree it had climbed up and was hanging from when its stem finally broke on December 7. The squash weighed in at 35.1 pounds (or, as my Welsh wife likes to put it, about two and a half stone).   If you’re wondering why I look so serious, it’s because I was worrying about what to do with...

Geography staff member Katie Maynard, the UCSB Sustainability Coordinator, has brought recycling in Ellison Hall to a new level—there is now a composting bin in the Staff Kitchen in the Main office. While the Department of Geography has always been conscientious about recycling paper, plastics, glass, and metal, the office also now has AA rechargeable batteries available for use, a battery recharger, a battery recycling bin for...

Professor David Siegel, professor of marine science in the Department of Geography and director of the Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS), is a coauthor of a major article about climate warming in the current issue of Nature. “Climate Warming Reduces Ocean Food Supply” concludes that global warming leads to a corresponding reduction in phytoplankton, creating a potential threat to fisheries and ecosystems. In the...