In “The Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara: History, Curriculum, and Pedagogy,” Keith Clarke and Susanna Baumgart describe the advent of computing at the UCSB Department of Geography (photo from The Jeffrey Dozier and Alan Strahler team taught the first department computer course in spring 1975: Geography 170, “Univariate Statistics.” The course used an IBM mainframe, a PDP-11...
Read MoreAssistant Professor Hallie Eakin has just had a book published by the University of Arizona Press: Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico: Climatic, Institutional, and Economic Change (ISBN: 0816525005). According to the press release: From floods and droughts to tsunamis and hurricanes, recent years have seen a distressing and often devastating increase in extreme climatic events. While it is possible to study these disasters from a purely...
Read MoreOur Chair, Oliver Chadwick, certainly demonstrated his sense of humor by “putting his head on the block” for the October 19 caption contest about the “attached” picture. Being the good sport that he is, Oliver decided not to choose a winner—so here are the “top 10” entries (names omitted to protect the not-so-innocent): • New departmental award: “The Oliver”• Don’t be fooled. under the button-up shirt and jeans lies a quite...
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