Dr. Dawn Wright (UCSB PhD, class of ’94) presented Emeritus Professor Ray Smith the R.J. Russell award for his many contributions to the study of marine environments at the recent Chicago meeting of the Coastal and Marine Geography specialty group of the Association of American Geographers. The R. J. Russell Award is named in honor of Richard Joel Russell (1895-1971) who was Dean of the Graduate School at Louisiana State...
Read MoreGeography graduate student orientation for all new grads was held on September 25. The Department extends a warm welcome to Jarad Beckman, Micah Brachman, Eliza Bradley, Guofeng Cao, Frank Davenport, Kathleen Deutsch, Suzanne Foss, Indy Hurt, MiSuk Lee, Amy Lerner, Shishi Liu, Michael McDaniel, Felipe Murtinho, Matt Niblett, and Keeley Roth, as well as to San Diego State University grads (SDSU shares a graduate degree program with...
Read MoreTogether with our new Vice Chair Dar Roberts, welcome back to UCSB and the Geography Department. The Department is continuing its perpetual process of modifying courses, changing research focus, and courting new sources of governmental and private funding. In addition, we are undergoing two forms of external review this year: the University’s Program Review and the National Research Council’s National ranking of departments within the...
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