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Our illustrious alumna Dawn Wright recently received the 2015 Geological Society of America’s Randolph W. and Cecile T. Bromery Award for Minorities which is awarded to those making “lifetime significant contributions to research in the geological sciences or to those instrumental in opening the geoscience field to other minorities.” Dawn sent the news to UCSB Geography “with thanks to UCSB for all the great...

With $1.5 million in NSF funding, a group of researchers from UCSB and partner institutions will study the effects of a novel way of eradicating schistosomiasis. The following article in The UCSB Current, written by Sonia Fernandez and titled “A Win-Win-Win-Win,” goes on to state: Built in 1986, the Diama Dam between Senegal and Mauritania was constructed on the Senegal River to improve irrigation for nearby crops and...

Dennis Gibbs graduated with a BA degree from the UCSB Geography Department in the Spring of 1989 and was immediately hired by Santa Barbara County Flood Control District (after doing an internship) in order to assemble their first computerized rainfall database, using the spreadsheet of that era, Lotus 1-2-3. His emphasis as a Geography major was Climatology, Hydrology, and Geographic Information Systems, the latter of which was in...