Dan Montello, the Chair of the UCSB Department of Geography, acted as emcee for our reception party and award ceremony on behalf of graduating Geography majors on June 13. The following is a rough transcript of his comments during the proceedings: As some of you know, the Geography Department at UCSB is nationally ranked in the top 5 and can lay claim to being #1, depending on how you examine the ranking data. This is due to our...
Read MoreAs part of a Directions Magazine series on communicating with maps, Diana Sinton discusses issues and advances in mapmaking with cartographer Sarah Battersby, a research scientist at Tableau Software and currently the president of the Cartographic and Geographic Information Society. Q: What are some of the key developments that you have seen in cartography in the last decade? A: I think that one of the most exciting cartographic...
Read MoreThe UCSB Department of Geography celebrated the career of Professor Helen Couclelis on June 11, 2015, in recognition of her retirement this year after 33 years as a professor in the Department. A dinner in her honor was held at Olio Pizzeria in downtown Santa Barbara (in the same building as the late, lamented Video Schmideo), and a fine time and good food (maybe the city’s best pizza) was had by all. Chair Dan Montello...
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