Effective the end of June 2015, Bernadette Weinberg and Beilei Zhang will retire as staff members of the UCSB Department of Geography. A formal farewell for our dynamic duo was held on the first floor of Ellison Hall on the afternoon of June 3, in the form of an open house retirement celebration and a presentation of plaques and gifts. To quote some wag’s farewell note to them, “Now who is going to do all the work around...
Read MoreAlumnus Paul Sutton (PhD 1999) is the Head of Discipline of environmental and geospatial sciences in the School of Natural and Built Environments at the University of South Australia, and, in the spirit of Jonathan Swift, he has a “modest proposal” vis-a-vis environmental sustainability: My name is Paul Sutton. I am currently a professor of Environmental Science at the University of South Australia. I’d like to...
Read MoreGraduate fellowship proposals to the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program are solicited annually from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of individuals pursuing master’s or doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Earth and space sciences, or related disciplines. The purpose of NESSF is to ensure continued training of a highly qualified workforce in disciplines needed to achieve NASA’s scientific goals. Awards...
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