The following is the transcript used by Geography Chair Dan Montello while presenting the annual awards during the Department’s final Colloquium on May 28, 2015: The department gives five major graduate student awards: Excellence in Teaching, Excellence in Research, the Leal Anne Kerry Mertes Scholarship Award, the David S. Simonett Memorial Award, and the Jack & Laura Dangermond Graduate Fellowship. They all come with cash...
Read MoreA study by a UCSB-led research team in the Department of Geography shows how record-high temperatures in California are worsening the already historic drought. In an article for The UCSB Current, posted May 26 with the title above, Jim Logan goes on to say: Two facts are indisputable: California remains in the grip of one of the worst droughts in history, and 2014 proved to be one of the hottest years on record. Now, a group of...
Read MoreThe following article was written by Sarah Mirk for Yes Magazine and posted May 12, 2015: California is running dry. The drought continues to gain national attention with its fourth year of record-low rainfall. But to many people living in mostly rural, low-income communities, water scarcity is nothing new. One and a half million Californians have toxic, fertilizer-laced water pouring from their taps—runoff from farmland that...
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