The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced this year’s recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF), and UCSB Geography graduate students Michelle Oyewole and Sarah Shivers garnered two of them. The fellowship provides three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period ($34,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the graduate institution) for graduate study that leads to a...
Read MoreThe following is the complete text of a BBC Panorama broadcast, written by David Wheeler, narrated by Richard Dimbleby, and with the title above: It is not only in Britain that spring, this year, has taken everyone by surprise. Here in the Ticino, on the borders of Switzerland and Italy, the slopes overlooking Lake Lugano have already burst into flower at least a fortnight earlier than usual. But what, you may ask, has the early and...
Read MoreThe following CIO.com article is by Joab Jackson of the International Data Group (IDG), posted March 19, 2015 and with the title above: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering its customers free use of over 85,000 satellite images, setting the stage for new types of geographically-oriented cloud applications. The images, from the Landsat 8 observation satellite, are already available at no cost directly from the U.S. Geological Survey...
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