On Saturday April 7, geography graduate students participated in Tech Savvy, a daylong conference at UC Santa Barbara. This conference gives girls in grades six through nine an opportunity to explore STEM education and related careers through hands-on workshops. UCSB Department of Geography’s Visibility and Outreach committee members Sari Blakeley, Susan Meerdink, Amelia Pludow, and Rafael Ramos created and ran one of these...
Read MoreThe Graduate Student Outreach Committee put on a Geography Trivia Afternoon on Friday, April 27 for graduate students, faculty, staff and undergraduates. There were 27 participants altogether: 15 graduate students, 5 faculty, and 7 staff members. The first place team was ‘Remote Senseless’ with graduate students Chris Kibler, David Miller, Sarah Shivers, Cascade Tuholske, and Erin Wetherley. The second place team our faculty team with...
Read MoreDaniel Park, a UC Santa Barbara alum who earned his BA in Geography with an Emphasis in Geographic Information Science (GIS), has been working as an Engineering Aide for Ventura Water (City of Ventura’s Water Resources & Planning Department) for the past year since graduating in Spring 2017. Park has been researching record drawings and geo-referencing them to City’s parcel layers and aerial imagery in order to...
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