Geography graduate students Mike Alonzo, Forest Cannon, and Susan Meerdink received Outstanding Student Paper Awards (OSPA) at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting which was held in San Francisco, 15-19 December, 2014. Typically, only the top 3-5% of presenters in each section/focus group are awarded an OSPA. With nearly 24,000 attendees and more than 1,700 sessions, the AGU Fall Meeting is the largest and most prestigious...
Read More“An ancient meteorite and high-energy X-rays have helped scientists conclude a half century of effort to find, identify, and characterize a mineral that makes up 38 percent of the Earth.” Tona Kunz, in an article for the Argonne National Laboratory, dated December 11, 2014 and with the title above, goes on to say: And in doing so, a team of scientists led by Oliver Tschauner, a mineralogist at the University of Las Vegas,...
Read More“UC Santa Barbara takes outreach to a new level, with a variety of programs that extend the campus’s impact to a host of communities — and countries.” George Foulsham, writing for The UCSB Current, December 22, 2014, goes on to laud UCSB’s outreach efforts in an article titled “Shaping the Future.” One of 2014’s many UCSB outreach programs and events that Foulsham highlights is the Department of Geography’s celebration of...
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