News Archive

The following is a News Release from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, dated December 4, 2014, and titled “Evidence Suggests California’s Drought is the Worst in 1,200 Years”: As California finally experiences the arrival of a rain-bearing Pineapple Express this week, two climate scientists from the University of Minnesota and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have shown that the drought of 2012-2014 has...

The UCSB GeoTrans Student Union would like to invite you to the 2015 UCCONNECT Student Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara from February 27th to March 1st! The conference co-chairs are Jay Lee and Adam Davis, and the rest of the organizing committee are Carlos Baez, Crystal Bae, Tim Niblett, Nate Isbell, Ted Isbell, and Elizabeth McBride. Their faculty advisor is Konstadinos Goulias who is also the Associate...

The following letter from our esteemed Chair, Dan Montello, was initially written for the UCSB Geography Fall Newsletter and was titled “What I Did for My Summer Vacation”: It is my pleasure to offer this, my first “Letter from the Chair.” I started in my new position as Chair of the Department of Geography last July. My duties started right away; thus, last summer was even busier than summer normally is. Like for other faculty...