As of early December 2014, MIT Press has released the new book edited by Dan Montello, Karl Grossner, and Donald G. Janelle, titled Space in Mind: Concepts for Spatial Learning and Education. Dan is Professor and Chair of our Department of Geography; Karl is a geographer (with his PhD from UCSB) and Digital Humanities Research Developer at Stanford University; and Don is former Program Director of the Center for Spatial Studies here...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
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