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  Daniel 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...

  We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor of Geography, Joseph P. McFadden, has been awarded the UCSB Distinguished Teaching Award this 2017/18 year. McFadden was one of six Professors to receive this award campus-wide. The Distinguished Teaching Award acknowledges excellence in teaching and excellence in creative and scholarly work. Professor McFadden has demonstrated excellence in teaching across the curriculum:...

  UCGIS is pleased to announce that Dr. Keith C. Clarke, Professor in our Department of Geography at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has been selected for the 2018 Carolyn Merry Mentoring Award. In his 20+ year tenure at UCSB, Dr. Clarke had advised dozens of graduate students, many of whom sought him out for his steady and supportive guidance. His students and colleagues alike note his generosity with his time and...