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Congratulations to our most recent UCSB Geographers who have completed their degrees. Listed below are those who earned their Masters and PhDs over the course of the year. Congratulations to those who have Mastered it, and to those who are Phinally Done! MA Daniel Phillips (Summer 2016) Maximilian Stiefel (Summer 2016) Cascade Tuholske (Summer 2016) Haiyun Ye (Fall 2016) Mingquan Chen (Winter 2017) Sara Lafia (Winter 2017) David...

Congratulations to the Geography class of 2017. Commencement was held on Saturday, June 17th, and the Geography department graduated a combined 62 students, achieving their Geography BA, Geography BA with GIS emphasis, or Physical Geography BS. After the ceremony, our department held a reception in the Ellison Courtyard to recognize our outstanding undergraduate students. Below are the awardees listed with their awards.    ...

Geography Undergraduate Quincy Lee has been designated as “the guy who would give the Most Interesting Man in the world a run for his money” by the UCSB Current. Quincy exemplifies the meaning of being a geographer, combining his interest in oceanography with writing and story telling in his studies. With the Raab Writing Fellowship he earned, he traveled to Manaus, Brazil to develop a story about local fishermen,...