On May 23rd, the UCSB Geography Club hosted its first Grad Panel in Ellison 3621, which gave undergraduates the opportunity to participate in a question and answer session with Geography graduate students. The Panel featured graduate students Nina Bingham, Sari Blakeley, Corbin Hodges, Marcela Suarez, and Bo Yan. Club members Avani Rathod and Chris Chien hosted the Q&A session, where graduate students shared their personal...
Read MoreThe Outreach and Visibility Committee introduced students at Isla Vista Elementary to UCSB Geography by showing examples of remote sensing applications. On May 18th, four dedicated committee members manned two tables at Science Night at Isla Vista Elementary, which is a biennial event where groups from the surrounding community teach students about science through hands-on activities. Jasmine Arpagian, Sari Blakeley, Xin Feng, and...
Read MoreGeography PhD Student, Rui Zhu’s paper, submitted to the 20th International Conference of Geo-information Science (AGILE2017) in Wageningen, Netherlands was selected as the Best Full Paper. In the paper, Rui and coauthors Professor Phaedon Kyriakidis and Professor Krzysztof Janowicz, propose a new geographic conceptualization named the “Geo-multipole”, which explores the higher-order spatial interactions. Under the...
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