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The Geography Department is pleased to welcome Nea Alvarado Voss, our new Personnel Analyst. Nea earned her BA from Cal State Northridge in Environmental Biology, and her Master’s in Education from UCSB.  She spent several years working in the public school districts, both as a Science teacher and an Administrator.  She also took a brief detour to work for a local start up as a General Manager and Accountant – a very...

Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) has selected Professor Emeritus Waldo Tobler as a 2016 GIS Hall of Fame inductee. URISA’s GIS Hall of Fame honors persons and organizations that have made significant and original contributions to the development and application of GIS concepts, tools, or resources, or to the GIS profession. Congratulations, Waldo! Please click here for the full feature on URISA’s...

We are pleased to welcome the following faculty members to the Geography department: Kelly Caylor comes to UCSB from Princeton University, where he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Environmental Studies Program. At UCSB, he is the Director of the Earth Research Institute and Professor of Ecohydrology in the Department of Geography and the Bren School of...