David Carr, Assistant Professor of Geography, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Geography and Regional Science grant (BCS-0525592). Carr’s NSF grant, The Underlying Causes of Tropical Deforestation: Rural Migration and Environmental Degradation in Guatemala (9/1/05-8/31/08; $116, 370) will provide assistance and tuition for a graduate research assistant to collaborate in data collection and analysis. The award complements Carr’s NIH career development award on population and land use in Guatemala (HD049008; $486,518; 6/1/05-5/31/10). Carr has also received on-campus support for his research through a UCSB Faculty Career Development Award which will provided summer salary support for July, 2005 and through a UCSB Senate Faculty Research Grant, which will provide travel funding and part-time graduate student assistance ($7,214) during the 2005-2006 academic year. Carr also received a UCSB Instructional Improvement Award ($4,527) to develop a new course in Latin American Geography which will be launched in the winter 2006 quarter. Publications from Carr’s research during the previous year have appeared in journals such as Global and Planetary Change, The Professional Geographer, Journal of Geography, and Population and Environment as well as several edited volumes. Forthcoming articles will appear in the Geographical Review, Journal of Latin American Geography, and Geoforum.
