News Archive for the Year 2011

Date	Title
December 15, 2011	Hollow Earth—with Holes at the Poles
December 15, 2011	Consider a Graduate Degree after College
December 12, 2011	A Banquet and Birthday Chez Clarke
December 9, 2011	UCSB Undergrads Take First Place at World GIS Event
December 8, 2011	UCSB Geography Promotes “The Adventure in Your Community” for Geography Awareness Week
December 5, 2011	Ryan Kelley Wins an iPad 2 for Green Design
December 5, 2011	Kevin Wengler Wins Akella Family Scholarship
December 3, 2011	Pink Elephants at the Cold Spring Tavern
December 1, 2011	Year End Letter from the Chair
December 1, 2011	The Devolution of Santa Rosa Island
November 28, 2011	Why is North “Up” on Maps?
November 28, 2011	Research on Reducing Conflict between Humans and Elephants Stirs up a Buzz in Kenya
November 21, 2011	Crowdsourcing in Fire Emergencies
November 14, 2011	Keeping Up with the Joneses
November 10, 2011	Sensible Maps, Etc.
November 9, 2011	Cloud Computing Aids Cybersecurity
November 1, 2011	UC Geographers Interviewed About Study of Malnutrition in Mali
November 1, 2011	Felipe Murtinho: Doctor and Father
November 1, 2011	Rodrigo Bombardi Lauded for Outstanding Presentation at WCRP
October 31, 2011	Free Online Access to the Royal Society’s Journal Archive
October 28, 2011	Samantha C. Ying Gamma Theta Upsilon Scholarship
October 28, 2011	Culprit Identified: Fungus Causes Deadly Bat Disease
October 24, 2011	The Decline and Fall of Human Brutality?
October 14, 2011	Geography Web Site Features New Undergrad Section
October 13, 2011	New Computer Program Promises To Save the Whales
October 12, 2011	Landon Romano Textbook Awards, Fall 2011
October 11, 2011	Devil in the Canyon?
October 10, 2011	Fall BBQ: Sunshine, Suds, and a Super Supper
October 7, 2011	Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Europe
October 6, 2011	Alumnus John Cloud Traces the Role of the U.S. Coast Survey during the Civil War
September 30, 2011	Who Was the First Person To Reach the North Pole?
September 29, 2011	Dangermond Travel Awards for Fall 2011
September 28, 2011	Overfishing Takes a Bite Out of Shark Populations
September 27, 2011	Kitty Currier Flies a Kite for Marine Research
September 27, 2011	Talking Trash and Sustaining Sustainability at UCSB
September 19, 2011	Kate Deutsch Furthers Graduate Research Advocacy
September 16, 2011	Accidental Sea Turtle Deaths Drop by 90 Percent
September 14, 2011	The Winter (and Summer) of Our Discontent
September 13, 2011	Deep Sea Fishes Are in Deep Trouble
September 9, 2011	Keller Continues Natural History of Santa Barbara Column in SBNP
September 9, 2011	A 9/11 Tribute to Robert LeBlanc, Professor of Cultural Geography
September 6, 2011	The Politics of Famine: 750,000 Face Imminent Starvation in Somalia
September 2, 2011	Resomation: Dying for a Smaller Carbon Footprint
September 1, 2011	The Great Rowboat Trek and the Dawn of Remote Sensing: Early Days in the Geography Department
August 31, 2011	Jankowska Awarded NSF Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
August 29, 2011	The Long and the Short of Place Names
August 24, 2011	8.7 Million Species and Still Counting
August 23, 2011	A Moveable Beast: Climate Warming Speeds Up Species Migration
August 19, 2011	The Big Splat: Earth May Have Once Had Two Moons that Collided
August 19, 2011	First U.S. Human Death from Rabid Vampire Bat Attack
August 11, 2011	López-Carr’s Research Cited in Science Magazine
August 9, 2011	Chris Funk re Somalia: “We Thought Trouble Was Coming”
August 8, 2011	Philips Lighting North America Wins Department of Energy’s L Prize
August 4, 2011	Kindlifresserbrunnen: “The Fountain of the Eater of Little Children”
August 2, 2011	Toponymy: What’s In a Name?
August 1, 2011	Kirk Goldsberry Maps Food Deserts
July 27, 2011	Historical Geographic Information Systems
July 27, 2011	Affiliated Professor of Geography Awarded NSF CAREER Award
July 22, 2011	Tarantula Hawks on Campus
July 21, 2011	Don’t Know Much about Geography
July 20, 2011	Famine Officially Declared in Somalia
July 18, 2011	Dangermond Travel Awards Given to Six Geography Grads
July 18, 2011	The Mexican-American Boom: Births Overtake Immigration
July 14, 2011	Million Dollar Maps and Why the USA Is Shrinking
July 14, 2011	Cognition, Religion, and Theology: Are We Born Believers?
July 14, 2011	Recent Alumna Gives Keynote Speech at Sustainability Conference
July 11, 2011	Warmer Is the New Normal: NOAA
July 11, 2011	Ecotourism and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
July 8, 2011	Why Was Our Planet Named After Dirt?
July 8, 2011	Krzysztof Janowicz Joins UCSB Geography Faculty
July 1, 2011	Happy UCSB Founders’ Day and a Bit about the Founding of UCSB Geography
June 29, 2011	True Orthovideo for Geographic Immersive Virtual Environments
June 29, 2011	Lö‘ihi: Hawai‘i’s Newest Island—But Don’t Book Your Flight Yet
June 28, 2011	Earth’s Species Become Extinct Before They’re Discovered
June 27, 2011	Internet Tools Track the Spread of Dengue Fever
June 27, 2011	Pam Dalal Wins UCTC Dissertation Grant
June 22, 2011	Multiple Ocean Stresses Threaten "Globally Significant" Marine Extinction
June 21, 2011	ESRI Appoints Dawn J. Wright as Chief Scientist
June 21, 2011	Another Feather in Kate’s Cap
June 20, 2011	Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences Releases Inaugural Issue
June 20, 2011	Peter Alagona Becomes an Affiliate of the Department of Geography
June 20, 2011	Geotrans Completes Greek Odyssey
June 17, 2011	Caterpillars and Camels Cause Concern
June 15, 2011	Kudos to Our SDSU Grads in the Joint Doctoral Program
June 14, 2011	Geography Graduation Awards, Spring 2011
June 7, 2011	Building a Better Dam Map
June 6, 2011	Geography Spring BBQ under the Redwoods
June 3, 2011	UCSB Part of World’s Largest Ocean Radar Network
June 3, 2011	Kitty Currier Is Flying High
June 3, 2011	Annual Geography Awards to Grad Students (and Some Undergrads)
June 2, 2011	I’d Map That
June 1, 2011	Predicting Hazards Is a Risky Business
May 25, 2011	The Great Southern Brood: They’re Baaack!
May 18, 2011	Val Noronha Explains the Intricacies of METRIS Study of the Ports of L.A. and Long Beach
May 18, 2011	UCSB Scientists Track Environmental Influences on Giant Kelp with Help from Satellite Data
May 18, 2011	Launching of Center for Marine Assessment and Planning
May 17, 2011	A Warm Welcome to Christoph Hoelscher, Visiting Scholar
May 16, 2011	Japan and the World On the Move Following March Quake
May 12, 2011	Dayna Quick Receives Major Geosystems Award
May 5, 2011	Professors McFadden and King Coauthor Urban Ecosystem Study in Leading Ecology Journal
April 29, 2011	Why Would Anyone Bomb a Volcano?
April 28, 2011	Keith Clarke Text Now Available in Korean
April 28, 2011	Geography of Surfing a Factor in UCSB Ranking as the #1 Surfing College
April 27, 2011	Precision of Humpback Whale Migrations Puzzles Scientists
April 26, 2011	Population Growth and its Relation to Poverty, the Environment, and Human Rights
April 25, 2011	Rick Church Appointed Associate Dean of MLPS
April 25, 2011	Getis and Tobler Honored for 50 Years of Continuous AAG Membership
April 22, 2011	American Opinions about the Cause of Climate Change Based on Politics, Not Science
April 21, 2011	657 New Islands Discovered Worldwide
April 20, 2011	Goodchild Featured In The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 20, 2011	Oliver Chadwick Elected Fellow of the AGU
April 18, 2011	Earth Day: A Retrospective
April 15, 2011	Japan’s Tsunami Debris Expected on U.S. Shores in 3 Years
April 13, 2011	Heather Berry Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
April 11, 2011	ESA Satellite Maps Earth’s Gravity
April 10, 2011	Alumnus Helps Launch New National Geographic Education Website
April 5, 2011	Operation “Get Eli OUT”
April 5, 2011	UCSB Geography Receives GIS Development Award for Basic Research and Capacity Building in Geospatial Sciences
April 1, 2011	UCSB Geography News for Spring 2011 Sent Out Electronically
April 1, 2011	Alumna Mei-Po Kwan Receives AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors Award
April 1, 2011	The Semicolonial Island Nation of San Serriffe
April 1, 2011	A Collective Noun for Geographers, Redux
March 14, 2011	Sara Baguskas’ Research Wins Decagon Devices Fellowship Award
March 14, 2011	A Fond Farewell to Martin Raubal and Family
March 10, 2011	Human Stink a Powerful Draw … For Mosquitoes
March 2, 2011	Erin Tang Shares Her Time and Talent
March 2, 2011	Dawn Wright Selected as Leopold Leadership Fellow
March 1, 2011	Dangermond Travel Awards, Redux
February 26, 2011	Zen and the Geography of Zinfandel
February 24, 2011	Stephen Cartwright: “Crazy Guy on a Bike”
February 23, 2011	Video: UCSB News Director Interviews Professor David López-Carr
February 23, 2011	Tobler’s Translation of Lambert’s Writings Re-Published by ESRI Press
February 22, 2011	Dangermond Travel Awards, Winter 2011
February 18, 2011	Research by Funk and Williams Links Indian Ocean Warming with East African Drought
February 18, 2011	Frank Davis Elected as Google Science Communication Fellow
February 14, 2011	CNN Cites Research by UCSB Geographer López-Carr
February 14, 2011	UCSB Develops World’s First Academic Minor in Spatial Studies
February 7, 2011	Mike Goodchild Awarded UCGIS Fellow Status
February 7, 2011	The Santa Barbara Green Flash
February 4, 2011	Scientists Find that Debris on Certain Himalayan Glaciers May Prevent Melting
February 1, 2011	GeoTrans Makes a Splash at the 90th TRB Meeting
January 31, 2011	A Warm Welcome to Visiting Scholar Daniel Lewis
January 29, 2011	Cochineal—A Little Insect Goes a Long Way
January 28, 2011	Elisa Frank Shares Her Research Experience
January 25, 2011	2010 Produced Record Rainfall, and It Keeps Coming
January 19, 2011	Kate Deutsch Strikes Gold Again
January 18, 2011	Ting Lei and Seo Youn Yoon Join GeoTrans Lab as Associate Specialists
January 14, 2011	Gautier Elected as Fellow of the AAAS
January 13, 2011	Letter from Delhi by Keith Clarke, January 12, 2011
January 11, 2011	Aflockolypse Now
January 6, 2011	An Island within a Lake on an Island within a Lake on an Island
January 6, 2011	Letter from Mysore by Keith Clarke, January 6th 2011
January 4, 2011	2010, the Second Hottest Year on Record?
January 3, 2011	Great Pyrenees as Canine Assistant Professors of Geography
January 2, 2011	Geoglyphs: Ethno-Geographic Enigmas