News Archive for the Year 2012

Date	Title
December 31, 2012	Otter Limits
December 23, 2012	Geography Department Outreach – You Can Help!
December 20, 2012	Canadian Researchers Conclude that Mayan Apocalypse Will Negatively Affect Clinical Trials
December 19, 2012	Problem of Estimating Exact Numbers of Arthropods Bugs Researchers
December 18, 2012	Probability of a White Christmas in the US
December 18, 2012	Forest Responses to Increasing Aridity and Warmth in the Southwestern United States
December 15, 2012	NASA vs. End of World Advocates: Who Do You Trust?
December 15, 2012	End of Year Staff Meeting Deals with Major Issues, Despite Major Interference
December 14, 2012	Geography Awareness Week 2012
December 12, 2012	Alumnus Greg Mohr Chairs Session of the 2012 AESS Conference
December 10, 2012	Annual Christmas Party and Dinner Chez Clarke
December 6, 2012	The Dalal Daily Tackles the Business of Bikes
December 6, 2012	The Dalal Daily: A Geography Blog that Maps the News
December 4, 2012	Climate Change: An Existential Challenge for the Whole Human Race
December 3, 2012	Megastorms Could Drown Massive Portions of California
December 3, 2012	UCSB Geographers Examine How Climate Change Could Affect Entire Forest Ecosystems
December 2, 2012	Beeography and the Bee My Honey Blues
November 27, 2012	Time and Space Travel with Wormhole Maps
November 26, 2012	To Be or Not To Be – The Pacific Ocean Loses an Island It Never Had
November 20, 2012	Geography Department Members Participate in Innovative Symposium Held at UC, Merced
November 19, 2012	Alumna Julie Dillemuth Finds Her Way as a Writer
November 17, 2012	The UCSB Map & Imagery Laboratory Is the Largest Academic Imagery Collection in the U.S.
November 16, 2012	Why Are the University Of California, Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Airport in Goleta?
November 14, 2012	Big, Fluffy Assistant Professor of Geography Hands Out Academic Awards
November 13, 2012	Does Your Tomato Have Sole? If So, Is It Still a Veggie?
November 8, 2012	UCSB Geography Grads Help Develop New Malaria Transmission Model
November 8, 2012	UCSB Geography in the 1980s: A Mini-Memoir from Janet Franklin
November 7, 2012	What Is It That Geography Wonks Study?
November 6, 2012	Kirk Goldsberry Moneyballs the Celtics
November 6, 2012	Conversion of Big Berthas to BigBellies is Big Business
October 31, 2012	Why Is That Car Sporting a Pink Moustache on its Grille?
October 30, 2012	Can You Name These Vagabonds?
October 30, 2012	UCSB Geography Rated the Most Productive Doctoral Program in the U.S., 1991-2010
October 30, 2012	The Merry Minuet—The Dance Goes On
October 29, 2012	Mapping British Super Rats
October 26, 2012	Of Cane Toads and Cow Pats
October 25, 2012	Kudos to Professor Emeritus Waldo Tobler
October 23, 2012	Nineteen Species of Fern Named for Lady Gaga
October 22, 2012	New Geography Alumnus Lands Job with County Office of Emergency Management
October 20, 2012	Rogue Iron Fertilization Experiment Outrages Scientists
October 17, 2012	Santa Barbara Lookout Fire as of 10:30 am – Breaking News
October 15, 2012	How Presidential Elections Are Impacted by a 100 Million Year Old Coastline
October 15, 2012	Are You Remotely Interested in Remote Sensing?
October 13, 2012	NOAA Celebrates 30 Years of Saving Lives via Satellite
October 11, 2012	A Warm Welcome to Our New Grads
October 9, 2012	Fun and Good Eats At the Annual Fall BBQ
October 3, 2012	Alumnus Mark Leipnik Employs Unusual Teaching Techniques
October 3, 2012	UCSB-SDSU Joint Program Researchers Earn Million Dollar NASA Grant
October 3, 2012	The Big Future of Unmanned Systems – By Kevin Wengler
October 3, 2012	Janowicz Is Distinguished Speaker for CITS Fall Lecture Series
October 2, 2012	The Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half Its Coral Cover Since 1985
September 29, 2012	New Comet Discovered—May Become One of the Brightest in History
September 27, 2012	Kuwait City at Night: Light Anthropology
September 15, 2012	Geography Resources: FindTheBest
September 13, 2012	Behaim’s Erdapfel: The Oldest Extant Terrestrial Globe
September 11, 2012	It’s Official: NOAA Finds No Evidence of Mermaids
September 10, 2012	Dangermond Travel Awards for Fall 2012
September 10, 2012	Poles of Inaccessibility
September 10, 2012	UCSB Geographers Awarded Prestigious Mellon Foundation Grant
September 5, 2012	Stanford Study Finds Little Evidence of Health Benefits from Organic Foods
September 5, 2012	Geography News Post about Eartha Inspires Comments by Alumnus Phil Dennison
September 5, 2012	Recent Advances in the Study of Optical Variability in the Near-surface and Upper Ocean
August 24, 2012	Eartha: The World’s Largest Revolving/Rotating Globe
August 24, 2012	Oak Ridge Develops Improved Way of Extracting Uranium from Seawater
August 22, 2012	Inshore Feeding Frenzy by Humpback Whales Delights Avila Bay Onlookers
August 13, 2012	Holy Molas! Ocean Sunfish Invade Southern California Waters
August 9, 2012	Faux Fish
August 8, 2012	Alumnus Ryan Perroy Researches Soil Contamination in Albania
August 8, 2012	Alumna Gilda Wheeler Champions K-12 Education for Sustainability
July 30, 2012	If You Thought Fish Were Sleepless in Seattle, Check Out the Ones Off the Coast of Oregon
July 25, 2012	Some End of Year Human-Environment Dynamics Lab News
July 25, 2012	UCSB LabRATS in the News
July 24, 2012	Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
July 19, 2012	UC Santa Barbara Ranks Among Top U.S. Universities in STARS Sustainability Ratings
July 10, 2012	UCSB Geography Researchers Coauthor GEO-5 Report
July 9, 2012	The Scoop on the UCSB Compost Pilot Project
July 5, 2012	Is it now possible to blame extreme weather on global warming?
July 3, 2012	Goodchild Charts the Next-Generation Digital Earth
July 2, 2012	Professor Emeritus Michael Goodchild
June 27, 2012	UCSB Scientists Compile First Evidence-Based Study of Potential for Tsunamis in Northwestern California
June 27, 2012	New Study Demonstrates the Role of Urban Greenery in CO2 Exchange
June 27, 2012	What Shark Finning Means (and Doesn’t Mean): A Primer and Quiz
June 26, 2012	Geography Students Spread the Word through Fun and Interactive Hands-On Activities
June 25, 2012	Indy Hurt, Student Speaker at the 2012 Graduate Division Commencement Ceremony
June 21, 2012	Illegal to Supersize Your Fast Food Order? OMG!
June 19, 2012	Gautier Interviewed by Real News about Climate Change
June 19, 2012	Not Just another List of Geographical Facts
June 19, 2012	Geography Graduation Reception for the Class of 2012
June 18, 2012	Studying Soil To Predict the Future of Earth’s Atmosphere
June 15, 2012	Australia Leads World in Ocean Protection—Good On Ya, Mates!
June 14, 2012	Lose the Lights and Save the Bugs
June 13, 2012	Despite Agreed Environmental Goals, World Still On Unsustainable Path – UN
June 12, 2012	Alumnus Kirk Goldsberry Featured in New York Times – Again!
June 12, 2012	Recent Geography Faculty Promotions
June 12, 2012	UCSB Geography Ranked Number One, Sometimes
June 11, 2012	Geography Major Seth Gorelik Receives Friedman Award
June 11, 2012	The 2012 Geography Spring Barbecue
June 10, 2012	Isla Vista’s Perfect Park: Confessions of a Geography Jailbird
June 6, 2012	This sight…is by far the noblest astronomy affords… (Edmond Halley)
June 5, 2012	McNair Scholar Pursues Research in Geography’s Viper Lab
June 5, 2012	Sweeney Appointed Director of ISBER
June 4, 2012	2012 Geography Awards
June 4, 2012	Easter Island Heads Have Great Bodies
May 30, 2012	Keeping Tabs on Water Taps Can Save Precious Resources
May 30, 2012	A Small Grant and a Few Helping Hands Add Up to Big Water Savings
May 28, 2012	Arlington West: Lest We Forget
May 28, 2012	Kudos to Our SDSU Grads in the Joint Doctoral Program
May 16, 2012	Geography Metamorphoses and ERI Goes Gaga
May 15, 2012	Geography Staff Work On a Higher Plane
May 14, 2012	UCSB (and Mo Lovegreen) Get Gold STARS for Sustainability Efforts
May 9, 2012	Yihong Yuan Scores Double Fellowships
May 8, 2012	López-Carr Awarded Faculty Initiative Grant from the Pacific Rim Research Program
May 8, 2012	The UCSB Geography Colloquia Series: Its History and Archives
May 8, 2012	Say Hello to Karl, Our New Undergraduate Assistant
May 7, 2012	Emmer Ruano Gives “Groundskeeper” a New Meaning
May 2, 2012	What might happen if droughts were predicted months ahead of time?
May 1, 2012	The Story of Santa Barbara Harbor, by Professor Ed Keller
April 28, 2012	First Evaluation of the Clean Water Act’s Effects on Coastal Waters in California Reveals Major Successes
April 25, 2012	The UCSB-SDSU Joint PhD Program in Geography
April 24, 2012	Stearns Wharf: Santa Barbara’s Most Visited Landmark
April 23, 2012	Getis Awarded RSAI Founder’s Medal
April 20, 2012	Geography Struts Its Stuff at Spring Insight
April 18, 2012	Article on Urban Plant Diversity Is Highlighted in the Journal Nature
April 18, 2012	Meeting a Titanic Challenge for Oceans
April 11, 2012	Meet Geography’s New Research Computing Assistant
April 11, 2012	Global Health Institute Award Supports Dissertation Research
April 5, 2012	Rio + 20: Taking Stock and Moving Forward in the Search for Sustainable Development
April 4, 2012	Tours of the Art Collections of 151 Institutions in 40 Countries Online – for Free!
April 1, 2012	Has Geography Become Geosophy?
March 25, 2012	Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam
March 16, 2012	At What Price an Ocean View?
March 12, 2012	Mapping the Moho with GOCE
March 7, 2012	Study Jointly Led by UCSB Researcher Supports Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact
March 6, 2012	Big, Fluffy Assistant Professor of Geography Hands Out Theodore Nansen Academic Award
March 6, 2012	Alumnus Kirk Goldsberry Featured in New York Times Article
March 6, 2012	What’s Black and White and Read (about) All Over?
March 2, 2012	Goodchild Honored at 2012 AAG Annual Meeting
February 29, 2012	Smokey Bear: Some Prowling of His History and some Growling about His Legacy
February 27, 2012	Light Damage Reported From Recent Mississippi Valley Quake
February 27, 2012	AS Coastal Fund Supports the Surveying of Gray Whales
February 25, 2012	What’s Hot in UCSB Geography? Flaming Wieners and the TheMoMeter, with Color Pics (SFW)
February 21, 2012	National Geographic To Announce the “Speak Up For Geography Campus Challenge”
February 21, 2012	UCSB Geography Scholars Featured in PRB Article
February 20, 2012	Is a Penny Saved a Penny Earned?
February 16, 2012	Rick Church Elected to WRSA Board of Directors
February 13, 2012	Clonehenge: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
February 10, 2012	Geography’s GeoTrans Lab Has a Major Impact at TRB 91
February 8, 2012	A Magic Bullet for the Invasive Mussel Problem?
February 7, 2012	Tracking the Debris from the Japanese Tsunami of March 2011
February 3, 2012	Paper by Libe Washburn Selected As an AGU Research Spotlight
February 3, 2012	The Last Important Paper Map Ever To Depict Our Country?
February 2, 2012	Cry Me A River, But First Let’s Agree About What A River Is
February 2, 2012	Rub a Dub, Dub, Thanks For the Grub: Entomophagy Is the Future
January 31, 2012	Record Setting Solar Vehicle to Visit Bren
January 27, 2012	Dome of Fresh Arctic Ocean Water Could Chill Europe
January 25, 2012	Bookhagen Discusses Himalayan Groundwater in Nature Geoscience
January 24, 2012	The 27th Golledge Distinguished Lectureship: GIS in the Big Data Age
January 20, 2012	The Stars of the Star Lab
January 18, 2012	Drink Coffee? Off with your Head!
January 12, 2012	Alumna Dawn Wright Receives AAG Presidential Achievement Award
January 12, 2012	The Right (and Wrong) Way to Die When You Fall Into Lava
January 9, 2012	Dangermond Travel Awards for Winter Quarter
January 4, 2012	To Boldly Go and Split an Infinitive