News Archive for the Year 2013

Date	Title
December 23, 2013	Elves Block Icelandic Road Construction
December 20, 2013	Invasive Species: What Are They and Why Are They a Problem?
December 19, 2013	Alumnus Kirk Goldsberry Advocates Geography Education in Sensors & Systems Interview
December 17, 2013	Peter Alagona’s Book, “After the Grizzly,” Is “As Compelling As It Will Be Controversial"
December 12, 2013	Fatwa Uses Grammatical Gender As an Excuse to Ban Women from Swimming in the Sea
December 12, 2013	Sumatra Coastal Cave Records Stunning Tsunami History
December 9, 2013	What Is Restoration Ecology … And How Does It Relate to Geography?!?
December 9, 2013	Elizabeth Kennedy Champions Immigration Reform
December 8, 2013	The Clarke Christmas Celebration Takes the Cake
December 6, 2013	Vast Freshwater Reserves Found Beneath the Oceans
December 5, 2013	University of Tennessee Study Finds Crocodiles are Cleverer than Previously Thought
December 4, 2013	Virtual Wall Could Contain Oil Spills
December 2, 2013	First Joint SDSU / UCSB Retreat
November 25, 2013	Yihong Yuan Successfully Defends Her PhD
November 25, 2013	Today’s Definition of Geography Ain’t Your Daddy’s Anymore
November 23, 2013	During GeoWeek, UCSB Geographers Demonstrate that the Discipline Isn’t Just About Place Names
November 21, 2013	Outreach Committee Shares the Geographer’s Point of View at 4-H National Youth Science Day Event in Santa Barbara
November 19, 2013	University of Maryland Leads First Local-to-Global Mapping of Forest Extent
November 19, 2013	Grant McKenzie Furthers Sustainable Development through Spatial Technology
November 14, 2013	Sundowner Winds Create Critical Fire Conditions
November 9, 2013	UCSB Receives National Recognition for Leading the Way in Water Conservation
November 6, 2013	What If All the Ice Melted? An Interactive Map from National Geographic
November 5, 2013	Cal State Budget Boost Focuses on “Highly Sought Subjects,” Including Geography
November 5, 2013	Holy Smoke: Religious Ceremonies Account for 23% of Greenhouse Gases on the Indian Subcontinent
October 31, 2013	Research Indicates that Facebook Undermines Sense of Wellbeing in Young Adults
October 29, 2013	Shared Best Practices at UCSB’s Central Coast Sustainability Summit Point the Way to New Sustainable Projects in the Region
October 29, 2013	UCLA Report Urges New Global Policies to Tackle Crisis of Marine Plastic Litter
October 28, 2013	Landon Romano Book Scholarships for Fall 2013
October 23, 2013	Early Warning Fire Detection Satellite Proposed by Berkeley Scientists
October 23, 2013	Recently Declassified Sonar Technology Used to Map America’s Waters
October 21, 2013	Alumnus Michael Marshall Featured in Weather Channel Documentary on “Tipping Points”
October 17, 2013	World’s First Mapping of America’s Rare Plants
October 17, 2013	The European Space Agency Unveils Plans To Take 3D Printing Into the Metal Age
October 15, 2013	Ireland, the Emerald Isle, Might be Losing its Green
October 14, 2013	Undergraduate Transportation Research: Accessibility Analysis at a Fine Spatial Scale
October 14, 2013	Dangermond Travel Awards for Fall 2013
October 14, 2013	Engineer Extraordinaire Derek Manov Retires
October 10, 2013	Grad Student Lumari Pardo-Rodriguez Takes the Stage
October 10, 2013	Welcome To Our New Graduate Students
October 10, 2013	The Wind Map Is Mind Blowing
October 8, 2013	The True Size of Africa: A Small Contribution in the Fight Against Rampant Immappancy by Kai Krause
October 7, 2013	Alumnus Kirk Goldsberry Stresses the Importance of Data Visualization
October 7, 2013	The Fall BBQ: Rub-A-Dub Dub, Thanks For the Grub!
October 4, 2013	Terminator Robots Tackle Jellyfish Menace
October 2, 2013	Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity
September 30, 2013	UCSB Earth Research Institute Project Scientist Recognized for Bringing Hands-On Earthquake Education to Local Schools
September 30, 2013	Transportation Research Centers and UCSB Geography
September 27, 2013	Monarch Butterflies: Decline and Mimicry
September 26, 2013	Triangulating Archaeological Landscapes: The US Coast Survey in California 1850-1895
September 26, 2013	Crystal Bae Does It Her Way
September 26, 2013	The Rats of Rapa Nui
September 23, 2013	A Gaucho and an Indian Walk Into a Bar…
September 23, 2013	Pollution Melted Alps’ Glaciers, Not Rising Temperatures
September 20, 2013	Can Resource Development and Environmental Sustainability Coexist in a Changing Arctic Ocean?
September 18, 2013	Extinction and Overfishing Threats Can Be Predicted Decades Before Population Declines, UCSB Study Shows
September 18, 2013	The Odds of Finding a Red Lobster Are One in 10 Million – If It’s Alive
September 12, 2013	Fracking: What is an Acceptable Level of Risk for Energy Production?
September 12, 2013	Psychophysics and Szechuan Pepper: A Ticklish Relationship
September 10, 2013	If It Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck, It’s Probably a Stork or a Spy
September 10, 2013	Largest Single Volcano on Earth Rivals the Largest in the Solar System
September 5, 2013	Experts Team Up on Tsunami Resilience in California
September 5, 2013	Letter from Cape Town
September 5, 2013	Does Science Inspire Moral Behavior?
September 4, 2013	It’s Curtains for Curtains
September 3, 2013	Moving Toward Sustainable Transportation By Simulating, Analyzing Daily Life
August 30, 2013	UCSB Researchers Find Little Difference in Heavy Metal Pollutant Levels Between Fishes Living Around Southern California Oil Platforms and Natural Sites
August 30, 2013	If You Stumble Over a 70-Foot Concrete Arrow in the Middle of Nowhere…
August 28, 2013	Language Can Reveal the Invisible, Study Shows
August 27, 2013	NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet
August 27, 2013	From Spatial@UCSB to a Garden in Seattle
August 22, 2013	Ostrich-Egg Globe May Be Oldest to Depict New World
August 22, 2013	Climate Change Is Escalating Wildfire Risk in the U.S.
August 21, 2013	Kudos to SDSU Joint Program Grads
August 20, 2013	Sunburned in Siberia: Heat Wave Leads to Wildfires
August 19, 2013	After 10 Years of Service, NOAA Retires GOES-12 Satellite
August 16, 2013	If Geography Is Prose, Maps Are Iconography (Lennart Meri)
August 14, 2013	Sierra Magazine Ranks UCSB among Top 10 of America’s Greenest Universities
August 13, 2013	NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer Gives Live Video Coverage of Deep Sea Canyons
August 6, 2013	New Evaluation of the Evolutionary Development of “Magic Mushrooms”
August 6, 2013	Water Crisis: Towards a Way to Improve the Situation
August 2, 2013	Mapping Out Happiness
August 2, 2013	A Corpse By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet
July 31, 2013	Earth from Space: A Very Spatial Perspective
July 31, 2013	Eight New Interpretive Signs Installed at UCSB Campus Natural Areas
July 29, 2013	Largest Virus Ever Found Spawns Questions About the Nature of Life
July 25, 2013	Pigeons Use Their Heads To Fly
July 24, 2013	Animals on the UCSB Campus
July 24, 2013	New Tick-Borne Virus Crops Up in the Heartland
July 23, 2013	Angel’s Trumpet
July 23, 2013	UCSB’s Corpse Flower: Don’t Hold Your Breath (On Second Thought, Perhaps You Should)!
July 22, 2013	Fracking Byproducts Appear to Cause More U.S. Quakes
July 18, 2013	Things You Need To Know To Succeed In Graduate School
July 17, 2013	Where’s Waldo? A New Alien-Like Species Discovered Off California
July 15, 2013	New Atomic Clock May Redefine the Length of a Second
July 15, 2013	The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: Another Unpleasant Truth
July 8, 2013	How Long Will the New Kids On the Block Survive?
July 3, 2013	Krzysztof Janowicz Awarded Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship
July 3, 2013	Krzysztof Janowicz Awarded Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship
July 2, 2013	New Forensic Dating Tool Combats “Blood Ivory”
July 1, 2013	Breakthrough in El Nino Forecasting
June 28, 2013	Mapping Out How to Save Species
June 27, 2013	Dr. Charles Jones Joins Geography Faculty
June 25, 2013	UCSB Sociologist Studies Issues of Privilege From a Geographical Perspective
June 25, 2013	Daniel Phillips Wins 2013 Colville-Dearborn Award
June 24, 2013	The World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript
June 20, 2013	Dar Roberts’ Farewell Speech to the Class of 2013
June 20, 2013	Geography Graduation Reception for the Class of 2013
June 19, 2013	Turning Tequila into Diamonds
June 18, 2013	Evidence for Direct Geographic Influences on Linguistic Sounds: The Case of Ejectives
June 18, 2013	New Research by James Kennett Supports Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact
June 17, 2013	Barbara Walker Receives Getman Service to Students Award
June 13, 2013	Professor Emeritus Joel Michaelsen, “The Lion”
June 12, 2013	The Challenges and Rewards of a Career in Field Oceanography
June 11, 2013	Spring BBQ Gets Superman’s Seal of Approval
June 10, 2013	Professor Emerita Catherine Gautier
June 6, 2013	2013 End of Year Student Awards
June 5, 2013	UCSB Geography Science Night at Local Elementary School
June 5, 2013	Louisiana’s Coastal Landmarks Are Being Wiped Off the Map
June 5, 2013	The Bite of the Vampyrellid Amoebae
June 3, 2013	A Species of Tiger Moth Is the Only Animal that Can Jam the Sonar of a Predator
May 30, 2013	Why a Big Mouth Can Be Important for the Environment
May 30, 2013	Climate Change Threatens Extinction for 82 Percent of California Native Fish
May 30, 2013	Ill fortune take that thing unblest, / The bird who fouls his own nest
May 29, 2013	UCSB Professors on Brush Fires and Ecosystems
May 28, 2013	Geography Grads Garner Prestigious Fellowships
May 23, 2013	Mike Beland, Forest Cannon, and Andrew Thorpe Selected for NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program
May 23, 2013	Melting Ice Forces Evacuation of Russian Arctic Research Station
May 21, 2013	The 2013 Moore Tornado Released More Energy than the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
May 21, 2013	Supply Shock from North American Oil Rippling through Global Markets
May 20, 2013	Rick Church Wins Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
May 15, 2013	Eerie ERI – What’s In a Name?
May 14, 2013	The Armadillidiidae That Ate Ellison
May 13, 2013	Google Time-Lapse Images of Earth over Recent Decades
May 9, 2013	Meet Olly, ERI’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
May 8, 2013	Elizabeth Kennedy Receives Fulbright Award to do Research in El Salvador
May 6, 2013	Jellyfish: If we can’t beat ‘em, why not eat ‘em?
April 29, 2013	1,200-Year-Old Oak Toppled by Welsh Storm
April 24, 2013	UCSB Ranked No. 2 in the World in Leiden Ranking of Top 500 Universities
April 16, 2013	AAG 2013: This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Geography
April 15, 2013	Alumna Dawn Wright Receives Distinguished Teaching Honors from AAG
April 11, 2013	Gautier to Speak at Santa Barbara Workshop Concerning Fracking Regulations
April 10, 2013	Steelhead Trout Fighting for Survival in Our Backyard
April 4, 2013	Extinction Is the Rule; Survival Is the Exception
April 4, 2013	If a Tree Is About to Fall and Somebody Hears It…
April 2, 2013	Can the Economic Value of Remote Sensing Imagery Be Estimated?
April 1, 2013	UCSB Grads among the Top Five AAG Mashup Contenders
April 1, 2013	SimAGENT 1.0 Moves to Practice: Mission Accomplished!
March 26, 2013	The Loneliest Whale in the World
March 26, 2013	Spring Newsletter for Friends of Geography
March 19, 2013	Alumnus Paul Sutton Maps Voter Suppression in Colorado
March 18, 2013	Too much Guinness or an Unidentified Flying Object?
March 18, 2013	"Notes from the Farm" by Alumnus Karl Grossner
March 14, 2013	New Desalination Process Slashes Costs of Producing Fresh Water
March 13, 2013	The First Known Animal to Survive in Space
March 12, 2013	Is Wind Power Waning?
March 11, 2013	Dangermond Travel Awards for Spring and Summer 2013
March 11, 2013	UCSB Geography Welcomes Prospective Grad Students
March 3, 2013	Toxic Zombie Mice versus Guam’s Brown Tree Snakes
February 28, 2013	Without Geography, You’re Nowhere
February 26, 2013	Dar Roberts Awarded Outstanding Contributions Award in Remote Sensing
February 25, 2013	New Maps Provide Crucial Information for Water Managers
February 21, 2013	An Alumnus’ Take on Geography as “A Foundation for an Interesting and Rewarding Career”
February 14, 2013	Take a Tour of the Coral Trees on the UCSB Campus
February 13, 2013	Elizabeth Kennedy Champions Health Care for Unaccompanied Migrant Children
February 13, 2013	New Article about the Santa Barbara Fold Belt by Affiliated Faculty Member Ed Keller
February 13, 2013	Geography Department’s Interactive Campus Map Featured in the Daily Nexus
February 12, 2013	RIP: Landsat 5
February 5, 2013	Keith Clarke Appointed as Member of the National Geospatial Committee
February 4, 2013	Keith Clarke Chairs NRC Committee Responsible for NGA Report on Geospatial Intelligence
January 31, 2013	Beijing Air Pollution Is Off the Chart
January 30, 2013	Do Snail Trails Predict the Weather, Now and Then?
January 22, 2013	Dickey Goes to the Dogs (and Is Named Outstanding Sportsman of the Year along the Way)
January 22, 2013	Low Extinction Rates Made California a Refuge for Diverse Plant Species
January 17, 2013	Why Are Night Lights in North Dakota Visible From the ISS?
January 16, 2013	Rarely Documented Fire Tornado
January 16, 2013	Alumnus Develops Mobile App to “Monitor Anything, Anywhere”
January 9, 2013	Dangermond Travel Awards for Winter 2013
January 9, 2013	Australian Heat Wave Prompts Addition of New Colors to Heat Map Scale
January 8, 2013	Daniel Ervin Scores a Double
January 8, 2013	A Laconic Map of the World
January 2, 2013	In Memoriam: Einar Hovind, the Viking