News Archive for the Year 2014

Date	Title
December 31, 2014	10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day
December 30, 2014	Of Ecology and Evolution
December 23, 2014	New Species Discovered in the Deepest Trench on Earth
December 20, 2014	Giving the Raspberry to UCSB Geography Staff
December 19, 2014	Ancient, hydrogen-rich waters discovered deep underground at locations around the world
December 17, 2014	Project Tango at the Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Observatory
December 15, 2014	Five Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea
December 11, 2014	Current California Drought Is the Worst in 1,200 Years
December 11, 2014	MIT Press Publishes Edited Book by Montello, Grossner, and Janelle
December 10, 2014	Year End Feast Chez Keith and Margot Clarke
December 10, 2014	What Our Chair Did On His Summer Vacation
December 10, 2014	2015 UCCONNECT Student Conference to Be Held at UCSB from February 27 to March 1
December 9, 2014	Keith Clarke Tours the River Valleys of Bhutan
December 8, 2014	Another Geographer Wins the 2014 Volvo Environment Prize
December 8, 2014	The UCSB Geography Fall Newsletter
December 3, 2014	At Last, a Practical Use for GPS
December 2, 2014	Charles Jones Quoted in the Journal Science
December 2, 2014	The Living, Breathing Ocean
December 1, 2014	Hugo Loaiciga Awarded Patent for Predicting and Controlling the Effects of Groundwater Extraction
November 25, 2014	New Grad Student Fernanda Figueiredo Featured in Noozhawk
November 25, 2014	David Lopez-Carr Named AAAS Fellow
November 19, 2014	Geography Is a Subject You Can Sink Your Teeth Into!
November 19, 2014	UCSB Geography Celebrates GIS Day
November 18, 2014	Philae Settles in Dust-Covered Ice
November 17, 2014	Up To 80 Million Bacteria Sealed with a Kiss
November 13, 2014	Giant Tortoises Rebound from Near Extinction
November 10, 2014	Rooftop Research Collaboration Off to a Good Start
November 6, 2014	Alumnus Kirk Goldsberry Has Changed Basketball Forever
November 6, 2014	Alumnae Max Moritz and Alexandra Syphard Advise Us to Learn To Coexist with Wildfire
November 3, 2014	New Study Finds Oceans Arrived Early to Earth
November 1, 2014	Puna Lava Flow Aerial Imagery Collected by Alumnus Ryan Perroy
October 30, 2014	Important Notice to Isla Vista Residents: Dates and Restrictions Regarding Halloween Weekend
October 29, 2014	Fall 2014 Winners of the Landon Romano Book Scholarship
October 29, 2014	To Help Combat Ebola, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Provides Online Access to Unclassified Products
October 29, 2014	Krzysztof Janowicz Wins the Harold J. Plous Memorial Award
October 28, 2014	Ansel Lundberg Interns at AAG for Fall Semester
October 28, 2014	Weather History Time Machine
October 22, 2014	Salary Data and Trends for Geography Careers
October 20, 2014	2014 on Track to be Hottest Year on Record
October 20, 2014	Only Six Northern White Rhinos Left on Earth
October 20, 2014	Joel Michaelsen: All Star Athlete, Academic, and Administrator
October 15, 2014	NASA Study Finds 1934 Had Worst Drought of Last Thousand Years
October 14, 2014	Ed Keller Makes His Book about the Natural History of Santa Barbara Freely Available
October 14, 2014	Fall BBQ: Great People, Great Event, and Great Chef!
October 13, 2014	Pam Dalal and Kostas Goulias on Academia.edu
October 11, 2014	Huge Methane Emissions Hot Spot Found in U.S.
October 10, 2014	Hubble Maps the Temperature and Water Vapor on an Extreme Exoplanet
October 10, 2014	Geographers Are Pirates
October 7, 2014	UCSB Geographers Well-Represented at GIScience 2014
October 2, 2014	Coral Reef Winners and Losers
October 1, 2014	A Warm Welcome to Our New Grad Students
October 1, 2014	Alumnus Jordan Hastings Wears Many Hats
September 26, 2014	If Trees Could Talk: Forest Research Network Reveals Global Change Effects
September 26, 2014	US Creates Largest Marine Sanctuary in the World
September 23, 2014	Astonishing New Rock Formation Discovered in the Colorado Rockies
September 22, 2014	An Evening with Jean-Michel Cousteau
September 22, 2014	Gotta Keep Those Lovin Good Vibrations A-Happenin
September 20, 2014	The beaches where I use to fish as a boy are under water
September 17, 2014	Telltale Signs That the Ozone Layer Is Recovering
September 17, 2014	California King Fire Triples in Size
September 16, 2014	Torture Numbers, and They Will Confess to Anything
September 13, 2014	California Blue Whales Have Made an Historic Comeback
September 13, 2014	Climate Change Threatens 314 North American Bird Species
September 11, 2014	Illegal Land Clearing for Commercial Agriculture Responsible for Half of Tropical Deforestation
September 11, 2014	China Works toward Kicking its Coal Habit
September 10, 2014	Geography in the Workforce: Good News to Share
September 10, 2014	Are Google Maps and GPS Bad for Our Brains?
August 29, 2014	Mystery of the Sailing Stones of Death Valley Finally Solved
August 27, 2014	Check UCSB Geography Out on Facebook!
August 26, 2014	Severe Drought is Causing the Western U.S. to Rise
August 21, 2014	Heat Islands Cooking U.S. Cities
August 20, 2014	Alumnus Ralph Dubayah Heads NASA Project to Monitor Forest Carbon from ISS
August 20, 2014	Meet Nicole McCoy, Our New Graduate Program Assistant
August 12, 2014	Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report Cause for Concern
August 12, 2014	California Drought Intensifies Need to Manage Groundwater Effectively
August 7, 2014	Rosetta Arrives At Comet Destination
August 6, 2014	UCSB Geography Alumnus Tracks Giant Kelp from Space
August 5, 2014	Greetings From Our New Chair, Dan Montello
August 5, 2014	Search for the Source of Siberian Sinkholes
July 31, 2014	When PCH Blasted Through Point Mugu
July 31, 2014	The Geography of Graffiti
July 30, 2014	Bumphead Parrotfish Are to Coral Reefs what Elephants Are to African Savannas
July 30, 2014	Is a Crow Smarter Than a First-Grader?
July 30, 2014	Peter Fisher, a Leading Figure in the Development of GIS, Has Died
July 24, 2014	Largest Aquatic Insect in the World Discovered in China
July 23, 2014	The Advent of Computers in UCSB Geography
July 22, 2014	Kate Voss Receives Editor’s Choice Award from Water Resources Research Journal
July 18, 2014	How a 12-Year-Old Girl’s Science Project Changed the Way Scientists See Lionfish
July 14, 2014	Hunger for Vegetable Oil Means Trouble for Africa’s Great Apes
July 14, 2014	Using Satellites to Study Polar Bear Populations
July 10, 2014	Interactive Map Shows How Roman Empire Was Shaped by Economic Constraints
July 7, 2014	Grad Student Elizabeth Kennedy Authors Policy Piece for the American Immigration Council
July 1, 2014	Welcome Aboard, Dr. DeVries!
July 1, 2014	A Warm Welcome to Assistant Professor Susan Cassels and Her Family
June 30, 2014	A Last Letter From Our Chair
June 27, 2014	Bycatch Is One of Many Problems Plaguing Our Oceans Today
June 23, 2014	Fish-Eating Spiders Discovered In All Parts of the World
June 23, 2014	UCSB Grads Make Their Mark in AAG 2014 World Geography Bowl
June 23, 2014	Karl Antonsson Spreads His Wings
June 21, 2014	I Often Wonder Why There’s No Blue Food
June 18, 2014	Geography’s Post- Graduation Reception and Awards
June 17, 2014	California Oleanders Plagued By Incurable Disease
June 16, 2014	Alumnus Willie McBride Makes a Bid for 2016 Olympic Team
June 12, 2014	Grad Students Song Gao, Yingjie Hu, and Olaf Menzer Land Top Internships
June 12, 2014	Study of White Sharks in the Northwest Atlantic Offers Optimistic Outlook for Recovery
June 12, 2014	Alumna Yihong Yuan Receives Prestigious Chinese Government Award
June 7, 2014	The Dark Side of Doughnuts
June 5, 2014	Geographical Perspectives Blog Ranks UCSB Geography Number One in GIS-Related Graduate Studies
June 4, 2014	Why Do Koalas Hug Trees?
June 3, 2014	A Gift to Our Outgoing Chair
June 3, 2014	Climate Could Spell the End for the Cutthroat Trout
June 2, 2014	Grad Students Treat Geography to a Spring Barbecue
June 2, 2014	The Silence of the Crickets
June 2, 2014	Sam Prentice Orchestrates a Discussion of the Craft Beer Revolution by Local Beer Experts
May 30, 2014	Elizabeth Kennedy Interviewed about the Flood of Immigrant Children from Central America
May 29, 2014	CHIRPS: Earliest Drought Warnings to Those Who Need It Most
May 29, 2014	Human Actions Responsible for Sixth Mass Extinction in Earth’s History?
May 28, 2014	The Geography of Gun Violence
May 27, 2014	End of Spring Term Graduate and Undergraduate Awards
May 21, 2014	The Geography of Snail Removal
May 21, 2014	Keith Clarke’s Electronic Textbook, “Maps and Web Mapping,” Now Available
May 20, 2014	Valarmy at Esri PUG 2014
May 20, 2014	Keith Clarke’s Classic GIS Textbook Now Available in Chinese
May 19, 2014	Marine Scientists Use JeDI to Create World’s First Global Jellyfish Database
May 17, 2014	Keller Calls It Quits – But I Bet He’ll Be Back!
May 15, 2014	Central Valley Groundwater Depletion Raises Sierra and May Trigger Small Earthquakes
May 14, 2014	How to Succeed in Business with a Degree in Geography
May 14, 2014	The State of Rain (USGS "Top Story")
May 13, 2014	Staff Appreciation, Smart Phones, and GeoHunts
May 13, 2014	UCSB Climate Hazards Group Visits Dubai, UAE
May 12, 2014	Professor Clarke to Present Paper to the Map Society of the Library of Congress
May 12, 2014	Fukushima Revisited
May 12, 2014	West Antarctic Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable, UCI-NASA Study Finds
May 12, 2014	Kate Voss Interviewed by KCRW Regarding Desalination in CA
May 7, 2014	Yang Lin Awarded Prestigious Grant from NSF Division of Environmental Biology
May 7, 2014	World’s Ocean Floor Is Now a Vast Garbage Dump: Study
May 6, 2014	Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map in Ellison Hall
May 6, 2014	Matt Conway Takes First for Undergrad Paper at CA Geographical Society Conference
May 5, 2014	Five Geography Grads Receive 2014-2015 Central Continuing Fellowship Awards
May 2, 2014	Waldo Tobler Receives the 2014 Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology
May 1, 2014	ASU Professor Elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 1, 2014	Four Are Gold, One Is Ruby, One Is Pearl, Two Are China
April 29, 2014	Landon Romano: An Alumnus Who Makes a Difference
April 22, 2014	Geography Well-Represented at the 2014 UCTC Student Conference
April 21, 2014	More, Bigger Wildfires Burning Western U.S., Study Shows
April 21, 2014	James Allen Takes Top Honors at Grad Slam
April 21, 2014	UCSB Geography Well-Represented at the AAG in Tampa
April 17, 2014	Rick Church Selected for 2014 UCGIS Research Award
April 16, 2014	Geography Makes a Splash at 2014 Spring Insight
April 15, 2014	CaGIS Distinguished Career Award Presented to Keith Clarke
April 14, 2014	Tunnel to the Other Side of the Earth
April 14, 2014	Oliver Chadwick Makes Cameo Appearance in Soil Documentary Feature Film
April 10, 2014	Computing with a View on the Indian Ocean
April 8, 2014	The Power of Poop: A Whale Story
April 7, 2014	4-H GIS Project: Building a UCSB Scavenger Hunt
April 3, 2014	Geography Grads Garner an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and an Honorable Mention
April 1, 2014	Taco Bell Buys the Liberty Bell
April 1, 2014	Yingjie Hu Takes 2nd Prize at the LAK Data Challenge on Behalf of Geography’s STKO Lab
March 27, 2014	Geography’s Climate Hazard Group Tackles Global Food Security Issues
March 25, 2014	A Geographer Walks into a Bar …
March 24, 2014	The UCSB Geography Spring Newsletter
March 20, 2014	Global Food Trade Can Alleviate Water Scarcity
March 20, 2014	Fierce Solar Magnetic Storm Barely Missed Earth in 2012
March 19, 2014	The Sky Is Falling
March 19, 2014	NASA Historic Earth Images Still Hold Research Value
March 17, 2014	Geography Staff Go Green for St. Paddy’s Day – Dyeing vs. Dying
March 14, 2014	Song Gao: Exploring Spatial Hadoop and Big Geo-Data in GIScience Research
March 11, 2014	David Siegel: Ocean Food Web is Key in the Global Carbon Cycle
March 6, 2014	The First Detailed Maps of Global Forest Change
March 5, 2014	Musical Stonehenge Rocks (pardon the pun)
March 4, 2014	Best PhD Student Dissertation in AAG Transportation Specialty Group Awarded to Alumna Kate Deutsch-Burgner
March 3, 2014	Wassup with the STKO Lab’s Point Of Interest Pulse Application?
March 3, 2014	Grad Student Forest Cannon Takes Third Place for Poster at AMS Annual Meeting
March 3, 2014	Mike Goodchild Pays Tribute to Professor and Researcher Emeritus Don Janelle
February 28, 2014	Scientists Solve the Mystery of a Nine-Million-Year-Old Mass Whale Die-Off
February 25, 2014	UCSB Prepares for California Water Crisis
February 25, 2014	Google Street View Trekker Maps Hawaiian Marine Conservation Area
February 19, 2014	Like Father, Like Son: Joel Michaelsen Carries On the Family Tradition
February 19, 2014	Alumna Lisa Berry, Now a Cartographic Product Engineer at ESRI, Reflects on Life after UCSB:
February 13, 2014	‘UCSB Reads’ Events Study Wildfires, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Big Burn
February 13, 2014	The FlightAware Misery Map
February 13, 2014	Climate Change Is Not Just Anecdotal
February 12, 2014	Mexico’s “Water Monsters” Are Becoming Extinct
February 7, 2014	Grant McKenzie Explains What the STKO Lab Is Up To
February 6, 2014	Mike Alonzo Wins 2014 Colwell Memorial Fellowship
February 6, 2014	In Blind Sight: Wayfinding in the Absence of Vision
February 5, 2014	“Tar Wars” – UCSB Geography at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
February 4, 2014	Monarch Butterfly Migration May Be Vanishing
January 28, 2014	Being Really Dry plus Warm Is a One-Two Punch
January 27, 2014	NASA Images Show Severity of California’s Record-Setting Drought
January 20, 2014	A PROCLAMATION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY
January 16, 2014	A Fond Farewell to José Saleta, Maestro de la Geografía
January 16, 2014	NSF Launches Spatiotemporal Innovation Center Co-Directed by Keith Clarke
January 14, 2014	Professor Joel Michaelsen to Serve as Interim Executive Vice Chancellor
January 13, 2014	Toxic Chemical Spills Unabated across the U.S.
January 11, 2014	The Universe Has Been Measured to 1% Accuracy
January 10, 2014	Keith Clarke Weighs in on NPR Program Regarding Evidence of the World’s Oldest Known Map
January 9, 2014	Alumnus Kyle Cavanaugh Quoted in New York Times and Published in PNAS
January 7, 2014	Supervolcano Eruption Mystery Solved
January 7, 2014	Elizabeth Kennedy Interviewed for Article in Mother Jones Magazine
January 6, 2014	Mine Landslide Triggered Quakes
January 2, 2014	Boston’s Stained Glass Mapparium