News Archive for the Year 2015

Date	Title
December 16, 2015	Geography Awareness Week 2015
December 16, 2015	Alumna Dawn Wright Chosen to Present Honors Lecture at AGU Meeting
December 15, 2015	The Geography Foyer Gets a Facelift
December 14, 2015	Swan Song from the UCSB Geography Editor
December 14, 2015	Historic Paris Climate Pact Reached-Experts React
December 12, 2015	Professor Emerita Gautier Reports from Paris
December 9, 2015	Alumna Janet Franklin Honored for Ecosystems Work
December 7, 2015	Why Greenland is an Island and Australia is a Continent
December 2, 2015	Satellite Sensors Would Deliver Global Fire Coverage
December 1, 2015	Is Your State Prepared for Climate Change?
November 30, 2015	Janowicz and McKenzie Receive Grant to Make Isla Vista Safer
November 30, 2015	Climate Hazards Group Helps Avoid Some of the Worst Humanitarian Crises
November 25, 2015	That which we call a turkey, by any other name would taste as good
November 24, 2015	UCSB Geography Graphics Get a Facelift
November 24, 2015	Dickey’s Delightful Doggies Define Departmental Dedication to Outreach
November 23, 2015	The UCSB Geography Fall Newsletter
November 21, 2015	Many Amazon Trees Endangered
November 20, 2015	Rick Church Gives Presidential Plenary Talk at 2015 NARSC Meeting
November 20, 2015	Song Gao Organizes GIS Day to Celebrate Geography Awareness Week
November 19, 2015	Letter from the Chair – The Fascinating and Relevant World of Geography
November 18, 2015	Southern Californians Have a Distinctive Way of Giving Directions
November 17, 2015	Lumari Pardo-Rodriguez Featured in Major Puerto Rican Newspaper
November 16, 2015	Professor Emerita Catherine Gautier Comments on the Paris Massacre
November 14, 2015	How to Photograph the Tallest Trees in the World
November 13, 2015	Space Junk Enters Our Atmosphere
November 13, 2015	Alumnus Grant McKenzie Wins Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Grant
November 10, 2015	UCSB Hosts 2015 California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education
November 8, 2015	New Drought Atlas Maps 2,000 Years of Climate in Europe
November 6, 2015	The Climate Hazards Group Predicts Drought in East Africa
November 4, 2015	Americans Are Hot but Not Too Bothered by Global Warming
November 3, 2015	That Time Canada Blew Up an Underwater Mountain with a Thousand Tons of TNT
October 31, 2015	Palau Creates Sixth Largest Marine Sanctuary
October 23, 2015	Geography Staff Go All Out for Halloween Decorating Contest
October 23, 2015	Michael Goodchild Is a UCSB Nobel Prize Laureate of Sorts
October 22, 2015	Campus Welcome and Update From UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang
October 17, 2015	How Official Mapmakers Keep Up with a World that Will Not Stand Still
October 15, 2015	The Wildlife Photo of Year Tells Climate Change Tale
October 12, 2015	Geography Grads Shine at Fellowship Awards Reception
October 5, 2015	Alumna Julie Dillemuth Is the Subject of the Member Spotlight of the NCGE
October 3, 2015	Another Boring Barbecue in Paradise
October 2, 2015	UCSB Geographers Say Heat and Drought Are Killing Native Trees
October 2, 2015	UCSB Ranks as One of the Most Economically Diverse Colleges in the USA
September 28, 2015	El Nino – What It Will Bring this Year and How It Could Change with Global Warming
September 25, 2015	How Junipero Serra Helped Shape California
September 24, 2015	David Simonett and the Birth of the UCSB Department of Geography
September 11, 2015	Krzysztof Janowicz Scores a Double with New Grants
September 10, 2015	Super Stonehenge Found Below Ground
September 9, 2015	The Cream of the Crop
September 7, 2015	Large Wildfires Are Now More Common and Destructive
September 4, 2015	Corbin Hodges and David Lopez-Carr Receive National Geographic Grant to Investigate International Initiative to Minimize Carbon Emissions from Forest Change
September 3, 2015	Researchers Explain Why the Greenwich Prime Meridian Moved
September 1, 2015	A Warm Welcome to Jordan Hastings
August 26, 2015	UCSB Listed Number 14 in Latest Ranking of Top Universities
August 22, 2015	The Lawn Is the Largest Irrigated Crop in the USA
August 17, 2015	Tweeting Far and Wide
August 14, 2015	The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
August 12, 2015	Big Data Maps the Geology of the Ocean Floor
August 11, 2015	Author Charles L. King Donates His Book on the History of Planning in Santa Barbara County to the Geography Department
August 8, 2015	MIT Claims To Have Found a Language Universal that Ties All Languages Together
August 2, 2015	California "Rain Debt" Equal to Average Full Year of Precipitation
July 31, 2015	Alumnus Park Williams Discusses California Climate with KQED Science Editor
July 30, 2015	Fossil Fuels May Bring Major Changes to Carbon Dating
July 30, 2015	Tammy Elwell Mentors Outstanding High School Students
July 29, 2015	Susan Cassels Lands $213,589 Development Research Grant
July 29, 2015	Alumna Elisa Frank Interviewed by BBC about Coffee Crisis
July 24, 2015	‘Snotbot’ Drones Study Whales by Collecting their Boogers
July 24, 2015	Have Scientists Found A Way To Feed The World Without Warming The Planet?
July 24, 2015	Alumna Julie Dillemuth Publishes Her First Picture Book
July 24, 2015	Leila Carvalho Discusses El Nino with Noozhawk Reporter
July 21, 2015	The Real Value of $100 in Each State
July 21, 2015	A New Blue Marble
July 20, 2015	A Warm Welcome to Consuelo Rivera, Our New Undergraduate Advisor
July 20, 2015	Polar Bears Experience Limited Energy Savings in Summer, New Study Finds
July 17, 2015	Hydraulic Fracturing Linked to Increases in Hospitalization Rates in the Marcellus Shale Region, According to Penn Study
July 15, 2015	Protecting the Deep Sea
July 14, 2015	Buzz the Alarm: Climate Change Puts Squeeze on Bumblebees
July 14, 2015	A Warm Welcome to Alex Feldwinn, Our New Computer Network Techie
July 11, 2015	Stanford Researchers Show the Risk of Shark Attacks Is Way Down
July 10, 2015	Mapping the U.S. by Property Value Instead of Land Area
July 10, 2015	California and Brazil Account for One Fifth of the Freshwater Reserves on Earth, yet Both Are Facing Historic Droughts
July 8, 2015	Lake Cachuma Listed as One of Five of the World’s Most Iconic Bodies of Water that Are Disappearing
July 7, 2015	Alumna Dawn Wright Given the Bromery Award for Minorities
July 7, 2015	A Warm Welcome to Our New Academic Personnel and Space Management Analyst
July 1, 2015	Alumnus Dennis Gibbs Credits his Career to UCSB Geography
July 1, 2015	Lopez-Carr and Fellow Researchers Receive NSF Funding to Eradicate Schistosoma Parasite
June 30, 2015	A Warm Welcome to Alycia Lewis, Our New Contracts and Grants Manager
June 29, 2015	Alumnus Edward Pultar Plugs the Latest from Valarm
June 27, 2015	A Farewell Lunch for Beilei and Bernadette
June 24, 2015	Alumna Sarah Battersby Discusses Issues and Advances in Mapmaking
June 24, 2015	Geography Graduation and Awards Reception, Spring 2015
June 22, 2015	Professor Emerita Helen Couclelis
June 16, 2015	Why Is the Ocean Turning Turquoise in the Santa Barbara Channel?
June 15, 2015	Demise of Snails Suggests Sixth Mass Extinction Is Underway
June 12, 2015	Predicting Tree Mortality
June 10, 2015	David Lopez-Carr Awarded Outstanding Graduate Mentor of Latin American and Iberian Studies
June 9, 2015	The Spring 2015 Barbecue Was Another Rousing Success
June 8, 2015	The Center for Spatial Studies Hosts a Poster and Plenary Session
June 5, 2015	A Bittersweet Farewell to Two of Our Finest Staff Members
June 5, 2015	Book by Geography Affiliate Jeffrey Hoelle Just Published
June 5, 2015	In Beirut, Landmarks Are Often Used for Navigation
June 3, 2015	Alumnus Andrew Thorpe Investigates Mysterious Methane Hotspot
June 3, 2015	James Allen and Susan Meerdink Awarded NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships
June 3, 2015	A Modest Proposal: Kill All the Bees
June 1, 2015	In a Stunning Reversal, Big Oil Asks for Carbon Price
May 29, 2015	2014-15 Annual Geography Awards
May 29, 2015	Sensational Maps of the Geography of the California Seafloor
May 28, 2015	Want the Best Solutions for the Epic Drought in California? Ask a Farmworker (and alumna) from the Central Valley
May 28, 2015	The Heat Is On
May 27, 2015	UCSB Ranked Number 7 of 750 Best Universities in the World
May 26, 2015	A Showcase for Research
May 26, 2015	UCSB Researchers Join Forces to Study Impacts of Refugio Oil Spill
May 23, 2015	Katie Maynard Wins Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Award
May 23, 2015	Grad Student Sarah Harris Wins Award at California Geographical Society Conference
May 22, 2015	Oldest-Known Stone Tools Pre-Date Earliest Known Hominins
May 22, 2015	Update on Oil Spill at Refugio State Beach
May 20, 2015	How Climate Change Is Making California’s Epic Drought Worse
May 20, 2015	Our Existential Relationship with Inflatable Globes
May 18, 2015	Which Is Most Valuable: Gold, Cocaine, or Rhino Horn?
May 16, 2015	Nation’s beekeepers lost 40 percent of bees in 2014-15
May 14, 2015	Greenhouse Gas Benchmark Reached
May 11, 2015	Rare African Plant Signals Diamonds beneath the Soil
May 11, 2015	UCSB Staff Appreciation Week
May 11, 2015	Karly Miller Talks about Life as a Marine Science Student in the Geography Department
May 11, 2015	Hawaii Sets Goal of 100% Renewables by 2045
May 4, 2015	U.S. Emissions, Economic Growth Headed Toward Divorce
May 4, 2015	Pollen and Clouds: April Flowers Bring May Showers?
May 1, 2015	Social Media and Mapping Technology Help in Recovery Efforts After the Nepal Earthquake
April 27, 2015	Vampire Squid Discovery Shows How Little We Know of the Deep Sea
April 24, 2015	U.S. Warming Fast Since 1st Earth Day – Some States Warming at Twice Global Rate
April 22, 2015	Over 1,000 New Ocean Fish Species Identified in Past Eight Years
April 22, 2015	The Velella Velellas Are Back on Our Beaches
April 21, 2015	Keith Clarke Receives Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
April 20, 2015	UCSB Ranked Greenest Public University in the USA
April 16, 2015	Hubble Goes High-Definition to Revisit Iconic Pillars of Creation
April 11, 2015	‘Warm Blob’ in Pacific Ocean Linked to Weird Weather Across the U.S.
April 10, 2015	The Pony Express Only Lasted 19 Months, but the Legend Lives On
April 9, 2015	Jeffrey Hoelle Becomes an Affiliate Professor of Geography
April 8, 2015	Alumnus Greg Mohr Keeps on Truckin’
April 7, 2015	Michelle Oyewole and Sarah Shivers Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
April 7, 2015	The UCSB Geography Spring Newsletter
April 1, 2015	Amazon Web Services Offers Free Satellite Imagery
April 1, 2015	The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest: A Special Report from the Swiss Alps
March 30, 2015	Mapmaker, Matchmaker: Suchi Gopal and the Power of Maps
March 25, 2015	Evidence for an Exceptional 20th-Century Slowdown in Atlantic Ocean Overturning
March 24, 2015	Dr. Sara Baguskas Awarded USDA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
March 23, 2015	Alumnus Park Williams Sings The Arboreal Blues for Rolling Stone
March 23, 2015	Alumnus Landon Romano Uses Drones to Aid South African Exotic Game Farmers
March 21, 2015	Climate Hazard Group Releases New Version of CHIRPS
March 19, 2015	Our Staff Mascot Reports From Bali
March 17, 2015	Hundreds of Sick, Dying Sea Lion Pups Are Washing Up on California’s Shores
March 17, 2015	Alumnus Uses Cartographic Skills to Prevent Contamination of Drinking Water
March 16, 2015	"Hollywood" Husak Brings Home the Gold in Ultimate Frisbee
March 12, 2015	UCSB Spatial Lightning Talks Feature Student, Faculty Presenters from Across Disciplinary Spectrum
March 12, 2015	New Information Helps Predict Future Climate Change Impacts on Global Tropics
March 12, 2015	New Long-Term Earthquake Forecast for California
March 11, 2015	Alumnus Park Williams Finds that June Gloom is Waning in Southern California
March 10, 2015	UCSB Geography Hosts First Student Conference Sponsored by UCCONNECT
March 10, 2015	Baby Tortoises Born on Galapagos Island for First Time in 100 Years
March 3, 2015	Climate Change in the Fertile Crescent and Implications of the Recent Syrian Drought
March 2, 2015	Eating Your ABCs
February 26, 2015	Satellite Gearing Up To Take EPIC Pictures Of Earth
February 24, 2015	Alumnus Jason Davis Receives Major NIH Award
February 24, 2015	What the Hail?
February 23, 2015	Matt Niblett Explains the Importance of Scale when Determining Suitable Habitat for Key Species
February 19, 2015	New National Park Service Map Reveals the Summer Soundscape of the US
February 19, 2015	Geography Grads Promote STEM Careers for Women
February 17, 2015	Montello Reminisces about His Misspent College Days
February 14, 2015	Southwest and Central Plains Face Unprecedented Drought
February 10, 2015	Feral Cats and Foxes Are Hunting Australian Mammals to the Brink of Extinction
February 4, 2015	Thank This Geographer for Making Sure New Maps Are Not a Total Mess
February 4, 2015	Farming Now Worse For Climate Than Deforestation
February 2, 2015	Pet a Pooch and Shed Some Stress during Dog Therapy Day at UCSB
February 2, 2015	Geographical Perspectives Ranks UCSB Geography Number One in the US
January 29, 2015	It’s Foolish To Define Austin By Its City Limits
January 29, 2015	Posting about Research into the Demise of Easter Islanders Goes Viral on Facebook
January 28, 2015	Maps & Web Mapping: An Electronic Introduction to Cartography by Keith Clarke
January 28, 2015	Easter Island Mystery
January 27, 2015	Katie Maynard Appointed As Goleta Planning Commissioner
January 26, 2015	Tales of Ancient Sea Rise Told for 10,000 Years
January 26, 2015	Government Intervention Needed for Relocation in Response to Climate Threats
January 21, 2015	GeoTrans at the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington DC
January 20, 2015	Alumni Mei-Po Kwan and Sergio Rey Receive Outstanding Service Awards
January 15, 2015	Valarm Continues To Expand
January 14, 2015	UCSB Ranked Number 3 of the Top 50 Green Schools
January 14, 2015	Tobler Map Projection Used for Wikipedia Featured Picture
January 13, 2015	Geography Grads Star at the AGU Fall Meeting
January 13, 2015	Rick Church Selected As President of the North American Regional Science Council
January 12, 2015	Geography Lauded for Outreach Efforts
January 12, 2015	Earth’s Most Abundant Mineral Finally Has a Name
January 6, 2015	NASA Data Underscore Severity of California Drought
January 3, 2015	The Ants That Conquered the World