News Archive for the Year 2016

Date	Title
December 7, 2016	Geography Awareness Week a resounding success!
December 1, 2016	Geography Department welcomes Nea Alvarado Voss
November 14, 2016	Professor Emeritus Waldo Tobler Inducted into URISA GIS Hall of Fame
October 3, 2016	Welcome, new Geography faculty members
September 29, 2016	David López-Carr named PI and co-director of Center of Expertise on Planetary Health
August 12, 2016	Crystal English awarded U.S. Department of Justice STEM fellowship
August 11, 2016	Kate Voss named Switzer Fellow; awarded Horton Hydrology Grant
August 9, 2016	2017 Waldo Tobler GIScience Prize
August 9, 2016	Geography Alumna Dawn Wright hosts Esri Science Symposium
August 8, 2016	Climate Hazards Group awarded NASA-SERVIR Grant
August 5, 2016	Professor Dar Roberts named American Geophysical Union Fellow
June 24, 2016	2016 Geography Commencement Reception
June 15, 2016	Urban Geographers out in the Field
June 10, 2016	Geography Department Scavenger Hunt
June 9, 2016	2015-2016 Annual Geography Department Awards
May 4, 2016	Professor Tommy Dickey receives Distinguished Teacher Award
May 4, 2016	Professor Catherine Gautier-Downes Contributes to Climate Change Discussion
May 4, 2016	Graduate Students Song Gao and Yingjie Hu Receive China Government Scholarship Council Award
March 24, 2016	Professor Tim DeVries to receive NASA’s New (Early Career) Investigator Program in Earth Science Grant
March 15, 2016	Geography graduate students participate in STEM workshop for girls in grades six through nine
March 4, 2016	AAAS Member Spotlight on UCSB Geography Alumna Janet Franklin
March 1, 2016	Alan Murray presented with the 2015 Walter Isard Award
February 10, 2016	Professor Hugo Loaiciga awarded 2016 Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award
February 3, 2016	2016 AAG Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography given to Professor Michael Goodchild
February 2, 2016	“The Monsoons and Climate Change: observations and modeling”, Carvalho, L. M. V., and C. Jones (Editors)
February 1, 2016	New to the Department: Alan Murray and Patty Murray