Gamaiel Zavala has taken a position as Senior Web Developer with the Yahoo Health Division of Yahoo.com in Santa Monica. Gamaiel joined UCSB’s Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS – see www.csiss.org) as its Webmaster in March 2002 and quickly established a campus-wide and nation-wide reputation for innovative web development. CSISS is a program supported through the National Science Foundation to promote the development and use of spatial technologies for research and teaching in the social sciences. In the past year, Gamaiel worked closely with Geography staff to add functionality to the new UCSB Geography website, unveiled only a few weeks ago. Gamaiel graduated with an Associate in Arts degree in Multimedia Arts and Technologies from Santa Barbara City College in 2000 and worked as a self-employed freelance web designer before joining CSISS.
In a ceremony in the Geography Department on 16 September, Keith Clarke (Chair of Geography) and Don Janelle (Program Director for CSISS) thanked Gamaiel for his important contributions to programs at UCSB, and they joined staff and graduate students in wishing him success on the next path to what will surely be an outstanding career of creative work. In addition to a new job, Gamaiel recently married Rebecca Hopwood – they will take up residence in the Santa Monica area but hope to maintain links (web or otherwise) with their many UCSB and Santa Barbara friends.
By Don Janelle
