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Oldies But Goodies

Alumni

03/19/13 - Alumnus Paul Sutton Maps Voter Suppression in Colorado
03/18/13 - "Notes from the Farm" by Alumnus Karl Grossner
02/21/13 - An Alumnus' Take on Geography as “A Foundation for an Interesting and Rewarding Career”
01/16/13 - Alumnus Develops Mobile App to “Monitor Anything, Anywhere”
11/19/12 - Alumna Julie Dillemuth Finds Her Way as a Writer
11/08/12 - UCSB Geography in the 1980s: A Mini-Memoir from Janet Franklin
10/03/12 - Alumnus Mark Leipnik Employs Unusual Teaching Techniques
09/05/12 - Geography News Post about Eartha Inspires Comments by Alumnus Phil Dennison
08/08/12 - Alumnus Ryan Perroy Researches Soil Contamination in Albania
08/08/12 - Alumna Gilda Wheeler Champions K-12 Education for Sustainability
06/12/12 - Alumnus Kirk Goldsberry Featured in New York Times - Again!
03/06/12 - Alumnus Kirk Goldsberry Featured in New York Times Article
10/06/11 - Alumnus John Cloud Traces the Role of the U.S. Coast Survey during the Civil War
08/01/11 - Kirk Goldsberry Maps Food Deserts
07/14/11 - Recent Alumna Gives Keynote Speech at Sustainability Conference
04/07/11 - Alumnus Helps Launch New National Geographic Education Website
04/01/11 - Alumna Mei-Po Kwan Receives AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors Award
03/02/11 - Dawn Wright Selected as Leopold Leadership Fellow
01/28/11 - Elisa Frank Shares Her Research Experience
08/09/10 - Alumna Has Major Book on Mapping Species Distributions Published
08/03/10 - Gregory Mohr (BA 1976) Roasts & Toasts Noel Langle (BA 1980)
03/05/10 - Alumnus Combines Love of Alpine Sports with Eco-Tourism
02/12/10 - Alumnus Needs Your Vote to Become a World Travel Intern
02/01/10 - Geog Alumnus Has MA & PhD Published
12/16/09 - Alumna Shaunna Burbidge Featured in Associated Press Article
09/18/09 - Letter from Stuart Phinn, the First Graduate of the SDSU/UCSB Joint Doctoral Program
06/18/09 - Landon Romano – A Global Presence
04/01/09 - Letter from UCLA Geography
02/25/09 - From Surrealism to GIS
02/03/09 - Alumna Selected as Finalist for Nystrom Award
12/18/08 - New Environmental Fund in Honor of a Generous Genius
02/20/08 - Geography Alumni Co-Author “Science” Article
01/22/08 - Alumnus Fights Fire with GIS
12/03/07 - Alumna Named Oregon Professor of the Year
11/26/07 - Ben Turner Accepted by State Assembly Fellowship Program
09/24/07 - Alumnus Takes Second Prize at ESRI Conference
06/26/07 - Recollections of a Dirt Digger
06/19/07 - Dawn Wright Gives Science & Mathematics Commencement Speech
06/06/07 - Letter from Penn State
02/07/07 - Alumnus Helps Preserve the Amazon Rainforest
12/20/06 - Dancing with the Geographers
11/01/06 - Where Are They Now? Our First PhD
09/27/05 - Alumnus fought for cleaner air in Santa Barbara
07/12/05 - Alumni in the News: Paul Sutton
03/01/05 - Deepsea Dawn

Editor's Favorites

04/25/13 - Forget Sharks—Cows Are More Likely To Kill You
03/26/13 - The Loneliest Whale in the World
03/13/13 - The First Known Animal to Survive in Space
03/05/13 - Toxic Zombie Mice versus Guam’s Brown Tree Snakes
12/02/12 - Beeography and the Bee My Honey Blues
11/10/12 - The Wind Map Is Mind Blowing
10/30/12 - The Merry Minuet—The Dance Goes On
09/11/12 - It’s Official: NOAA Finds No Evidence of Mermaids
02/13/12 - Clonehenge: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
02/02/12 - Rub a Dub, Dub, Thanks For the Grub: Entomophagy Is the Future
01/04/12 - To Boldly Go and Split an Infinitive
12/20/11 - Is Santa the Personification of a Psychedelic Mushroom?
11/14/11 - Keeping Up with the Joneses
10/24/11 - The Decline and Fall of Human Brutality?
10/15/11 - Chili Peppers Have Always Been Hot
07/08/11 - Why Was Our Planet Named After Dirt?
06/26/11 - Americans’ Geographical Ignorance and Disinclination to Travel Abroad
03/07/11 - A New Tree on the Block
01/29/11 - Cochineal—A Little Insect Goes a Long Way
12/03/10 - Professor and Mrs. Montello Host Iron Chef Competition with the Theme “Indigenous American Foodstuffs”
12/03/10 - Arsenic and Old Life: Wherefore Art Thou Geography?
11/18/10 - ‘That which we call a turkey, by any other name would taste as good’
07/20/10 - The Geography of Prayer
02/19/10 - Esse Est Percipi?
02/09/10 - "The Most Socially Isolated People on Earth"
01/11/10 - The Geography of Fish ‘n’ Chips
08/07/09 - “Up Ended” From Different Angles
06/15/09 - Computer Bugs: On The Origin Of Species
02/18/09 - The Secret Lives of UCSB Geographers
09/16/08 - Monopoly, Maps, and the Great Escape
09/07/08 - A Bit about Beer
07/07/08 - Dar Comes Clean (Almost!)
06/16/08 - The Ellison Ginkgo
08/27/07 - Geowlgraphy Refines Communication Methods
01/03/07 - Much Ado about Commas
10/17/05 - Editor Comes Out of the Closet

History

05/15/13 - Eerie ERI – What’s In a Name?
12/04/12 - Climate Change: An Existential Challenge for the Whole Human Race
12/03/12 - Megastorms Could Drown Massive Portions of California
10/15/12 - How Presidential Elections Are Impacted by a 100 Million Year Old Coastline
06/10/12 - Isla Vista’s Perfect Park: Confessions of a Geography Jailbird
04/24/12 - Stearns Wharf: Santa Barbara's Most Visited Landmark
12/01/11 - The Devolution of Santa Rosa Island
09/30/11 - Who Was the First Person To Reach the North Pole?
09/09/11 - A 9/11 Tribute to Robert LeBlanc, Professor of Cultural Geography
09/01/11 - The Great Rowboat Trek and the Dawn of Remote Sensing: Early Days in the Geography Department
08/09/11 - Chris Funk re Somalia: “We Thought Trouble Was Coming”
06/01/11 - Predicting Hazards Is a Risky Business
05/11/11 - Bat Bombs: "Die Fledermaus Farce"
11/03/10 - Did a Medieval Monk Sell His Soul to the Devil to Create the Codex Gigas?
10/04/10 - Goleta’s “Great Simoon” of 1859
09/01/10 - Homo Antecessor – The Other White Meat?
08/14/10 - Global Weirding
05/29/10 - After Thunder Comes Rain
04/27/10 - When the Mississippi Flowed Backwards
04/06/10 - Meryl Wieder and the Advent of Computerized Accounting at UCSB
01/20/10 - Santa Barbara Tornadoes, Tsunamis, and Sundowners
07/17/09 - Mediocrity Is Not an Option
06/10/09 - In the Beginning: UCSB and the Department of Geography
04/17/09 - In Memoriam: The Artwork of Susanna Baumgart
04/14/09 - California: What’s In a Name?
11/24/08 - Only 66 Years to Go!
09/12/08 - The Demers Population Mural
07/23/08 - Some Say the World Will End in Fire
07/16/08 - Geography Department History: A Thoughtful Analysis
04/11/08 - Who Put Descartes before the Horse?
08/17/07 - MAJORING IN GEOGRAPHY

Humor

05/14/13 - The Armadillidiidae That Ate Ellison
04/01/13 - Google Translate for Animals: Parlez-Vous Meow?
12/20/12 - Canadian Researchers Conclude that Mayan Apocalypse Will Negatively Affect Clinical Trials
12/15/12 - NASA vs. End of World Advocates: Who Do You Trust?
12/15/12 - End of Year Staff Meeting Deals with Major Issues, Despite Major Interference
07/19/12 - Moove Over, Wisconsin Cows – California Cows Really Do Produce Better Milk and Cheese
06/06/12 - He Who Microwaves with Owls
05/16/12 - Geography Metamorphoses and ERI Goes Gaga
05/15/12 - Geography Staff Work On a Higher Plane
05/08/12 - UCSB Geography Office Hallway Vandalized with Sexual Graffiti
04/01/12 - Has Geography Become Geosophy?
02/25/12 - What’s Hot in UCSB Geography? Flaming Wieners and the TheMoMeter, with Color Pics (SFW)
12/03/11 - Pink Elephants at the Cold Spring Tavern
04/01/11 - The Semicolonial Island Nation of San Serriffe
09/16/10 - Exclusive! – Ancient Chinese Cult Responsible for Apparent Teleportation
08/21/10 - The Biogeography of the California Whiskered Trout
07/01/10 - Cause (and Effects) of the Gulf Spill: Is Truth Stranger than Fishin’?
06/25/10 - Lost In Translation
05/28/10 - Geography Department Represented at Campus Zombie Debate: “When Zombies Arrive, Geography Helps You Survive”
04/01/10 - Did the Welsh Discover America?
02/23/10 - Do Geographers Have “Physics Envy”?
04/01/09 - Global Warming Creates Artistic K-12 Meltdown
10/03/08 - The Geography of Ellison Hall
08/14/08 - First General Sherman, Now the Russians, Invade Savannah
04/23/08 - The Boys of Summer (with apologies to Bulwer-Lytton)
08/16/07 - The Department's Youngest Geographer
05/22/07 - The Principality of Sealand
12/11/06 - Cucurbitaceae and Geography
07/08/05 - Got a question for Dr. Map?

Kudos

05/08/13 - Elizabeth Kennedy Receives Fulbright Award to do Research in El Salvador
04/24/13 - UCSB Ranked No. 2 in the World in Leiden Ranking of Top 500 Universities
04/04/13 - If a Tree Is About to Fall and Somebody Hears It…
04/01/13 - SimAGENT 1.0 Moves to Practice: Mission Accomplished!
02/05/13 - Keith Clarke Appointed as Member of the National Geospatial Committee
01/02/13 - In Memoriam: Einar Hovind, the Viking
12/14/12 - Geography Awareness Week 2012
11/19/12 - One Thousand and One Posts
10/25/12 - Kudos to Professor Emeritus Waldo Tobler
07/10/12 - UCSB Geography Researchers Coauthor GEO-5 Report
07/02/12 - Professor Emeritus Michael Goodchild
06/12/12 - UCSB Geography Ranked Number One, Sometimes
04/25/12 - The UCSB-SDSU Joint PhD Program in Geography
10/28/11 - Samantha C. Ying Gamma Theta Upsilon Scholarship
10/14/11 - Geography Web Site Features New Undergrad Section
02/23/11 - Tobler’s Translation of Lambert’s Writings Re-Published by ESRI Press
02/07/11 - Mike Goodchild Awarded UCGIS Fellow Status
11/08/10 - The UCSB Interactive Campus Map
09/17/10 - The Metamorphosis of a Beautiful Book
09/14/10 - Goodchild Appointed To Dangermond Chair in Geography
07/16/10 - Professor Emeritus Terry Smith: Senior and Distinguished
07/07/10 - Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, What’s the Best University Geography Website of Them All?
05/24/10 - Goodchild Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society
01/26/10 - Of Mice and Men (and Cognitive Maps)
12/04/09 - Associated Faculty Member Ed Keller “Gives Back” To Santa Barbara
06/02/09 - A Giant of Geography Is Gone, But His Legacy Lives On
07/31/08 - Emmer Ruano, Groundsman Extraordinaire
07/31/08 - Dickey Selected for Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Chair of Oceanographic Sciences
11/30/07 - David Carr’s Letter from Ecological “Hot Spots”
10/01/07 - Why space matters, time and time again (by Dr. Chris Funk)
07/16/07 - Goodchild Awarded the “Nobel Prize” of Geography
05/01/06 - A Ground Swell of Press for Sweeney's "Geography of Surfing"
03/01/06 - Faculty Go the Extra Mile for Students
02/21/06 - Undergrad Reveals Chinese Nuclear Secrets
09/21/05 - Daring Is Caring: Park Williams Raises Funds for the Red Cross

Sustainability

04/10/13 - Steelhead Trout Fighting for Survival in Our Backyard
04/04/13 - Extinction Is the Rule; Survival Is the Exception
03/14/13 - New Desalination Process Slashes Costs of Producing Fresh Water
03/12/13 - Is Wind Power Waning?
11/06/12 - Conversion of Big Berthas to BigBellies is Big Business
08/09/12 - Faux Fish
07/25/12 - UCSB LabRATS in the News
07/22/12 - Santa Barbara’s Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
07/19/12 - UC Santa Barbara Ranks Among Top U.S. Universities in STARS Sustainability Ratings
06/15/12 - Australia Leads World in Ocean Protection—Good On Ya, Mates!
05/30/12 - Keeping Tabs on Water Taps Can Save Precious Resources
05/29/12 - A Small Grant and a Few Helping Hands Add Up to Big Water Savings
05/14/12 - UCSB (and Mo Lovegreen) Get Gold STARS for Sustainability Efforts
05/07/12 - Emmer Ruano Gives “Groundskeeper” a New Meaning
04/05/12 - Rio + 20: Taking Stock and Moving Forward in the Search for Sustainable Development
02/10/12 - How the (Sustainability) Grinch Stole Valentine’s Day
01/31/12 - Record Setting Solar Vehicle to Visit Bren
09/27/11 - Talking Trash and Sustaining Sustainability at UCSB
09/02/11 - Resomation: Dying for a Smaller Carbon Footprint
08/08/11 - Philips Lighting North America Wins Department of Energy’s L Prize
07/11/11 - Ecotourism and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
06/28/11 - Earth’s Species Become Extinct Before They’re Discovered
04/18/11 - Earth Day: A Retrospective
08/03/10 - The Dark Side of Chocolate
07/13/10 - Take a Pass on the Perrier
06/24/10 - UCSB (and Geography) Sustainability Has Major Bragging Rights
02/24/10 - The Bloom Box: A "Really Nice Fuel Cell" or a “Killer App”?
09/07/09 - Spatially Challenged Fruits and Veggies
08/31/09 - Marine Trash Islands
07/20/09 - US TP Isn’t PC
06/29/09 - A PC Proposal
11/20/08 - Have a Smooth Move
10/29/08 - Dying for a Cup of Coffee
11/22/07 - Green Turkeys?
07/23/07 - Cagney Spreads His Wings
02/01/06 - Why Are the Frogs Croaking?

Travel

01/24/13 - Snowdon - Don't Call It a Foothill
11/16/12 - Why Are the University Of California, Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Airport in Goleta?
06/04/12 - Easter Island Heads Have Great Bodies
04/04/12 - Tours of the Art Collections of 151 Institutions in 40 Countries Online - for Free!
02/03/12 - The Last Important Paper Map Ever To Depict Our Country?
01/13/11 - Letter from Delhi by Keith Clarke, January 12, 2011
01/06/11 - Letter from Mysore by Keith Clarke, January 6th 2011
04/18/10 - Keith Clarke’s Report from London
12/15/09 - A Geographer Down Under (By Prof. Dar Roberts)
06/22/09 - A Letter from Rome
03/16/09 - Confessions of a Volunteer Tourist
01/06/09 - The Adventures of Crocodile Dardee Roberts
10/29/08 - Letter from Lhasa (by Mike Goodchild)
10/15/08 - To See Ourselves as Others See Us
08/28/08 - Join Geography and See the World
05/28/08 - A Letter from Saucy South Carolina
04/21/08 - Of Mice and Men and the US Virgin Islands
02/20/08 - International Polar Years, Fridtjof Nansen, and Brave Dogs (by Professor Tommy Dickey)
11/05/07 - Letter from Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (by Mike Goodchild)
02/07/07 - Keith Clarke’s Letter from London (and Egypt!)
12/11/06 - Letter From DC
11/16/06 - Mike Goodchild's Letter From Ireland
07/11/06 - Costa Rica: Pura Vida
04/22/05 - Dr. Proctor Goes Full Circle
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