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News Archive for the Year 2008

12/19 - Chadwick & Siegel Elected Fellows of the AAAS
12/18 - New Environmental Fund in Honor of a Generous Genius
12/17 - NCGIA Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
12/16 - Golledge Awarded AAG Enhancing Diversity Award
11/24 - Only 66 Years to Go!
11/21 - "Transportation Letters" Makes Its Debut
11/20 - Have a Smooth Move
11/13 - Geography News Is On Its Way
11/13 - Wheatpasting and Psycho-Geography
11/10 - Geography: What Is It and Why Study It?
10/29 - Letter from Lhasa (by Mike Goodchild)
10/29 - Dying for a Cup of Coffee
10/28 - Climate Hazards Group Warms Up for New Grant
10/17 - Indy Hurt and Kailen Wright Win “Best Student Application” at Adobe Conference
10/15 - To See Ourselves as Others See Us
10/08 - Flipped Out over the Waves and Rays Experiment in the Santa Barbara Channel
10/07 - Alumni Association Steals Our Senior Artist
10/07 - The Geography BBQ: Fall 2008
10/07 - The Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science
10/03 - The Geography of Ellison Hall
10/01 - Goodchild Featured in UCOP Publication
10/01 - Welcome to Our New Grad Students
09/29 - Renovation of the Star Lab & Creation of the Spatial Computing Lab
09/25 - Washburn Appointed Chair of Interdepartmental Program in Marine Science
09/23 - The UCSB-SDSU Joint PhD Program in Geography
09/19 - Earth Gate: Whole-Earth Science at UCSB
09/17 - Absaroka: A State of Mind
09/16 - Monopoly, Maps, and the Great Escape
09/12 - The Demers Population Mural
09/10 - GeoEye-1 Gives Google Highest Resolution Imagery
09/09 - Earth Gate: Whole-Earth Science at UCSB
09/07 - A Bit about Beer
08/29 - Undergrads, Rise and Shine: Your Future Needs Your Help
08/28 - Join Geography and See the World
08/26 - UCSB Geography and Isla Vista Community Outreach
08/25 - Spatial Pattern Analysis Workshop
08/20 - Wherefore Art Thou, Alumni?
08/14 - First General Sherman, Now the Russians, Invade Savannah
08/14 - UCSB Receives Collection of Aerial Photography Valued at $14.3 Million
08/12 - Anthropogenic Warming of Indian Ocean Linked to African Food Insecurity
07/31 - Emmer Ruano, Groundsman Extraordinaire
07/31 - Dickey Selected for Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Chair of Oceanographic Sciences
07/30 - Welcome Aboard, Dr. Carvalho!
07/28 - Keely Roth Wins INSCITES Fellowship
07/24 - Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research
07/23 - Some Say the World Will End in Fire
07/23 - Gautier Authors Book on Climate Change
07/21 - Hoping that Hallie Will Be Thinking of the Sea
07/18 - The Ellison Owls Are Back
07/16 - Geography Department History: A Thoughtful Analysis
07/15 - McFadden Joins Geography Faculty
07/14 - A Warm Welcome to Jennifer King
07/10 - 2008 Faculty Promotions
07/07 - Dar Comes Clean (Almost!)
06/25 - Earth Gate: Portal to Earth Science Research
06/24 - Ed Keller and the Natural History of Santa Barbara
06/20 - Reggie Archer Selected by CaGIS
06/20 - Geographers in da ’Hood
06/18 - Shithi Kamal Wins NASA Fellowship
06/17 - Annual Graduation Reception and Awards for Undergrads
06/16 - The Ellison Ginkgo
06/09 - Swingin’ Sixties BBQ
06/04 - Geography and Juggling
06/03 - Raubal Wins Helava Award for Best Paper in 4 Years
05/30 - Undergrad Wins NASA Internship
05/30 - Undergrad Wins GIS Internship with UCSC Island Conservation
05/29 - Annual Geography Graduate Awards
05/29 - Brent Hecht Wins AAG Best Paper Award
05/28 - The GeoTrans Lab
05/28 - A Letter from Saucy South Carolina
05/28 - Inauguration of Spatial@UCSB - Perspectives for Teaching and Research
05/23 - Undergrad Wins USGS Internship
05/23 - Undergrad Wins ESRI Internship
05/22 - Indy Hurt wins CNS Graduate Research Fellowship
05/22 - Geography Plays Musical Chairs
05/20 - Geog Undergrad Wins NASA Internship
05/20 - Belated Thanks to Our Grads!
05/20 - WWW.GEOG.UCSB.EDU: Whatcha Think?
05/13 - Dar Roberts Receives Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
05/12 - Dylan Restores Faith in Human Nature
05/09 - Nancy “Rocks” at the Staff Assembly’s 4th Annual Cookie Bake Off
05/05 - Seo Youn Yoon Wins Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship
04/30 - Kriste Henson Wins Multiple Fellowships
04/29 - Raubal Receives 2007 Best Paper Award of the ISPRS Journal
04/23 - The Boys of Summer (with apologies to Bulwer-Lytton)
04/23 - Jason Davis Wins Student Paper Competition
04/22 - UCSB Geography Lauded for Sustainability Effort
04/22 - Loaiciga Receives Julian Hinds Award
04/21 - Of Mice and Men and the US Virgin Islands
04/11 - Who Put Descartes before the Horse?
04/09 - Chris Funk Serves as National Public Health Week Panelist
04/02 - Shoreh Elhami, GISCorps Co-founder, Will Give The Dangermond Lecture
04/01 - Reminder: Kerski to Give the Golledge Lecture this Thursday
03/31 - Gautier Authors Book on Complex Interactions between Energy, Water, and Climate
03/30 - UCSB Geography the #1 “Large, Prestigious Program”
03/27 - Golledge Coauthors Book on Spatial Behavior
03/21 - Katie Maynard Receives Staff Citation of Excellence Award
03/20 - Geography News Is In the Mail
03/19 - Visiting Korean Scholar Studies GIS
03/14 - New spatial@ucsb Administrative Coordinator
03/13 - Where Have All the Monarchs Gone? Ask AmaRa!
03/13 - Chris Funk Interviewed by BBC
03/12 - Carr Invited to Speak at the Woodrow Wilson Center
03/10 - Kerski to Give the Golledge Distinguished Lecture
02/25 - Murawski Wins TGSG Master’s Thesis Award
02/20 - Geography Alumni Co-Author “Science” Article
02/20 - International Polar Years, Fridtjof Nansen, and Brave Dogs (by Professor Tommy Dickey)
02/13 - Geography Ranked #2 by Chronicle of Higher Education
02/06 - Funk Coauthors "Science" Article on Global Food Security
02/01 - Christian Brown Takes Charge of Purchasing and Travel
01/31 - A Plethora of PhDs
01/22 - Alumnus Fights Fire with GIS
01/22 - UCSB Geography Students Gear Up for Transportation Conference
01/11 - Geography Well-Represented at the 87th Meeting of the TRB
01/11 - A Journal Is Born
01/07 - Geography Grads Land 5 of 20 UCSB Luce Fellowships
01/03 - Loaiciga Elected Fellow of ASCE
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