UC Santa Barbara
Department of Geography
UC Santa Barbara
Department of Geography
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David Siegel

Mailing Address:
Geography Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060

office:
EH 6844
phone:
(805)893-4547
fax:
(805)893-2578
email:

website:
http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/~davey/
Research Interests:
Interdisciplinary oceanography investigating physical, biological, optical and biogeochemical couplings on micro to ocean basin scales. Specifically, satellite ocean color remote sensing and optical oceanography, scale interaction in ecological and population systems, role of radiative exchange in air-sea interactions, and data information systems
Education:
PhD, University of Southern California (Geological Sciences with specialty in Ocean Physics), 1988
MS, University of Southern California (Geological Sciences)
BS, University of California, San Diego (Engineering Science)
BA, University of California, San Diego (Chemistry)
Courses Taught:
158, Geography of the California Current
163, Ocean Circulation
210, Analytical Methods for Geographers
261, Ocean Optics
263, Introduction to Physical Oceanography
264, Seminar in Oceanography
271, Numerical Aspects of Geographic Modeling
Honors:
Dave's professional service includes serving on the science steering committee for the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, the U.S. Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study, the NASA Strategic Road Mapping Committee for Earth Sciences and Applications, the research activities panel of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, and the science panel of the state-federal process that designated no-take marine reserves around the Northern Channel Islands in California. Dr. Siegel is a Professor in Geography as well as the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, and he is the Director of both the Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS) and SPOT at UCSB (a satellite imagery program derived from Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre - a system of Earth observing satellites owned by a European consortium).

Environmental Science and Management Courses Taught:
205, Computing and Simulation in Environmental Science and Management
250, Analytical Methods
258, Marine Resources

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