Thu, Jul 23, 10:46 am | Digital Scholarship, Faculty, Geospatial Collection, Library Employees, Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Sciences & Engineering, Special Research Collections, Technology
Professor Ian Walker relies on a century of coastal history to predict the future of California’s environment. To study vegetation loss on the Oceano Dunes in San Luis Obispo County and model subsequent dust pollution, the UC Santa Barbara geographer depends on an extraordinary historical record: a...
Preserving Groundbreaking Research in Geography, Geoinformatics and Geographic Information Science
This fall, the UCSB Library acquired the academic archives of notable faculty emeritus Dr. Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018) as part of our University Archives. The University Archives collects and...
Mon, Feb 28, 11:37 am | Library Employees, Geospatial Collection
Tom Brittnacher has worked at the UCSB Library for eight years, previously as the Geospatial Data Curator and then Geospatial Collection Strategist. On February 1, he became the Library’s first Curator of Geospatial and Digital Collections.
In this new role, Tom will not only be responsible for...


