Introducing the SBC Active Transportation Dashboard! 🚲www.sbactivetransport.org🚲 Our Dashboard features data showing collision trends, near misses, and safety hotspots. The Safety page helps identify where streets feel safe and where improvements are needed. Share your experiences on BikeMaps.org!

Congratulations to @ Spatial Students Yuyan Che, Lily Heidger, and Jiahua Chen on their AAG awards! #spatial #aag #geography #ucsb #awards #research

Last week, we debuted our newest event, Spatial Sips🍷! This quarterly outreach event brings together our academic peers and the GIS community to discuss one of Spatial's impactful initiatives, services, or projects. This quarter, we focused on the Guide to the Geographic Approach🌎 #ucsb #geog #gis

Check out KSBY's "Bike thefts in San Luis Obispo: How Big is the problem and how to protect your ride" featuring Dr. Trisalyn Nelson!🚲 #bikes #biketheft #ucsb www.ksby.com/san-luis-obi...

Another successful @ Spatial Hour! Last week, three of our Spatial students (Theo, Yeshuo, and Yuyang) presented their research in preparation for the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) Conference! #conference #gis #spatial #ucsb

Don’t miss this event from @Spatial Faculty Affiliate Annie Lamar (UCSB Classics)! 🌍 Join a grad workshop on ancient geospatial data with Prof. Sarah Bond (Univ. of Iowa). 📆 Nov 7 | 🕐 12:15–1:30 PM | 📍HSSB 4080 | 🍽️ Lunch included—space is limited! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Special shoutout to Lily Heidger, Rose Sarigai, and Caitlyn Linehan on their presentations at the 2025 Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Conference!🗺️ Congratulations to Caitlyn Linehan on receiving the Christopherson Geosystems Award for Excellence and the APCG Women’s Network Small Grant👏

@Spatial presents BIKE DATA: A YEAR IN REVIEW🚴🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️ Join us Wednesday, November 19th, for this free event featuring a presentation and Q&A by Dr. Trisalyn Nelson on how our community’s bike data can guide us in building a safer Santa Barbara! Register here: forms.gle/hM9crLoXQM8J...

Today’s @ Spatial Hour talk featured Jiwon Baik, one of our Goodchild Fellowship recipients. She discussed her research in her talk “Spatiotemporal Multimodal Fusion for Wildfire Burned Area Prediction”🔥🔥🔥 Thanks to Mike and Fiona Goodchild for their continued support of our research and students!👏

Congrats to Lily Heidger for completing her Masters!👏🎉📚 Lily’s master’s research developed a new method to estimate pedestrian activity across entire cities using publicly available data, creating a framework cities can use to better plan for safer, more walkable communities. #spatial #ucsb

We kicked off the first @ Spatial Hour of Fall Quarter with a talk from Goodchild Fellowship recipient Yifei Liu! She presented her research on avoidance dynamics in tiger-leopard coexistence🐅🐆🗺️ Special thanks to Mike & Fiona Goodchild for their generosity and continued support of students & GIS!👏

We're excited to announce the opening of a Postdoctoral Scholar position focusing on the intersection of geography and public policy analysis. To apply, visit: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02931. A reasonable estimate for this position is ~$66k- $80k. UCSB is an equal opportunity employer.

📣We're thrilled to announce that Professor Alan Murray and Associate Professor Somayeh Dodge have received 2025 UCGIS Awards!🏆🌎 Congratulations to both!👏 #ucgis2025 #gis #ucsb #awards #research #spatial

Congratulations, Jiwon and Yifei!🏆👏 #gis #fellowship #ucsb

We are hiring!🚨 To apply for the Center for Spatial Studies and Data Science's GIS Web Developer position, go to www.jobs.ucsb.edu and use the job code 77978!🌐🧑‍💻

We want to hear from YOU! Help shape the future of GIS education🗺️ To learn more about our GIScience curriculum project and get involved, visit www.guidetothegeographicapproach.com and email [email protected]!

📣It's time for a publication roundup📣 Swipe to see some recent publications from our @spatialucsb.bsky.social students and faculty!✍️ All publications are free and available online👏 Search the title and read your heart out!

New publication alert!🚨 "Rethinking GIScience Education in an Age of Disruptions" has been published in Transactions in GIS🌐 Click to read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out “The Heartbreak of Bike Theft,” Dr. Trisalyn Nelson’s latest Op-Ed on The Santa Barbara Independent! www.independent.com/2025/04/08/t...

The Dept of Geography, UCSB is excited to announce the opening of an Academic Coordinator position with @Spatial Center. To apply, visit: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02916. A reasonable estimate for this position is ~$70k- $81k. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.

Check out our collaborative project with Esri and the GIS community: Guide to the Geographic Approach! This guide establishes a framework to evolve the GIS curriculum using the most up-to-date technologies and teaching approaches!🌎🗺️ For more information, visit: www.guidetothegeographicapproach.com