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120th Meridian plague held by Michael Goodchild

Spatial@UCSB staff mark the 120th Meridian

A mere 8 miles west of Goleta, California lies a monumental (and previously invisible) geospatial point of reference: 120 degrees West, or more simply put, 1/3 of the way around the Earth. This line of longitude is a major global point of reference for projection systems, serving as the dividing line between zones 10 and 11 in the Universal Transverse Mercator projection system.

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"Spatial@UCSB staff mark the 120th Meridian".

Pictures of the Spatial Center Conference at UCSB

Pictures of the Spatial Center Conference at UCSB

A chance to view pictures of "Connecting our region through GIS and geospatial technologies" with speakers and a reception on Thursday, May 29, 2008.

View the pictures of the Spatial Center Conference.

93106 article of spatial@ucsb event

Spatial Center Opens with Conference

An unusual new university center devoted to spatial reasoning and technologies in planning, research, and teaching will introduce itself to the campus with speakers and a reception on Thursday, May 29, say organizers. The free event, "Connecting Our Region Through GIS and Geospatial Technologies," will welcome the public to the Corwin Pavilion, beginning with a poster session at 2 p.m.

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Valley Voice Ad

Goleta Valley Voice article on the spatial@ucsb event "Connecting Our Region through GIS and Geospatial Technologies" (May 29, 2008).

Convergence Magazine

What do DNS, Black Studies, and "anywhere augmentation" have in common?

With roots in geography and a reach into subjects ranging from music and psychology to black studies, spatial thinking is big at UC Santa Barbara. It all comes together at the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies, known as spatial@ucsb.

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Convergence Magazine.

6<sup>th</sup> Graders

spatial@ucsb promotes spatial literacy and nature exploration for 6th Graders

Our children today have few opportunities to freely explore open fields, meadows, creeks, woods, or even the neighborhoods in which they live. Unorganized and unsupervised exploration, however, teaches them spatial reasoning skills in geographic space -- skills that cannot be learned by indoor play or passive vehicular movement.

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