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USC Dornsife’s very own Indiana Jones, Thomas Garrison is heading up an international team to excavate two unique Maya temples in the Guatemalan jungle — National Geographic’s most popular discovery story in 2012. By Susan Bell Evening is falling on the ancient Maya kingdom of El Zotz deep in the dense undergrowth of the Guatemalan jungle.…

Extreme high temperatures in cities are increasing more rapidly than rural areas, with urban climate dampening the effects of natural climatic fluctuations such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation. In a study just published in Climate Research, USC researcher Dr. Darren Ruddell and colleagues showed that maximum temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona showed pronounced increases…

SSI Offers Workshop on Spatial Thinking and Analysis for the Humanities to USC Faculty and Graduate Students

On January 28-29, 2013, Professor of History Phil Ethington and Professor of Spatial Sciences Karen Kemp will welcome up to 20 faculty members and graduate students for a two-day workshop on spatial thinking and analysis in the humanities. The humanities have been heavily influenced by a conceptual and methodological reorientation known as the “spatial turn,”…

The Significance of Place

Nate Silver recently published an article documenting the best place to live in New York City based on a quantitative Livability Indicator that can be manipulated by the user to identify the places that would best satisfy their own needs and aspirations. You can learn more athttp://nymag.com/realestate/neighborhoods/2010/65374/

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