He is a truly awesome professor, really funny and the class was super interesting. Attendance is not at all mandatory but if you go to class you will get an A, honestly maybe even if not but he cares so much you want to go, just 2 tests and term paper. Definitely would take another class with him and highly recommend, every lecture was super cool.

He is by far one of the most caring professors I have ever had, he goes out of his way to provide his students with the resources necessary to succeed in his class. Heavy readings, but he goes over the readings quite well in lecture.

Awesome teacher. Area taught wasn't his research specialism but he was so enthusiastic that it more than made up for that, great class to take that teaches you a little bit of everything.

One of the best profs at UCSB! I'm more into human geog but he made learning about the phys world super interesting and he's so knowledgeable about it. Grade is mostly based on pretty intense group projects which are randomly assigned so you can get unlucky but he's flexible. The field trips are fun too :)