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1908 Linsley, Earle Garfield "Some Phases of Stream Development in the Oakland and Berkeley Hills."
1909 Clark, Bruce Laurence "Topography of Southern California."
1910 Doyle, Dorothy Lundahl "An Outline in Regional Geography, with the Physical Features of California as a Basis."
1911 Dryer, Mabel Elizabeth "The Geography of Washington."
1912 Whitmoyer, Clinton Benjamin "The Influence of Geographical Conditions Upon the History of California."
1915 Durst, David M. "Physiographic Features of Cache Creek in Yolo County."
1919 Dana, Mary Alice "California Boundaries, Past and Present; Their Relation to Geographic Conditions."
1922 Beck, Anne Louise "An Application of the Principles of Bjerknes' Dynamic Meteorology in a Study of Synoptic Weather Maps for the U.S."
1922 Coulter, John Wesley "The Geography of the Santa Lucia Mountains with Special Consideration of the Isolated Coast."
1923 Blockman, Lazar E. "A Study in the Forecasting of Seasonal Rainfall for California."
1923 Schmale, Freda Louise "Geographical Study of a Portion of the San Joaquin Valley Based upon the Five-Foot Contour Map of the U.S.G.S."
1924 Rigdon, Vera Esta "The Geography of the Carquinez Strait."
1927 Searls, May Lavinia "The Geography of the Wooden-Gordon-Capell Area of Napa County, California."
1928 King, Margaret Goddard "The Growth of San Francisco as Illustrated by Shifts in Densities of Population."
1928 Suhl, Alvena Marie "Historical Geography of San Diego."
1928 Wickson, Gladys Clare "The Integration of Geographic Forms in the Salinas Valley."
1930 Scofield, Edna Lois "The Southeastern Lowland of Vancouver Island."
1931 Carthew, Arthur Williams "The Lower Basin of the Santa Ana River."
1931 Post, Lauren Chester "The Spokane Valley: A Study in Regional Geography."
1933 Munson, Esther Miriam "Aboriginal Economic Geography of the Hopi."
1934 Moe, Fillip "Towards a Geographical Interpretation of the Great Trek Movements in South Africa, 1834-1838."
1935 Nida, Richard Hale "The Escondido-San Pasqual-San Bernardo Area: a study in the historical geography of San Diego County, California."
1936 Friis, Herman, Jr. "Pioneer Settlement of Sakhalin Island: a study in settlement morphology and rural economy."
1936 Hu, Charles Y. "The Historical Occupancy and Economic Prospect of the Tarim Basin."
1938 Boulger, Martha Lillian "The Kings River Fan: a geographical interpretation."
1939 Parsons, James Jerome "The California Hop Industry: its eighty years of development and expansion."
1939 Thomas, Edwin Stevenson "Landslide Forms and Their Origin in the Middle Coast Range."
1940 Liu, Yi-Chih "Sericulture in China."
1942 Perret, Maurice Edmond "The Italian Swiss Colonies in California."
1943 McNeal, Roy Wilson "The Upper Rogue River Valley: A Study in Geography."
1944 Menzel, Marion Lee Jones "The Historical Geography of the Sheep Industry in California in the 19th Century."
1946 Rostlund, Erhard "A Distributional Study of Primitive Fishing in California."
1947 Marshall, Ann Nicholle "The Size of the Australian Desert."
1948 Karinen, Arthur E. "The Historical Geography of the Mendocino Coast."
1949 Chow, Din-Zu "Geographic and Historic Foundations of the Present-Day Distribution of the Peoples of the Nan Shan-Koto Nor Area."
1949 Eidemiller, Donald I. "Economic Geography of Avocado Growing in San Diego County."
1949 Robison, William C. "Historical Geography of the Redwood Forest of the Santa Cruz Mountains."
1950 Lowenthal, David "The Historical Geography of the Guiana Coast."
1950 Wagner, Philip L. "Russian Exploration in North America."
1950 Sopher, David E. "Turmeric in the Color Symbolism of Southern Asia and the Pacific Islands."
1950 Hickey, Callie M. "The Geography of Fish Stupefying Plants and Practices in Indonesia."
1950 Cushman, G. Raymond "The Geography of Sugar-Beet Growing in California."
1950 Alexander, Charles S. "The Marine and Stream Terraces of the Capitola-Watsonville Area, California."
1950 Bowie, Jean Margaret "An Historical Geography of the Island of Trinidad."
1951 Patton, Clyde Perry "The Climate of California According to the Thornthwaite Classification of 1948."
1951 Thompson, John "The Settlement Geography of San Gorgonio Pass, Southern California."
1952 Bauer, Francis Harry "Marine Terraces Between Salmon Creek and Stewarts Point, Sonoma County, California."
1952 Schwartzlose, Richard A. "The Cultural Geography of the Mormon Settlements in Mexico."
1952 Lanson Jacqueline Anna "Eucalyptus in California: its distribution, history, and economic value."
1952 Simoons, Frederick J. "The Settlement of the Clear Lake Upland of California."
1953 Dondero, Raymond S. "The Italian Settlement of San Francisco."
1953 Kramer, Fritz "Idaho Town Names."
1954 Walker Harley Jesse "A Study of the Rainfall of Mexico."
1954 McClain, Marcia "The Distribution of Asparagus Production on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California."
1955 Marr, Paul "Industrial Geography of the San Francisco North Bay Area."
1955 Sunderland, Joan Roy "Settlement of the Clay Belt of Northern Ontario and Quebec."
1955 Coffin, Harry C. "Precipitation Distribution in a Representative Area of the North Coast Ranges of California."
1956 Harries, Norman Hayden "Cornish and Welsh Mining Settlements in California."
1956 Swift, John Cornish "The Tuna Fishery of Southern California."
1957 Edwards, Clinton R. "Quintana Roo: Mexico's empty quarter."
1958 Denevan, William M. "The Upland Pine Forests of Nicaragua."
1958 Fox, David J. "The Morphology of the Elross Lake Area, Quebec-Labrador."
1958 Urquhart, Alvin W. "The Landforms of the Cockpit Country and Its Borderlands, Jamaica."
1959 Blossom, Herbert H. "The Agricultural Development of the Coachella Valley, California."
1959 Clarke, William C. "The Vegetation Cover of the San Francisco Bay Region in the Early Spanish Period."
1959 Reynolds, Richard "The Effect of Natural Fires and Aboriginal Burning Upon the Forests of the Central Sierra Nevada."
1959 Thorp, Thomas E. "Crop Protection in Native North America."
1959 Vermeer, Donald E. "The Cays of British Honduras."
1959 Watts, David "Human Occupance as a Factor in the Distribution of the California Digger Pine (Pinus sabiniana)."
1960 Andress, Joel "The Role of Wood in the Economy of Maine."
1960 Chorley, Rosemary More [Rosemary MacDonald More] "The Influence of Water-Rights Litigation upon Irrigation Farming in Yolo County, California."
1960 Trussell, Margaret "The Settlement of the Bodega Bay Region."
1960 Saunders, Margery "California Wheat, 1867-1910: Influences of Transportation on the Export Trade and the Location of Producing Areas."
1960 Radley, Jeffrey "The Physical Geography of the East Coast of Nicaragua."
1961 Orser, Robert D. "The Eastern Slope of the High Sierra as a Recreation Area."
1961 Copley, Richard "An Historical Geography of the Dairy Industry of Stanislaus County, California."
1961 Barrett, Elinore M. "The Oyster Industry of California."
1961 Galloway, J.H. "The Settlement of Barbados and the Establishment of the Plantation Economy, 1627-1680."
1962 Collett, Ray Thomas "Insolation on Slopes."
1962 Weiss, David Leon "The Rail Network as an Element in the Growth of Population in the San Francisco Suburbs."
1963 Huston, John Robert "A Geographical Analysis of the Fur Farming Industry in Alaska."
1963 Kaye, David "The Evolution, Function, and Morphology of the Southeast Asian City From 1500-1800."
1963 Powell, Douglas R. "The Physical Geography of the White Mountains, California-Nevada."
1963 Sawatsky, Harry Leonard "The Pembina Project: a socio-economic evaluation of a proposed irrigation district in the Agassiz Lake Basin in Manitoba."
1963 Wilken, Gene C. "Observations of the Structure of a Brushfield in the Central Sierra Nevada and Its Influences on Interception, Accumulation and Melting of Snow."
1964 Cermakian, Jean "The Cement Industry in Chile: a study in economic geography."
1964 Liang, Chi-sen "Potentiality for Water Use and Economic Development of the Yangtze Basin."
1964 Merlin, Imelda "Alameda: historical geography of a California city."
1964 Rees, Peter W. "Air Transport in the Lesser Antilles."
1964 Rutledge, William H. "The Rôle of House Types in the Formation of Residential Areas in Oakland."
1965 Cobban, James L. "The Changing Utilization of the Forests of Continental Southeast Asia."
1965 Philips, Will D. "Food Sources in China, Manchuria and Mongolia during Prehistoric Times."
1965 Young, Eleanor "Problems of Land-Use in a Seismic Area with Special Reference to the Hayward Fault."
1965 Anderson, Roy W. "The Historical Geography of California Spas: fountains of health in the Central Coast Ranges."
1966 Da Silva, Armando "Tai Yu Shuan: the cultural geography of a South Chinese Island."
1966 Bowen, William A. "The Evolution of a Cultural Landscape: the valley fruit districts of Solano County, California."
1966 Elgie, Robert Andrew "The Development of San Francisco Manufacturing, 1848-1880: an analysis of regional locational factors and urban spatial structure."
1966 Bunkse, Edmund V. "Humboldt Bay Region: a study of pioneer transportation."
1966 Bishop, Lawrence H. "Southern Nevada: the continuing frontier."
1966 Dent, Borden D. "Irrigation Pumping and Pump Manufacturing in California."
1966 Lobb, Gary "Trade and Transportation in the Highlands of Western Guatemala: an historical geography."
1966 Reed, Robert R. "Hispanic Urbanism in the Philippines: a study of the impact of church and state."
1966 Sargent, Charles "The Evolution of Water Transportation and Ports in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, 1848-1880."
1966 Schofer, Jerry "Finnish Settlement in Northern California."
1966 Shamir, Elaine "The Effect of Industrialization on the Growth and Structure of the Lille Conurbation."
1966 Wallach, Bret "The Central Pacific Land Grant in Placer County, California."
1966 Weisser, Michael Lawrence "Rainfall and Local Climate of Berkeley."
1967 Andrade, Fernando M. de "Historical Geography of the Central Meseta of Costa Rica."
1967 Barnett, Roger "The Interrelationship of Building Form with Building Use in the Outlying Commercial Areas in the Urban East Bay."
1967 Dillon, Marsha June Bratten "Federal Land Grants Benefitting the University of California."
1967 Brown, William H., Jr. "Marine Fisheries in the British West Indies."
1967 Harris, James "Worldwide Patterns of Seasonal Variation in the Consumption of Electrical Energy."
1967 Loughman, Michael "Wilderness and Recreation in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California: a historical geography."
1967 McKinnon, Richard "The Historical Geography of Settlement in the Foothills of Tuolomne County, California."
1967 Salter, Christopher Lord "San Francisco's Chinatown--How Chinese a Town?"
1967 Williams, Glyn "Historical Geography of the Welsh Colony in the Lower Chubut Valley, Patagonia, 1865-1915."
1967 Wilvert, Calvin "Dairying in the Central Highlands of Costa Rica."
1968 Thaman, Randolph "The Feasibility of Using Satellite Imagery for Small-Scale Vegetation Mapping."
1968 Hallinan, Tim "The Portuguese in California."
1968 Stokle, Gerald "Mission San Jose and the Livermore Valley, 1798-1842: demography and ecology of a mission hinterland."
1968 Floyd, Donald "The Role of Narrow-Gauge Railroads in California's Transportation Network."
1968 Howatt, Elizabeth Ann "A Historical Geography of Alpine County, California, and the 'Alpine-Nevada Alliance.'"
1968 Vale, Thomas "The Redwood National Park: a conservation controversy."
1969 Derrenbacher, William "Plants and Landscape: an analysis of ornamental plantings in four Berkeley neighborhoods."
1969 Johanson, Ruby "The Location of High-Rise Commercial Office Buildings in San Francisco and the Internal System of Occupance."
1969 Richards, Stephen "Geographical Aspects of Rice Cultivation in California."
1970 Garcia Ramon, Maria Dolores "Recent Development on the Marine Fisheries in Cuba, With Case Studies from the Gulf of Batabano and the Harbour of Surgidero."
1970 Rogers, Peter "Danish Settlement in Northern Utah."
1970 Schuh, Janet Crane "Hawaiian Land Tenure and the Proposed Kauai National Park."
1970 Savage, Barbara C. "The Changing Fishery of Peru: An Example of Changing Resource Evaluation."
1970 Trembley, Mark "Cemeteries: diverse landscape features in the San Francisco-Oakland Metropolitan area."
1970 Chow, Willard "Urban Evolution in the Northern Sierra Foothills."
1970 Flem, Lloyd "Behavioral Influences on Pharmacy Location in Northeast Sacramento County, California."
1970 Hernandez, Silvia Volosky "The Andean Passes Between Chile and Argentina, A Study in Historical Geography."
1970 Kane, Philip "Assymetrical Valleys: an example from the Salinas Valley, California."
1971 Shinn, Tila "Patterns of Regeneration in an Old Growth Cedar-Hemlock Forest in Coastal British Columbia."
1971 Warren, Judith "The Lumber Industry of the Plumas-Lassen Area of the Northern Sierra-Southern Cascades in California: an historical geography."
1971 Ryerson, Victor "Rail Corridors: an investigation of the feasibility and potential of highspeed rail passenger service in the U.S."
1971 Tanner, Susan Kemp "The Marin Peninsula: the impact of inhabiting groups on the landscape from the Indian to the railroad."
1972 Anderson, Paul S. "Isla Fuerte: a micro-regional geography of a Colombian Island."
1972 Withington, Ann Fairfax "New England: Europeans and Indians, 1524-1675."
1972 Hayden, Rita Karin "The Dungeness Crab Fishery of California."
1972 Gregory, Anthony "The Turks Islands Salt Trade and Industry: an historical economic geography."
1972 Walton, Sidney Franklin "A Geonomical Solution to the Problem of Haphazard Black Migration."
1973 Dodson, Thomas Melvin "The California Land Conservation Act of 1965 (Williamson Act): its effects on land use stabilization in Marin, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties."
1973 Rademacher, Kurt Anthony "Evolution of the Landscape in the Flicker Ridge Area, Contra Costa County, California: a physical geography."
1974 Stutler, Linda Lane "The Historical Geography of the Yolo By-Pass."
1974 Wong, Margaret Shiu-Kit "The Perception of Nature in Mainland China."
1976 Holmes, Daniel Oliver [M.S. degree] "The Effects of Human Trampling and Urine on Subalpine Vegetation: a survey of past and present back- country use and the ecological carrying capacity of wilderness, Yosemite National Park."
1976 Miller, Roger Pierce "Landscape Portrayal in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature."
1977 Budetti, Maureen Rodgers "The Geographical Significance of Man-Made Lakes in Africa: a comparison of Lake Kariba, Lake Volta, Lake Nasser, and Lake Kainji."
1977 Michaelsen, Joel Christian "North Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Patterns and Relationships to California Precipitation."
1978 Rada, Elizabeth Ann "Man and Agriculture in Alaska."
1978 Smith, Harold Gregory "A Remote Sensing Approach to Land Surface Classification."
1978 Rainey, Suzan Carter "Smallness and Insularity--Impacts and Adaptations: an historical perspective from Anegada, British Virgin Islands."
1978 Scott, Randall Carl "Greenbelt Towns."
1978 Yagasaki, Noritaka "Evolution of Japanese Floriculture in Northern California.
1979 Bassett, Thomas Joseph "Vacant Lot Cultivation: community gardening in America, 1893-1978."
1979 DePree, Janet Louise "The Wheelchair-Bound: a time-geographic perspective."
1979 Dobkin, Marjorie Phyllis "The Great Sand Park: the origin of Golden Gate Park."
1979 Godfrey, Brian John "Road to the Xingu: frontier settlement in Southern Para, Brazil."
1979 McGee, Ralph Christopher "Colonial Organization and Regional Development: factors in the historical geography of the American Southwest."
1979 Murphy, Michael Edward "Some Aspects of Urban Water Management in Guatemala City."
1979 Sowers, Frederick Walter "Land Settlement in the Peten: the cooperatives of the Pasion and Usumacinta Rivers, Guatemala."
1979 Storper, Michael Charles "Toward a Non-Spatial Theory of Location."
1979 Walsh, Kathleen Dolan "Cirencester in the Cotswold: a study in landscape evolution."
1979 Herwitz, Stanley Robert "The Regeneration of Selected Tropical Wet Forest Tree Species in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica."
1980 Stine, Scott William "Hunting and the Faunal Landscape - Subsistence and Commercial Venery in Early California."
1981 Hershkovitz, Linda Rhoda "Geography and Imperialism: the Royal Geographical Society at the back door to China."
1981 Breton, Stephane Nils "The Symbolism of Production and Exchange in the Agricultural Rituals of Primitive Societies: the case study of the Trobriand Islands."
1981 Sobral, Helena Ribeiro "Sequent Land Use and Environmental Issues in a Subtropical Milieu: the case of Sao Simo, in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil."
1982 Bernhardson, Wayne Bruce "Natural Resources in an Andean Pastoral Economy: the Aymara of Parinacota, Chile."
1982 Brower, Barbara Anne "Policy and Power: the Forest Service and the range sheep industry in Wind River Mountains, Wyoming."
1982 Polhemus, Deborah Lee "Agricultural Laborers and Their Organizations in Central Chile."
1982 Semans, Cheryl Ann "A Dragon on Water, A Worm on Shore: a study of Hong Kong's boat population."
1982 Dorn, Ronald I. "Dating Rock Varnish."
1982 Fletcher, Thomas Christopher "The Mono Basin in the Nineteenth Century: discovery, settlement, land use."
1982 Sullivan, Donald George "Prehistoric Flooding in the Sacramento Valley: a sedimentological study of Little Packer Lake, Glenn County, California."
1983 Fondahl, Gail Andrea "The Demise of the Norse Greenland Colonies."
1983 Horn, Sally Peterson "Late Quaternary Vegetation Change in Western Costa Rica: pollen evidence from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 565."
1983 Larson, David John "Ditch and Flume Systems of the Central Sierra Nevada: evolution of a water transfer network."
1983 Pudup, Mary Beth "Packers and Reapers, Merchants and Manufacturers: industrial location in an era of emergent capitalism."
1983 Espinet, Marc Anton "Creating a New Middle Landscape: Ideals and Practice in the Provision of Urban Space in the U.S.
1984 Cardellino, Joan Elizabeth "Industrial Location: a case study of the California fruit and vegetable canning industry, 1860-1984."
1984 Rousseve, Brian Paul "Grassroots Development in Senegal, 1960-1970."
1984 Sicular, Daniel Thoreau "Currents in the Waste Stream: a history of refuse management and resource recovery in America."
1984 Argenbright, Robert Thomas "Bowman's New World: world power and political geography."
1984 Blumler, Mark Allan "Climate and the Annual Habit, with Special Reference to Invasion and Replacement in Mediterranean-Type Grasslands."
1984 Brunckhorst, Elna Nancy "Intersections and Interstitial Realms: Tirto Adhi Soerjo (1880-1918) in the becoming of Indonesia."
1984 Eley, Thomas Jefferson "Pau Ka Wiliwili, Nahu' Ka Mano: the history of the Hawaiian shark fishery."
1984 Nedeff, Nicole Elena "The Historical Extent of Riparian Forest Vegetation Along the Lower Stanislaus River, California."
1984 Starrs, Paul Francis "Esmeralda County, Nevada: empty land? poor land? fair land?"
1985 Belil, Mireia "Subcontracting Networks: an alternative form of capitalist organization."
1985 Cartier, Carolyn Lee "Preserving Bukit China: Cultural Conflict in Historic Melaka."
1985 Emory, Jerome Campbell, Jr. "Perception and Development of the Brazilian Pantanal."
1985 Hasbrouck, Gary Marshall "Subsistence Fishing Among the San Blas Kunas, Panama."
1985 Lewis, Karen Wigen "Common Losses: transformations of commonland and peasant livelihood in Tokugawa Japan, 1603-1868."
1985 Lewis, Martin Wigen "Elusive Societies: a theory of small-scale socio-territorial organization, with particular reference to the peoples of the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, the Philippines."
1985 McDonald, Mary Grace "Rice in Hokkaido: establishment and persistence at Japan's northern extreme."
1985 Orvis, Kenneth Howard "Modern Surface Pollen and the Tropical Margin of the Sonoran Desert."
1985 Roberts, Geraldine Claire "World Capitalism, Peasant Migration and the Transformation of Daily Life in the Highland Regions of Kenya, 1882-1982."
1985 DeCastro, Marcia Freitas "The Organization of Informal Production in Urban Economies."
1985 Dunn, Jeanne Marie "Morphology and Evolution of Sand Dunes at Mono Lake, California."
1985 Leddy, George Stuart "Petroleum Revenue, The State and Agriculture in Venezuela."
1985 Quesada, William Gonzalo "The Agricultural Lands and Farming Practices of Mission San Jose: 1820-1830."
1985 Rodriguez, Arantxa "Crisis in Theory and Theories of Crisis."
1985 Taylor, Jerome Emery "The Political Geography of Indian War in Nicaragua."
1985 Zimmerer, Karl Stephen "Agricultural Inheritances: Peasant Management of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) Variation in Northern Peru."
1986 Fearing, Wendy Ellen "Industrialization and Daily Bread: Bakeries and Household Provisioning in Oakland, 1880-1930."
1986 Grodsky, Jamie Anne "The Structure and Evolution of International Mining Agreements: Application to the Potential Development of Deep-Sea Polymetallic Sulfides."
1986 Howard, Thomas Frederick "Agricultural Land Preservation in the Solano Irrigation District."
1986 Stevens, Stanley Francis "Forests of the Raj: Colonialism, Deforestation and Conflict in the Indian Himalaya."
1986 Gaubatz, Piper Rae "The Geography of Neighborhood Change: Idora Park in the Twentieth Century."
1987 Jarosz, Lucy Antonina "The 'Traffic in Women': Buying and Selling Labor Power in African Contract Farming."
1987 Jones, Whitney Rice "Analytical Overview of the Property Development Industry."
1987 Koshear, Jeannine "Hopi Agriculture: Environmental and Cultural Change."
1987 Clapp, Alex "Representing Reciprocity, Reproducing Domination: Ideology and the labor Process in Latin American Contract Farming"
1987 Muldavin, Joshua "The Individual Responsibility System: Present and Future Implications with Special Reference to Agricultural Sustainability"
1987 Pomeroy, Susan "Tourism and Tradition: Craft Production and the Cultural Landscape of Michoacan"
1987 Solow, Jody "Partitioning the Seas: Systems of Marine Resource Management in the Tropical Pacific"
1988 Cook, Charles "Ice Age in the Subtropics: The Climate and Vegetation of Taiwan During the Last Glacial Maximum"
1988 Griggs, Richard "Territory and National Identity: The Catalan Example"
1988 Mensing, Scott "Blue Oak (Quercus douglassi) Regeneration in the Tehachapi Mountains, Kern County, California"
1988 Millikan, Brent "The Dialectics of Devastation: Tropical Deforestation, Land Degradation, and Society in Rondonia, Brazil"
1988 Page, Brian "Cornbelt Industrialization and Urban Growth: An Historical Geography of Wapello County, Iowa"
1988 Taha, Haider "Site-Specific Heat Island Simulations: Model Development and Application to Micro-Climate Conditions"
1988 Whitesell, Edward "Rubber Extraction on the Jurua River in Amazonas, Brazil: Obstacle to Progress or Development Paradigm?"
1989 Berman, Deborah Santana "Puerto Rico's 'Operation Bootstrap': An Historical Analysis of a Model for Development"
1989 Charnofsky, Kim "California Mineral and Hot Springs: Historical and Geographical Considerations in their Perception, Location, and Develoment"
1989 Proctor, James "Growth Beyond Limits? Resource Sufficiency in Rural Swaziland, 1947 to 2000"
1989 Craddock, Susan Leight "Rethinking Medical Geography: The Case of Women's Health in India"
1989 Hirsch, Eric "Country Music: Song and the Politics of Uneven Development in Hungary at the Turn of the Century"
1989 Levenson, Marcia "Space, Power and Knowledge in the Arctic: The Place of the Inuit on a U.S.-Soviet Geopolitical Frontier"
1989 Mitchell, Katharyne "The Impact of National and Regional Policy on the Transformation of the Pearl River Delta"
1989 Organ, David "Truxton, Virginia, 1918-1921: The All-Black Town Phenomenon Re-Visited at a Critical Juncture in Its Evolution and the Reconstruction of African-American Urban Historical Geography"
1990 Schwarz, Beatrice "EL ORO CON PATAS: A Tale of Mismanaged Fisheries and Misguided Theories"
1991 Edlund, Eric "Reconstruction of Late Quaternay Vegetation and Climate at Lake Moran, Central Sierra Nevada, California"
1991 Figaro, Paul M. "Indonesi'Õs Clove Cigarette Industry"
1991 Freidberg, Susanne E. "Market Women and State Violence in West Africa"
1991 Hertz, Frederick "Planning the Plowshares: Power and Decisionmaking in the Conversion of Military Bases for Civilian Use"
1991 Hidaldo M.W., Neusa "Intensification of Agriculture Within the Basin of Mexico during the Aztec Period"
1991 Husmann, Lisa E. "Early Cultural Contacts in Southwestern China: Evidence from the Book of the Southern Barbarians"
1991 Cochrane, Michelle "Deconstructing "African Aids": An Analysis of the Production of Scientific Knowledge"
1992 Schmitz, Charles Paul "Agrarian Transformation in Egypt"
1992 Sturgeon, Tim John "The Origins of Silicon Valley: The Development of the Electronics Industry in the San Francisco Bay Area"
1992 O'Malley, Mark Edward "Divided But Not Conquered: Political Economy, Ideology, and Urban Development in Berlin, 1948-1990"
1992 Goman, Michelle "Paleoecological Evidence for Prehistoric Agriculture and Tropical Forest Clearance in the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico"
1992 Murphy, Frances Joseph "The Geomorphology and Evolution of the Motu of Moorea, French Polynesia"
1993 Lizarraga, Jorge Guadalupe "Binational Agroindustry in Northwest Mexico: A Geography of the Mexico-US Fresh Product Trade"
1993 Gardner, Florence Catherine "Environmental Justice Organizing and Economic Change in the Southern United States: An Inquiry into the Limits of Theory"
1993 Malamud, Frances Pond "The Case for Independent Origins of Agriculture in China"
1993 Siegel, Stuart Williams "Tidal Marsh Restoration and Dredge Disposal in the San Francisco Estuary, California: Selected Scientific and Public Policy Principles for Implementation of the Montezuma Wetlands Project"
1993 Lee, Kathryn Anne "Illusion of Autonomy: The Impacts of Nontradtional Export Agriculture on Small Farmers in Guatemala"
1994 Carlisle, Heather Lynn "The Pre-Soviet Rootsof the Aral Sea Crisis: A Reinterpretation of Environmental Degradation in Post-Soviet Central Asia"
1994 Hetland, Norman James "The Island Republic of Pacific Siberia: Mapping and Modeling a Unified Theory of Island Regionality"
1994 Chari, Sharad "Flexibility in Place: The Social Geography of Knitting in Tirupur's Small Firms"
1994 Glushkoff, Serge "Survival and Extinction at the State Periphery: Siberian Resources After Perestroika"
1994 McCarthy, James P. "'Escaping California': The Uneven Development of New Rural Spaces in Northern Idaho"
1994 Walker, Barbara Louise "Gender, Resources, and Customary Law: Woman-Woman Marriage and Claims to Land in Kenya"
1995 Eichner, Jolyn Dietz "Seeking Security, Defending Development: The South Manchuria Railway Company, Minami Manshu Tetsudo Kabushiki Kaisha -- Background, Impulse, Trajectory"
1995 Freeman, James Patrick "Contested Nicaraguas: The Construction of Hegemony in The Landscape of Post-Sandinista Managua"
1995 Guthman, Julie Harriet "Environmental Crisis and Development Discourse in the Nepal Himalaya"
1995 Mena, Luz Maria "Hybrid Modernity: Havana in the 1830's and 40's"
1995 Merrill-Carter, Heather "The Mirror of Desire: Gender, Vision and Image in Manet's Olympia and the Contemporary African Migration to Italy"
1996 Gabet, Emmanuel Jacques "Lateral Migration of a Tidal Channel"
1997 Acker, Robert Lawrence "New Geographical Tests of the Hydraulic Thesis at Angkor"
1997 Cole, Alexander "Industrial Districts and Development in the Third Italy: The Case of Cento"
1997 Lai, Clement Kai-Men "Site of Contagion: The Racialization of San Francisco's Chinatown in the Nineteenth Century"
1997 Lee, Sun Min "Terrain and Landcover Change Detection from Digital Elevation Models and Orthrographic Images Produced with Digital Photogrammetry"
1997 Sarich, Jorjan Snyder "The Geography of Zoroastrianism: Cultural Evolution and Spatial Persistence"
1997 Weber, Peter Kilian "Terrestrial Biomarkers and Fluorescence in Porites Corals from South Sulawasi, Indonesia"
1997 Wolford, Wendy Wei-Chen "The Political Economy of Poultry Production in Brazil"
1998 Churcher, Tegan Paige "The Geography of Biodiversity"
1998 Wanket, James Achiel "Fault History and Vegetation Change along the Hayward Fault, Northern California"
1999 DeRubertis, Diana Marie "Changes in Extreme Event Frequencies within the United States"
1999 May, Michael "Vegetation and Salinity Changes over the Last 2,000 Years at Two Islands in the Northern San Francisco Estuary, California"
1999 Walker, Anne Francis "Physicalisation of Sound: Configurations of Urban Disjunction in Poetry"
1999 Barrio, Kimberly "Beyond a Dichotomous Approach to the Geography of Innovation: Technical Centers in Mexico as an Exception to the Rule"
1999 Smith, Francis "Rip Current Physical Geography, Scientific Research, and Lifesaving: Ocean Beach, Northern California"
2000 Conserva, Maria Elena "A Paleoecological Record from Laguna Atezca, Hildago on the Northern Frontier of Mesoamerica"
2000 Van Ausdal, Shawn "Development and Discourse Among the Maya in Southern Belize"
2000 Wahl, David "A Stratigraphic Record of Environmental Change from a Maya Reservoir in the Northern Peten, Guatemala
2000 Conkling, Erika "Urban Agricultural New Towns in California: West Sacramento and Patterson"
2000 Rogers, Clint "Getting to the Bottom of Tourism on Top of the World: Mount Everest, Sherpas, and the Khumbu Himalaya of Nepal"
2001 Bryan, Joseph Henry "By Reason or By Force: Territory, State Power and Mapuche Land Rights in Southern Chile"
2001 Conkling, Erika Lynn "Urban Agricultural New Towns in California: West Sacramento and Patterson"
2001 Reidy, Liam Michael "Evidence of Environmental Change Over The Last 2000 Years at Mountain Lake in the Northern San Francisco Peninsula, California"
2001 Roark, Erin Brendan
2001 Loyd, Jenna "Towards a Political Geography of Health: A Multi-scalar Health Politics"
2002 Graham, Daniel "Paper Arrows: Peasant Resistance and Territoriality in Honduras"
2002 Johnstone, James "Variability and Change of the Daily Frequency and Intensity of Winter Precipitation in the Western United States, 1901-1997"
2002 Niedt, Christopher "'We Are Not a Social Movement': Self-Interest, Scale, and Change in Faith-Based Community Development"
2002 Teplitzky, Samantha "Representing Rural America: The New Deal, the Photographic Record and a Journey Beyond the Limits of the Metropole"
2002 Gerhart, Matthew Paul "Growth versus Green: the History of Citizen Land Conservation in Marin County, California"
2002 Jaggar, Karuna Rachel "In the Spirit: The Relevance of the Local-beer Industry and Sufi Movements in Understanding Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary Tanzania"
2002 Sculley, John Blackburn "Deciduousness in North American Angiosperm Trees"
2002 Watson, Elizabeth Burke "Sediment Accretion and Tidal Marsh Formation at a Santa Clara Valley Tidal Marsh"
2003 Chang, Wendy Hsin "The Model Minority in the Model Home: Geographies of Race in the New Pan-Asian Suburbs"
2004 Ashtari, Negar "Eating Land; Growing Houses: Peri-urban Land and the Politics of Negotiability in Botswana"
2004 Casolo, Jennifer Jean "Vozy Voto in Deed? Reworking of Land Rights, Gender and Power in Post-Hurricane Mitch Honduras

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Students entering without a Master's Degree go straight on to the PhD.


Plan II (by examination) M.A. Degrees in Geography
Granted by the University of California, Berkeley

1966 Wolff, Jeffrey C. 1974 Vorster, Walter
1966 Dioh, Sylvester 1974 Lavagnino, Walter
1967 Patera, Alan H. 1974 Armstrong, Connie Marie
1967 Sarre, Philip 1974 Huckabay, James
1967 Schmeling, Gerald J. 1974 Jones, David Paul
1968 Stephen, Kathleen Kelly 1974 Lewis, Nancy D.
1969 Mackay, Paul 1974 Cheng, Miu-Sheung Dorothy
1969 Metalitz, Charles 1974 Schmidt, John C. III
1969 Prell, Terri Fleming 1974 Charles, Ronald M.
1969 Schaffer, Jeffrey 1974 Fortier, James
1969 Steiling, Daniel 1975 Chugg, Derek
1969 Treichel, George 1975 Henshaw, Robin
1969 Walton Nyle 1975 Lewis, Barbara C.
1970 Berdoulay, Vincent 1975 Lochhead, Elspeth
1970 Freeman, Peter 1975 Racicot-Gagnon, Maryse
1970 Hale, George Robert 1975 Yeager, Ruth Marie
1970 Harms, Richard W. 1975 Blakley, Robin
1970 Holbrook, Nicholas 1975 Plondke, Donald
1970 Vannucci, Sharon 1975 Sardalla, Gaspar
1970 Johnson, Elizabeth 1976 McCormack, Sue Ann
1970 Meierding, Thomas 1976 Clark, Gary
1970 Monteverdi, John 1976 Clark, Nancy Laswell
1970 Rankin, Bruce 1976 Odenweller, Julie
1971 Brow, Carole S. 1976 Fenske, Richard
1971 Burns, Elizabeth K. 1976 Greenberg, Douglas
1971 Douglas, Sarah 1976 Adamson, Mary Anne Harrington
1971 Fish, Merle Gerald 1976 Hecht, Susan B.
1971 Levell, James Robert 1976 Kooser, Jaime C.
1971 Smith, Kathleen E. 1976 Ogbonna, Okoro David
1971 Veblen, Thomas 1976 Priestaf, Iris
1971 Gilchrist, John 1976 Tsao, Karen
1971 Faverty, Roy 1976 Werner, Pamela
1971 Gummerson, Linda 1977 Wood, Byron
1971 Henry, Curtis 1977 Melone, Nancy Arlette
1971 Jordan, Kenneth 1977 Swanson, Scott
1971 Marburg, Sandra 1977 Carney, Judith Ann
1971 Ritch, Alan 1978 Groth, Paul Erling
1971 Dingemans, Dennis 1978 Heiman, Michael Kenneth
1971 Verner, Kathryn 1978 Nelson, Kristin Louise
1971 Merrill, Pamela 1978 Savage, Victor Roger
1971 Phelps, Bruce 1978 Dunau, Frank Reiner
1971 Kontuly, Thomas M. 1978 Liebman, Ellen
1971 Ross, Toby Arthur 1979 Hughes, Edward Michael
1971 Quinn, Mary Louise 1979 Milukas, Matthew Vitalis
1971 Henderson, Krimhilde 1980 Moronne, Daina Dravnieks
1971 Downey, Robert 1986 Nisbet, Susan Briggs
1971 Berg, Donald 1993 Roam, Karl Patrick
1972 Helgeson, Ann Cornell 1994 McAfee, Kathleen Elaine
1972 Hecht, Barry 1995 Hsu, Jinn-Yuh
1972 Shedden, Alastair 1998 Drinkwater, Gregg Joseph
1973 Luckenbach, Peter 1999 Barrio, Kimberly Elizabeth
1973 Miller, Lois 2004 Forest, Nelia Badilla
1973 Moore, Anne 2004 Bliss, Andrew Knisely
1973 Rossi, Randall
1973 Strock, Neil
1973 Beck, Joanna E.
1973 Shields, Peter Kent
Student Advisory: As of Fall 2002 Geography @ Berkeley no longer admits students for a Master of Arts degree.
Students entering without a Master's Degree go straight on to the PhD.


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