Masters Degrees
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Masters Degree Theses in Geography
Granted by the University of California, Berkeley
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Hendrickson, Jacob Carson | "Underwater Archeology in a Desert Valley: A Reassessment of Taylor's Theory of Tethered Nomadism" |
| 2011 | Martinez, Rosa Maria | "Spatial dynamics of the homicides in Martires, in Bogota (Colombia): understanding hot spots and illegal economies in the localidad 14 through kernel density estimation" |
| 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" |
| 2003 | Chang, Wendy Hsin | "The Model Minority in the Model Home: Geographies of Race in the New Pan-Asian Suburbs" |
| 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" |
| 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 | “A 25,000 Year Radiocarbon Record of Ventilation Changes Along the California Margin" |
| 2001 | Loyd, Jenna | "Towards a Political Geography of Health: A Multi-scalar Health Politics" |
| 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 Brent | "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" |
| 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" |
| 1998 | Churcher, Tegan Paige | "The Geography of Biodiversity" |
| 1998 | Wanket, James Achiel | "Fault History and Vegetation Change along the Hayward Fault, Northern California" |
| 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" |
| 1996 | Gabet, Emmanuel Jacques | "Lateral Migration of a Tidal Channel" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 1991 | Edlund, Eric | "Reconstruction of Late Quaternay Vegetation and Climate at Lake Moran, Central Sierra Nevada, California" |
| 1991 | Figaro, Paul M. | "Indonesia's 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" |
| 1990 | Schwarz, Beatrice | "EL ORO CON PATAS: A Tale of Mismanaged Fisheries and Misguided Theories" |
| 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" |
| 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?" |
| 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" |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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?" |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 1980 | Stine, Scott William | "Hunting and the Faunal Landscape - Subsistence and Commercial Venery in Early 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 1974 | Stutler, Linda Lane | "The Historical Geography of the Yolo By-Pass." |
| 1974 | Wong, Margaret Shiu-Kit | "The Perception of Nature in Mainland China." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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)." |
| 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." |
| 1957 | Edwards, Clinton R. | "Quintana Roo: Mexico's empty quarter." |
| 1956 | Harries, Norman Hayden | "Cornish and Welsh Mining Settlements in California." |
| 1956 | Swift, John Cornish | "The Tuna Fishery of Southern 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." |
| 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." |
| 1953 | Dondero, Raymond S. | "The Italian Settlement of San Francisco." |
| 1953 | Kramer, Fritz | "Idaho Town Names." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 1948 | Karinen, Arthur E. | "The Historical Geography of the Mendocino Coast." |
| 1947 | Marshall, Ann Nicholle | "The Size of the Australian Desert." |
| 1946 | Rostlund, Erhard | "A Distributional Study of Primitive Fishing in California." |
| 1944 | Menzel, Marion Lee Jones | "The Historical Geography of the Sheep Industry in California in the 19th Century." |
| 1943 | McNeal, Roy Wilson | "The Upper Rogue River Valley: A Study in Geography." |
| 1942 | Perret, Maurice Edmond | "The Italian Swiss Colonies in California." |
| 1940 | Liu, Yi-Chih | "Sericulture in China." |
| 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." |
| 1938 | Boulger, Martha Lillian | "The Kings River Fan: a geographical interpretation." |
| 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." |
| 1935 | Nida, Richard Hale | "The Escondido-San Pasqual-San Bernardo Area: a study in the historical geography of San Diego County, California." |
| 1934 | Moe, Fillip | "Towards a Geographical Interpretation of the Great Trek Movements in South Africa, 1834-1838." |
| 1933 | Munson, Esther Miriam | "Aboriginal Economic Geography of the Hopi." |
| 1931 | Carthew, Arthur Williams | "The Lower Basin of the Santa Ana River." |
| 1931 | Post, Lauren Chester | "The Spokane Valley: A Study in Regional Geography." |
| 1930 | Scofield, Edna Lois | "The Southeastern Lowland of Vancouver Island." |
| 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." |
| 1927 | Searls, May Lavinia | "The Geography of the Wooden-Gordon-Capell Area of Napa County, California." |
| 1924 | Rigdon, Vera Esta | "The Geography of the Carquinez Strait." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 1919 | Dana, Mary Alice | "California Boundaries, Past and Present; Their Relation to Geographic Conditions." |
| 1915 | Durst, David M. | "Physiographic Features of Cache Creek in Yolo County." |
| 1912 | Whitmoyer, Clinton Benjamin | "The Influence of Geographical Conditions Upon the History of California." |
| 1911 | Dryer, Mabel Elizabeth | "The Geography of Washington." |
| 1910 | Doyle, Dorothy Lundahl | "An Outline in Regional Geography, with the Physical Features of California as a Basis." |
| 1909 | Clark, Bruce Laurence | "Topography of Southern California." |
| 1908 | Linsley, Earle Garfield | "Some Phases of Stream Development in the Oakland and Berkeley Hills." |
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.
Plan II (by examination) M.A. Degrees in Geography Granted by the University of California, Berkeley
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Ayimbire, John De Porres |
| 2009 | Muniz, Dayna |
| 2008 | Abusaad, Roni W. |
| 2006 | Myers, Alexandra Galt |
| 2004 | Bliss, Andrew Knisely |
| 2004 | Forest, Nelia Badilla |
| 1999 | Barrio, Kimberly Elizabeth |
| 1998 | Drinkwater, Gregg Joseph |
| 1995 | Hsu, Jinn-Yuh |
| 1994 | McAfee, Kathleen Elaine |
| 1993 | Roam, Karl Patrick |
| 1986 | Nisbet, Susan Briggs |
| 1980 | Moronne, Daina Dravnieks |
| 1979 | Hughes, Edward Michael |
| 1979 | Milukas, Matthew Vitalis |
| 1978 | Groth, Paul Erling |
| 1978 | Heiman, Michael Kenneth |
| 1978 | Nelson, Kristin Louise |
| 1978 | Savage, Victor Roger |
| 1978 | Dunau, Frank Reiner |
| 1978 | Liebman, Ellen |
| 1977 | Wood, Byron |
| 1977 | Melone, Nancy Arlette |
| 1977 | Swanson, Scott |
| 1977 | Carney, Judith Ann |
| 1976 | McCormack, Sue Ann |
| 1976 | Clark, Gary |
| 1976 | Clark, Nancy Laswell |
| 1976 | Odenweller, Julie |
| 1976 | Fenske, Richard |
| 1976 | Greenberg, Douglas |
| 1976 | Adamson, Mary Anne Harrington |
| 1976 | Hecht, Susan B. |
| 1976 | Kooser, Jaime C. |
| 1976 | Ogbonna, Okoro David |
| 1976 | Priestaf, Iris |
| 1976 | Tsao, Karen |
| 1976 | Werner, Pamela |
| 1975 | Chugg, Derek |
| 1975 | Henshaw, Robin |
| 1975 | Lewis, Barbara C. |
| 1975 | Lochhead, Elspeth |
| 1975 | Racicot-Gagnon, Maryse |
| 1975 | Yeager, Ruth Marie |
| 1975 | Blakley, Robin |
| 1975 | Plondke, Donald |
| 1975 | Sardalla, Gaspar |
| 1974 | Vorster, Walter |
| 1974 | Lavagnino, Walter |
| 1974 | Armstrong, Connie Marie |
| 1974 | Huckabay, James |
| 1974 | Jones, David Paul |
| 1974 | Lewis, Nancy D. |
| 1974 | Cheng, Miu-Sheung Dorothy |
| 1974 | Schmidt, John C. III |
| 1974 | Charles, Ronald M. |
| 1974 | Fortier, James |
| 1973 | Luckenbach, Peter |
| 1973 | Miller, Lois |
| 1973 | Moore, Anne |
| 1973 | Rossi, Randall |
| 1973 | Strock, Neil |
| 1973 | Beck, Joanna E. |
| 1973 | Shields, Peter Kent |
| 1972 | Helgeson, Ann Cornell |
| 1972 | Hecht, Barry |
| 1972 | Shedden, Alastair |
| 1971 | Brow, Carole S. |
| 1971 | Burns, Elizabeth K. |
| 1971 | Douglas, Sarah |
| 1971 | Fish, Merle Gerald |
| 1971 | Levell, James Robert |
| 1971 | Smith, Kathleen E. |
| 1971 | Veblen, Thomas |
| 1971 | Gilchrist, John |
| 1971 | Faverty, Roy |
| 1971 | Gummerson, Linda |
| 1971 | Henry, Curtis |
| 1971 | Jordan, Kenneth |
| 1971 | Marburg, Sandra |
| 1971 | Ritch, Alan |
| 1971 | Dingemans, Dennis |
| 1971 | Verner, Kathryn |
| 1971 | Merrill, Pamela |
| 1971 | Phelps, Bruce |
| 1971 | Kontuly, Thomas M. |
| 1971 | Ross, Toby Arthur |
| 1971 | Quinn, Mary Louise |
| 1971 | Henderson, Krimhilde |
| 1971 | Downey, Robert |
| 1971 | Berg, Donald |
| 1970 | Berdoulay, Vincent |
| 1970 | Freeman, Peter |
| 1970 | Hale, George Robert |
| 1970 | Harms, Richard W. |
| 1970 | Holbrook, Nicholas |
| 1970 | Vannucci, Sharon |
| 1970 | Johnson, Elizabeth |
| 1970 | Meierding, Thomas |
| 1970 | Monteverdi, John |
| 1970 | Rankin, Bruce |
| 1969 | Mackay, Paul |
| 1969 | Metalitz, Charles |
| 1969 | Prell, Terri Fleming |
| 1969 | Schaffer, Jeffrey |
| 1969 | Steiling, Daniel |
| 1969 | Treichel, George |
| 1969 | Walton Nyle |
| 1968 | Stephen, Kathleen Kelly |
| 1967 | Patera, Alan H. |
| 1967 | Sarre, Philip |
| 1967 | Schmeling, Gerald J. |
| 1966 | Wolff, Jeffrey C. |
| 1966 | Dioh, Sylvester |
