Visiting Scholars 2004-2005
Gray Brechin
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
Research interests: urban, environmental and art history focussing on environmental history, particularly the parallels between the decline of classical civilizations and present-day California; mining as conceptual model for all resource exploitation.
Juliet Erazo
PhD (Anthropology and Natural Resources), University of Michigan, 2003. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Scholar.
Research interests: history of and politics within indigenous social movements, particularly surrounding land use management, development, and property regimes. Faculty sponsors: Michael Watts and Nancy Peluso.
Jeff Kavanaugh
PhD (Earth & Ocean Sciences), University of British Columbia, 2001.
Research interests: environmental glaciology, glacier bed processes (hydrology and subglacial deformation), field measurements and instrumentation. Faculty Sponsor: Kurt Cuffey.
Benjamin Lintner
PhD (Physics), University of California, Berkeley, 2003.
Research interests: mechanisms of El Niño-Southern Oscillation impact on the tropical climate, mechanisms of passive tracer transport; circulation interannual variability; model-observation intercomparison. Faculty Sponsor: John Chiang.
Kathleen McAfee
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1999.
Research interests: global environmental governance and its application in Latin America, especially rural Mexico. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts
Frances Malamud-Roam
PhD (Geography), University of California, 2002. Sea Grant Postdoctoral Fellow.
Research interests: paleo-environmental change, origins of agriculture, San Francisco Bay Estuary. Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Ingram.
Thomas Schreiner
PhD (Architecture), University of California, Berkeley, 2002.
Research interests: environmental and cultural implications of traditional Maya lime production; paleoenvironmental studies of North Peten Lakes. Faculty Sponsor: Roger Byrne.
David Smethurst
PhD (Geography) University of California, Berkeley, 1997. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Johns.
Yit Arn Teh
PhD (ESPM) University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
Research interests: biogeochemistry and soil microbial ecology. Faculty Sponsor: Robert Rhew.
Visiting Student Researcher
Christian Abrahamsson
PhD Student in the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden. Faculty Sponsor: Allan Pred