Visiting Scholars 2005-2006
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.
Mark Carey
PhD (History), University of California, Davis, 2005. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Scholar.
Research interests: Latin American history, environmental history (U.S. and Latin America), Andean region. Research Project: people and glaciers: a social analysis of climate change and natural disaster. Office: 591 McCone. Faculty sponsors: Nathan Sayre and Nancy Peluso.
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.
Yue Fang
PhD (Oceanography), Texas A&M University, 2005.
Research interests: coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling and air-sea interaction, numerical modeling of ocean circulation, tides and tidal currents. Office: 531 McCone. Faculty sponsor: John Chiang
Michelle Goman
PhD (Geography), UC Berkeley, 1996. Senior Research Associate, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University.
Research interests: reconstructing and understanding Quaternary, particularly Holocene, environmental change, pollen and macro-fossils analysis of sediment cores retrieved from lakes and marshes, modern ecology and geomorphic processes of coastal and lacustrine systems. Office: 187 McCone. Faculty sponsor: Lynn Ingram
James Hobbs
PhD (Conservation Biology), UC Davis, 2004. CalFed Science Program Postdoctoral Scholar.
Research interests: fish ecology, development and implementation of geochemical analysis on the otolith microstructure to determine migratory history and habitat utilization of threatened delta smelt. Office: 595 McCone. Faculty sponsor: Lynn Ingram
Hugo Lambert
D.Phil. (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics), University of Oxford, 2005.
Research interests: global environmental change, processes governing land-sea contrasts in temperature and precipitation. Office: 595 McCone. Faculty sponsor: John Chiang.
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.
Olivier Mazéas
PhD (Biogeochemistry), University of Bordeaux, France, 2004.
Research interests: analysis of organic compounds in the environment: halogenated trace gas fluxes; hydrocarbon and pesticide contamination, biotransformation and fate. Faculty Sponsor: Robert Rhew
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.
Fernando Sabaté-Bel
PhD (Sociology) Universidad de La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain), 2003. Professor of Geography, La Laguna University.
Yit Arn Teh
PhD (ESPM) University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
Research interests: biogeochemistry and soil microbial ecology. Faculty Sponsor: Robert Rhew.
Soon-ock Yoon
PhD (Physical Geography) Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany, 1994; Professor of Geography, Kyunghee University, Korea.
Research interests: geomorphology, history of vegetation and environmental changes during the Pleistocene and their implication for archaeological research in northeast Asia and America. Faculty sponsor: Roger Byrne
Anna Zalik
PhD (Development Sociology), Cornell University, 2005. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Scholar.
Research interests: international political economy, comparative development policy, the aid industry and corporate philanthropy in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Research project: social regulation, corporate aid and petroleum security in the Nigerian Delta and the Mexican Gulf. Office: 563 McCone. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts.