Visiting Scholars 2008-2009
Christopher Bacon
PhD (Environmental Studies), UC Santa Cruz, 2005. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoc at UC Berkeley.
Research interests: political economy; international trade in food, energy and materials and its effects on sustainable community development; agroecology; Nicaragua, Latin American, U.S.
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts
Yan Bao
PhD (Atmospheric Physics & Atmospheric Environment), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2006.
Research interests: regional climate studies and modeling.
Faculty sponsor: Norman Miller
Gray Brechin
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
Research interests: Dr. Brechin is co-director with photographer Robert Dawson of the New Deal Legacy Project sponsored by the California Historical Society which is documenting and mapping the largely invisible legacy of New Deal public works in California. The project will elucidate the vast expansion of the public domain during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt in order to demonstrate by contrast its collapse in our own time.
Ching-Yee Chang
PhD (Chemical Physics), University of Maryland, 2008.
Research interests: interhemispheric pattern of global climate change over the 20th century and examine the consequences of this pattern to tropical climate.
Faculty sponsor: John Chiang
Oronto N. Douglas
MA (Geography), Demontford University, Leicester, 1997; Senior Special Assistant for Research to the Vice President of Nigeria.
Research interests: impact of oil in the Niger Delta
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts
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
Md. Anwar H. Khan
PhD (Chemistry), University of Bristol, 2008; Associate Professor of Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh; Visiting Associate Researcher.
Research interests: trace gas biogeochemistry with primary focus on the effect of climate in the terrestial sulfur cycle
Faculty sponsor: Robert Rhew
Shih-Yu Lee
PhD (Oceanography), University of Michigan, 2008.
Research interests: tropical climate dynamics during the Pleistocene.
Faculty sponsor: John Chiang
Sonia Lehman-Frisch
PhD (Geography), University of Paris X-Nanterre, 2002; Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Research interests: comparative study of children in gentrified neighborhoods in Paris and San Francisco.
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts
Wei Li
PhD (Geography), University of Southern California, 1997. Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies and School of Geographical Science, Arizona State University.
Research interests: immigration and integration, geography of race/ethnicity, comparative urban ethnicity, Asian American community development, ethnic finance, and GIS applications in Geography and Ethnic Studies.
Faculty sponsor: You-tien Hsing
Geoffrey J. Martin
PhD (Geography), University of London, 1987; Professor Emeritus, Southern Connecticut University; AAG Archivist.
Research interests: history of geography
Miren Vizcaino Trueba
PhD (Earth Sciences), Max Planck Institute for Earth System Modelling, Germany, 2006. Research interests: climate modelling, ice sheet-climate interactions during the last Ice Age.
Faculty sponsors: John Chiang and Kurt Cuffey
Visiting Student Researchers
Maja Bovcon
PhD Student (Politics), Oxford University.
Research project: contemporary politics of Côte d'Ivoire: Franco-Ivorian relations under the Gbagbo regime. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts
Chengwei Fu
PhD Student (Geographic Sciences), Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Research project: regional development and urbanization in China.
Faculty Sponsor: You-tien Hsing
Yanyan Liu
PhD Student (Geography and Planning), Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Research project: industrial land-use expansion in Guangzhou.
Faculty Sponsor: You-tien Hsing