Current Geography Projects

California Thinkers

California Thinkers is a directory of scholars, writers, and culture workers available to speak at or assist with programs at museums, schools, libraries and other cultural and educational events. Each thinker's profile lists their areas of expertise, programming experience, and ways they might participate.

California Studies Association

The California Studies Association (CSA) is an independent organization, dedicated to the exchange of ideas about California, the promotion of an integrated understanding of California as a region, and to creating a public discourse on the future of this richly textured state.

California Studies Center

The California Studies Center is a research and programmatic center at UC Berkeley devoted to the study of the State of California. The CSC was established by a group of eminent faculty and staff who felt that scholarship and teaching on California needed a home on campus, in order that they might be promoted with greater vigor, cooperation, and direction.

San Francisco Bay Estuary: a key to identifying the seeds of wetland species

Assists researchers in examining climate and wetland changes in the last 10,000 years through identification of seeds found in sediment cores or samples, thus allowing them to date the occurrence of the particular species.

Plant Communities of California

A chart of plant communities in California with detailed information on vegetation type, distribution, elevation, growing season, edaphic properties, adaptations, diversity and cover.

Niger Delta Economies of Violence Project

A program of research and training addressing questions of why oil-producing communities in the Niger Delta suffer intense conflict and what can be done about it.

Key to Wetland Pollen

This pollen key is a collection of pollen images and taxonomic information for plants of the San Francisco Bay Region, with an emphasis is on tidal wetland species.

Geo-Images Project

A database of geographic imagery (mostly photography) useful for understanding and teaching geography. Request permissions to use images from Geography Department staff.

Aztec Place Name Glyphs Project

An online version of Don Antonio Peñafiel's 1885 book Nombres Geográficos de México, which is an annotated listing of all the place name glyphs included in the Matricula de Tributos and the Codex Mendocino. The book includes an Atlas with 39 colored plates and a total of 462 glyphs.

Gender Bibliography

A bibliography of geography and gender, compiled by Kate Davis.

Environmental History of North America Bibliography

A bibliography for the study of the Environmental History of North America, compiled by Jessica Teisch.

Maya Atlas Website

A site describing the Maya Atlas, a project of the Mayan People of Southern Belize that uses community mapping in the struggle to preserve Maya Land in Southern Belize.