Geography Graduate Group Students

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Elena Aguaron-Fuente Ph.D. Candidate

Urban Forestry. Environmental Geography.

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Thomas R. Aguilar Ph.D. Student

International migration, commodification of migration, economic development, transnationalism, and remittances.

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Adebayo Akintunde Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Tarecq Amer Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Catharine L. Anderson Ph.D. Student

Sustainable agriculture, GIS

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Diane L. Bailey Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Calanit E. Bar-Am Ph.D. Candidate

agricultural economic geography, climate change, wine industry

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Craig Beebe Master's Student

Urban and regional planning, land use and preservation, and alternative/sustainable transportation planning

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John R. Carotta Master's Student Email contact form
Mark W. Chin Master's Student

Natural Landscapes, Restoration

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David R. Clark Ph.D. Student

Regional development impacts and transport geography. Regional focus: Mekong region/ Southeast Asia.

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Garrett S. Duncan Ph.D. Candidate

Human dynamics of natural resources, recreation and public lands, visitor behavior for wilderness management, assessing public opinions of forest thinning and prescribed burning. Regional focus: California, Lake Tahoe Basin/Sierra Nevada.

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Stacey C. Ellis Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Trina R. Filan Ph.D. Candidate

Sustainable and alternative agricultures; local knowledge; gender and agriculture; agriculture as a tool of restoration and empowerment.

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Daniel Fink Ph.D. Student

Regional travel/transportation planning and tourism

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Susan Garbini Ph.D. Candidate

natural resources management; water policy issues in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta;
role of volunteer citizen conservation groups in achieving conservation and restoration goals

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Tometi K. Gbedema Ph.D. Candidate

"The Door of No Return – Role of Heritage Tourism in Local (West African) Communities: The Cases of Elmina and Keta in Ghana"

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Deborah A. Giles Ph.D. Student Email contact form
A. Breeze Harper Ph.D. Student

Employing Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, Foucault, and Black Feminist Studies in understanding geographies of nutrition and health of the African Diaspora in the USA.

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Paul J. Haverkamp Ph.D. Candidate

Vicuna and guanaco in South America

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Erin L. Hestir Ph.D. Candidate

Pacific coastal and island biogeography. geomorphology, and "biogeomorphology." The interaction between coastal and aquatic vegetation and geomorphic processes.

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Colleen C. Hiner Ph.D. Candidate

Urban-Rural Interface

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Matthew B. Hoffman Ph.D. Student

Using social network and decision-making analysis to understand the adoption of sustainable agriculture in California. Defining sustainable agriculture to include and address the challenges of preserving family legacy and intergenerational land tenure

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Sean D. Hogan Master's Student Email contact form
Veneranda Xochitl Juarez-Varela Ph.D. Candidate

Gender and rural development.

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Keir E. Keightley Ph.D. Candidate

Ag/urban interactions, statistics.

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John Knettle Ph.D. Candidate

Political geography, cultural geograpy, sustainable development, topography

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Jayoung Koo Ph.D. Candidate Email contact form
Jing-Fong Jennifer Lee Ph.D. Candidate

Environmental and natural resource economics and policy, land use and ecosystem services.

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Margareta A. Lelea Ph.D. Candidate

Feminist geography, critical development studies, post-socialist transformations, transnational feminist movements, border studies and migration

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Robert Lusardi Ph.D. Student

Watershed Science, Stream Ecology

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Alexander I. Mandel Ph.D. Student

Geospatial Web Technologies, Open Source Geospatial Software, Public Participation GIS

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Amber D. Manfree Master's Student

Biogeography, Geographic Information Systems, hydrologic processes, rural- urban interfaces, and land conservation

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Jacob P. Mann Master's Student Email contact form
Nelson Martinez Berrios Ph.D. Student

Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, Protection and Enhancement of
Indigenous Biodiversity in Chile and Latin America

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Michael C. McGrann Ph.D. Student

Biogeography, predicting wildlife occurrence with wildlife-habitat relationships. Wildlife conservation. The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail for ecological/geographic research.

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Amy M. McGrann Ph.D. Student

Biogeography, plant geography, endangered species conservation, wildlife-habitat relationships. The Pacific Crest Trail for ecological/geographic research. Poverty/environmental degradation. Restoration.

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Alison McNally Ph.D. Student

Geomorphology, biogeography and GIS

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Benita J. Moolman Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Brian J. Morgan Master's Student

Geographic Information Systems, spatial technology design, application for biodiversity, conservation and urban ecology.

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Michihiko Nakata Ph.D. Candidate Email contact form
Nina Noujdina Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Susan Olivia Ph.D. Candidate

Development Economics, Spatial Econometrics and Geographic Information Systems. Regional focus: China and Indonesia.

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Quetzalcoatl Orozco-Ramirez Ph.D. Student

Sustainable agriculture, participaty land use planning, conservation of biodiversity, knowledge and management of agrobiodiversity by Indigenous and local communities, and conservation in situ.

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Christian G. Ostrosky Ph.D. Candidate

Political ecology, development theory, conservation of natural resources, rural geography, geographic information systems.

Regional focus: Latin America, Gran Chaco, Argentina,

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Adriana E. Parra Ph.D. Candidate Email contact form
Chantelise M. Pells Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Joshua Perlman Ph.D. Student

Regional landscape evolution, land use/land cover change, novel geo-indicators/indices, GIS and spatial methods

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Scott E. Phillips Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Angel Pita-Duque Ph.D. Candidate

Human geography of agriculture with emphasis on the relationship between economic change and crop diversity in Mexico.

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Kristin A. Reynolds Ph.D. Candidate

Agriculture and social change, urban agriculture, urban-rural connections, action research.

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Kurt R. Richter Ph.D. Candidate

Agricultural Economic Geography, Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and California County Policy.

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Gerrie L. Robinson Ph.D. Candidate

Landscape Architecture.

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Rosamaria Rosen Ph.D. Student

Environmental geography, California studies, biogeocultural iconography

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Nate Roth Ph.D. Student

Geographic Information Systems

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Evan E. Schmidt Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Jason Snyder Ph.D. Student Email contact form
William D. Stockard Master's Student Email contact form
Margaret A. Swisher Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Gregory W. Tarver, Jr. Ph.D. Student

Urban and Community Forestry, Environmental Geography.

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Karen M. Thorne Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Peter W. Tittmann Ph.D. Candidate

Fire, forest management, bio-energy and bio-fuels, network modeling, remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), regional geography.

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Michele M. Tobias Ph.D. Student

California Beach Vegetation, GIS & Remote Sensing.

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Mihaela Tomuta Master's Student

Urban Geography, History of cities, GIS, Sustainable Development

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Michael S. Treichler Master's Student Email contact form
Jahalel Lee Tuil Ph.D. Student

GIS Methodologies and Remnant Woody Vegetation in Yolo County.

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Valerie K. Vaughn Ph.D. Student

Social and cultural geography with and emphasis on religious landscapes and Buddhism in the U.S.

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David Waetjen Ph.D. Student

Information Technology and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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Alice A. Warrick Master's Student Email contact form
Wendy D. Wood Ph.D. Student Email contact form
Wan-Ru Yang Ph.D. Student

Land use/ land cover change; Landscape ecology

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Tara M. Zagofsky Ph.D. Student

Cultural geography, community & regional development, professional practice, civic engagement, diaspora communities in the Sacramento region

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Cherry Vee Zamora Ph.D. Student

Water resources and environmental geography.

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