Geography Graduate Group Students
| Fullname | Degree | Summary Academic Interest | Email Address |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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; |
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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 |
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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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