It is difficult to strike an upbeat note with the passing of Jim Parsons. We shall miss him terribly. The Itinerent Geographer was Jim's project for half a century, and this one is replete with items from his treasure chest of a desk drawer. Jim would undoubtedly think we have become too big, too fancy, and too slow to press. But keeping tabs on Berkeley Geography is a large undertaking these days, thanks in large part to him. (We shifted to biennial publication because of the volume of material and expense of mailing). As we lumber on into the next century, we will need everyone's help in keeping us notified of the personal and collective legacy of Berkeley Geography; keep sending us updates as you can, and any items pertaining to Parsons, as he always did for Mr. Sauer.
Berkeley Geography is doing well, you may be assured. We have managed to grow in a time of austerity at the University of California, adding two new faculty members and soon a third to fill the Oberlander-Wells slot in Geomorphology. We welcome Lynn Ingram and Gillian Hart to our midst: both have tremendous energy and superb credentials, and their influence is being felt already. We have also added four faculty affiliates from other colleges on campus, three of them Geographers by training and one a Geographer by affection. The excellent offices of Profs. Fortmann, Groth, Radke, and Kondolf broadens our base of expertise and gives us a larger "footprint" on campus. Joint appointments of Professors Harley Shaiken and Jean Lave are currently in the pipeline, as well.
The period of austerity appears to be behind us. Budgets have waxed a bit, and we are in a position to consider new projects. There is a major GIS initiative brewing at Berkeley, in which we will play an important part (in case anyone thought we were blind to the need for more GIS support for students and faculty). We are working on winning further faculty positions in East Asia and Gender and Geography, obvious gaps in our offerings. We already play a leading role in International Studies, holding directorships of three campus institutes or centers through Professors Watts, Manz and Reed, and co-managing the Development Studies Major. Environmental Studies has been completely reorganized at Berkeley and a new Atmospheric Sciences center and program established, and we're active in both.
We will have a completely refurbished building by Fall 1998, just in time for the Department's Centennial celebration. It's amazing to think that the century clock has wound all the way around. I am particularly pleased, speaking of our own history, that we will finally be able to honor Clarence Glacken with a new seminar room. We have even revived his courses and spirit of reflection on the nature of human and environmental history. We'll also have more room to stretch our wings as we take over the entire fifth floor and half the first floor of the renovated McCone Hall.
And speaking of revivals: I hope to see you all at the Berkeley Party at the upcoming AAG meetings in Fort Worth!
Richard Walker
James Parsons, 1916-1997
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In Memory of James Jerome Parsons
1915-1997
Jim Parsons died at home in Berkeley this morning, February 19, of a brain tumor. He was 81. He is survived by his wife Betty of 54 years, a son David of Florence, Montana, a daughter Sally Stewart of Boise, Idaho, and three grandchildren, Parker Parsons and Alec and Sara Stewart. His son John preceded him in death.
Tomorrow will be the first day at Berkeley without Jim Parsons. He was Berkeley. He was Geography at Berkeley. He informed us, he encouraged us, he wrote letters on our behalf for grants and jobs, and he read what we wrote and told us to keep going, to write more, to go to the field more, and to stop by his office to chat, to see the latest books. His love for geography inspired us.
His Itinerant Geographer informed and entertained us and made us part of the Berkeley Geography family. His typed letters with the xxxxxx's were "keepers" (Bob West kept the 50 letters he received from Jim). He sent us clippings and articles with penciled notes signed JJP. And for those of us who went to a Parsons lecture we will always remember along with his vast knowledge that the lecture notes were on the back of an envelope or a grocery store receipt.
Jim and Betty made Geography at Berkeley a home, not just a department. At their Woodmont Avenue home in the Berkeley Hills they hosted generations of students, faculty and visitors. Jim was always in the department and received every visitor, every student who wanted to know something about somewhere, every faculty member who came in with that "you-can't-believe-what-just-happened" look. Invitations to go with Jim to lunch, on a field trip, or to a Cal basketball game were frequent outcomes of dropping by his office in the department. Many a student left Jim's office amazed and delighted that he was enthusiastic about what they were interested in and that he had loaned them just the right books to read more about it.
Besides supporting Berkeley Geography and Berkeley geographers, Jim and Betty supported Cal sports all of them. Football and basketball for surethey were longtime season ticket holders, but also they were there with "Go Bear" cheers for track, baseball, waterpolo. Jim and Dave Larson (PhD'94), wrote a wonderful Rumpelstiltskin piece on the Bears' rocky 1995 football season in the December 1995 California Monthly.
Born on November 15, 1915 in Cortland, New York, James Jerome Parsons was 13 years old when his family moved to Monrovia, California in 1928. He went to Pasadena Junior College where he was editor of the newspaper. He came to UC Berkeley in 1934 and majored in Economics, graduating in 1937. He had met Carl Sauer ("Mr. Sauer") and was impressed and interested in the cultural historical work that was developing in Berkeley's Geography Department. Jim and his good friend Joe Phillips went to the Sauer's Thanksgiving Day "Open House", where Jim got a chance to talk to Mr. Sauer. After graduation, Jim went to Ukiah, northern California, to work for the Redwood Journal , 1937-1938. Back at Berkeley, Mr. Sauer ran into Joe Phillips on campus one day and asked him, "Whatever happened to that fellow Parsons?" Joe replied, "He's working at a newspaper." "What a mistake," Mr. Sauer remarked, "he should be in Geography." Joe Phillips wrote a letter to Jim to tell him what Mr. Sauer had said and Jim wrote to Mr. Sauer that he was on his way back to Berkeley. Mr. Sauer never answered the letter but Jim came anyway and began graduate studies in Geography in the Fall of 1938.
Jim met Betty Rupp in a Geography class at Berkeley. Originally from Chicago, Betty's family had moved to Oakland when she was 8 years old. At the University of California she majored and graduated in Education. Jim was drafted into the Army in October 1941 and sent to Field Artillery School in Lawton, Oklahoma. Jim and Betty were married October 30, 1942 in Oklahoma City. Soon after Jim was sent to work on airphoto interpretation in Admiral Halsey's headquarters in New Caledonia. Jim was back in California on leave in August, 1945 when the war ended and he was discharged from the service.
Back in graduate school in the Fall of 1945, Jim quickly finished his course requirements, taught a Spring 1946 course, and left with Betty for Colombia in May of that year to do the research for his dissertation which he finished in 1948. In the Spring of 1948 Jim began teaching as an Assistant Professor. On how they came to Berkeley Betty said, "When Jim came back after the war, Mr. Sauer put him to work and we just stayed."
And stayed they did. Jim and Betty educated and fed several generations of geographers. Parsons' students were something special, even at Berkeley. They'd been to the field, the real field, out there places. They'd been to the archives, to the homes of regular people, they spoke the languages, and they wrote about those people and those places with a clarity and honesty rare in academia. They were Parsons' students afterall and he set a standard that nobody wanted to fall short of. He chaired 38 PhD's and they are some of geography's best.
Jim's wide range of books and articles are a lasting and valuable contribution to our knowledge of people and places, his beloved Antioquia, Colombia, to the presence of the past on the landscape, and to the geographer's sense of place (Jim once said he'd never forgotten a place he'd been to). Jim informed us about hops, coffee, the Miskito pine savanna, California, Colombia, green turtles, gold mining, bananas, fog drip, starlings, acorns and hogs, cork oak forests, ridged fields, African grasses in the New World, airline pilots, cattle, Canary Islanders, hillside letters, and more, much more. He gave us a greater appreciation of the nature and diversity of geography. His books and articles stand on our book shelves and remind us what a remarkable person we had the privilege to know and love. His geographer's life was something, something great, something good.
He published reviews of 76 books, 1946-1996. Jim's reviews were great reviews; for many of the authors they were the best review. Jim had a system. He'd read a book and if he liked it he would write a review and send it in, sometimes unasked for by a book review editor, but happily received and published. If he read a book and didn't like it, he didn't write a review. That way, he said, good books get noticed.
Jim was twice chairman of the Geography Department, a total of 11 years. He served several times as Chairman of the Center of Latin American Studies. He was President of the Pacific Coast Geographers in 1954-55, and President of the Association of American Geographers, 1974-1975.
He received many awards and honors, among which include a Guggenheim (1959-60), a gold medal from the government of Antioquia, Colombia (1977), AAG Honors (1983), the Berkeley Citation (1986), another gold medal from the government of Antioquia in 1987the Pedro Justo Berrío Medal, an Honorary Professor award from the University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, the "Trabajador de la Cultura" medal from the Instituto de Integración Cultural, Medellín, Colombia, 1989, and the Distinguished Mentor Award from the National Council for Geographic Education in 1991.
Jim retired in May, 1986. Many people came to that retirement party held at the Men's Faculty Club on the UC campus. But of course, Jim really didn't retire. He still came to work everyday, he still talked to young people interested in geography and places and people, he still came to the Tea Talks, and he and Betty still went on field trips and they still cheered for Cal teams.
This is just a snapshot of JJP amid the immediate sadness and grief from the passing of a great geographer and a good friend. At the same time I remember that Jim was always smiling. Jim smiled more than anyone I ever knew. And as we remember our times with him, in the office, at the Berkeley Hills house, at the Cal gems, in the field, we have to smile too. Those were some times.
At noon today a Berkeley geography student went to the main campus flagpole to lower the flag in Jim's memory. He was stopped and questioned by the Campus Police. At that moment Vice Chancellor Carol Christ walked out of California Hall and asked what was going on. The student, Francis Smith, said, "I was trying to lower the flag in Professor Parsons' memory, he died this morning." Vice Chancellor Christ told the Police, "Let him go. It is a campus tradition to lower the flag when a professor dies. For Professor Parsons the flag will be lowered to halfmast tomorrow."
A Jim Parsons memorial will be held later this year.
Bernard Nietschmann, February 19, 1997
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Gifts in memory of Jim Parsons may be contributed to two funds: one for undergraduates and one for graduates. For undergraduates: "The James J. Parsons Alumni Scholarship for Field Research in Geography," Alumni House, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7520. For graduates: "The James J. Parsons Graduate Fellowship in Geography," c/o Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4740. |
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Lynn Ingram, appointed Assistant Professor July 1995, is a Stanford PhD in Geology. She will help fill the void left by Lisa Wells's departure. Lynn comes to us from the Lawrence Livermore Lab Center for Accelerator Mass Spectronomy (1992-1994) where she was a Department of Energy Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow with interests in paleoclimatic reconstruction of estuarine, marine and continental environments, integrating sedimentary, geochemical and paleontological data. Lynn has worked with marine sediments in the Pacific Basin, estuarine deposits in San Francisco Bay, mid-Cretaceous to early Paleocene marine sediments from the Italian Apennines and the Northern Pacific Basin. She has worked on high resolution radiocarbon dating of charcoal-shell pairs from the West Berkeley and Emeryville shellmounds from San Francisco Bay and from the Daisy Cave shellmound from San Miguel Island in the Santa Barbara channel to reconstruct paleo-upwelling along the California coast. |
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Associate Professor Gillian Hart transferred from City and Regional Planning to Geography in January 1996. Gill is a Cornell University PhD in Agricultural Economics. Prior to coming to Berkeley she was with Boston University and MIT. Gill has interests in international development. She works on agrarian development in Asia and Africa, focussing on issues such as the relationship between household production and gender, and on agriculture-industry linkages and the diversification of rural regions. Gill has recently focused on debates over agrarian reform in South Africa. |
The Department warmly welcomes five new Faculty affiliates. They join the Department as 0% joint appointments which allow them to participate in department advising, teaching and decisions.
Louise Fortmann, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, has research interests in property, poverty, gender, community natural resource management, U.S. and southern Africa.
Paul Groth (PhD'83), Associate Professor in Architecture, pursues research interests on cultural landscape studies, architectural history, and the United States.
Matt Kondolf, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, holds a Geography PhD from Johns Hopkins University. Matt is an expert in stream restoration, fisheries management, and environmental policy regarding freshwater resources.
John D. Radke, Geography PhD from the University of British Columbia, is an Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture. John is a GIS specialist interested in spatial systems for regional environmental planning, metrics for landscape characterization, and spatial interaction models.
The department also welcomes Adjunct Assistant Professor Pat Williams. Pat received his PhD in Quaternary Geology from Colombia University. His current research interests include the geological and cultural records of active tectonic processes and climate, with a focus on the Bay Area.
The department deeply regrets the departure of Lisa Wells, Assistant Professor, who in January 1996 left Berkeley to take up a position at Vanderbilt University, where her husband is also joining the faculty as a geologist. Lisa came to Berkeley seven years ago. She directed the work of 6 graduate students including one completed PhD, Mei-Ling Hsu, now on the faculty of Taiwan National University. Lisa will continue advising several of the others until they finish their degrees this fall. Vanderbilt's geology department is apparently thrilled to be hiring a "geographer," Lisa being comfortably on the edge of either discipline.
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News Flash The Department has begun a search for a physical geography faculty member to replace Lisa Wells. Applications closed on December 15th. |
The combined renovation and seismic projects move forward with a start date of late spring 1997, although the Fifth Floor will not be renovated until Spring/Summer 1998. The department will be entirely displaced for about six monthswish us luck!
The seminar room (575) has been renamed the Clarence Glacken Seminar Room. This space will undergo dramatic renovation, more than doubling in size. The Departmental "Tea Talks" will be held there in the future.
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Gifts to a lecture fund in the name of Clarence Glacken may be sent in c/o the Department of Geography, 501 McCone Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4740. |
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Don Bain, Director of the Geography Computer Facility, was one of 11 individuals to receive the 1996 Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Awards at a May 8 ceremony. He also received the L&S Distinguished Service Award for 1995-96, along with a handsome check presented at this year's Commencement ceremony. |
In just two years Berkeley Geography will celebrate its Centennial. Gary Dunbar, emeritus at UCLA, explains in his 1981 essay on Geography at the University of California: "The first separate Department of Geography in a major university in the United States was created in the University of California in 1898 when the distinguished but aged scientist George Davidson was named Professor of Geography. The Department was created with the special purpose of serving the newly organized College of Commerce. Davidson's fifty-year career with the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey had ended in 1895. He had served as a member of the Board of Regents of the University 1877-1884 and had been an Honorary Professor of Geodesy and Astronomy since 1870. It is not clear why a Department of Geography was created in 1898 but the precedent of European commercial schools was cited, and it is possible that the model of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, where teaching of geography was initiated in 1893, was in the minds of those who established Berkeley's College of Commerce."
Davidson sought to find out what academic geography consisted of at the end of the 19th century and to organize his department accordingly. He studied the structure of geography at Oxford and Cambridge and corresponded with Ferdinand von Richthofen of the University of Berlin who had worked in California with the Whitney Survey of the 1860s. Surveying the literature of geography, writes Dunbar, Davidson found little agreement on procedures and few organizing principles.
The original prospectus of the College of Commerce encouraged students to spend one or more years in some foreign country in order to become familiar with its commercial and industrial conditions. A Travelling Fellowship in Geography, established in 1900 with the aid of Hearst money, sent at least one graduate to the Philippines.
A second appointment in the Department of Geography came in 1901 when Lincoln Hutchinson was made instructor in Commercial Geography. Afterward came the appointment of Ruliff Holway as Assistant Professor of Physical Geography in 1904. The first graduate degree, an M.A., was granted in 1908.
Michael Johns received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in July. Michael's book The City of Mexico in the Age of Diaz is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. His article "The Making of an Urban Elite: The Case of Rosario, Argentina, 1880-1920," appeared in the Journal of Urban History, (Vol. 20(2):155-178, 1994).
Michael serves as Departmental Undergraduate Advisor as well as Advisor for both the Latin American Studies and Development Studies programs. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Historical Geography.
Barney Nietschmann, back on campus in 1995-96 after a year in Costa Rica doing research on coastal environments, has developed a new lower division class on "The Ocean World" with a first time enrollment of 200 students. That he received the 1996 Distinguished Teaching Award in Social Sciences suggests the level of student enthusiasm for his lectures. Seventeen members of the Geography 266 seminar worked with several NGOs to research and map the worlds dangerous beaches, indigenous divers and decompression sickness, the status of Caribbean coral reefs, and the present-day distribution and status of the West Indian manatee.
This summer Barney and grad student David Smethurst led a manatee research program under the University Research Expedition program, studying manatee in the Tortuguero area of Costa Rica. Barney was recently in southern Belize with grad student Charles Tambiah and other students to work with Mayan communities to inventory and map their lands for a Maya Homeland Atlas as part of a land rights initiative led by the Toledo Maya Cultural Council and the Toledo Alcaldes Association, assisted by the Indian Law Research Center. Geography in Action!
Nietschmann papers:
"Conservación, Autodeterminación y El Area Protegida, Costa Miskita, Nicaragua," in La Lucha Por La Tierra en La Ultima Frontera de Centroamérica , Mac Chapin, editor, pp. 1-54. Mesoamerica Año 16, Número 29, Antigua, Guatemala: CIRMA, 1995. (A ringing condemnation of the failure to include local Miskito people in the planning and implementation of the Miskito Coast Protected Area funded by US AID through the Caribbean Conservation Commission.)
"Protecting Indigenous Coral Reefs and Sea Territories, Miskito Coast, RAAN, Nicaragua," in Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, Stan Stevens, editor, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, in press.
"Authentic, State, and Virtual Geography in Film," Wide Angle 11(3):4-12, October 1993.
"The Fourth World: Nation vs. States" in Recording the World: Geographic Perspectives on the 21st Century, G. Demko & W. Wood, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994.
Dick Walker continues on the rack between Chairing the department and fathering a four-year old. He did, nonetheless, manage to eke out several articles from a larger project on San Francisco and California, including a series on California's political-economic crisis of the 1990s, immigration to the state, the history of San Francisco's economic geography, both internal and in relation to the globe, the urban landscape of the Bay Area, and the battle to save the city from redevelopment. Walker remains editor of Antipode and advisor to a healthy number of graduate students (we won't even talk about the joys of committee service on campus). When all's said and done, however, he appears to thrive on being Chair and keeping the ship of state in good running order.
Allan Pred's publications this past year included "Out of Bounds and Undisciplined: Social Inquiry and the Current Moment of Danger," Social Research, Winter, 1995, 1,065-1,091, and "Interfusions: Consumption, Identity and the Practices and Power Relations of Everyday Life," Environment and Planning A, 28, 1996, 11-24. During his summer and December visits to Sweden he made several conference and guest lecture appearances. He is currently working on his next book, provisionally titled Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: Racisms, Racialized Spaces and the Popular Geographical Imagination in Sweden.
As president of the Pacific Division of the AAAS, Orman Granger gave the Banquet address at that organization's annual meetings in June 1996 at San Jose State, not surprisingly on the impact of changing climate. In addition to his time on the Graduate Council he has been named to the Executive Committee of the Center for Latin American Studies. Orman also serves as Departmental Graduate Advisor.
During the spring of 1996, Lynn Ingram started a new upper division course in Geological Oceanography. The course covers the morphology and geography of ocean basins, their history (plate tectonics, sea level changes, and the climatic record contained in oceanic sediments), submarine volcanisms and resources, and human influences on the coastal zone. She presented papers at: 7th Conference for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, La Jolla; Pacific Climate Workshop, Monterey, CA; and the Geological Society of America Annual meeting.
This year, four manuscripts resulting from oceanographic cruises made during the summer and fall of 1992 (with the International Ocean Drilling Program) were published in the Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program (Volumes 145 and 146). These papers represent the one cruise (Leg 145) of the North Pacific Transect, from Japan to Vancouver Island. The second cruise involved coring along the eastern Pacific margin. Lynn continues her paleoclimate work on sediment cores taken in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Other papers published this year include "A 20,000-year record of ocean circulation and climate change from the Santa Barbara Basin" in Nature 377, 510-514; "High-resolution dating of deep-sea clays using Sr isotopes in fossil fish teeth" in Earth and Planetary Science Letters 134, 545-555, and "Coral ages and island subsidence, Hilo Drill Hole" in Journal of Geophysical Research 101, 11,599-11,605.
Lynn also published several papers in the area of her ongoing work on reconstructing salinity and freshwater inflow to San Francisco Bay over the past several thousand years using isotopic tracers (strontium, oxygen, and carbon): "Isotopic records of Paleosalinity in San Francisco Bay Estuary" in San Francisco Bay: The Urbanized Estuary, 2nd Edition (T. Hollibaugh, Ed.), Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division; "A 2,000-yr record of San Joaquin and Sacramento river inflow to San Francisco Bay, California" in Geology 24, 331-334; "Stable isotope record of Late Holocene Paleosalinity and Paleodischarge in San Francisco Bay, California" in Earth and Planetary Science Letters 141, 237-247; and "Stable isotope and salinity systematics in estuarine waters and carbonates: San Francisco Bay" in Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 455-467.
This year Lynn was made a faculty associate for the Archaeological Research Facility and a faculty curator for the Museum of Paleontology. She is also working with a new postdoctoral fellow in the department, Jo Lin, on paleoclimate records from lake sediments in the Great Basin, and assessing the origin of sediments entering San Francisco Bay using isotopic tracers. Another project begun this year involves the use of trace elements and isotopes to differentiate juvenile salmon races in the San Francisco-San Joaquin Delta.
Lynn received grants from the Inst. of Geophysics & Planetary Physics (LLNL) in support of a project on "Trace Metal Concentrations in Otoliths: Salmon Differentiation in San Francisco Bay Delta"; a DOE-WESTGEC grant to support "A High Resolution Analysis of Salinity Change and Wetland Development in the San Francisco Bay Estuary: 1000 PB to the Present"; an Esper Larsen Research grant for "Developing and Testing a New Dating Method for Deep-Sea Clays"; and support from USGS/NEHRP for "Slip-Rate Determination for the Pittsburg -Kirby Hill Blind Thrust Fault."
Michael Watts continued in his second year as Director of the Institute of International Studies. He has been overseeing activities associated with grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation on a variety of research concerns: political Islam, multilateralism, labor in the global economy, and African dissertation training among others. He organized workshops on global environmental regulation, the global food system, and comparing reentries into the world economy (Vietnam, S. Africa and Nicaragua). He delivered lectures in Havana, Glasgow, Copenhagen and Stanford in the last year. Watts has two new edited collections: Liberation Ecologies: Environment and Development in the Late Twentieth Century (with Dick Peet), Routledge, London, 1996, and Geographies of Global Change (with Ron Johnston and Peter Taylor), Blackwell. A sampling of recent publications includes: "Muslim Modernism? Islamism, Civil Society and Citizenship in a Nigeria City," Public Culture , Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 251-290, 1996; "Is Robin Hood Politics Possible? Populism, capitalism and the
political economy of autonomy," Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 3, No. 1, 122-131, 1996; "Development III: The global agro-food system and the late twentieth century agrarian question," Progress in Human Geography , Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 230-245, 1996; "Working Class Heroes," Transition (with Iain Boal), #68, pp. 90 -115, 1995; "'A New Deal for the Emotions': Development Discourse and History," in Jonathan Crush (ed.), The Power of Development, London, Routledge, 1995. Earlier (1994) there were papers in the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Peasant Studies and The Ecologist .
Son Ethan grows beautiful and strong, and wife, Mary Beth Pudup (PhD'87) was recently awarded tenure at UC Santa Cruz. He's even getting some sleep.
During the past year, Gillian Hart made three trips to South Africa where she is engaged in research on industrial decentralization and the land question. This research will form the focus of her forthcoming book, provisionally entitled Remaking the Landscape of Apartheid: Local Dynamics, Global Connections .
An exchange program between Berkeley and University of Durban-Westville that she helped to initiate in 1992 now encompasses a far broader set of exchanges between the UC system and tertiary institutions in KwaZulu-Natal. As part of this broader initiative, Gillian is helping to organize a research group around questions of land and the socio-spatial reorganization of work. She has also been engaged in a variety of ways with South African government departments, trade unions, and a variety of non-governmental organizations at the national, provincial, and local levels.
In addition to delivering papers in South Africa, Gillian attended conferences in the Netherlands, the AAG, several Institute for International Studies workshops at Berkeley (including one on "Re-entering the Global Economy: Nicaragua, South Africa, Vietnam," which she co-organized), and was invited to give seminars in several places including Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford.
Over the past year, Gillian has published articles in Journal of Peasant Studies, Transformation , South African Labour Bulletin, and three edited book collections. She was invited to join the editorial boards of Feminist Economics , Oxford Development Studies and Journal of Peasant Studies.
Louise Fortmann gave this year's keynote address to an FAO/ECE/ILO Forestry Seminar on Ecosystem Management, organized a conference "Voices from the Commons" for over 500 people from 52 countries including villagers who spoke for themselves instead of being talked about, developed two new ESPM courses, and continues her research on community well being and forestry in California. She also learned what off-sides means in under 10 soccer.
Beatriz Manz continued with a research project on labor in the agricultural export sectors in Chile and New Zealand, which will be completed in 1997. Beatriz conducted research in the Guatemalan rain forest, where refugees have recently returned to the Ixcan area re-establishing communities. A book is in progress.
She attended several international conferences, and kept busy as Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies. She also serves on several the Inter-American Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Committee, the Advisory Committee for the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and the Beatrice M. Bain Research Group.
Beatriz has recently published, "Fostering Trust in a Climate of Fear," in Mistrusting Refugees, E. Valentine Daniel and John Chr. Knudsen (eds.), University of California Press, 1995; "Indians, Land, and Poverty in Guatemala," in The Color of Hunger, David L. Shields (ed.), London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1995; "Exodus, Resistance and Readjustments in the Aftermath of Massacres," and "Forward" in Massacres in the Jungle, by Ricardo Falla, Boulder: Westview Press, 1994; "Reflections on an antropologia comprometida: conversations with Ricardo Falla," in Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture , Carolyn Nordstrom and Antonius C. G. M. Robben (eds.), University of California Press, 1995.
Paul Groth (PhD'83) reports a banner year for prizes. At the Chicago AAG meetings his book Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States. (University of California Press, 1994) received the John
Brinckerhoff Jackson book prize. Later that spring, the Vernacular Architecture Forum awarded the book its Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, for the most significant contribution in that year to the study of vernacular architecture in North America. In the fall, the American Studies Association gave the book the runner-up position for the ASA's book prize. Since then, Groth has published a chapter on Skid Rows in Streets Of The World: Critical Perspectives On Public Space (UC Press), and three chapters on West Oakland's workers' housing and employment locations, in a book due out this summer from the Anthropological Studies Center at Sonoma State. The West Oakland work involved several Ph.D. students from Architecture and Planning, all paid by CALTRANS as part of the Cypress Freeway Replacement Project. The data gathered have begun to suggest a category of small housenot worker's cottage, not polite middle class housewhich Paul calls the "almost polite house." Away from home, Paul spent June of this year exploring small towns and Native American reservations in the Western states from Kansas through Arizona and Nevada.
Robert Reed continued as Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia studies, a capacity he has served in for the last seven years. But the coming year WILL BE THE LAST. Additionally he served as acting Chair of the Group in Asian Studies, which has grown to more than twice the undergraduates in Geography and about the same number of graduate students. He gave a paper at an international conference on "Vietnam Legacies: Twenty Years Later" at UC Davis in April. This August Bob was in the Philippines for the International Conference on the Centennial of the 1896 Philippine Revolution with a paper on the "Environmental History of Benguet."
Recent publications: The Challenges of Highland Development in Vietnam , A. Terry Rambo, Robert R. Reed, Le Trong Cuc, and Michael R. DiGregorio (eds.), Honolulu: Program on Environment, East-West Center, 1995, and with an article on "From Highland Hamlet to Regional Capital: Reflections on the Colonial Origins, Urban Transformation, and Environmental Impact of Dalat"; "Preface" (with David L. Szanton) in Working Papers No. 2 (Agrarian Thermidor. Rural Dynamics and the Agrarian Question in Vinh Phu Province, Vietnam ), No. 3 (Recent Urbanization and Environmental Change in Viet Tri City, Vietnam ), No. 4 (Environment and Industrial Renovation in Vietnam ) and No. 5 (Gourou's Symbiotic Villages Revisited ), Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1995; and "Recent Urbanization and Environmental Change in Viet Tri City, Vietnam. Preliminary Research Observations" (with M. DiGregorio. P. Tuong Vi, P. Sullivan, D. Szanton, et al.). Working Paper No. 3 (Recent Urbanization and Environmental Change in Viet Tri City, Vietnam ), Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1995.
During Summer 1995 David Hooson attended the centennial celebrations at the London School of Economics, then gave a talk on Clarence Glacken at the I.G.U. symposium on "Nature and Culture in Geographic Thought" in Dublin. In August, he gave an invited lecture at the 150th birthday celebrations of the Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg. Spring 1996 saw David on "sabbatical-in-residence," with a new seminar on "Emerging Peoples and Regions of the former Soviet Union" (the book is still in progress on this theme). This August David is attending the I.G.C. in The Hague, Netherlands, with a paper on "The necessity for re-integrating geography." Wife Margaret Mackenzie is now a full professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts and at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
John Radke was appointed a Special Consultant on University Geographic Information Systems Education to the Commercial Remote Sensing Workforce 2005 initiative of the Commercial Remote Sensing Program Office (CRSPO), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He was on the Executive Committee of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) and is now a Member Delegate. John produced the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Brochure, which explains the organization, membership requirements, its objectives and the role it is playing in shaping GIS research in the US.
He received three grants this past year: Intergraph Corporation Software grant (UNIX based CAD) & ( PC and MAC based CAD) unlimited SITE license; City of Berkeley grant to construct "A Strategy to Enhance Geographic Information Systems within the City of Berkeley"; and East Bay Regional Parks District grant to "Construct a Desktop GIS of the East Bay Hills Fire Study." This was expected to be available on CD-ROM in June 1996.
Publications: "Modeling Urban/Wildland Interface Fire Hazards within a Geographic Information System," in Geographic Information Sciences, 1995, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-14; "Detecting Potential Erosion Threats to the Coastal Zone: St. John, USVI," International Journal of Marine Geodesy; "Boundary Generation for Disaggregate Point Data With Possible Applications to Ecological Classification," (forthcoming - September) GEOMATICA; "Spatial Decompositions and Detecting the Bounding Hull of a Set of Points,"(forthcoming) The Canadian Geographer. Professional Report: (with a graduate student Bruce Appleyard) for the Information Systems Group of the City of Berkeley: "A Report on Spatial Information Infrastructure in the City of Berkeley."
John presented papers at the 15th Annual ESRI User Conference, Palm Springs, CA; Beijing Urban GIS Workshop, Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University and CPGIS, Beijing, China; Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Technology, Universitas Trisakti, Jakarta, Indonesia; Association of American Geographers 92nd Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 10, 1996; CPGIS Informatics 96, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Jim Parsons' scholarly career (Berkeley all the way) is reviewed in one of the glass exhibit panels opposite the 5th floor elevator. The exhibit, which was compiled by Margarete Monaghan and Cherie Semans , is titled "Cal's Eclectic Geographer," and features his Colombian studies.
At the time of Jim's 80th birthday, to recall happier moments, a department gathering was hosted by David Hooson and Margaret Mackenzie at their Inverness retreat, in which a letter of congratulation from Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien was presented.
In July 1995, there had been another kind of celebration, the so-called Parsonsfest, a kind of Rocky Mountain rendezvous organized by former student Jack Wright, PhD'90, and an old Montana hand in charge. For a week, in a 14-passenger van, a group including Jim and Betty, Jack, Paul Starrs, Tom Eley, Ted Oberlander and Dave Larson roamed the back roads of western Montana, from Glacier Park to Butte and Bannack, with time out for an unforgettable day of whitewater rafting on Clark's Fork of the Columbia and for good Montana food, including a Bar-B-Q at Dave and Suzi Parsons' horse-and-pony farm, south of Missoula in the Bitterroot Valley.
This is the way we like to remember Jim.
A major publication event among our faculty has been the appearance of Jay Vance's The Northern American Railroad: Its Origin, Evolution and Geography (348 pp., $39.95, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). A labor of love many years in the making, it is a handsome and extensively illustrated volume of many maps with a striking color jacket of an early steam train heading across a western landscape. The book is dedicated to Jay's late wife Jean "because she appreciated the pleasure it gave me to write it and to present it to her as a gift on the day before her untimely death." The maps, which include end papers detailing in differential colors all of the major North American railroad routes in 1894 (front) and 1994 (back), are by Adrienne Morgan, many of the illustrations from the National Archives. With tens of thousands of attractive color brochures having been sent out by the publisher to members of railroad clubs and subscribers to railroad fan magazines, the book seems destined to chalk up hefty sales figures. A consistent theme is the differentiation of the North American rail system from that of Britain, seeking to promote rather than simply responding to development.
The acknowledgments include special thanks to the assistance of Charles Hadenfeldt of the front office and to Vic Ryerson (MA'71), one of Jay's students now with the legal branch of the California Public Utilities Commission. Although the U.S. rail system is the focus of the book there is an 80 page postscript on the historical geography of Canadian rail development.
Jay spent the summer at his Queen Charlotte Islands refuge at Masset, B.C.
Hilgard O'R. Sternberg devoted summer 1995 largely to the continuation of his research on hydrological and biogeographical phenomena first observed by him on the Carajás massif (Pará, Brazil) in 1991 and followed up in 1994. The study area is located on the isolated and virtually pristine South Range that emerges from the forested Amazon lowlands, cresting at about 900m a.s.l. Access was gained by helicopter, which shuttled Sternberg and field companions daily to the site. An inflatable raft, loaned by an unit of the Brazilian Army with headquarters in Belém, was loaded onto the chopper and used in the investigation of karst-like lakes on the narrow, rolling summit.
Following his Amazon-related work in Brazil, Sternberg conducted some research in Argentina and Uruguay, in connection with the Hidrovia, a project which has the support of the Inter-American Development Bank and aims to improve navigation of the 3,500 km-long natural waterway from Cáceres (in Mato Grosso) to Nueva Palmira, Uruguay. In a paper presented at the 48th International Congress of Americanists (Stockholm 1994), Sternberg had pointed to Hidrovia's potential for a calamitous modification of natural ecosystems, notably in the unique, species-rich, Pantanal.
In March-April 1996, the Sternbergs returned to Brasil on a short trip, limited to Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Ouro Preto.
Publications: "Waters and wetlands of the Brazilian Amazon: an uncertain future," in Nishizawa, T. and Uitto, J. I. (eds.) The Fragile Tropics of Latin America, Tokyo, United Nations University, pp. 113-179, 1995; and "Proposals for a South American Waterway," in Mörner, M. and Rosendahl, M (eds.) Threatened Peoples and Environments in the Americas . Stockholm, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Stockholm, pp. 99-125, 1995.
Ted Oberlander was on the road again last spring when he and wife Barbara were in Turkey and Greece for several weeks. A revised version of his Physical Geography text, a sixth edition (with Robert Muller) is in press with Longmans.
Even in retirement Dan Luten's propensity for dealing with numbers (in any form) continues to be appreciated. A Christmas letter notes that he is treasurer of the local League of Women Voters Foundation (Marion of course does most of the work), treasurer of his community preparedness group "Grizzly 1100 Neighbors," and "class agent" for his Dartmouth College class of 1929 responsible for collecting perhaps $50,000 from the surviving (60-75?) members of the original 638. It might be noted that he has himself contributed generously to the AAG and to the department's Sauer Lecture Fund as well as numerous other unidentified causes (with an occasional extra boost from his Shell Foundation ties).
Our faculty continue to attract public attention. The Berkeleyan, campus weekly, has carried features on the work of Hilgard Sternberg ("Is it too late for the Amazon?") and Roger Byrne ("The independent domestication of plants around 10,000 years ago in widely separated world areas was an indirect response to climatic change"). Richard Walker's incendiary article on "California Rages Against the Dying of the Light" (New Left Review Jan-Feb 1995) is quoted briefly in the Alumni Association's California Monthly (June 1995) as evidence that, however well they keep their political views out of the classroom, some members of the Berkeley faculty "can still sock it to the powers that be." In the same alumni mag (December 1995) Jim Parsons, with Dave Larson (PhD'94), recounts the fate of the Bears' 1995 gridiron debacles.
A note for Sauer bibliophilesA Spanish translation of Carl Sauer's Early Spanish Main has long been rumored but never confirmed (there is no copy in the UC Library system). Here is the citation: C.O. Sauer, Descubrimiento y dominación española en el Caribe (transl. Stela Mastrangelo). 455 pp. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1984.
And there is now, too, a Spanish translation of Clarence Glacken's Traces on the Rhodian Shore (1967)Huellas en la playa de Rodas: naturaleza y cultura en el pensamiento occidental desde la Antiguedad hasta finales del Siglo SVIII , 700+ pp., Barcelona: Serbal, 1996. In a 15 page introduction Horacio Capel of the Universidad de Barcelona describes it as "majesteriala work of immense erudition, the product of patient investigation through two decades and a prolonged preoccupation with environmental problems and the relations between society and nature." Glacken (1909-1989) joined our faculty in 1952 and retired in 1976.
A 1992 survey recently released by the National Research Council (NRC) showed Berkeley with both the largest number and the highest percentage of top-ranked doctoral programs of any university in the country. Overall 41 PhD fields were evaluated by 8,000 faculty peers. All but one of Berkeley's 36 graduate programs were rated in the top in terms of 'faculty competence and achievement.'
Geography tied for sixth, down three rungs from earlier rankings. The top ten:
1 Penn State
2 Wisconsin
3 Minnesota
4 UCSB (!)
5 Ohio State (!)
6 Berkeley
6 Syracuse
8 UCLA
9 Clark
10 Washington
Our NRC rating in Geography fell from #3 to #6, which was very disappointing. We believe it reflects less on us than on changes in the discipline and oddities in the rating system. Two departments that leapt over us have specialized in Geographical Information Systems and computer
methods, and have received huge amounts of grant money to do so. Important measures of excellence were left out of the NRC study, particularly job placements and the writing of books. Our only shortcoming was low productivity among some faculty, which brought down the department average.
On September 20, 1995 Robin Donkin, Jesus College, University of Cambridge spoke at the Alumni House on "A Servant of Two Masters," reviewing his life work at the margins of history and geography. Donkin, a Reader in Historical Geography at Cambridge and a member of the British Academy, has written on such diverse subjects as Cistercian monasteries, agricultural terracing, the culture history of pearls and pearl-fishing, the Muscovy duck, the Guinea fowl, and the history of spices and aromatics. He was introduced by David Stoddart. Robin remained in the department for three days, his first visit in more than 30 years.
The 16th of the Sauer lectures series, on April 4, 1996, featured Yi-Fu Tuan, Vilas Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin and himself an alumnus of the Berkeley department (PhD 1957). His subject was "Escapism: Another Look at Nature and Culture." In his characteristically low-keyed style he kept a near capacity Alumni House audience entranced with his philosophical reflections on the human condition and its interactions with Nature. Yi-Fu was introduced by David Hooson, chair of the Sauer Lecture Committee.
Both lectures were followed by receptions and a dinner honoring the speakers at the Parsons.
The fund supporting the Sauer Lecture series, administered through the Dean of the Graduate Division, is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Continuation of the lectures, which have done much to draw the attention of the campus to Geography and the achievements of Geographers, will depend on the results of a new round of fund-raising which it is hoped will secure the program's continuance.
Contributions can be sent via the Department Chair.
In summer 1995, Cherie Semans and Don Bain moved their offices into 515 (the former section classroom). Besides providing much more space, the collaboration has been beneficial since many of Cherie and Don's activities overlap.
An increasing amount of Cherie Semans' work is on computer these days, although her technical pens are still required on occasion. Cherie has also received a Committee on Teaching grant to do further work on the Geo-Images project. She will be adding units on aerial and ground-level California, Alaska and Moorea to her existing Hong Kong collection.
During the last two years, Cherie has had several opportunities to travel, from Cook's Bay in Moorea to Cook Inlet in Alaska. In between these two venues, she has been working with California county fairs and festivals (Gilroy Garlic Festival, Indio Date Festival, etc.) as a cartographic consultant. She has also been chosen to re-do the school district boundaries in the West Contra Costa Unified School District. The elementary and secondary school boundaries (formerly Richmond Unified) were formulated 30 years ago, so updating them based on new demographics was long overdue. Other projects she has collaborated on include working with organic farmers to map their property for field management and reconstruction of a container ship collision off of Busan Harbor which she worked on with Don Bain.
Though a Cal alum from the start, Cherie's work has also caught the eye of Stanford University. In 1995 she was approached by Stanford Athletics to do a map of Stanford Stadium, similar to the one she had done for UC
Athletics. It should be published for the 1996 season.
In her copious spare time, Cherie continues her many years of geography outreach work by preparing and teaching map projects for both her sons' elementary classes, often on a weekly basis. She will be advising the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose on mapping exhibits and workshops.
Don Bain received his 10 Year service pin from UC Berkeley in August.
It's time for a hand to Natalia Vonnegut, rounding out 20 years of distinguished service in our departmental office, as either undergraduate or graduate assistant, then as Administrative Assistant and promoted to Management Services Officer in 1995, indisputably a new record. Try to imagine where we might be without her!
Charlie Hadenfeldt and Neil Maxwell of the Sponsored Projects Office worked together to be the first on the UC Campus to electronically transmit a proposal on the Net to NSF. He also travelled to Montana this summer to the wedding of his daughter, Samantha.
Luda Requadt travelled to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival three times this past year to see the entire repertoire. She will be doing the entire opera season in San Francisco, and will be taking a skiing vacation over Christmas in the Sierra.
The Department saw two staff departures in Fall 1996. Margarete Monaghan, after five years in Geography, resigned in October to move to Madison, Wisconsin. Charlie Hadenfeltdt, after 13 years with the Department, transferred to the Sponsored Projects Office with a promotion.
Fundraising has become a regular part of Berkeley life in the wake of state cutbacks. The Geography Department depends on the generosity of its alumni and friends for vital supplementary funds that support major lecture series, student awards, cartography, computing, field geography and student travel to conferences and research areas. We ask you once again to give aid and succor to these causes. All checks great and small are warmly appreciated.
In addition, there may be some of you in a position to do more for the Geography Department and the University of California. If so, we would like to speak with you to explain our needs and the possible forms such assistance can take. There is a major campaign in progress to raise $1 billion for the Berkeley campus by the year 2001, and such funds can be earmarked for specific purposes such as support of Geography. There are two kinds of funding opportunities, one for buildings and one for academic programs.
The academic programs campaign is an effort to raise significant funds for support of research, teaching and students. The Geograpy Department has outlined a number of worthy targets, including Distinguished Professorships, student research and fellowship grants, and computer teaching, cartography and GIS. These are part of a larger package in support of the whole of the Social Sciences. Information is available through the Department or the Campus Development Office in Berkeley.
We have a special need for funding, following the McCone Hall renovation: furnishings for the new cartography lab, Glacken Seminar room and media classroom. If anyone of you loyalists out there has the means (or knows of someone who might be inclined) to make a significant gift or bequest in support of McCone Hall or a particular facility, such as our Computing Laboratory, please contact Professor Walker (510-643-8226; walker@berkeley.edu).
We appreciate your generosity over the years!
In the Geography Computing Facility's main laboratory Power Macintosh is now the rule, with 24 megabytes RAM and 17-inch 24-bit color monitors standard. Ever larger file sizes have made diskettes obsolescent, at least for those doing graphics, so all workstations have been equipped with 100 megabyte Zip drives. Software advances are now more often evolutionary than revolutionary, with FreeHand 7 and KPT Bryce 2 the most notable advances. But an exception is Microsoft, whose Word 6 for Macintosh was a disaster, forcing users to stick with discontinued version 5.1a.
The fall semester computer class and the spring semester cartography course continue to equip undergraduate students with essential computer skills. The curriculum has gradually evolved: html programming (for the World Wide Web) has replaced desktop publishing in the computer course, and a new unit on "maps for the web" was added to cartography.
The troubles at Apple computer have naturally been of concern in this Macintosh-oriented facility (as on the Berkeley campus in general, where Macs greatly outnumber PC's). The Macintosh is still a more sophisticated and mature platform than Wintel, and in the Facility's areas of emphasis (publication graphics and multi-media) it continues to dominate the industry. Significantly, most of the leading programs for Windows 95 are precisely those Macintosh applications used and taught in the Facility for the past decade.
The biggest change in the Geography Computing Facility has been the new importance of the World Wide Web. Former professor Lisa Wells made the most effective instructional use of the web, placing her notes on the server the same day she gave each lecture. The departmental web site, now administered by Natalia Vonnegut, provides necessary information about the department, its program, and its people. New students increasingly report that most of their questions were answered by the department's web pages (http://WWW-Geography.Berkeley.EDU/BerkGeog.html). Many students have personal pages, and two of them, Gan Golan (Gone Beyond ) and Matt Jalbert (Exuberance) have won special recognition.
Also on the web, The Geo-Images Project continues to grow. Four new chapters have been added: Snow as a Resource, and Afghanistan in 1976-78 by Douglas Powell, Images Illustrating Principles of Geomorphology by Lisa Wells, and A Geographer on the Kiwai Coast of New Guinea by Tom Eley. To access Geo-Images use any browser to go to http://WWW-GeoImages.Berkeley.EDU/GeoImages.html .
Don Bain was immediately struck by the geographic potential of Apple's QuickTime Virtual Reality panorama technology when it first appeared in late summer 1995. These computer images allow the viewer to look up, down and all the way around 360°, controlled by the mouse. Don acquired the necessary hardware and software and has ever since been obsessed with creating panoramas everywhere he travels.
The QTVR panorama collection on Geo-Images now numbers over 100, and includes images from South Pacific islands, remote missions in the desert of Baja California, the lights of Las Vegas, winter scenes in Owens Valley, waterfalls in Yosemite, stormy weather on the Big Sur coast, the temporarily reborn Tulare lake, familiar Berkeley campus sights, redwood groves, magnificent scenery in British Columbia, the Alaska Highway, dredge tailings along the Klondike River, and even the midnight sun in the Canadian Arctic. To access these images you will need NetScape 3 (or later) and the QuickTime plug-in from Apple (available free for both Macintosh and Windows). The QTVR panoramas are listed under Geo-Images (see above).
New department T-shirts were available proclaiming "Berkeley Geography" under a star -shaped polar map projection of the world. Proceeds go to the Association of Undergraduate Geographers (AUG) which supports the annual fall potluck, 'beer on the balcony' and similar functions.
Marjorie McPhillamey, departmental secretary in the later Sauer years, and a long-time resident of Washington D.C. where her husband Bob is a retired attorney, reminisces in a recent letter on those pre-computer days:
"Dr. Sauer suggested a system of dictation that certainly saved time over transcribing my poor shorthand. I rolled the typewriter by his desk and typed the letter as he dictated. His style was contemplativeno rapid fire memosand I could keep up with him fairly well. He did not care that the letter be in the best secretarial school format, and would make corrections and additions to the original before signing it. Once I did not recognize a word he used and thought it was something else. When he proofread the letter he said, 'That's not the word I used, but I like yours better.' Considering my inadequacies and his expectations we had a very nice relationship. He was a very special person in my life, as he was in many others."
Marjorie has devoted much of her life for the past 30 years to the Welcome to Washington International Club, a volunteer group of some 900 women with a wide range of programs to welcome and extend friendship to women from foreign countries. She has been on the Board of Directors since 1971 and was for six years its executive secretary. There is no central office and, she says, she has ended up as a result with a "houseful of files." Her address is 4100 W Street NW, #401, Washington D.C. 20007.
Another former departmental mainstay from days of yore, Wester (Lowdermilk) Hess, (1952-57), who was lured years ago to the Washington area by her husband, physicist Bill Hess, returned to Berkeley this summer on Bill's retirement with NASA, taking up residence in the Lowdermilk family abode on the northside, only a couple of blocks from the campus. (1620 LeRoy Avenue, Berkeley 94709)
Robert Argenbright (PhD'90), University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Susan Craddock (PhD'94), University of Arizona
George Henderson (PhD'92), University of Arizona
Tad Mutersbaugh (PhD'94), University of Iowa
Lydia Savage (AB'90), University of Southern Maine
Krisnawati Suryanata (PhD'95), University of Colorado at Denver
Geography courses with enrollments exceeding 100: 150AC* (F'94, Walker); 159AC (S'95, Manz); 110 (F'95, Walker); 30 (S'96, Nietschmann); 130 (S'96, Watts); 159AC (S'96, Shaiken).
Lower division course offerings have been increased, replacing the half-century old triad of Geography 1, 4 and 7, e.g. 10 (World Regions/Hooson), 20 (Global Restructuring--Pred), 50AC* (California and the Pacific Rim--Walker), 40 (Global Change--Ingram, Granger). [*American Cultures course]
New upper division courses: 145 (Geological Oceanography--Ingram), 149 (Coral Reefs and Islands--Stoddart), 161 (South Africa--Hart), 177 (Conservation Geography--Nietschmann).
New graduate seminars: 203 (Nature and Culture: Social Theory, Social Practice and the Environment--Walker), 214 (Development Theories and Practices--Hart), 215 (Seminar in Comparative and International Development--Hart), 241 (Geochemical Approaches to Modern and Past Environments and Climates--Ingram), 290 (Physical Geography Research Seminar--Ingram).
Innovative new classes have become more the rule than the exception. A new course on the 'Southern Border,' taught by Beatriz Manz (Geography) and Harley Shaiken (Education) even included a three-day field trip to Tijuana, visiting maquiladoras, shantytowns, and Border Patrol offices.
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is being taught by John Radke, a geographer (UBC) in Landscape Architecture and Faculty Affiliate in Geography, and is cross-listed as Geography 188X. And that is not all. According to the journal GIS World the Berkeley Research Program in Engineering Planning and GIS is "the Best University Geographic Information Systems site," based on a survey by users. Robert Twiss of Landscape Architecture said "that the most likely basis for this wide interest is a feature developed by his group called GRASS-Links, which he believes to be the world's first on-line service of this type providing access to the San Francisco Bay/Delta geo-database on environmental and land use." See for yourself at www.regis.berkeley.edu/
Fall 1994: PhD Candidate Gray Brechin (Urban Field Study)
Spring 1995: Tim Krantz (PhD'94) (Global Environments; Biogeography); Bill Alevizon (The Ocean World); Krisna Suryanata (PhD'94) (World Agricultural Systems); Ben Crow (Economic Geography of the Non-Industrial World); Peter Rosset (Political Ecology of the Third World); Iain Boal (The Nature of Science and Technology)
Fall 1995: Bill Alevizon (the Moorea course); Gray Brechin (Urban Field Study)
Spring 1996: Eric Edlund (PhD'96) (Topographic Map Analysis and Field Methods for Physical Geography); Iain Boal (Nature and Culture)
Through an on-going joint arrangement with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Douglas Johnson (Clark University) was Visiting Professor during Spring 1995. Elizabeth Vasile (PhD'96), under a similar sponsorship taught the Middle East course and a upper division seminar on Migration in the Modern World during Spring 1996.
Geography 180 Field Trips, Spring, 1996
Eric Edlund (PhD'96) made his debut this spring as a Visiting Lecturer teaching Geography 180, "Field Methods for Physical Geography." The class emphasized field-based research, surveying and mapping techniques. Field work was undertaken in such challenging environments as salt marshes (deep mud) and the slopes of Mt. Diablo (deep poison oak). The semester featured two extended field trips.
Field Trip One: Death Valley
This was a memorable five-day trip in late Marcha little too early for wildflowers, but excellent weather! On day two, students admired the view across the valley floor from windswept Aguerreberry Point in the Telescope Range (photo 1). The next day, the team used map,
compass, and hand levels in an attempt to occupy the lowest point in the United States (-282 feet below sea level). The sight of 11 students wandering across the salt pan (photo 2) brought to
mind the words of Edward Abbey: "Ah to be a buzzard now that spring is here." Fortunately, all eleven survived for subsequent explorations of Zabriskie Point, Salt Creek (home of Cyprinodon salinus, the surprising desert pupfish), Titus Canyon, and the Stovepipe Wells sand dunes (by moonlight no less). Some of the steep alluvial fans along the east side of the valley feature varying shades of rock varnish, indicating the relative age of different parts of the fan (photo 3).
Helpful hint for desert travelers after a hot day in the field: campers may use the showers and the pool at the Stovepipe Inn for $2.00 per dayunlimited access!
For some students, the highlight of the trip was the Racetrack, a high-elevation playa flanked by spurs of folded Cambrian dolomite. Here, boulders of various sizes have apparently been pushed hundreds of feet across the lakebed by wind (photos 4, 5). This year's students offered
hypotheses for the specific meteorologic mechanisms required to transport boulders; next year's class will use the department's total station surveying equipment to establish baseline positions on each of the itinerant rocks.
In an inspired conclusion to the desert adventure, the group set up their last night's camp on the shoulder of Hunter Mountain, elevation 7,000 feet, with a spectacular view of the Sierra Nevada; one inch of snow fell during the evening, and the nighttime low temperature dipped below 30°F. Everyone was smiling the next day, which may have induced the instructor to press his luck in scheduling field trip number two....
Field Trip Two: Little Yosemite Valley
The group took a chance on the weather in planning an early May backpacking trip to Little Yosemite Valley, ostensibly to examine evidence of late Pleistocene glaciation as mapped by Francois Matthes, but in fact as an opportunity to practice backcountry gourmet cooking. Two nights were spent at the LYV campsite, conveniently located next to a well-preserved recessional moraine. Hiking up the Merced River toward Echo Valley, students observed that glaciated valleys may indeed be V-shaped. The loop hike around Moraine Dome featured snowpack above 7,500 feet, but luck and the weather held for the entire weekend, and 100% of the students straggled onto the Ahwahnee patio for afternoon refreshments and a Sunday paper. What were you expectinguncivilized wilderness?
Eric will reprise both field trips in Spring, 1997make your reservations early! Many thanks to Doug Powell for providing reading material on various aspects of Death Valley and the California Desert. Further details on these field trips may be found on the department's web page.
Cherie Semans received a Fall 1995 Committee on Teaching grant for travel to Moorea to work with the "Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands" classa 13 unit interdisciplinary class offered as Geo. 142, E.S.P.M. 112, I.D.S. 158 and I.B. 158. She worked with the 15 "Moorea" students in Berkeley before they left for their 2 month stint in Moorea, French Polynesia, and then traveled down there with her two sons (Matt, 12, and 6 year old Robert) for a week in tropical paradise. Work consisted of approximately a half day of consulting on individual student projects, and a half day of touring and snorkeling. By the time students had returned to Berkeley in late November, Cherie had completed a digitized map of Moorea for their use. Don Bain added contours to the map, which remains a resource for anyone interested in the island. Cherie and Don, who also travelled to Moorea in the fall, gave a joint tea talk, "Moorea: Geographical Research Possibilities in a Tropical Setting" in February 1996. Cherie plans on returning to Moorea this fall with the 1996 "Moorea" students.
Summer 1996 provided Cherie with several teaching opportunities. She taught 186, Map Reading, Analysis and Interpretation class, during the first six-week session, and then launched two new courses. Geography 179C is a three-week course on various aspects of travel. Graduate student Kate Davis gave a guest lecture on American women explorers and travelers during one meeting, and travel as represented on the internet was explored as were several other topics. Geo. 182 is a new field course focusing on rural California. Some of the places visited include Vichon winery, an alpaca ranch in Napa, a goat farm and cheese factory in Sonoma county, an abalone aquaculture farm on Tomales Bay, Angel Island, the Sonoma County fair, an exotic bird farm in Santa Rosa, an organic fruit farm in Brentwood, the Chinese community of Locke in the Delta and several places in the Monterey/Big Sur area.
Summer 1995: Courses were taught byLisa Husmann (China and Central Asia); Lisa Husmann and Karl Roam (The Geography of Health and Disease); Cherie Semans (World Peoples and Cultural Environment, and Map Reading, Analysis and Interpretation); and Krisna Suryanata (Natural Resources and Population)
Summer 1996 saw a doubling of course offerings including four 1-unit courses offered during the three week sessions: Courses were taught by Susanne Freidberg (Natural Resources and Population), Lisa Husmann (China and Central Asia; Health and the Environment), Doug Powell (Global Environmental Change; California), Victoria Randlett (The American West), Amy Ross and Elizabeth Oglesby (Revolution and Counterrevolution in Latin America), Susan Pomeroy (a two module course on The Geography of Cyberspace), and Cherie Semans (Travel; Rural Field Study; and Map Reading, Analysis and Interpretation).
The 1995 Commencement saw 51 AB degrees, 5 Minors awarded plus 10 MAs and 10 PhDs. The Departmental Citation went to Matthew Jalbert, the Lucille McClish (Oberlander) Award in Physical Geography to Jacob Schweitzer, and the David Hynding Award in Cartography to Rini Keagy. Professor Harley Shaiken (School of Education) was Commencement Speaker, stepping in a short notice to replace Mike Davis who had to back out because of illness.
Music was provided by the Southern Oscillation Group (Brad Beck, Barbara Hadenfeldt, Victoria Randlett, Robin Sturgeon, Dick Walker and Charles Hadenfeldt).
The May 1996 commencement ceremonies were held under rain-threatening skies, and in fact the location to hold them wasn't decided until an hour before it began. 37 AB degrees were granted, 10 additional students received a Minor in Geography. There were five MAs and seven PhDs who participated in the ceremony. Tenara Blood gave the undergraduate remarks and Susanne Freidberg the graduate address. Mike Davis , author of City of Quartz, was the Commencement Speaker. Kathleen Mikulis received the Departmental Citation, Francis Smith was awarded the Lucille McClish (Oberlander) Award in Physical Geography, and Jennifer Freeman received the Daniel Hynding Award in Cartography.
The Coral Riffs (Victoria Randlett, Kim Charnofsky, Robin Sturgeon, Brad Beck, Charles Hadenfeldt) performed, and a reception followed (held indoors for the first time in memory!). All was orchestrated masterfully by Luda Requadt .
Visitors,1995-96
William Alevizon
Niels Fold (Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen)
Michael Landzelius (Göteborgs University)
Cindy Li (PhD Oklahoma)
Jo Lin (PhD Columbia University)
Andrew Jameton (University of Nebraska)
Ravi Rajan (Ciriacy Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow)
Krisna Suryanata (PhD UC Berkeley)
Carol Zabin (Ciriacy Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow)
Visiting Scholars, 1996-97
Georges Anglade (University of Quebec)
William Denevan (University of Wisconsin)
Niels Fold (University of Copenhagen)
Magnus Jirström (Lund University)
Jo Lin (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Alan Taylor (Pennsylvania State University)
Huei-Min Tsai (Fulbright Fellow, National Taiwan University)
Bruce Willems-Braun (University of British Columbia)
Carol Zabin (Ciriacy Wantrup Fellow)
Former Ciriacy Wantrup Scholar Priya Rangan presented a paper entitled "Putting the Wise Use Movement in Its Place," (with Brigitta Bode, Ph.D. candidate, ESPM Berkeley) at the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, June 5-8, Berkeley. She is currently revising an article on "Property vs. Control: Understanding the Role of the State in Natural Resource Management" which seems, by all accounts likely to emerge in Development and Change . Priya has an essay in Liberation Ecologies: Environment and Development in the Late Twentieth Century, Michael Watts and Richard Peet (eds.), Routledge, London, 1996.
Among the wide ranging speakers at the traditional Wednesday Geography 4 o'clock "teas" were geographers David Harvey (Johns Hopkins), Marvin Waterstone (Arizona), and John Cloud (UC Santa Barbara); anthropologist Arturo Escobar (Massachusetts, now at UCB), Andrew Jameton (Nebraska), Norman Miller (LLNL), Ben Crow (UCSC), Ivan Evans (UCSD), Daniel Singer (Paris), Richard Ford (Stanford), Charles Rutheiser (Georgia State), Michael Kearney (UCR). There were several Berkeley graduate students as well as campus visitors from environmental sciences, education, and engineering.
A bombshell was dropped on the Berkeley campus in early July when Chang Lin Tien, Chancellor for the past six years, announced that he is stepping down not later than June 1997. His term in office has been especially marked by his strong support of affirmative action (in the face of Regents actions) and by highly successful fund raising from alumni, including those from his native China and Taiwan.
From the Daily Californian, May 14, 1996: "The salary gap has driven some Berkeley professors to consider leaving the UC system. 'There has been such a crisis in education in California in the last four years.' said geography professor Michael Watts. 'The entire state system has been hit with massive state budget cuts. Myself and many of my colleagues are beginning to look at other sorts of institutions.'"
But things are now looking up. The Governor has signed off on a plan that will allocate significant funds for increases in faculty salaries.
There is a fine new library, with numerous current periodicals and newspapers, right next door to our McCone, in the Journalism School building at North Gate. And it's open to the public.
The Memorial Glade, between our building and Doe Library, where the T-Buildings long stood, has been grassed over, providing a magnificent view of Doe Library. So has Memorial Stadium, after 20 years of Astroturf.
A hang-out of 30 years standing for geographers, the Cafe Espresso (The "Depresso") presided over by the jovial Lino Pellegrini across the street on Hearst just below Euclid, closed its doors on June 26, 1995. Lino, who came to the U.S. from Italy in 1965, blamed a doubling of the rent as the final straw. Some will remember it as Barney Nietschmann's "other office," others for its minestrone, lasagna, or cappuccinos. The Dynasty , Berkeley's oldest Chinese restaurant, also closed on Euclid.
The Office of the President announced in March that it is moving, but that it will remain in Oakland. It is leaving the current state-wide offices near Lake Merritt when its lease expires in May 1998 and moving to a new building the University hopes to construct in downtown Oakland on Franklin Street between 11th and 12th streets.
The Daily Californian has returned to its five -days a week publishing schedule after two years of stumbling along the edge of financial disaster.
The ASUC Book Store has been taken over by the University in the wake of continuing financial mis-management.
With the purchase of the Grizzly Peak Electrical Substation from PG&E the campus anticipates as much as $2.67 million savings on an annual $10.7 million electric bill. The purchase price of the substation was $3.1 million!
San Diego Chancellor Richard Atkinson became UCs 17th president October 1, 1995 following action by the Board of Regents.
The 92nd annual meeting of the AAG in March 1996 at Charlotte, NC, found five Berkeley faculty on the program (Pred, Walker , Reed, Byrne, Hart) and ten graduate students and perhaps 35 PhD alums. Jay Vance, Emeritus, was awarded the 1996 Edward Ullman Award for Meritorious Contributions to the Field of Transportation Geography by the Specialty Group in Transportation. Sally Horn (PhD'84), University of Tennessee, was a member of the Program Committee. Grad students James McCarthy , Bill Boyd and Scott Prudham organized a special session on Rural Restructuring in the Post-War U.S. Others were organized by Allan Pred, Josh Muldavin, Barbara Brower, Tom Howard and Susanne Freidberg. Next up, Fort Worth, TX, April 1-5, 1997.
The APCG meetings at Sacramento State in June 1996 included papers by Jim Parsons and Cherie Semans (PhD'87) as well as alums Tom Eley (PhD'88), Alaska, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Dennis Dingemans (PhD'75), UC Davis, Elizabeth Burns (PhD'74), Arizona State University, Bill Bowen (PhD'72), CSU Northridge, and grad students Jeffrey Schaffer, Jennifer Jones, and Sharon Johnson. Sharon's presentation on "Land Use Change in the Hardwood Rangelands of the Sierra Foothills" was named the outstanding student paper. The next APCG meetingsSpokane in September 1997.
The Association's Newsletter, now in new format and called Pacifica, featured Dingeman's sensitive research essay on Rio Linda, "Sacramento's Redneck Suburb," in its Spring 1996 issue. The piece was reprinted, with illustrations, in the Sacramento Bee.
Item missed in the last IG with its delayed release: At the 1995 Annual Meeting of the AAG-- Marvin Mikesell (PhD'59), University of Chicago, was awarded Honors "For clarity of insight into the work of geographers, influential research in cultural and cultural-political geography, excellence in teaching and long and exemplary service to the discipline."
The IGU Commission on the History of Geographic Thought in Dublin July 1995, found David Hooson together with Mark Bassin (PhD'83), University College London, Hong-Key Yoon (PhD'76), Auckland, and, Vincent Berdoulay (PhD'74), University of Pau. A photo from Gary Dunbar proves it.
Europe has called this summer. Mark Blumler (PhD'92), SUNY Binghamton, and Carl Johannessen (PhD'59), Emeritus at Oregon, were headed for an Economic Botany conference in London; Jack Wright (PhD'90), New Mexico State, organized a panel on resource management for the IGU sessions in Holland, which David Hooson also attended. Alex Clapp (PhD'93), University of Toronto, was scheduled to be there too after early summer field work in British Columbia.
Re-Reading Cultural Geography, edited by Kenneth Foote (Texas) (University of Texas Press, 494 pp., $24.95 paper, 1994) is a landmark sequel and successor to Wagner and Mikesell , Reading in Cultural Geography. It is a long-awaited assessment and inventory of major developments in cultural geography. Included is a gargantuan bibliography. There are extensive references and reflections on the place of Carl Sauer and the Berkeley School. A foreward by Phil and afterword by Marvin provide an effective framework for the body of the text. There are commentaries by Doughty, Parsons and Salter, as well as the reproduction of an early Nietschmann piece on ecology and culture on the Miskito Coast.
Geography at UC Davis lives on, but as a "Program in Geography" rather than as a department. The protracted litigation associated with divisive internal conflict among the geography faculty has come to a final resolution. Some of the geographers have become affiliated with other departments, others remain as 'at-large' faculty directly under the College of L&S.
Paul Starrs (PhD'89), University of Nevada-Reno, is the new editor of the Geographical Review, the fifth since the journal was established more than 80 years ago! Paul has named Martin Lewi s (PhD'87), Duke University, as his Associate Editor. What with Dick Peet (PhD'68), Clark University, as co-editor of Economic Geography, our own chairman Dick Walker as co-editor of Antipode, Barbara Brower (PhD'87), Portland State, with her Himalayan Research Bulletin , and Gail Fondahl (PhD'89) as managing editor for Polar Geography and Geology, we are clearly doing our share on the editorial side.
The Genius of C. Warren Thornthwaite, Climatologist–Geographer is the title of a biography by John H. Mather and Marie Sanderson of one of this department's first and most renowned graduates (University of Oklahoma Press, 240 pp., $29.95, 1996). Thornthwaite (1899-1963) received his PhD in 1930 with a dissertation on the Urban Geography of Louisville KY that belied his later interest and work in weather and climate. A college friend of John Leighly at Central Michigan Normal School, Warren was teaching at the University of Oklahoma when he published his first papers on climatic classification in the Geographical Review . In 1935, he became chief of the Climatic and Physiographic Research Division of the new U.S. Soil Conservation Service (1935-1942). Later he established the Thornthwaite Laboratory of Climatology, located in rural New Jersey and affiliated first with Johns Hopkins University and later with Drexel Institute of Philadelphia. It became a mecca for climatologists from all parts of the world.
His most important scientific contributions were his "rational" classification of world climates in 1948 and his concept of evaportranspiration and its use in the climatic water budget.
The Thornthwaite obituary by John Leighly ( Annals, AAG December 1964) and interviews with Arnold Court (PhD'56) and David Miller (PhD'53) provide the authors with background information that will be of special interest to Berkeley geographers.
Latest word on the long promised collection of essays on Carl Sauer, Legacy of Intellect, edited by Martin Kenzer, is that the Amsterdam publisher (Kluwer) has pulled out. On the initiative of Kent Mathewson it now appears that the project may be picked up by the Louisiana State University Press. When will it be out? Quien sabe.
H.G. Gierloff-Emden, emeritus at the University of Munich, a visiting professor in the Berkeley department 1961-62, is the author of the exhaustive "The First Discovery Voyage of Columbus: Nautical and Oceanographic Significance" (in German) in the Münchener Geographische Abhandlungen, Band B-19, 260 pp., 1994. With more than 100 maps, charts, and tables he probes the scientific background of the voyage, the meteorology, astronomy, oceanography, cartography, and the status of the art of navigation of the time. His time at Berkeley with Carl Sauer is acknowledged as a stimulus to his prolonged engagement with the Columbus theme and he cites extensively from the commentaries of Clint Edwards (PhD'62) in the AGS reprint of the G.E. Nunn (1924) volume on "The Geographical Conceptions of Columbus."
'Agricultural Origins and Dispersals,' that distinctively Berkeley theme pioneered half a century ago by Sauer, continues alive and well. Nature (London), in its 4 July 1996 issue (vol. 382), carries a three-column review of The Origin and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia , edited by David Harris (PhD'63), University College (UCL Press, 1996, 954 pp.). There are 27 individual contributors, with a summary chapter by Harris, who continues as director of the Institute of Archaeology.
The last Itinerant Geographer proudly listed some 35 books by Berkeley PhDs published since 1991. Others to add to that list:
Mark Bassin, The Dream of a Siberian Mississippi: Imperial Vision and Geographical Fantasy, Cambridge, 1996.
Déborah Berman Santana, Kicking Off the Bootstraps: Environment, Development, and Community Power in Puerto Rico , University of Arizona Press, 1996.
Barbara Brower, The Sherpa of Kumbu, Oxford -New Delhi, 1991.
Kenneth Erickson, Lumber Ghosts, Boulder, Pruett Publishing, 1994; 2nd printing 1995.
Piper Gaubatz, Beyond the Great Wall: Urban Form and Transformations on the Chinese Frontiers, Stanford, 1996.
Brian Godfrey, Rainforest Cities: the Urban Transformation of Brazilian Amazonia , Columbia University Press (forthcoming).
Katharyne Mitchell, Diaspora and the Politics of Space, University of California Press, in press.
Richard Peet and Michael Watts (co-editors), Liberation Ecologies: Environment and Development in the Late Twentieth Century , Routledge, 1996.
Mary Beth Pudup (editor), Appalachia in the Making: the Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century, University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Edward Price, Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic, University of Chicago Press, 1995.
C.L. Salter (co-editor), Geography for Life , National Geographic Society
Daniel Sicular, Scavengers, Recyclers, and Solutions for Solid Waste Management , UC Berkeley, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1992.
Fred Simoons, Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances in the Old World (revised and expanded), University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
Nigel Smith, Amazonia: Resiliency and Dynamism of the Land and Its People, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, 1995. (with E.A.S. Serrão, P.T. Alvim, I.C. Falesi)
Nigel Smith, Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the Amazon , Columbia University Press, 1996. (with M. Goulding, D. Mahar)
Nigel Smith, Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest: Stories from a Vanishing World , University Press of Florida, 1996.
Stan Stevens, Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, Subsistence and Environmental Change in the Highest Himalaya, UC Press, 1993.
Stan Stevens (ed.), Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous and Protected Areas, Washington, D.C., Island Press, in press.
Michael Storper, Boundaries, Compartments and Markets: Paradoxes of Industrial Relations in Growth Pole Regions of France, Italy and the USA. UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1993.
Michael Storper, Worlds of Production, privated published in France, 1997. (with R. Salais)
Yi-Fu Tuan, Cosmos and Hearth, University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Tom Veblen (co-ed.), The Ecology and Biogeography of Nothofagus Forests , Yale University Press, 1996.
Philip Wagner, Showing Off: the Geltung Hypothesis , University of Texas Press, 1996.
Bret Wallach, Losing Asia: Modernization and the Culture of Development, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Wilbur Zelinsky, Exploring the Beloved Country , University of Iowa Press, 1994.
Karl Zimmerer, Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes, University of California Press, 1996.
Karl Zimmerer, (co-editor), Biogeographical Landscapes and Conservation in Developing Countries, University of Wisconsin Press.
Are there others we have missed?
New UC Press Book Series
Berkeley Studies in Critical Human Geography. (editorial group: Walker, Watts, Pred, Pudup, Hart and Saxenian) already has several books in press and more under contract.
Alvena Suhl Storm (MA'28), 93, an early graduate student in this department and for many years on the faculty at San Diego State University until her retirement in 1966, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by that institution. Ten years ago a wing of the then new Social Sciences Building at San Diego was named 'Storm Hall' in her honor.
Henry Bruman (PhD'40), emeritus at UCLA, has endowed a Chair in Geography at that institution, where he taught from 1945 until his retirement in 1980. He has previously done similarly for the UCLA Department of Music, while also supporting chamber music programs both on that campus and at its Clark Library.
Esther Rostlund, widow of Erland Rostlund (1900-1961; PhD'51), celebrated her 91st birthday September 24, 1996, at a Healdsburg rest home.
Dan Stanislawski (PhD'44), our oldest living graduate who was 93 on April 20, 1996, remains thriving and in good spirits at his Oxford Street home, in the capable hands of his good wife Hilde.
Next down the line among our graduates is Les Hewes (PhD'40), University of Nebraska, who had his 90th birthday February 25 and anticipates attending the upcoming AAG meeting in Forth Worth TX in April 1997. Les writes that he has struck it rich in the National Archives where homestead claimants and witnesses provided inventories of improvements, important in the old homestead area of Oklahoma that he is studying. He was particularly gratified to find such statements of his father and his maternal grandfather. Les's retrospective piece on "Sonora 1931, a pictoral essay" is scheduled for the J ournal of the Southwest. It will include a collection of photos that he took while Professor Sauer's field assistant on his Guggenheim grant, "probably my best single learning experience," says Les. In September 1995 he was in Ecuador with an Elderhostel group, including both the highlands and a trip into the Amazonian rainforest.
David Miller (PhD'53), emeritus at Wisconsin-Milwaukee, sends a bibliography that includes six books and monographs some 35 book chapters and journal papers, and more than 40 reviews and notes, all on energy and water budget matters. A few years ago Dave donated some 6,300 slides to the department on such themes, all dated, catalogued and numbered. He has offered, too, a lifelong collection of reprints of works by John Leighly, his mentor. His most recent paper, from Proceedings, 63rd Western Water Conference, evaluates the research programs and results of the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory at Soda Springs, 1945-1964, where Dave did his dissertation work.
Philip L. Wagner (PhD'53), Emeritus at Simon Fraser University: Showing Off: the Geltung Hypothesis (University of Texas Press, 1996; $30.95 hardback, $12.95 paper) in which "drawing on a lifetime of inquiry, travel, and teaching (the author) asserts that the concern for Geltungpersonal standing, recognition, acceptance, esteem, and influenceshapes all of our interactions and defines the unique social character of human behavior."
Wilbur Zelinsky (PhD'53), emeritus at Penn State, pursues one of his favorite themes, "The Changing Face of Nationalism in the American Landscape" in a volume on 'pop culture' edited by George Carney, Fast Food, Stock Cars and Rock-n-Roll (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).
Arnold Court (PhD'56), emeritus at Cal State Northridge, contributes a piece (in French) on the Segmented Wind Roses of Leon Brault (1839-1885) in the April 1995 special issue of La Meteorologie (Paris) with 27 reports from the first -ever symposium on the history of meteorology, Toulouse, 1993. Arnold's travels continue extensive, taking him, with wife Mildred, to meetings of the American Meteorological Society, the Weather Modification Association, the Association of State Climatologists, and APCG as well as visits to family members in Florida and Germany (for son David's 50th birthday). And then there is his considerable earthquake damaged library at Northridge, still to be restored.
Fred Simoons (PhD'56), emeritus at UC Davis and now living in Spokane, has a typically exhaustive article on "Dogflesh Eating by Humans in Sub-Saharan Africa" in Ecology of Food and Nutrition 34:251-292. The references include more than 450 separate items, including many in places so obscure you wouldn't believe. Fred, an Adjunct Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University, Pullman, continues his studies of the Fava bean, Pythagoras, and related themes in Old World culture history. A second edition revised and enlarged of his Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances from Prehistory to the Present , has been published by the University of Wisconsin Press, 550 pp., 1994. His address: 2005 E. 24th St., Spokane, WA 99203.
From MADGEONEWS, Wisconsin–Madison, Fall 1995: Yi-Fu Tuan (PhD'57) spent three days in the summer of 1995 with a colleague at Disneyland, supported by the Canadian Center for Architecture. He tells us that it is one thing to do supported research in leech-infested jungles or in a desert furnace, but quite another to get paid to go on Dumbo rides in Disneyland. What will come of it is unclear. Yi-Fu was also honored as a "1995 Notable Wisconsin Author" by the Literary Awards Committee of the Wisconsin Library Association.
The 'one big event' for Yi-Fu this year was delivery of the Carl Ortwin Sauer Lecture at UC–Berkeley, his old school. 'What a way to wrap up one's career!' He was especially touched by a bouquet of flowers sent to his room by the Dean of the Graduate School.
His interview for "Geographers on Film" was updated at the recent AAG meetings. His Topophilia was reviewed in a 'Classics in Human Geography Revisited' feature in Progress in Human Geography, September 1994.
Another first for Yi-Fu is a special issue of the National Geographical Journal of India (v. 40, pts 1-4, 1994), a collection of 26 essays dedicated to him. The title, appropriately, is The Spirit and Power of Place: Human Environment and Sacrality (464 pp.). Last year he received the Professor Appreciation Award for Excellence in Teaching of the Inter-Fraternity Council at UW.
Ward Barrett (PhD'59) recently retired from the University of Minnesota where he had been on the faculty since 1959.
Janet Kittridge (AB'61), Save-the-Bay staff member, was recipient of the California Alumni Association Excellence in Service Award last October for outstanding service to the University and the community. She has been active in the Save-the-Bay organization since 1964. For many years she chaired the Cal Alumnae Hostess committee.
Bill Denevan (PhD'63) and wife Susie have settled in at their new home at Sea Ranch on the Sonoma Coast. Bill retired at the University of Wisconsin–Madison last summer after 32 years on the faculty there. He is completing the manuscript for a book on pre-Columbian Agricultural Systems in South America. He is expected to be a frequent visitor at the Berkeley department where he carries the designation of Research Associate. Bill and Susie's permanent address: P.O. Box 853, Gualala, CA 95445.
David Harris (PhD'63), University College, London, discusses "Early Agriculture in New Guinea and the Torres Strait Divide," in Antiquity No. 265 (Annual 1995), a special issue on New Guinea.
Don Vermeer (PhD'64), has retired at George Washington University where he has been chairman and with wife Carrie is moving to San Luis Obispo. Depleted by the loss of key faculty the program at GW seemed under threat ,but from all accounts the wind has changed, in good part through Don's efforts, and Geography there is moving forward with renewed administration support. Don completed a three-year stint as Regional Councilor of the AAG, elected from Mid Atlantic Division, 1992-95, is the Associate Editor for Geography, Social Science Quarterly and on the editorial board for the Journal of Research and Exploration. Publications include: "The Still, Small Voice from Latin America in the 27th IGC, Washington, D.C.," Area, 26(3):294-95, 1994; "Here and There: Spatial Matters in Geography," in R.D. Lambert (ed.), Educational Exchange and Global Competence (Council on International Exchange, New York, 165-172, 1994 and reprinted in AAG Newsletter, 29(11), November 1994; "Sustainable Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of Development Studies , 31(2):370-71, 1994.
Kenneth A. Erickson (PhD'65), after 28 years at the University of Colorado, Boulder, retired in May, 1996. JoAnn, his wife of forty years, and Kenneth will relocate to their home on the Oregon coast, 901 S.E. 32nd, Lincoln City, OR 97367. In some measure this decision stems from the drowning deaths of their son and grandson in July, 1994, and the desire to be near their remaining children and grandchildren, all of whom live in Oregon.
"Jerusalem, Dover Beach, and Kings Cross. Imagined Places as Metaphors of the British Class Struggle" by Martyn Bowden (PhD'67), Clark University, in Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle: A Geography of Film , edited by Stuart Aitken and Leo Zonn (Rowan & Littlefield, 1994).
You think it gets cold where you live? Len Sawatzky (PhD'67), University of Manitoba, writes from Winnipeg of "a 20-day unbroken string of days on which the minimum temperature was below -30°C and the maximum below -20°C..." As the owner of a small tractor and snowblower he received numerous friendly telephone calls on such occasions, mobilizing him to clear a dozen or more neighbors' driveways, the favor typically reciprocated for with home baking, dinner invitations, etc. Even during the prolonged cold spell chickadees and nutcrackers continued to patronize his feeder, even to -40°C.
Bill Clarke (PhD'68), retired from Melbourne, after a year at Christ Church, New Zealand, was called back to his old post at Suva when the Institute of Pacific Studies found itself short-staffed. From Fiji he has sent a recent paper on "Traditional Land Use and Agriculture" that is part of a 4-volume collection on science and Pacific Island peoples.
Richard Peet (PhD'68), Clark University, considers the concentration of power among the New England elite in the 'pre-Fordist' times in "Daniel Shay's Memorial in Petersham, MA," Annals AAG, March 1996. In the Professional Geographer, February 1996 he joins in the discussion of "landscape-as-text."
Bret Wallach (PhD'68), chairman, University of Oklahoma, expected to be in Israel again this summer on the second round of a three-year Fulbright looking at water, agriculture and politics on the West Bank. He continues work on essays for a forthcoming edited volume on Kansas and another for an Encyclopedia of the Great Plains.
An information-packed 12-page chairman's Letter from Oklahoma by Bret last year suggests an unusual cohesiveness and morale that appears to be not unrelated to the impact of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building. One of the victims was an undergraduate major in Geography, a second escaped with minor injuries. The department has long had an internship program with the State Water Resources Board whose offices were across the street from the Federal Building. The victim apparently had gone to the Federal Building either to do some copying or for coffee when the blast occurred. At least two graduate students worked on-site for long hours after the explosion and many had other friends who were victims.
The argument made by John Winslow, one -time geography grad student (PhD, Oxford), that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the perpetrator of the Piltdown Man hoax (as presented in the journal Science 83 in 1983) is confirmed in "The Case of the Missing Link" by Robert Anderson, editor of Natural History, in Pacific Discovery , Spring 1996. John is now based in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Tom Aley, grad student in the early 1960s and currently a consulting hydrologist-speleologist living in southern Missouri (where he owns his own cave), is co-author of a paper on "River Management at Ozark National Waterways" in Science and Ecosystem Management in the National Parks (University of Arizona Press, 1996). Jim and Betty Parsons visited Tom and his wife in their isolated Ozarks eyrie last year. Tom's report on The Caves of the White Limestone of Jamaica (1964) was an early product of the department's ONR field research program. He is author of several contract research projects on caves for the National Park Service through his Ozark Underground Laboratory, Protem, MO, in the heart of a major karst geology and spring region.
Bryce Gilmore Decker (PhD'70) retired in 1996 from the Geography Department at the University of Hawaii. Bryce was recently asked (by Mary McDonald, PhD'92) how his wife Shirley introduced him to Hawaii, how they got to Libya in the 1950s, and how he became a new Berkeley grad student in the spring of 1959. Bryce wrote that he met Shirley while a student at the University of Oregon, about 1952. She was a distant cousin of friends of the family in Creswell, Oregon, where Bryce had gone to high school and where they lived in the years after WWII. She and her sister astonished them by taking off their shoes as soon as they arrived and proceeded to walk barefoot down the farm driveway that had newly spread, coarse, crushed rock lying thick upon it. They were quite amazing princesses from romantic Hawaii.
Shirley's dad suggested that she come to Hawaii and work in the pineapple fields the next summer, 1953, which proved to be the finest summer job Bryce ever had. He drove a pineapple truck in Kunia and watched the sun rise every morning over the cloud cap of the Koolau Mountains. Agricultural work of that sort was esteemed in his family in a way that the local college kids did not appreciate, as their attitudes had been savaged by the social iniquities of the plantation system. For them it was undesirable work. All the college kids were employed together, and so he got his first lessons in local sociology right out on the plantation. All his underwear turned pink from the bright red earth they worked in.
He stayed with Shirley's family that summer and liked Hawaii so well he decided to continue his education at the University of Hawaii. Shirley and Byrce were married in Wahiawa in 1954, and he graduated in 1955. His draft board was waiting with their infamous Greetings, and a firm invitation to join the Cold War.
Bryce felt paranoid every day for the two years and three months he was a citizen soldier in the Army of the United States, but it was worth it all because of the interesting postings. Basic training was by Korean War vets at Fort Ord in the gritty sand beneath the live oaks in full view of Monterey Bay. When it came time for assignment, he was saved from dreary duty at a Nike antiaircraft artillery site in Columbus or Wichita or some such place where most of the draftees were sent, because he knew the difference between a pantograph and a hachure. That was enough to convince the assignment officer that he knew enough about maps to send him to the Topographic Engineers at the Presidio ofSan Francisco. That's about as good luck as a draftee could have. After a few months at the Presidio, his company was transferred to theYuma Test Station and into another glorious and interesting new environment. They did some actual useful surveying work. Some of the sprawling Station's boundary was not yet surveyed. They actually established some new section corner monuments in that unsurveyed part of the Arizona desert. Shirley and Bryce rented a little two-room place behind the offices of a cotton-ginning company in town. They were poor but happy, and drove their VW bug all over the desert as far as we could explore every weekend. They arrived in Yuma's nice winter, and left as summer began to burn.
They received word there that the unit was to be transferred to Libya,but to go along, you had to have at least a full year to go on your enlistment. Bryce wanted to go badly enough that he extended his enlistment in order to qualify. They actually travelled on a troop train and in an army troopship. There were ten thousand Americans stationed at Wheelus Air Force Base east of Tripoli. They were
an Army Engineer unit stationed on an Air Force Base. Shirley and Bryce rented an apartment in town and bought another VW there, so that they could continue their explorations.
Libya was newly independent but oil had not yet been discovered. The residuum of the desert campaigns against Rommel were still affecting daily life three million mines laid in the sand took a regular toll of life and limb. The British and Americans still maintained bases there, the Italian colonials had not yet been expelled, and they all learned Italian well enough to enjoy their food and hospitality. The Libyans were dirt poor, and mostly illiterate, although the kids by then were all in school, taught by teachers from Egypt and Tunisia, for the most part. The non-natives were all rich by comparison, and you could often see the resentment festering even then. The Italians were the landlords, had the best farms and ran flossy businesses like car dealerships. The native Jews ran small shops and furniture rentals. The Libyans had nothing but their labor to live on. Khadafy came as no surprise to Bryce.
They were actually making maps. They were topographic surveying, locating and resurveying old Italian control where they could find monuments that had not been torn out of the ground, erecting survey towers out in the desert, and doing first-order triangulation with theodolites. Base lines were surveyed with new-fangled electronic gadgetry. Bryce's own job was the best, though. A pair of them would go head out for two weeks at a time in a 3/4-ton trucks and a sheaf of airphotos and classify the terrain and cultural features. They would camp out in the desert, swap our water and canned fruit with berber herders who would brew up pots of powerful sweet tea.
There was much of interest. The Romans had organized the whole landscape to glean the most from its scant water. Wherever the topography permitted,there were ancient diversions and cisterns to collect runoff. Most of the them were full of sand, but a few of them were still in use, and others were being dug out and rehabilitated as part of aid programs. All the wadis had check dams every 50 or 100 feet that are particularly striking from the air. There were still caravans of camels using the old tracks across the desert, although the clattering big Fiat and Mercedes diesel monsters were even then displacing them. The Libyan climate is very kind to ancient masonry, and Mussolini had lavished money on excavation and restoration so the sites of Roman seaports at Sabratha and Leptis Magna were perfectly luminous places to wander around in,with their dazzling limestone and marble ruins along the dark blue Mediterranean.
The Berkeley connection was suggested by Prof. C. Langdon White of Stanford, whom Bryce had met at the University of Hawaii while he was a visiting professor in the Geography Department. He praised both UCLA and Berkeley, but added, "If you can stand the guff, Berkeley is the best".
Kit Salter (PhD'70), University of Missouri, and wife Cathy are guest co-editors of the Journal of Geography July-August 1995, with commentaries on the new Geographical Standards, new materials for the classroom, and "the geographical imperative" (how geography permeates everyday life, place discovery, and the reading of landscapes). In the previous edition of the same journal Kit, on sabbatical for the year past, writes "In Memory of Jesse Wheeler 1918 -1994," long-time colleague who Kit succeeded as chairman. He is in the process of up-dating the popular Wheeler and Kosbade World Regional Geography text.
Maria Dolors Garcia (MA'70; PhD Barcelona) has resigned as director (editor) of Documents d'Analisis after overseeing 27 issues during a 13-year span at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona department where she also has been chair. The collected, bright-colored numbers of this multi-lingual review, dating back to 1982, take their place among the finest representatives of geographical publishing of which we know. Although most of Documents have been either in Catalan or Castillian, all have carried clear and concise abstracts in English as well as French and German. A truly international effort, it has included reprints of papers by several Berkeley geographers.
Anne Macpherson (PhD'71), private scholar and Oakland Museum docent, continues to get around. In 1995 alone, a cruise to the Windward Islands and the Grenadines (including Saba!), the Azores and northern Portugal, an Elderhostel in Newfoundland, the Berkshire Choral Festival, and more.
Glenn George (PhD'72), whose academic career at Cal State Fullerton was cut short some years ago when he contracted multiple sclerosis, has been the recipient of a computer (Macintosh Performa 630D), printer, software and modem that 'wires' him to the outside world. The campaign, in which 34 friends came forward to help make the acquisitions possible, was spearheaded by Craig ZumBrunnen (PhD'73), University of Washington. Despite his physical disabilities Glenn's intellectual and emotional status is reported excellent. He is anxious to get on with his life, including finding new challenges and re-establishing contact with friends from the past. His address is 3154 Yorba Linda, Apt. E-12, Fullerton, CA 92631.
Lynn Rosenvall (PhD'72), University of Calgary, has contributed two essays to an Historical Atlas of Mormonism (Simon & Schuster, 1994). One analyzes the map on "Expansion Outside the Wasatch Front," the other "Abandoned Mormon Settlements."
Edmunds Bunske (PhD'73), University of Delaware, and Karl Zimmerer (PhD'88), University of Wisconsin contribute chapters to Concepts in Human Geography (Rowman & Littlefield) edited by Carville Earle, Kent Mathewson and Martin Kenzer.
Rowan Rowntree (PhD'73), Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, has been a major contributor to the Congressionally mandated Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (SNEP) that was unveiled to the public in June 1966 at Placerville. Among several other geography contributors were Paul Starrs (PhD'89) and Dave Larson (PhD'95), and PhD candidate Sharon Johnson.
Kurt Rademacher (MA'73) is a Planned Giving Officer and Director of Travel Programs for The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco office. When not leading Conservancy tours to Alaska and Baja or taking donors to Santa Cruz Island, he enjoys camping and hiking with his wife Nancy, and kids Molly (11) and Erik (4).
Peter Shields (MA'73) has been assigned for the past two years to the U.S. Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria as counselor for regional affairs. Peter has been a foreign service officer since 1977 with tours of duty in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Sudan, Ivory Coast and Washington. Prior to that he was in the U.S. Navy 1969-76 with service in the western Pacific, Vietnam, eastern Mediterranean and Central America, and Assistant Professor of Naval Science at UC Berkeley 1972 -75.
Married in 1981 in London to the former Siobhan Holt of Wiltshire, U.K., they have four children: Emily Rose 13, Naomi Laurel 11, Juliet Heather 10, and Chloe Jasmine 6.
Vincent Berdoulay (PhD'74), University of Pau, France, is now Secretary of the I.G.U. Commission on the History of Geographical Thought.
Tom Veblen (PhD'75), University of Colorado at Boulder, has two recent papers in Ecology . In the July 1994 issue on "Climatic Influence on Growth of Sub-alpine Trees in the Colorado Front Range" and in Oct. 1995 on "Sapling Growth in New Zealand Nothofagus Forests." Tom spent a month in Argentina in February 1995 conducting fieldwork for his NSF project on effects of climatic variation and human activities on fire regimes in northern Patagonia. In Colorado he is working on similar topics with support from the National Biological Service and the City of Boulder Open Space Department. The role of fire in the wildland/urban interface is a major management issue in Colorado, and was the subject of Tom's keynote address to the annual meeting of the Colorado-Wyoming Chapter of the Society of American Foresters in June 1995 and an invited symposium contribution at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting in August 1995.
Articles have recently appeared in Journal of Ecology, Remote Sensing of Environment, Proceedings of the Australian Society of Astronomy , Physical Geography, Radiocarbon, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, as well as edited volumes High Latitude Rain Forests and Associated Ecosystems of the West Coast of the Americas (Springer-Verlag, 1995), and Ecology of the Southern Conifers (Melbourne University Press, 1995).
Donald J. Berg (PhD'76), South Dakota State University, was promoted to Associate Professor in July 1995. He has been elected to Secretary-Treasurer for Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division AAG, 1994 (three year term) and to the Board of Directors of the American Indian Specialty Group (2 year term). He also celebrated the birth of his first granddaughter, Natasha Marie Nygaard, April 1995.
Nigel Smith (PhD'76), University of Florida, continues collaborative research with various departments of the World Bank. For over a year he has been assisting the agriculture division with a strategy to better incorporate biodiversity concerns in agricultural development, and in the summer of 1996, he spent seven weeks reviewing experiences with agroforestry in various parts of the Brazilian Amazon for the Pilot Program to Save the Brazilian Rain Forest, which is administered by the World Bank. Nigel has three books out in recent months, all on Amazonia, as enumerated elsewhere. They have been featured or reviewed in Nature, Scientific American and Natural History . He is also co-author of World Bank Technical Paper 321 on biodiversity and agriculture.
Janet Crane (PhD'77), residing in Salem MA, has recently edited bibliographies on Martinique and on French Guiana in the World Bibliographic Series, ABC-Clio.
Byron Wood (MA'77), after some 15 years (more or less) at NASA–Sunnyvale, is still threatening to complete his dissertation! His specialty is relating remote sensing/GIS to disease control, especially as relating to wetlands. Post cards from Egypt and Guatemala suggest that he gets around.
Winifred Grant Perkins (AB'77), a manager in the Environmental Affairs Department of Florida Power and Light Company, the nation's fifth largest electric utility, continues to manage a multitude of environmental issues. Her primary focus has been on water regulations and legislation. This year she testified before Congress on the reauthorization of the Clean Water Act. Winifred has an extensive GIS system under her direction, although she does not personally get to "play" with it much. Although she lives in Palm Beach County, Florida, she frequently visits the Bay Area and often spends time at the Berkeley campus.
Matt Williams (AB'77),went on to business school at McGill and the University of Washington for an MBA. He is now part of an environmental group, Regional Alliance For Transit, which tries to apply cost/benefit analysis to proposed transportation projects in the Bay Area. Not suprisingly, the environmentally friendly approach generally also has the best cost/benefit figure. Matt was elected to board of AC Transit in 1994.
John Monteverdi (PhD'78), San Francisco State, is serving as editor of Weather and Forecasting , a journal of the American Meteorological Society. An article analyzing the cluster of tornadoes that occurred in northern and central California during December 1992 appears in the September 1994 issue.
Elizabeth Rada Carver (MA'78), a Denver attorney, has been involved with Denver health care issues. According to a report in the Rocky Mountain News, Elizabeth negotiated one of the largest hospital deals in Denver history which resulted in a health-care venture between HealthOne and Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation. It will create Denver's largest hospital system.
Richard Grassetti (AB' 78) received his MA from the University of Oregon in 1981 and has spent most of the last 14 years as a consultant specializing in environmental impact assessments. He recently found his own consulting firm in Berkeley, and teaches courses in environmental studies at CSU Hayward.
Allan James (AB'78), University of South Carolina, continues teaching and research in fluvial geomorphology, surface hydrology, and applications of geographic information processing. On-going research in northern Sierra Nevada and eastern Sacramento Valley has him spending summers in the Foothills.
Patricia Baldwin Rowbottom (AB'79) finally moved back to "God's Country," along the eastern Sierra in 1991. She's remarried to the local high school calculus teacher, substitute teaches at the high school and elementary schools, enjoys her children and grandchildren and paints old landscapes of the spectacular scenery.
Pat recently started a directory for "trading houses" for vacation purposes; and hopes to include locations world-wide, send inquiries to Trading Houses Directory, P.O. Box 1023, Bishop, CA 93515, ph or fax 619-872-3859.
Sandy Williamson, undergrad from 1970-73 reports that what really got him started in geography was Doug Powell's physical geography class and Luna Leopold's 'Rivers and Man' class. Since 1991, Sandy has been leading the 13 -member Central Columbia Plateau study unit team of the National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) in Tacoma, WA. He has worked for the USGS for a total of 19 years, previously in Austin, Texas, and Sacramento, California. He completed the regional ground-water flow modeling on two Regional Aquifer System Analysis (RASA) studies, reported in two USGS Professional Papers, as well as numerous other reports and journal articles. He has a M.S. in Civil Engineering-Water Resources from California State University, Sacramento (1981), and a B.S. in Applied Geomorphology from Western Washington State University (1976). His interests are in systems analysis, ground-water flow and quality, and effective use of statistics.
Jerry Fish (PhD'80), Winston University, Rock Hill SC, is spending the upcoming academic year in China with time out for additional field work in the Philippines. The only full-time geographer at Winthrop (he is attached to the Department of Biology), he has been informed by his Dean that he consistently carries the highest enrollments of any of the institution's faculty members.
Jake Bendix (AB'90), Syracuse, travelled to Voronezh, Russia, to present "The Framing of Forest Policy in U.S. Newspapers" (with C. Liebler) at the International Ecological Congress.
Recent publications: "Landscape-scale Geomorphic Influences on Vegetation Patterns in Four Environments," in Physical Geography ,1996 (with Kathy Parker), and Old-growth Forests on Network News: News Sources and the Framing of an Environmental Controversy, in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 1996 (with Carol Liebler).
Ellen Bruce Keable (AB'80) is a Senior Associate with BOSTI Associates in Buffalo, NY, doing research and consulting on the design and management of work environments, impacts of technology tools, and policy to support "work -anywhere" business strategies. Current clients include Tandem computers, SUN Microsystems, Deloitte & Touche, Revenue Canada Taxation, and Public Works and Government Services Canada.
Nancy Lewis (PhD'81), vice-dean at the University of Hawaii and recently promoted to full professor in geography, was married earlier this year to Mike Herb of Honolulu. Her son Daren by an earlier marriage graduated from UC Santa Cruz and has a child of his own, making Nancy for the first time a grandmother.
Helena Ribiero Sobral (MA'81; PhD Sao Paulo), is a professor in the graduate program in Environmental Health at the School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo. She also teaches a night class in the geography department of the University of Sao Paulo. She is the author of Environment and the City of São Paulo (O Meio Ambiente e a Cidade de São Paulo), McGraw-Hill of Brazil (Makron Books), 1995. Helena has been doing research on the heat island in the city of São Paulo.
Denise Dorn (AB'81) has been teaching geography courses at Arizona State (Global Awareness, Introduction to Human Geography) and Mesa Community College (World Regional Geography). Denise and Ron have two children (Jeremy and Zachary) who help in field work, but right now want nothing to do with geography as a career!
Ron Dorn (MA'82; UCLA PhD'85), Arizona State University, enjoyed the opportunity to present Ted Oberlander a well-deserved distinguished career award of the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the 1994 AAG, but he still disagrees with TMO on much about rock varnish. Ron's research has concentrated in recent years on the geography of rock decay (weathering) and whether Heinrich Events (iceberg armadas released from the Laurentide Ice Sheet) impact alpine glaciation. Using bug parts (arthropods), he has found that glaciers at Bishop Creek in the Sierra Nevada advanced coincident with iceberg armadas. He is now conducting research (with Fred Phillips from New Mexico and Lorenzo Vasquez-Selem, UNAM, Mexico), supported by NSF, on whether glaciers in central Mexico and Hawaii marched to the tune of iceberg releases. Recent papers have appeared in the Annals, Geological Society of America Bulletin , Geochimica, Geoarchaeology, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms , American Antiquity, and the Journal of Geology . Ron is now working on a book on Rock Varnish.
The 1996 Guggenheim Fellowship list includes one geographer and it's Ron, for further work on rock varnish in arid landscapes.
Susanna Hecht (PhD'82), UCLA School of Public Policy, writes of "Love and Death in Review (Brazil's Socio-economic Condition)" in the New Left Review, March-April 1994. She was promoted to Full Professor in 1995. She is finishing up a book on Euclides DaCunha, Brazil's Humboldt, who wrote on the Amazon and the Northeast in the last century. Susanna is also working on a project using the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's radar images to study resource management in the Bolivian Amazon. In the past year she gave talks at Princeton, Berkeley, Yale, MIT, Mexico City and Fonteveau (to the EC Commission on the Environment). Susanna splits her time between Los Angeles and Humboldt County.
Michael Storper (PhD'82), UCLA School of Public Policy, has recent articles, about globalization and territorialization, technology and regional development, and conventions and institutions in the "learning" process. The main research theme has been rules and conventions and their geography and how that affects the location and evolution of economic activity. It goes well beyond traditional and radical economic geography in that it draws on theories of action, institutionalism, and cognition, as well as work on culture, tradition and local history. Journals include: Research Policy, Service Industries Journal , Industrial and Corporate Change, Review of International Political Economy, European Urban and Regional Studies, Revue d'Economie Regionale et Urbaine, Region et Developpement , Cambridge Journal of Economics....and the usual spate of edited book collections. A recent sampling: "Competitiveness and Policy Options: the Technology-Region Connections," in Growth and Change, September 1995; "A Tale of 12 Cities: Metropolitan Employment Change in Dynamic Industrial Centers in the 80s" (with Jane Pollard), in Economic Geography, January 1996; "The Wealth of Regions: Work Forces and Policy Imperatives in Local and Global Context," in Futures, June 1995; Industrial Policy for Latecomers , Routledge (edited with L. Tsipouri, S. Thomadakis).
Michael has been splitting his time between UCLA and France. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Copenhagen in 1994. Currently he is a visiting professor at the University of Marne la Vallee in France, where he is setting up their Institute of Urban Studies. He is also affiliated with a research laboratory in the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees.
Michael is a consultant to the OECD's Territorial Development Service, where he is working on a project on distressed urban areas, and setting up a meeting of Ministers on "Territorial Economic Development," which will occur in early 1998.
Robert Arellanes (AB'82) is the executive director of Kids in Sports, an organization that provides athletic opportunities for youth in undeserved areas of Los Angeles.
John Beck (AB'82) is currently working as a geographer with the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, in Sacramento.
Elaine Mariolle (AB'82) is finishing her thesis on Route 66 at the University of Illinois. Elaine took a group of bicyclists to South Africa last summer and comments about the stunning physical and cultural landscapes. Elaine never thought she'd go to South Africaremembering her participating in demonstrations at University Hall regarding UC Regents' investments. She wanted to see the changes with Mandela in office.
Mark Bassin (PhD'83), University College, London, is the author of "Nature, geopolitics and Marxism: ecological contestation in Weimar Germany," the lead article (pp. 315-41) in Transactions, Institute of British Geographers 21(2), 1996. Deriving from an earlier paper at a Dallas meeting of the German Studies Association, he especially acknowledges Gerhard Sandner (Hamburg) and "the omniverous eye" of Martin Lewis (PhD'87). Mark recently moved from Wisconsin–Madison to UCL.
Richard Harms (PhD'83) resigned as Assistant Director of the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) in 1991 in order to complete an M.S. ('92) degree in "Curriculum and Instructional Leadership" at the University of Oregon. Shortly after finishing his degree Rich was invited to consult for the Australian Attorney General's Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (AUSTRAC). From 1992-1995, he worked for AUSTRAC, primarily helping them develop an automated expert system to identify money laundering and other financial crimes. AUSTRAC is currently the only agency in the world collecting and analyzing international wire transfer data. Rich reports that the whole experience was a highlight of his career to date, and he and wife Beverly loved Australia.
FINCEN recruited Rich back in May 1995 to become involved in international training in money laundering and financial crimes analysis. Rich is thrilled to be working in this problem area but only wishes he could do it from his home turf in northern California rather than from Washington, D.C.
Michael Heiman (PhD'83), associate professor of environmental studies and geography, is chair of environmental studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. While his instructional program dates from Earth Day in the early 1970s, this past year they initiated new majors in Environmental Studies (BS) and Environmental Science (BA) and rapidly grew to become one of the largest departments on campus, with over 60 majors and a dozen contributing faculty. Michael reports that his program is the fastest growing major in the school.
Paula and the kids (Jonathan 13 and Eric 10) are doing fine and missing the West Coast.
Coming off a year-long sabbatical during the 1994-5 academic year, wherein he was funded by a US EPA Environmental Justice grant to visit and prepare training materials to access the Community Right-to-Know Toxic Release Inventory Data base for residents in communities of color and low -income neighborhoods, Mike now has several products available from that effort. These include a feature-length training video and script for accessing the data base in CD-ROM format. In addition, he is guest editor for a recent issue of Antipode (Vol 28, #2) on Race, Waste, and Class. Another piece, "Waste Management and Risk Assessment: Environmental Discrimination Through Regulation" is due out with Urban Geography.
Over the past 18 months, Mike has been an invited speaker at over two dozen colleges and universities, including the College of the Atlantic, USC, UC Riverside, Vassar, Clark, Rhode Island, Rutgers University, West Virginia, Evergreen State, Lehigh, and the Delaware, in addition to giving some two dozen workshops for grassroots activists helping them to access hazardous chemical reporting and release data made available through the Community Right-to-Know data base (SARA Title III).
The U.C. Water Resources Archives "Friends of the Archives" board includes Iris Priestaf (PhD'83), with David K. Todd Engineers, and Dan Holmes (MA'76) with Balance Hydrologics.
Bill Martin (AB'83) is the weather anchor for Oakland-based KTVU–Channel 2 News. Prior to KTVU Bill was with KPIX–Channel 5 (San Francisco) and KFTY (Santa Rosa).
Tom Bassett (PhD'84), University if Illinois, has spent the past academic year at the Center for African Studies of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Included was to be a side trip to the Ivory Coast.
Brian Godfrey (PhD'84), Vassar College, who now has a pied-à-terre in Manhattan, reports that his Rainforest cities: The Urban Transformation of Brazilian Amazonia has been accepted by Columbia University Press. Another long-term project is his monograph on Brazil, published this summer as a volume of the American Geographical Society's Around the World Program.
Brian was commissioned to write articles on both "South America: Introduction" and "South America: Portuguese America" for a new regional geography series in the Encyclopedia Americana , which should be available on CD-ROM shortly. Brian's article on "Decentralization and restructuring in a world city" will appear in a thematic issue of The Geographical Review dealing with contemporary social changes in North American cities.
Brian continued his work as a Councilor of the American Geographical Society (AGS) and on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Geographical Review. He has given presentations at Arizona State University, the AAG meetings, and the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.
As part of the Ford Foundation Diversity Initiative, his Global Geography course at Vassar received funds to infuse issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender into the undergraduate curriculum. He continues his involvement in Vassar's Urban Studies, Latin American Studies, and International Studies programs. In 1996-97, Brian will serve as acting chair of the Department of Geology and Geography.
June Wong (AB'84) and Steve Bonham (AB'84) announce the birth of their daughter, Caroline Bonham, April 4, 1995.
Jerry Emory (MA'85), Public Information Association with Nature Conservancy's San Francisco office, is the author of the best-selling San Francisco Bay Shoreline Guide. Extensively illustrated with maps and photos, it details the route of the new Bay Trail, one of two concentric trail systems being built around the San Francisco Bay and estuary. It connects with the Ridge Trail which is to link the surrounding peaks in a wider ring. Jerry writes of his experiences in researching the trail, "Wild Discoveries in Familiar Places" in the Coastal Conservancy's Coast and Ocean, Winter-Spring 1995. Another Emory pub is Nightcrawlers: Everyday Creatures under Every Night Sky , a children's book by Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Linda Sue (AB'85) spent a couple of weeks in Costa Rica in 1995 where she had an opportunity to see two resplendent Quetzals. She also enrolled in a week-long course at Salem State College learning introductory concepts of GIS.
Judy Carney (PhD'86), UCLA, is Western Regional Councilor of the AAG Cultural Ecology Specialty Group. Judy writes of rice cultivation and technology transfer between West African rice regions and plantations in South Carolina and Georgia in Technology and Culture, January 1996, pp. 5-35.
Douglas Greenberg (PhD'86) is teaching portfolio writing courses through the College of Professional Studies at the University of San Francisco. In these classes, he helps re-entry adult students compose essays in which they indicate what they have learned through their various life -experiences and is equivalent to what one might otherwise learn through college coursework.
Also through USF, Doug has continued to teach some extended education courses. These are intensive weekend courses that allow students to earn units quickly. His latest offering is a three -weekend class entitled, "California Environment: Prospects and Problems."
Doug continues to teach correspondence courses through U.C. Extension's Center for Media and Independent Learning. For several years now, he has taught a course entitled "Environmental Issues," for which he wrote an extensive course guide. This course is now also offered online through CMIL's site within America Online. Recently, he has begun teaching a second correspondence course. This is a geology course entitled "Earthquakes: Their Geology and Impact."
Doug's teaching, however, is by no means a full-time job. Some years ago, Iris Priestaf and he decided that they would not be happy having their children in dawn-to-dusk day care or relegated to endless afterschool programs. Consequently, he has become the boys' primary caregiver during the week, while Iris takes over on weekends, while he pores over piles of student essays. Robert is now nine, and Michael is five. The time he spends with them before school and in the afternoons is fabulous, and he wouldn't think of giving it up for the sake of holding full-time job.
For nearly a decade Briggs Nisbet (MA'86) apprenticed herself to the field of conservation land use policy, working for the non-profit American Farmland Trust and the State Coastal Conservancy. In addition to publishing many unheralded reports on agricultural land use, her career culminated with the publication of a chapter on California agriculture in a wholly unnoticed book, California's Threatened Environment by Island Press. Meanwhile, unable to shake off the literary monkey, Briggs and her partner, Christian Crumlish, founded in 1994 a literary magazine, "Enterzone," on the World Wide Web, finding an audience for their and others' literary and artistic passions and foibles. To support her profligate lifestyle, Briggs is currently employed as Administrative Analyst for the University of California Transportation Center on the Berkeley campus. The Center supports a wide range of innovative transportation projectsfrom alternative fuel vehicles to studies of jobs/housing relationships and land use policy.
Barbara Brower (PhD'87), Portland State University, has a paper in an upcoming issue of Mountain Research and Development on contrasting characteristics of two different Himalayan Sherpa populations, separated for close to fifteen generations and living in quite distinct environments.
Matthew Milukas (PhD'87), Lahmeyer International, has again moved from Germany to Indonesia where he heads up a project to help the Indonesia Government in promoting its "private -power" program for the construction of coal-fired power plants. Matt writes that private power means developers build and continue to own the power plants, while they sell the power to the government (or electric utility) at an agreed upon contract price.
Mary Beth Pudup (PhD'87), UC Santa Cruz, received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. She is the editor of a collection entitled Appalachia in the Making: the Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
Scott Stine (PhD'87), Cal State Hayward, rolls on. Science, May, 1996, reviewing archeological evidence for punctuated past climates, reports that "what's got researchers most excited" is his work on drowned stumps of trees at Mono Lake, in the Sierra (and now in Patagonia) providing tree ring evidence of two dry times, one from AD 800 to 1100 and another from AD 1200 to 1350, that make recent "droughts" look like pikers. And the big, multi-volume Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (SNEP), recently submitted to Congress, also accepts Scott's evidence and interpretations as conclusive. (The paleoclimate section is his).
Bob Voeks (PhD'87), after spending three years in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam (northwest Borneo) as a senior lecturer, returned in August 1995 to resume his position at California State University, Fullerton.
While in Brunei Bob focused on two research topics. The first dealt with the differences in ethnobotanical knowledge and forest management techniques of people who subsist solely by hunting and gathering (the Penan) vs. those who have opted for a swidden rice cultivation subsistence (the Dusun). He will be in Malaysia next summer on an NGS grant finishing this project. He also carried out a project looking at old growth dipterocarp survival in relation to sunlight intensity and micro-soil and topographic differences.
Recent articles include: "Candomblé ethnobotany: African medicinal plant classification in Brazil" in Journal of Ethnobiology, 15:257-80, 1995; "Tropical forest healers and habitat preference" in Economic Botany (50:354-373, 1996); and "Extraction and tropical rain forest conservation in eastern Brazil" in Tropical Rainforest ResearchCurrent Issues (Kluwer Academic Publ, pp. 477-487, 1996).
Miriam Dobkin (PhD'88) is a Bay Area film -maker. Her "Crossroads: a Story of West Oakland," a 30-minute documentary, was recently produced in a prime evening spot by KQED-TV, San Francisco's public television station. In connection with the film the Oakland Public Library's History Room assembled an exhibit of photographs, newspaper articles and memorabilia on the history of the West Oakland community, including the impact on it of the Caltrans relocation of the earthquake-destroyed Cypress Freeway.
Tom Eley (PhD'88), still in Alaska, is the Refuge Manager for the 6.0 million acre Koyukuk/Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge, which is the fourth largest refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge system. The refuge is a mosaic of boreal or taiga forest, wetlands, alpine tundra, and the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers. The refuge has a cooperative land management and mapping project with Gana -a' Yoo, Ltd. As a part of this project, Tom has been involved in a joint GIS/mapping project with UC Berkeley cartographer Cherie Semans. He did get away from the North Woods to travel in Montana during summer 1995 with Jim Parsons, Ted Oberlander, Jack Wright, Paul Starrs, and Dave Larson. In June 1996, he attended the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers meeting in Sacramento, where he made a presentation on exotic animals in the Alaskan landscape.
Karl Zimmerer (PhD'88), University of Wisconsin–Madison, has a chapter on "The Evolutionary Fate of Biodiversity" in Mountains at Risk and an article on potato diversity in the Andes in Conservation Biology. He also had a chapter on 'ecology' in Concepts in Human Geography (Rowan & Littlefield). During the past winter he delivered a series of six lectures as a distinguished visitor at the University of Iowa. Karl was recently awarded UWs prestigious Romnes Fellowship, one of two given in the Social Sciences Division of the University and the first awarded to a geographer. It will help fund his continuing research on the environmental history of the Andes, from Venezuela to Patagonia. His landmark paper on "The Origins of Andean Irrigation" based on his Tarata (Cochabamba) discoveries, appears in Nature , November 30, 1995. Karl was recently appointed to the NSF panel on Geography.
Bob Raburn (PhD'88) has been serving as president of the Oakland-based East Bay Bicycle Coalition. In addition to his consulting activities (redistricting for elections) he has recently been doing field work in Louisiana on a Lonely Planet Guide to the Southern states, on which he is working with Wayne Bernhardson (PhD'89), a Lonely Planet staffer.
Gail Fondahl (PhD'89), University of Northern British Columbia, spent five months in Transbaykalia in 1994, studying legislation (federal and local) on indigenous rights to land and resources, and how it is (or is not) being implemented in SE Siberia (funding from NCSEER, IREX and NSF). The research was conducted in 13 villages and three reindeer-herding camps. Ken and Gwynne (then 4 years old) visited for a month, and they took a week at the hotsprings at Goryachinsk on the east shore of Lake Baykal. Several Evenk colleagues with whom Gail worked were to have visited Northern British Columbia in August 1995 (funding from MacArthur), to meet with First Nations groups there. In May 1995 Gail attended a Russian Ministry of Nationality Affairs and Regional Politics workshop on 'Problems of Indigenous Peoples of the North'. They were housed in Molotov's old getaway.
Publications include a piece on status of Indigenous northerners in Post-Soviet Geography (April 1995) and a chapter on Siberia's First Nations in New Nations, New Politics. Building States in Russia and Eurasia , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (December 1995). Gail is Secretary-Editor of the AAG Specialty Group on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Paul Starrs (PhD'89), University of Nevada –Reno, was recently promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
Piper Gaubatz (PhD'89), University of Massachusetts, reports the publication of her book, Beyond the Great Wall: Urban Form and Transformation on the Chinese Frontiers (Stanford University Press, 1996). She is currently working on a new book on recent urban change in China's largest and most-rapidly developing cities. In December and January she will travel to Japan to begin a new fieldwork project on urban restructuring in the Nagoya area. Piper is now director of Asian Area Studies at the U–Mass.
Stan Stevens (PhD'89) returned from Tibet in time to teach part-time this year in the Department of Geosciences and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts. His new book, Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, will be available from Island Press early in 1997.
Kathy Walsh (PhD'89) is a board member of Oakland's Rockridge Community Planning Council (RCPC) and co-editor of the Rockridge News. She has been active in protecting the small College Avenue retail area from a proposed rezoning that would permit a massive expansion of the Dryer's ice cream plant in this primarily residential area.
Eric Grossman (AB'89) will complete his M.S. in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Hawaii this fall. He is looking at sea-level changes in Hawaii and the central north Pacific during the Holocene.
Gretchen E. Hayes (AB'89) married H. Taylor Dang in October 1994, and gave birth to a baby girl last November. Gretchen completed a Master's of Landscape Architecture in Environmental Planning (MA 1995) from UC Berkeley. She is presently working as a geomorphologist/environmental consultant for McBain & Trush of Arcata, Calif.
Kim Charnofsky (MA'89) and Robin Sturgeon (AB'89) have moved to Ventura, California. Kim is working as a school psychologist for Conejo Valley Unified School District and Robin is a substitute teacher for four school districts.
Bob Argenbright (PhD'90) is now with the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Bob teaches three undergraduate courses per semester, 9 different courses in all. He has forthcoming articles on "The Soviet Agitational Vehicle: State Power on the Social Frontier" in Political Geography and "Documents From Trotsky's Train in the Russian State Military Archive" in The Journal of Trotsky Studies (was the first in the UNC Earth Sciences Dept. to get published there!). Bob is working on a paper on public space in Moscow today and one more on Trotsky's train. In the future he will have more to say on Bolshevik agitational vehicles and on the Soviet industrial evacuation during WWII. Bob travelled to Moscow in May, 1995 and May, 1996.
Mary G. McDonald (PhD'90), University of Hawaii, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1996. Mary's recent publications include: "Farmers as Workers in Japan's Regional Economic Restructuring, 1965-1985," Economic Geography 72:1, 49-72, 1996; and "Farming out Factories: Japan's 1971 Law to Promote the Introduction of Industry into Agricultural Village Areas," Environment and Planning A 28:11, 2041 -2062, 1996.
Kären Wigen (PhD'90), Duke University, has received the coveted Fairbank Award for the Best Book on East Asian History for her The Making of a Japanese Periphery, Stanford University Press, 1994. And she's a 'geographer!' Meanwhile her husband Martin Lewis (PhD'87), in Duke's Comparative Area Studies program, has been working with Les Rowntree (San Jose State) and Marie Price (AB'84; George Washington) on a World Regional Geography emphasizing 'the myth of continents'.
Martin and Kären spent the spring semester in Matsumoto, a city of 200,000 in an agricultural valley in the midst of the Japanese Alps. Their two-year old son Evan was a part of the party.
Trudy LaBarge Bragg (AB' 90) married Robert Bragg (BS'89–UC Davis) in December 1994. After honeymooning in Tahiti, she and Robert moved to Burbank, CA. Trudy still works for Amerigon, a company manufacturing vehicle navigation systems.
Lydia Savage (AB'90) finished her PhD at Clark University in May and moved to the University of Southern Maine as an Assistant Professor. Her dissertation's research examined the need for new and geographically sensitive organizing stratgies in the ever growing, female-dominated service sector. Lydia is trying to adjust to living in a lovely city on the ocean again (Portland) but with the addition of snow! She has co-authored a couple of pieces with David Angel on Japanese R&D facilities in the US (one is in Environmental Planning A).
Jack Wright (PhD'90) has received tenure at New Mexico State. He is on sabbatical leave 1996-97 working on a book on Montana.
Lucy Jarosz (PhD'90), has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Washington. She contributed "Taboo and Time -Work Experience in Madagascar," an off-shoot of her PhD dissertation, in Geographical Review , October 1994, pp. 439-450. Lucy received a grant from the National Science Foundation to begin a comparative research project on labor relations between growers and farm workers in the apple industries of the U.S. and South Africa. She is taking Afro-Caribbean dance classes and is dancing every chance she gets.
Monica Mayrick Garcia (AB'90) received a 1995 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for support of graduate study.
Carolyn Cartier (PhD'91), University of Oregon, is chair of the AAG Committee on the Status of Women in Geography. Carolyn has continued to maintain two Asian regional research agendas, in South China and in Malaysia and Singapore. In 1995 she was visiting scholar at Xiamen University in China, and this past summer she held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Inter -University Program for Chinese Language Study, Taiwan National University, Taipei. She has been researching contemporary devlopment issues in Jiangsu, Guangdong, and Fujian Provinces, an extension of her doctoral work on the turn of the century regional economy in southern coastal China. Last year an article "Singaporean Investment in China: Installing the Singapore Model in Su'nan," appeared in Chinese Environment and Development. This focus on "mega-deveolopment" projects she also is bringing to land reclamation debates around Shenzhen Bay. Her monograph in progress, The Rise of the South China Coast, will include this contemporary material in its final chapters.
Carolyn has continued to publish on Melaka, especially pressures on heritage landscapes as a result of state-led industrialization programs. One paper is in press for the Hong Kong University Press volume The Last Half Century of the Chinese Overseas, "Preserving Bukit China: A Cultural Politics of Landscape Interpretation in Melaka's Chinese Cemetery"; a second paper "Conserving the Built Environment and Generating Heritage Tourism in West Malaysia" appeared in Tourism Recreation Research, the only international tourism journal published in the Third World. She hopes to see the paper "Vegetation of the Reef Islands (Motu) of Moorea, Society Islands" based on work from the Moorea expeditions led by David Stoddart, out in the Atoll Research Bulletin before the end of the millenium. Carolyn duly reports that she has no personal news of public record, i.e. she has neither married, nor reproduced, nor bought property.
Chris Breemer (AB'91) has been traveling to the world's great mountain ranges making first ascents on peaks in Baffin Island, Canada, in Chile's Torres del Paine N.P., and climbing Cholatse in the Khumbu region of Nepal. To help finance these expeditions he's been doing freelance cartography and writing for Climbing magazine, High Mt. Sports (U.K.), Climbing in the Magic Islands (Lofoten, Norway), and Placing ElvisA Guide to the Kingdom, among others.
Mark Blumler (PhD'92), SUNY Binghamton, was on the West Coast this summer reviewing herbarium collections of wild oat genotypes for evidence of multiple introductions from various Old World sources at different times.
George Henderson (PhD'92), is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona with a split appointment between Geography and Regional Development and the Graduate Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies. After almost two years of living in Tucson, he says that, "Yes, it is indeed a desert here.... but, fortunately, that doesn't stop the sun from shining."
George's book Romancing the Sand: California and the Geographical Imagination (Oxford University Press) will go to press sometime in 1997. His other writings include a chapter, "South of the North, North of the South: Spatial Practice in The Chaneysville Incident ," in "Keep Your Head to the Sky": Cosmology, Ethics and the Making of African American Home Ground , forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press. George cites The Chaneysville Incident as one of the most influential books he's ever read, certainly one that every historical geographer of the U.S. ought to know about. He also has a review essay, "Landscape Is Dead, Long Live Landscape," coming out soon in the Journal of Historical Geography. Over the last couple of years George has presented papers to the American Studies Association, the American Society for Environmental History, the Yale program in Agrarian Studies, and the AAG. He also sprang for a new bike which is pretty good, he says, for "exploring the backroads of the, uhmm, desert."
Last summer George was in Berkeley for a few weeks with Susan Craddock, where he was working at the Bancroft Library on some final research for his book. He was glad to return to Tucson, though. As they got near to town the msot incredible storm roared through, backing up traffic for miles. What a relief from the desert sun. George says, however, that all that dust makes you yearn for rain.
Joshua Muldavin (PhD'92), UCLA, was appointed co-chair of Development Studies in 1994. Last year took him on research trips to Russia, Cuba, Mexico, China. This summer Josh is going to Europe to survey European aid to China through interviews with all the bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and foreign ministries. He was also giving a paper at the IGU in The Hague. In the fall Josh gives an invited lecture on the market and options for rural sustainability in Okinawa, Japan a lecture for 175 senior policy folks and private industry people from around the world, brought together by the Rockefellers.
Josh received a Faculty Career Development Award, 1996-97 MacArthur Foundation funded research grant, 1992-1995 [Environmental Team and China PI, Comparative Socialist Transition] and numerous other small grants for survey research on aid to China.
Visiting lectures, on agrarian reform in China, domestic issues in China, global restructuring and the effect of free trade on the maquiladora region in Mexico were given at Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside; the Russian Parliamentary (Duma) conference on Peasantry and Power, Moscow; the Finnish Consulate for the Finnish Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs; a University of Havana conference on Comparative Socialist Transition; at the University of Washington, Seattle; and the UCLA Environmental Coalition/AFL-CIO Panel.
Wife, Yennie has entered the Grad school at UCLA in Film.
Publications: "The Political Ecology of Agrarian Reform in China: The Case of Heilongjiang Province," in Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements , Richard Peet and Michael Watts (eds.)); "The Political Ecology of Agrarian Change in Contemporary Rural China: Economic and Environmental Contradictions," in The Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 26: 3 (July, 1996); "The Political Ecology of Agrarian Reform in Contemporary China: Impacts on the Peasantry and the Environment." Forthcoming are a Russian parliamentary conference paper (in Russian) in Peasantry and Power, Moscow, 1997; "Agrarian Change in Contemporary Rural China," in Pathways from Collectivism: Reforms and Revolutions in Socialist and Post-Communist Agriculture , Boulder: Westview (expected publication in 1997). He has also authored "From Mao to Deng: The Development of Underdevelopment in China," in Essays in Commemoration of Mao's Centennial (1993), J. M. Sison and S. Engel, eds., Utrecht, 1995.
Rod Neumann (PhD'92), Associate Professor at Florida International, was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program for Agrarian Studies, Yale during 1994-95. Rod's publications have appeared in Society and Space, Development and Change , and a special issue of Antipode. A book manuscript, Displeasing Prospects: Struggles over Livelihoods and Nature Preservation in Northern Tanzania, will be published by UC Press. He has made trips to Madrid, Spain and Hot Springs, Zimbabwe as an invited participant in research workshops sponsored by the Centre for International Foresty Research (CIFOR), Indonesia. Rod is set to begin a new three-year study on land tenure reform and environmental conservation in Tanzania in summer 1997.
Jim Proctor (PhD'92), UC Santa Barbara, has been active in the area of ethics and justice recently: He spearheaded a successful campaign to add a new specialty group to the AAG (the Values, Ethics, and Justice SG or "VEJies"). He is coordinating with David M. Smith a multi-year international collaborative project on geography and ethics, and was recently awarded a four-year grant by the NSF to support innovative research and educational development in the area of culture, ethics, and biodiversity. And, belatedly, a book and several papers in this area are emerging. Jim's daughters Joy (14) and Elise (9) are both doing well and are happy living in Santa Barbara.
Chad Moore (AB'92) is halfway through a master's program in earth sciences at Montana State University. He is studying watershed management and having a great time working in the field. In addition to his graduate work he provides a geographer's perspective to a research project studying hawk migration in California with the National Park Service.
Jane Sterzinger (AB' 92) has completed her first year at Hastings Law School.
Richard A Griggs (PhD'93) has been with the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town. In January 1997 he will move to Durban in order to run the research division of an NGO based in Durban. The NGO works mainly on resolving the conflict in KwaZulu-Natal but his goal is to raise the profile of the organisation through research, mediation, and conflict resolution practice in Southern Africa /Central Africa. He is already working as an advisor to one of the South African envoys to Burundi.
Rich has two forthcoming articlesone ("The Geopolitics of 'No Go' Areas in KwaZulu-Natal: A Neorealist Analysis") in Antropologia [a Spanish journal in Madrid] and the other in Geoforum ("State Collapse: The Role of Fourth World Nations"). Both are due out this year. Other publications: The Geopolitics of Peace in Post-apartheid South Africa: A Neo-Realist Analysis of KwaZulu-Natal," in The Geography of Peace Processes, Geojournal [special edition edited by David Newman], 1996; "Cultural Faultlines: South Africa's New Provincial Boundaries," Indicator South Africa, Volume 13, pp 7-12, Summer 1995; and a cascade of contributions to both the Boundary and Security Bulletin (Durham, England)six articles or notes on Fourth World geopolitics and African boundariesand four more in Internationales Afrikaform.
Rich is on the editorial board of the former as African regional editor as well as that of the Fourth World Journal. His work is acknowledged by the Department of Provincial Affairs in their reports on the Commission of Inquiry into the Finalisation of the Boundaries between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. Much of his funding has come from the Centre for Science Development in South Africa. Rich is also working in collaboration with two German anthropologists on the role of boundaries in South African identity formation, a project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Chapters from Alex Clapp's (PhD'93), University of Toronto, dissertation on the Chilean forest economy have appeared in the Geographical Review and Economic Geography, while a piece is pending in the Journal for Peasant Studies. Alex is author of "Creating Competitive Advantage: Forest Politics and Industrial Policy in Chile" in Economic Geography, January 1995.
Alex is undertaking a comparative analysis of the political economy of resource depletion and ecosystem protection in the temperate rainforests, with three years of funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The study will add British Columbia and New Zealand case studies to research already done on Chile and the spotted owl plan in the Klamath Mountains. His work on Chile won the 1995 Dissertation Award of the AAG Industrial Geography Specialty Group. A book is in the works on an ecological-economic study of the temperate rainforests.
Tom Howard (PhD'93) continues his one-man geography act at Armstrong Atlantic State University (recently upgraded from Armstrong State College) in Savannah, Georgia: intro physical and intro cultural (90% of the students), as well as upper division courses in biogeography and historical geography (90% of the fun). He spent the winter quarter of 1996 in India through Armstrong's exchange program with Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, a port city of about a million on the Bay of Bengal coast about halfway between Madras and Calcutta. In addition to numerous field trips in and around Vizag, as everyone calls the place, he took ten days off to revisit old Peace Corps haunts in Madras, Bangalore and the countryside of Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu. The two most immediately obvious changes in India after more than 20 years away: an enormous increase in road traffic and consequent air pollution, and the ubiquity of television. A much revised version of Howard's dissertation on the first roads over the Sierra will be published by UC Press, just in time, he hopes, for the gold discovery sesquicentennial in January 1998.
Rick Schroeder (PhD'93) is in his fourth year at Rutgers, having just passed his third year review. His book, Shady Practices: Gender, Development and Environmental Intervention, is under review at the University of California Press. Recent journal articles include pieces in Antipode, the Canadian Journal of African Studies and the Annals (forthcoming). He's recently married to another Rutgers professor, and he's just bought a house...in New Jersey.
Déborah Berman-Santana (PhD'93), SUNY–Albany, has a book out this fall: Kicking off the Bootstraps: Environment, Development and Community Power in Puerto Rico (University of Arizona Press, 1996). She has articles in Antipode and Urban Geography's special issue on environmental racism in which she goes beyond hazardous waste siting inequities to discuss the role of racism/colonialism (and academics) in formulating development strategies which portray some people and places as somehow less valuable, therefore more expendable, and how that relates to environmental degradation, among other things. Deborah is working in both the San Francisco Bay Area and New York on the theory and practice of formulating practical strategies for coalition building and multisectoral support for community-directed and locally-based sustainable development.
Katharyne Mitchell (PhD'93), University of Washington, has an upcoming book with University of California Press entitled Diaspora and the Politics of Space, and publications in Transactions, Institute of British Geographers , Urban Geography, Economic Geography , in a special issue of Antipode, and four book chapters. Katharyne recently received a large Royalty Research Fund grant for fieldwork in Vancouver during summer 1996 and next year.
Ying Yang (PhD'93) is teaching in the Department of East Asian Studies at UC Irvine.
Carolyn Harper (AB'93) and husband Sam announced the birth of their son Louis on September 20, 1995.
Susan Craddock (PhD'94) has a joint appointment in Women's Studies and Geography at the University of Arizona, Tucson where she teaches courses on women's health, geographies of health, and health and the global economy. Prior to Arizona she held a visiting professor post in Geography at Colgate University.
Susan has a contract with the University of Minnesota Press for her book Inscribing Difference: Disease and the Production of Place , due out in 1998. She gave a paper ("Mapping the material terrains and discursive topographies of disease: the case of AIDS in Malawi") at the 7th International Medical Geography Symposium in Portsmouth, England, and has been invited to submit a version of the paper to a special issue of Journal of African Rural and Urban Studies. Susan gave recent talks in the Geography Department at Queen's University; and while in Canada she gave a paper ("Living the Hi-Life: Women, medical discourse, and the sanatorium experience") at a conference on"Incorporating the Antibody: Women, History, and Medical Discourse" at the University of Western Ontario.
Dave Larson (PhD'94), Cal State Hayward, has been teaching in a summer program in Thailand. With Jim Parsons he authored the Cal Monthly's annual summary of the football season, a near disaster that led to the replacement of the head coach. Gilbertson out, Mariucci in. We'll see. Last fall Dave ran in the legendary New York Marathon. The long-distance runner in him won't quit.
Tad Mutersbaugh (PhD'94), University of Iowa, was appointed to the new 'international development' Assistant Professor position in the Geography Department. Tad continues his research in Oaxaca, Mexico. Several new publications are due out soon.
Krisna Suryanata (PhD'94), taught in Development Studies and Geography, UCB during 1994-95. In May 1996 a short term consultancy for Asia Forest Network brought Krisna in to assist the Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation develop a research design on community forestry.
Krisna moves to the University of Colorado at Denver, Dept. of Geography, Geology and Environmental Sciences this fall. Husband Keith will work at the Denver Regional Council of Governments.
Recent publications: "From Homegardens to Fruit Gardens: Intensification of Agroforestry in Upland Java" in Transforming the Indonesian Uplands: Marginality, Power and Production , Tania Li (ed.), Westview Press, 1996; (with Richard Schroeder) "Gender and Class Power in Agroforestry" in Liberation Ecology: The Political Ecology of Development, Richard Peets and Michael Watts (eds.), Routledge, 1994; and "Fruit Trees Under Contract: Tenure and Land Use Change in The Uplands of Java, Indonesia" in World Development Vol 22(10): 1567-1578, October 1994.
Jeannine Koshear (PhD'95) has been at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for the past year. She will be returning soon to California to work with the U.S. Park Service.
What was supposed to be a big year for Cal football but wasn't was still a big year for Andrew McGraw (AB'95), a geography major who completed his AB in December. Andrew was Student Manager of the Golden Bears in his senior year, co-ordinating a staff of six assistants. He came from Santa Cruz.
Mark Ontiveros (AB'95) is a Manager/GIS Specialist for AT&T.
In February 1996, Cherie Semans encouraged Rini Keagy (AB'95) to enter her 1995 final class project into the 15th Annual National Geographic Cartography Award contest. Her beautifully hand -illustrated map "Unusual Fruits of Indonesia" tied for first place with a student from Nova Scotia. The two winners split a $1,000 prize and each received a National Geographic atlas.
Cherie Semans' cartography class continues to turn out students who are highly desirable for cartographic employment. Several cartography grads are still working at Eureka Cartography. A new joint venture of Eureka, Allan Cartography and Map Link, known as Benchmark Maps, used five former students ( Mark Ontiveros (AB'95), Matt Knutzen (AB'94), Tina Espinosa (AB'92), Mark Williams (AB'85) and Stacey Wright (AB'94) to help produce the 1995 New Mexico Road and Recreation Atlas. Undergrad Jason Sadler was hired in 1995 by Moon Publications in Chico, and keeps Cherie well supplied with their travel guides. Rini Keagy (AB'95) was hired in June by Alex Guilbert (AB'89) from Lonely Planet, and Melissa Webster (a Vassar grad who took Geo. 183 in 1996) was hired by Anneke Vonk (AB'88) at Pacific Bell's Smart Yellow Pages. Several other students ( Jennie Freeman (BA'96), Steve Rose (an under grad), and Tim Norris (E.S. AB'95)) have been doing free lance work for both on and off campus clients.
(A select group of Berkeley PhDs who have made their way out of the wilderness into Geography Departments)
Erica Schoenberger (PhD'84) is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She just bought a house, in partnership with her new dog, Sasha, a very lovely Australian Shepherd. Erica's book, The Cultural Crisis of the Firm, is being published this winter by Blackwell, and should be a blockbuster.
Abdi Samatar's (PhD'85) article on "Class and Effective State Institutions: The Botswana Meat Commission" appeared in Journal of Modern African Studies. He has completed a book length manuscript on the African State.
You-tien Hsing (PhD'95, DCRP) received an appointment with the Geography Department, University of British Columbia this fall after four years with the Planning School at UBC. She is teaching on the Geography of Development and current development issues in China. You-tien enjoys her new academic home very much and has finally started to learn how to read maps. She is completing a five-year long, Canadian International Development Agency-funded project on China's small town development and local government. You-tien's book Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection is due out next March from Oxford University Press.
Amy Glasmeier (PhD'86, DCRP), Pennsylvania State University, is acting head of the Department of Geography, and soon to be appointed appalachian regional scholar. She has done work for OTA on the implications of technological change and deregulation on wholesaling and warehousing; helped write and re-write Clinton's urban policy statement in 1995; and worked with EDA reconsidering national econmic development policy. Amy is working with the Appalachian Regional Commission studying how firms learn and acquire strategic information.
Yuko Aoyama (PhD'96, DCRP) finished her dissertation on the locational dynamics of the Japanese consumer electronics industry. In September, she joined the Dept. of Geography at University of Georgia.
Once again Berkeley PhD candidates have scored in the SSRC dissertation fellowship competition. Peter Walker (small-holder tree planting in Malawi) and Diana Davis (indigenous veterinary science and patterns of resource use among nomadic pastoralists in eastern Morocco) were the two awardees from our field last year. The most recent list includes Wendy Wolford (land reform in NE Brazil) and Amy Ross (human rights and truth commissions in new democracies).
Bob Acker and wife Bonnie visited Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand between December 1995 and January 1996. Bob delivered a paper on "The Foreign and Indigenous Sources of the Primacy of Bangkok" to the 13th Annual Conference on Southeast Asia, held at Berkeley in February 1996. He will be spending the 1996-97 academic year at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he will be taking an M.A. degree in Southeast Asian Area Studies. Bob plans a visit to Laos and Thailand between December '96 and January '97.
Gray Brechin has been collaborating with photographer Robert Dawson on a book to be called Farewell, Promised Land: The Continuing Destruction of California . The book will be published by the U.C. Press and will be out in the spring of 1998 to coincide with an exhibition on the same theme at the Oakland Museum. It is the result of three years of driving and flying about California with Dawson, and much longer spent in libraries.
Gray is also completing another book called Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, about the environmental impact which urban elites have traditionally exerted upon their hinterlands. That, too, will be published by U.C. Press and will serve as Gray's doctoral dissertation. It should be out shortly after Farewell hits the stands.
An article "Conserving the Race: Natural Aristocracies, Eugenics, and the U.S. Conservation Movement" appears in Antipode and chapter "Art on Trial: The Rincon Annex Murals Controversy" in California Modernism, University of California Press, 1996.
Gray will be teaching the Bay Area urban field geography class again in the fall, and working with Dick Walker on a teaching aid identifying major archival research resources in Northern California.
Neusa Hidalgo, her dissertation on Chiapas coffee cooperatives filed for a fall degree, will be teaching at San Francisco State in the fall term 1996.
Jeffrey Schaffer while completing his dissertation has been teaching at Napa Valley College. A volume Pacific Crest Trail, v. 1, California (Wilderness Press) of which he is the principal author was due out in 1995. Also, he has been interviewed by a Japanese film maker about his ideas on Yosemite Valley. The Schaffer family recently had an all-expense-paid vacation to Maui. They visited Haleakala volcano, and Jeff concluded that its geomorphic evolution is as misunderstood as the Sierra Nevada'sexplained in terms of continental-arc magmatism instead of oceanic hot-spot magmatism.
David Smethurst has written an historical novel set in 19th Century Afghanistan. It's about Great Game amid the turmoil of the Second Afghan War 1878-80. An agent is shopping it around at British, Canadian and American publishers.
He has completed most of his research in the Central Sierra Nevada and is now writing his dissertation about how the Sierra has changed over the past 40 years. During his research David discovered that El Dorado County once was the state's largest wine growing region. Vine acreage dropped to 6 acres in the 1950s, but now the county's winemakers are winning awards and making a name for themselves. He wrote a piece about the wineries of El Dorado County for Sunset Magazine, May 1996.
Since last September David have been working with Barney Nietschmann on a project in Costa Rica. They are working with the community of Tortuguero on assessing the population status and conservation needs of the Costa Rica's manatees. They are also helping a couple in Tortuguero start Costa Rica's first NGO devoted to saving manatees.
Scott Starratt was hired to co-author and edit multi-media material for college textbooks. An interactive biology glossary will be released this fall. Scott taught the "Geology of California" at San Francisco State recently and completed a number of publications:
"GEONAMES and GNULEXDatabases of the stratigraphic nomenclature of the United States," Pacific Section SEPM meeting, 1995 and Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs , v. 27, no. 6, p. A-30. (with J.R. Le Compte); "Bioterminators: Is there a relationship between ichnofabric and microfossil distribution?" Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs , v. 27, no. 6, p. A-30, 1995; "Prehistoric agriculture and forest clearance in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico: Ambiguous results from the sediment, pollen, and charcoal records," Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs , v. 27, no. 6, p. A-138, 1995; "Character, paleoenvironment, and rate of Holocene sedimentation on the Canada abyssal plain, Amerasia Basin, Arctic Ocean," Marine Geology, in press (with A. Grantz, R.L. Phillips, et al.); "Latest Quaternary foraminifers and sediment transport in Pervenets Canyon, Bering Sea, 1995, to appear in Marine Micropaleontology FORAMS '94 issue.
Jim Stockton, with help from an Environmental Studies seminar, has developed a web page linking the various branches of the Japan Environmental Exchange. Of particular interest to local Bay area folks will be the extensive maps Tom Nguy put up for the East Bay Regional Park District, especially their work on regional biodiversity. Keep an eye on it for more information this fall: http://geogweb.berkeley.edu /JEE/jee.html
With a grant from the Center for Japanese Studies and the MIT Japan Program, Jim spent the summer in Boston learning technical Japanese (far better weather than the rainy season in Yokohama, and better pedagogy too!).
Geography, in Cambridge? Sure. PhD Candidate Tim Sturgeon has accepted a two year position as a post-doctoral research associate on the Carnegie Mellon-MIT project on globalization and jobs supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He will be housed as a visiting scholar at the International Motor Vehicle Program at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Tim will be managing the project, which will involve extensive fieldwork in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Ann Walker's fourth book of poetry entitled Into The Peculiar Dark is forthcoming from Coach House Press in Toronto this Fall.
Wendy Wolford has received the Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award from the Development Studies Program.
1995: Jorge Lizárraga and Elizabeth Oglesby
1996: Heather Carlisle and David Smethurst
PhD Qualifying Examinations passed (1994-96) : Florence Gardner, Victoria Randlett, Norman Hetland, Barbara Walker, Peter Walker, David Smethurst, Abubakar Bankole, Sharad Chari, James McCarthy, Heather Merrill-Carter, Amy Ross, Tim Sturgeon, Jinn-Yuh Hsu, Jennifer Jones
Jodi Bailey--Society for Woman Geographers; University Grant
Abubakar Bankole--University Grant; Tinker Travel Grant
Kevin Carew--University Grant
Heather Carlisle--IGCC
Sharad Chari--FLAS
Michelle Cochrane--Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship
Alexander Cole--Tinker Travel Grant
Diana Davis--SSRC Predissertation Fellowship
Kathryn Davis--Graduate Opportunity Program
Gregg Drinkwater--University Grant
Jolyn Eichner--University Grant
James Freeman--Tinker Travel Grant
Florence Gardner--NSF Dissertation Grant
Julie Guthman--University Grant
Jinn-Yuh Hsu--University Grant
Lisa Husmann--University Grant
Jennifer Jones--NSF Graduate Fellowship
Sarvar Kothavala--University Grant
Clement Lai--University Grant
Elisabeth Lamoureux--University Grant
Kathy McAfee--NSF Graduate Fellowship; Tinker Travel Grant
Jamie McGowan--University Grant
Luz Mena--Graduate Opportunity Fellowship; Tinker Travel Grant
Heather Merrill-Carter--University Grant; Summer Research Fellowship from the Center for German and European Studies
Liz Oglesby--Holway Scholarship; Janet Hutchinson Witter
Mark O'Malley--University Grant
Victoria Randlett--University Grant; Townsend Center Fellowship
Amy Ross--University Grant
David Smethurst--Chancellor's Dissertation Research Fellowship
Charles Tambiah--Carl O. Sauer Fellowship; University Grant
Carolyn Trist--SSRC/MacArthur Fellowship; Chancellor's Dissertation Research Fellowship
Barbara Walker--NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant; FLAS Summer Fellowship
Peter Walker--IGCC Dissertation Fellowship
Wendy Wolford--Chancellor's Opportunity Predoctoral Fellowship
Kimberly Barrio--Berkeley Fellowship
Shiyon Bradford--Graduate Opportunity
Daniel Buck--University Grant
Shari Chari--Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship; American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship
Diana Davis--FLAS; University Grant
Kathryn Davis--Graduate Opportunity Program
Diana DeRubertis--University Grant
Rebecca Dolhinow--University Grant
Gregg Drinkwater--University Grant
Robert Dull--Stahl Grant; Tinker Grant, and Carl O. Sauer Fellowship
Jolyn Eichner--University Grant; Pacific Rim Research Grant
Florence Gardner--NSF Dissertation Grant
Julie Guthman--Janet Hutchinson Witter Grant
Lisa Husmann--University Grant
Sharon Johnson--Holway Scholarship
Jennifer Jones--NSF Graduate Fellowship
Jon Kosek--University Grant
Elisabeth Lamoureux--Institute of Asian Studies
Marcia Levenson--University Grant
Kathy McAfee--Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship; Inter-American Foundation Dissertation Grant
James McCarthy--University Grant
Luz Mena--Mentored Research Award; Graduate Opportunity Fellowship
Heather Merrill-Carter--Society of Woman Geographers
Liz Oglebsy--Inter-American Foundation Dissertation Grant; NSF Dissertation Grant; Sharlin Memorial Award Fellowship, IIS
Victoria Randlett--Kenneth and Florence Oberholtzer Fellowship
Amy Ross--SSRC/MacArthur Peace and Security Fellowship; Inter-American Foundation Dissertation Fellowship; Humanities Graduate Research Grant; Tinker Travel Grant
Jorjan Sarich--Holway Scholarship
David Smethurst--Vice Chancellor's Research Fund; Hardwood Range Management Program Grant; Cottonwood Foundation
Carolyn Trist--University Grant
Shawn VanAusdal--University Grant
Wendy Wolford--SSRC International Predissertation Award; Chancellor's Opportunity Predoctoral Fellowship
Fall 1995:
Robert Acker--B.A. (History) Brandeis; M.A. (Philosophy) UCSD; J.D. University of Michigan
Katherine Davis--B.A. (History) SFSU; M.A. (History) SFSU
Greg Drinkwater--B.S. (CRS) UC Berkeley
Robert Dull--B.A. (Cultural Anthropology) UCSB; M.A. (Geography) SFSU
Clement Lai--B.A. (Asian Studies) Pomona College at Clarement; M.A. (Geography) Cal State Northridge
Jamie McGowan--B.A. (Geography/Environmental Studies) Macalester College; M.A. (Geography) University of Illinois
Sandra Nichols--B.A. (Anthropology) Stanford; M.A. (Communications) Stanford
Jorjan Sarich--B.A. (Geography) UC Berkeley
Anne Walker--B.A. (Creative Writing) York University, Toronto; M.A. (Creative Writing) Mills College
James Wanket--B.A. (Geography) Humboldt State
Wendy Wolford--B.A. (Economics) McGill University
Fall 1996:
Kimberly Barrio--B.A. (English/Liberal Arts) University of Texas
Tegan Churcher--B.A. (Conservation and Resources) UC Berkeley
Diana DeRubertis--B.S. (Env. Sciences) U. Pittsburgh
Rebecca Dolhinow--B.A. (Sociology) UC Berkeley; M.A. (Sociology) London Sch. of Econ.
Jon (Jake) Kosek--B.A. (Independent/Teaching) Grinnell College; M.A. (Political Ecology) Yale School of Forestry
Erin Roark--B.A. (Env. Conserv.) University of Colorado
Shawn Van Ausdal--B.A. (History) UC Berkeley
Spring 1997:
Shiyon Bradford--B.A. (African Studies) U. of Washington; M.A. (Geography) U. of Washington
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PhDs:
Susan Leigh Craddock, "Diseases on the Margin: Morphologies of Tuberculosis and Smallpox in San Francisco, 1860-1940," 1994. (Watts*, Walker)
Eric Gustaf Edlund, "The Late Quaternary History of Sierra Nevada Montane Forests," 1996. (Byrne*, Wells, Radke)
Susanne Elizabeth Freidberg, "Making a Living: A Social History of Market-Garden Work in the Regional Economy of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso," 1996. (Watts*, Johns)
Eric Hirsch, "Pure Sources, Pure Souls: Folk Nationalism and Folk Music in Hungary in the 1930's," 1995. (Pred*, Watts)
Mei-Ling Hsu, "A Grid-Based Model for Predicting Soil Depth and Shallow Landslides," 1994. (Wells*, Granger)
Jeannine Koshear, "Traditional Agricultural Resource Management and Ethnobotany of the Guyami, Coto Brus, Costa Rica," 1995. (Nietschmann*, Oberlander)
Martine Marie Louise Kraus, "A Comparative Study of the Development and Regulation of Biotechnology in Germany and the United States," 1996. (Walker*, Watts)
David John Larson, "The Energy Economy of Northwestern New Mexico with Special Reference to Uranium Development," 1994. (Parsons*)
Tad Mutersbaugh, "Building Cooperatives, Constructing Communality: Time-Geographies of Labor Mobilization in Co-op, Household and Village Commune in Oaxaca, Mexico," 1994. (Watts*, Pred)
David Joseph Organ, "The Historical Geography of African American Frontier Settlement," 1995. (Vance*, Walker)
Susan Myrrl Pomeroy, "Gendered Places, Virtual Spaces: A Feminist Geography of Cyberspace," 1996. (Pred*, Watts)
Krisnawati Suryanata, "Fruits of Change: Agroforestry, Land and Society in Upland Java," 1994. (Watts*, Walker)
Elizabeth Aristie Vasile, "The Greening of Tunis: Ghettoization and the Prosaics of Piety," 1995. (Pred*, Walker)
Master of Arts:
Jolyn Dietz Eichner, "Seeking Security, Defending Development: The South Manchuria Railway Company, Minami Manshu Tetsudo Kabushiki KaishaBackground, Impulse, Trajectory," 1995. (Vance*, Reed, Nietschmann)
James Patrick Freeman, "Contested Nicaraguas: The Construction of Hegemony in the Landscape of Post-Sandinista Managua," 1995. (Pred*, Johns, Watts)
Serge Glushkoff, "Survival and Extinction at the State Periphery: Siberian Resources After Perestroika," 1994. (Hooson*, Nietschmann, Stoddart)
Julie Harriet Guthman, "Environmental Crisis and Development Discourse in the Nepal Himalaya," 1995. (Watts*, Fortmann)
James P. McCarthy, "'Escaping California': the Uneven Development of New Rural Spaces in Northern Idaho," 1994. (Watts*, Walker, Pred)
Luz Maria Mena, "Hybrid Modernity: Havana in the 1830's and 40's," 1995. ( Johns*, Reed, Walker)
Heather Merrill-Carter, "The Mirror of Desire: Gender, Vision and Image in Manet's Olympia and the Contemporary African Migration to Italy," 1995. (Pred*, Watts, Johns)
Barbara Louise Walker, "Gender, Resources, and Customary Law: Woman-Woman Marriage and Claims to Land in Kenya," 1994. (Watts*, Johns, Fortmann)
December 1994 in Lithuania (Matt's native land), Katarina Kira Milukas, adopted in April 1995 by Matthew Milukas (PhD'87) and Patricia Butorac.
December 1994, Kohian Aidan Louise Murphy to Frank (MA'92) and Hinano Murphy.
April 1995, Sage McKay Mitchell-Sparke to Katharyne Mitchell (PhD'93) and Matthew Sparke (PhD, UBC).
November 1995, Andrew Suryanata Mattson to Krisna Suryanata (PhD'95) and Keith Mattson.
June 1996, Summer Esquivel Noller to Lisa Wells and Jay Noller
June 1996, Emily Xochitl Mutersbaugh-Jaramillo to Tad Mutersbaugh (PhD'94).
August 1996, Benjamin Lawrence Malamud-Roam to Frankie and Karl Malamud-Roam
September 1996, Eric Zimmerer to Karl Zimmerer (PhD'88) and Medora.
On August 28, 1996, in Santa Fe N.M., John Brinckerhoff Jackson, 86, renowned interpreter of the vernacular American landscape and great and good friend of Geography at Berkeley. Known as "Brinck" to his intimates, his passion was for common people and places, commercial strips, trailer camps, shopping malls, highways, back alleys and other elements of work-a-day America.
Born in France of American parents, he attended private schools in Europe and the East, graduating with a bachelor's degree at Harvard University in 1932. He briefly studied architecture at MIT. It was during World War II as a combat intelligence officer that Major Jackson first became attracted to the study of what he sometimes described as 'cultural geography' in the French tradition. But he took no formal work in the subject. Attracted to the arid Southwest, he early made his home in a modest but comfortable Mexican-style adobe in the village of La Cienega near Santa Fe.
From 1951 to 1968 he edited the journal Landscape. The first issue carries the subhead, later eliminated, "Human Geography is the Study of the Earth's Surface as Modified by Man the Inhabitant." Although it attracted a scant 3,000 subscribers, it was acclaimed by planners, landscape architects, and geographers for its originality, attractiveness and literary quality, and its distinctive manner of looking at the humanized world. In later years Landscape was taken over by Blair Boyd, a some-time geography graduate, as a philanthropic venture. It was transferred from New Mexico to Berkeley with Bonnie Loyd as managing editor.
Mr. Jackson periodically lectured at both Harvard and Berkeley beginning in 1958. At Berkeley he gave courses in Geography and Landscape Architecture. His disarming simplicity yet eloquent style of lecturing attracted large and enthusiastic student audiences. Jay Vance, Peirce Lewis, and Paul Groth (PhD'83) were among his geography friends and admirers. It was Paul's current course on The U.S. Cultural Environment, taken over by him on Mr. Jackson's retirement, that has come to be known as the "Jackson course."
A legend in his time, in 1979 Jackson was the Carl O. Sauer Memorial lecturer at Berkeley. The AAG 'Jackson Prize' for the best book by a geographer on some aspect of U.S. cultural geography has been awarded annually since 1986.
Vital, forthright, speculative, and unpretentious, 'Brinck' Jackson taught us new ways of seeing the world around us. Retired from lecturing and editing, he turned increasingly to writing books and collections on essays including American Space, (1972), The Necessity of Ruins (1980), Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (1984), and The Essential Landscape (1985). His final book, A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time , which is quintessential Jackson and delightful to read, was published by Yale University Press in 1994. There were also two autobiographical films. In his last years he supplemented his writing with occasional part-time jobs in construction and gardening. According to Paul Groth, who attended his funeral, the village church at La Cienega was crowded with his devoted mainly Hispanic, neighbors, whom he had helped over many years. He was an American "original"a natural-born cultural geographerand will be sorely missed.
Felix Webster McBryde (1908-1995), 87, on June 3, 1995, in Washington, DC. "Web" was one of the early PhDs of this department. His dissertation, in 1940, "The Native Economy of Northwest Guatemala and its Natural Environment," Carl Sauer chairman, was based on extensive field work. Published in 1947 by the Smithsonian Institution as "The Cultural and Historical Geography of Southwest Guatemala" and later translated into Spanish, it was a pioneer job of exquisite detail that was widely heralded and is still cited by Central Americanists.
A robust, out-going, even swash-buckling individual, Web followed an unconventional path. Born in Lynchburg, VA and a graduate of Tulane University, where he was briefly associated with the Middle American Research Institute, he taught first at Ohio State University (1937-42) and then at the University of Maryland part-time (1952-63) before going full time into independent consulting. He consulted over the years for the World Bank, the Bureau of the Census, the Defense Mapping Agency, the Batelle Memorial Institute, the U.S. Corps of Engineers, the UN Technical Assistance Office and several Latin American governments. He was field director in Panama and Colombia for sea-level canal studies by Batelle.
For many years he was a resident of the Washington area. He established the McBryde Center for Human Ecology, Potomac MD, in 1970 and Transemantics Inc., a cartographic research institute, six years later.
His key role in organizing the American Society for Professional Geographers during World War II and the subsequent reorganization of the Association of American Geographers is detailed in an Obituary in the Annals AAG, June 1996 by E. Willard Miller.
He is survived by his wife Frances Van Winkle McBryde of Potomac, MD, two sons, and a daughter.
In Oakland, July 18, 1995, Ignacio Peri Jr., a graduate student in the '60s who was a successful East Bay fashion designer and boutique owner. He was a native of Tampa, FL, and a former member of the Oakland Arts Commission and an instructor of design at Laney College, Oakland.
In Seattle, Washington, July 16, 1996, Paul Donald Marr, 67, emeritus associate professor of Geography and Regional Planning at SUNY Albany, of cardiac arrest. He had earlier undergone a heart by-pass which had been followed by kidney complications.
A native of San Francisco, Paul was an undergraduate major in geography (AB'51). He was for some years associated with the Stanford Research Institute before returning for graduate study, completing his dissertation (PhD'67) under Professor James Vance on "The Impact of Irrigation on Urban Structure" with special reference to the San Joaquin Valley.
Throughout his career his research and teaching concentrated on regional development and planning issues. He authored at least four substantial research reports with the Institute of Governmental Affairs at UC Davis and others with the UC Berkeley Water Resources Center. At SUNY Albany, where he joined the faculty in 1969, he headed up a 2-year undergraduate regional planning program. There he specialized in coastal zone management and planning under the university's Sea Grant program, authoring numerous technical reports for the New York State Coastal Management program and its Sea Grant Institute at Albany. He was active in the AAG Specialty Group in Marine Geography. A big, jovial man, his booming voice made him easily identifiable at meetings. A few years ago, when he happened to be visiting the Bay Area at graduation time, he obligingly stepped in as the speaker at the Departmental Graduation when an emergency developed.
On retirement he moved to Seattle to be closer to family members. He is survived by his wife, Andrée, and five children, of whom three reside in the Seattle area.
Julian F. Arntz (AB'51), retired USGS Cartographer passed away in 1996.
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