Berkeley Geography 1991-1992
Message from the Chair
This has been a challenging academic year for the Department of Geography and everybody in it: indeed everyone has felt the pressure across the entire university. The year opened with dire predictions of financial cutbacks, which became worse and worse as the year progressed. The great Oakland fire of October 20, in which two of our graduate students lost everything they had, cast gloom over the East Bay. The year also saw two of our most senior faculty undergo severe surgery, though fortunately with success. Jay Vance's wife Jean passed way. The year ended with the California riots and much public unhappiness at the scale of remuneration of senior university administrators at a time of projected salary decreases for faculty and staff and massive increases in student fees.
Yet it also ended with a Commencement ceremony of extraordinary exuberance, held for the first time among the oak trees of Observatory Glade adjacent to Earth Sciences Building. Faculty, staff and students knew that a Berkeley education in geography is still the best. It was a wonderful day. The Sauer Singers gave performances of enormous power. The occasion put the rigors of the year into some perspective.
There is of course some evident turmoil which is going to increase rather than go away. The seismic renovation of ESB in response to the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 will start later this year after prolonged discussions. ESB is said to be one of the most dangerous on campus and the fifth floor one of the most dangerous parts of it--those in the Department in 1989 can well believe it. Moffitt Library is closed to student use until early next year as part of the massive excavation just north of ESB which will accommodate the main stack of Doe Library in several years time. Events are accelerating toward the reallocation of space and internal renovation of ESB when Integrative Biology and the Museum of Paleontology vacates it in 1994. Already there are sometimes fraught discussions over the future housing of Earth Sciences Library and the University Map Collection. In the end we expect to benefit greatly from these changes but life will not be easy until they are complete.
Let us make no mistake: financial forecasts for the next three years verge on the disastrous, with every year worse then the one before. But to signal our faith in the future and in the continuity and achievement of Berkeley Geography Jim Parsons and Natalia are organizing Seventy Years of Berkeley Geography, effectively its third edition, to mark the anniversary of Mr. Sauer's arrival here in 1923. And we are taking on organizing the monster convention of the Association of American Geographers in 1994 (prefaced by the smaller meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers in 1993).
Yet again and even more especially in these difficult times, all of us are kept going by the staffin the front office, the computer and cartography labs, and the map and equipment collections. They are all in this Itinerant but especial thanks to Natalia Vonnegut, who with Jim Parsons as repository of all departmental lore produces it, and who especially saves the chairman from countless catastrophes.
This Itinerant records the extraordinary accomplishments of hundreds of Berkeley geographers all over the world. In spite of all the current difficulties it is going to get even better in the future. So onward to the next semester!
David R. Stoddart
To the casual observer our chairman, David Stoddart, must appear a man immersed in departmental affairs, filling out reports, battling for space, funds and promotions, meeting with administrators, greeting guests, listening to complaints, and generally trying to keep his head above water while carrying out normal teaching duties. This year these last included the new class on Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands, taught jointly with colleagues from Integrative Biology and aided by our own T.A. Frank Murphy. It is a full-semester class with half the teaching done at Berkeley's Gump Biological Research Station in French Polynesia: not surprisingly it proved somewhat popular with students. Among the various places Stoddart visited in addition during the year were Fiji, where he is external visitor to the University of the South Pacific, and a brief reconnaissance to Baja California. Somehow a number of publications on diverse themes were raked from the coals during the academic year, the first including the recently described grass Lepturus stoddarti. Like the herb Euphorbia stoddarti and the coral Acropora stoddarti also named for him, it is described as "prostrate", which is hardly surprising given the tasks of any chairman these days.
Publications:
"Plants of the reef islands of the northern Great Barrier Reef," (with F.R. Fosberg) Atoll Research Bulletin , 348, 1-82, 1991
"Phytogeography and vegetation of the reef islands of the northern Great Barrier Reef," (with F.R. Fosberg), Atoll Research Bulletin, 349, 1-19, 1991
"Plants of the Jamaican cays," (with F.R. Fosberg) Atoll Research Bulletin, 253, 1-24, 1991
"Do we need a feminist historiography of geographyand if we do what should it be?" Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, n.s. 16, 484-487, 1991
"Geography and war: the 'new geography' and the 'new army' in England, 1899 -1914," Political Geography, 11, 87-99, 1992
"Biogeography of the tropical Pacific," Pacific Science, 46, 276-293, 1992
"Hydrodynamics of salt marsh creek systems: implications for marsh morphological development and material exchange," (with J.R. French), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 17, 235-252, 1992
"The foundations of atolls: first explorations," Geology and Offshore Mineral Resources of the Central Pacific Basin , ed. B.H. Keating and B.R. Bolton (New York: Springer Verlag), 11-19, 1992
For the past year David has been in his third year as chair of Section E (Geology and Geogra phy), AAAS, and attended the annual meeting in Chicago in February. In June he was elected president of the Pacific Division of AAAS and will give his address at the 75th annual meeting of the Division in San Francisco in 1994. He is continuously involved in his very own Interna tional Society for Reef Studies and organized its annual meeting with the sterling help of Natalia Vonnegut at the Berkeley Marina in December. After ten years, however, he is passing on the editorship of the Society's journal Coral Reefs to others. He showed up for the annual convention of the AAG in San Diego (there was a memorable party), and at the History of Exploration Conference in Vancouver, as well as contributing to a lecture series on sea-level change at the University of Washington, Seattle. And now he holds the reins in one of the Department's greatest challengesthe hosting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (in which none of the active faculty have ever been active) in Berkeley in 1993 and the enormously large annual meeting of the AAG in San Francisco in 1994.
Allan Pred received a doctorate, honoris causa , from Uppsala University on June 5, 1992. During the fall he completed a year's stay in Sweden, where he was a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. While there he worked on a projected book 'examining the hegemonic discourses and cultural resistance associated with spectacular spaces of consumption' in Sweden from the late-nineteenth century to the present. He has returned to Sweden this summer to complete the remaining research for this project. During the final six months of 1991 he gave presenta tions for anthropologists, historians, linguists, sociologists and geographers, as well as large public audiences, in Denmark, Italy, Finland and Sweden. Publications this year include:
"Critical Thoughts and Partial Reflections," in Kjell Lars Berge and Ulla-Britt Kotsinas, eds., Storstadsspråk och storstadskultur i Norden (Stockholm: University of Stockholm), 221-234.
"Vega Symposium Introduction: Everyday Articulations of Modernity," Geografiska Annaler 73B (1991), 3-5.
"Spectacular Articulations of Modernity: The Stockholm Exhibition of 1897," Geografiska Annaler 73B (1991), 45-84.
If you want to know what is up and what isn't in the 'modernism/postmodernism' controversy you will want to read the Commentaries section of the June 1992 Annals. There Allan tangles but good with a Mr. Michael Curry of UCLA whose recent article on "Postmodernism, Language, and the Strains of Post Modernism" is cause of all the trouble. No holds are barred. Pred, for those interested, has never identified himself as 'postmodern' and, boy, is he agitated to be so tabbed. His new book (with Michael Watts ) on Reworking Modernity: Capitalism and Symbolic Discontent (Rutgers, 1992) promises clarification.
Pred and Dick Walker join forces this coming fall for a graduate seminar on 'Modernity and Spaces of Consumption,' i.e., places (usually public) where goods, services, or enter tainment are offered for sale as well as actually consumed. And so the 'new' geography unravels at Berkeley.
Back in Berkeley after 3-1/2 years in Costa Rica, Barney Nietschmann started new graduate seminars on field research and environmen tal security. Besides teaching the sellout "Islands and Oceans" (Fall '91) he had the Department's second largest class--Intro. Cultural Geography--in the Spring Semester.
Barney has spent much time working in Nicaragua as advisor on environment to the Nicaraguan government and to the Miskito environmentalist NGO, Mikupia. The Miskito Coast Protected Area or MCPA, created in October 1991 by presidential decree has attracted considerable international attention. An aerial survey of the coastal lagoons flown by "Lighthawk" (the "Environmental Airforce" out of Albuquerque) in March 1992 confirmed that the MCPA supports surprising numbers of manatees, with one herd of 44 spotted. It has waterfowl densities three times that of the Florida Everglades and is a major habitat for the endangered jabaru stork and hawksbill turtles. Barney took a team of photographers and a writer to the Miskito Coast in April. In June he was to lead a series of workshops and seminars on SCUBA diving on the Miskito Cays and in coastal communities. The resource pirates are unmercifully exploiting young Miskito lobster divers, most of whom have no SCUBA training and many divers are suffering severe medical and health problems. The workshops will certify Miskitos as SCUBA divers and provide the communities with information both on health matters and on lobster ecology and sustainable management.
Barney has been doing interviews and lectures on the global implications of the breakup of the Soviet Union and state-threatening strife in many world regions. He has been featured in an hour-long KQED radio program and several National Geographic Society News radio programs.
He has lectured at Tufts University and the University of Hawaii on Environmental Security, and there were papers on the MCPA at the IV World Congress on National Parks in
Caracas, and at the AAG in San Diego. This summer he will present an invited paper at the IGU in Washington, D.C.
Recent publications include, "Conservation by Self-Determination," and "The Geopolitics and Ecopolitics of the Río San Juan," in the National Geographic Society's new scientific journal, Research and Exploration. Barney also worked on the new National Geographic Society map, "The Co-Existence of Indigenous Peoples and Natural Environments in Central America," a 40 x 27 inch two-sided color production in Spanish and English. The distributions of indigenous peoples and remaining forests have a close fit: "more than anything else," Barney notes, "the conservation of biological diversity is dependent upon the continuation of cultural diversity."
Barney's wife Angelina continues taking math classes. Their son Carlos, 15, will start Berkeley High next fall; Kabu, 10, will be a sixth grader at Malcolm X in Berkeley, while daughter Tangyi, 3 in August, is already trying to keep up with her brothers.
Dick Walker attended symposia last summer on "Technology, Industrial Organization and Spatial Development" at St. Peter's College, Oxford and on "The Environmental Crisis: Voice from the Front Lines," at USC. He spoke at the Western Political Science Association meetings on "California Politics: System under Siege", and was organizer and discussant of numerous sessions at the AAG San Diego meetings. Dick is currently working on a book on the Bay Area. Recent publications:
The New Social Economy: Reworking the Division of Labor. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. (w/ A. Sayer), 1992
From settlement to Fordism: The agro-industrial revolution in the American Midwest. Economic Geography 67:4, 281-315. (with graduate student Brian Page), 1991.
Dick also recently co-edited a special issue of Research Policy, vol. 20/5 "Networks of Innovators," 1991.
Michael Watts is on leave all of 1992 with support from the SSRC and the MacArthur Foundation. He also has funding from a Hewlett Faculty Grant (UC's International Studies Institute) for a Global Fresh Fruit and Vegetable System study. Michael held visiting appointments at the School of Economics, University of Delhi, April-August, 1992; Visit ing Professor in Residence, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, and in the De partment of Geography, University of Hawaii, during March.
In August he will present a paper on "Designing Nature" to the Alexander von Humboldt Symposium on Space and Nature in Scientific Thought, at the Congress of the International Geographical Union in Washing ton, and another to the IGU Famine Studies Group at Tufts University.
Papers presented during the past year include, "Decollectivisation and the Environ ment," Conference on Collectivisation and Decollectivisation in China, Russia, Cuba, Bulgaria and Hungary, Budapest; "The Right to Not Be Hungry: Food Politics and Agrarian Transitions," to the SSRC/MacArthur Interna tional Peace and Security Conference, Kuala Lumpur; "The Notion of Crisis in African Studies," to the Institute for the Advanced Study of African Humanities, Northwestern University; "In Praise of Peasants," Social Science Research Council Workshops on 'Development Discourse,' UC Berkeley; and "Inventing Africa: Golden Ages, Dark Ages and the Cultural Politics of 'Africa Explores'," University Art Museum.
Recent publications include:
Reworking Modernity: Capitalism and Symbolic Discontent, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey (with Allan Pred), 1992
"Paradigms of Inquiry? Explanation and Critique in Contemporary Human Geography," (with John Pickles) in M. Marcus, R. Abler and J. Olson (eds.), Geography's Inner World, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 168-191, 1992
"Idioms of Land and Labor," in T. Bassett (ed.), Land Tenure in Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, pp. 202-226, 1992
"Space for Everything," Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 7, #1, pp. 115-129, 1992
"The Decline of Everything," Design Book Review, #22, pp. 10-14, 1991
"Struggling over Strategies, Fighting over Food: Households, Gender and Food Commercialization Among Mandinka Peasants," in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 5, pp. 45-72, 1991
"Heart of Darkness," in S. Reyna (ed.), The Political Economy of African Famine, Gordon and Breach, New York, pp. 23-68, 1991
"Mapping Meaning, Denoting Difference, Imagining Identity," Geografiska Annaler, Vol. 73, #1, pp. 7-16, 1991
"Entitlement or Empowerment?: Famine and Starvation in Africa," Review of African Political Economy, #51, pp. 9-26, 1991.
Lisa Wells, now clearly into the department swing, has been teaching the field course and a lab methods course as well as a grad seminar on the tidal wetlands of San Francisco Bay this Spring. She has also organized a successful and long overdue departmental research forum on Wednesday noon where grad students from all sides discuss their research in progress.
The new Kesseli Physical Geography Lab is her working space. Coming out of a geology background she thinks big and has spent a good deal of time of late writing research proposals, and not without success. She has support from a new UC Pacific Rim Program ($60,000) for a year-long field hydrology and meteorological study of Spermonde Bank, SW Sulawesi, Indonesia; an NSF grant ($142,000) to study oxygen isotope profiles as part of a larger study of coral response to climatic variability; and Lawrence Livermore Lab support ($10,700) for a study of hydraulic and sedimentary history of Sherman Island, lower Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta area (radiocarbon analysis of sediment cores). Further funding for the last is being sought from the USGS Earthquake Hazard Reduction program and from an Interagency Ecologic Studies Program ($86,000).
Last summer she briefly visited Nauru island in the South Pacific in search of paleo-ENSO evidence from reported Holocene guano depos its (not found). Data on an isotope time series of the Spermonde corals is in the write-up stage. This summer is being devoted to working up materials collected over the past two years with a brief trip to Indonesia scheduled for late August.
Lisa has given invited papers at GSA, Pacific Science Congress, and AAG symposium and has published or in press several papers derived from her PhD dissertation work on El Niño and Holocene landscape change on the Peruvian coast.
David Hooson has moved his domicile from his long occupied Telegraph Ave. roost to Tomales Bay, Marin County (P.O. Box 1286, Pt. Reyes Station, 94956)--an 'arresting' geographical transition. After long delays, it appears that two books--an edited volume on National Identity and Geography (for Blackwells) and one on The New Geography of the Old Soviet Union (for Cambridge)--will see the light of day in early 1993. Hooson will be on sabbatical during the Fall term.
Jim Parsons (PhD'48) underwent a successful quadruple by-pass heart operation late last summer but was on his feet in time to attend the NCGE meetings in St. Paul at the end of October where he was honored with the council's Distinguished Mentor (graduate level) award during a program featuring presentations by Kit Salter, Bill Denevan, and Tom Vale. He and Betty managed trips to Texas, Florida, and Washington, D.C.–Upstate New York–New England during the year, with Switzerland, Spain and Santo Domingo coming up. A cross -country drive from Tennessee to the Bay Area with Paul Starrs fits in there somewhere, too. He has reports in press on an RVers winter rendezvous at Quartzsite, AZ, Latin America as a source of flowers and other ornamentals, and the Canary Island zero meridian.
Jim has been invited to an all expenses paid junket to Bogota for the 'presentation' of a new Spanish-language edition of Hispanic Lands and Peoples, a collection of his essays edited by Bill Denevan (PhD'63) on August 4 but he won't be going. Those Barcelona Olympic tickets and the promise of accommodations from Dolores Garcia (MA'70) take precedence.
Bob Reed completed a third year as Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies. In 1991-92 the Center sponsored more than thirty-five campus lectures; organized an inter national conference on gender issues in Southeast Asia as well as two art and cultural exhibitions; funded twelve "grants-in-aid" for graduate students involved in field work in Southeast Asia; developed several outreach programs in refugee communities (Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese) of California; continued to manage the Library's "Philippine Documentation Project"; hosted a number of visiting dignitaries (including the President of the Laotian Supreme Court, Vietnam's Ambassador to the United Nations) and international faculty; and helped mobilize faculty support for new FTE's in Southeast Asian history and Thai studies.
Other responsibilities included service on the faculty or advisory committees of Develop ment Studies, the Group in Asian Studies, and Political Economy in Industrial Societies; service for the Association of American Geographers: Board Member of the new constituted Specialty Group on the Geography of Religions and Belief Systems and Secretary-Treasurer of the Asian Geographers Specialty Group; and service for the Association of Asian Studies: Board Member and Member of the Selection Committee for the Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute.
During this summer Bob will spend a month in the Philippines completing research on the "Antipolo Pilgrimage System" and initiating work on "Marian Pilgrimage on Luzon." With support of a $30,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, he is scheduled to chair a workshop in Bandung, Indonesia late in July on "Environmental Issues and Adaptive Strategies in Southeast Asia." In August he will be in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to set up a joint project on "Environmental Transforma tion in Vietnam.
His "From Suprabarangay to Colonial Capital: Reflections on the Urban Transforma tion of Manila" will be a chapter in Nezar AlSayyad (ed.), Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Experience to be released early in the Fall. He has also written the "Foreword," to his student Daniel T. Sicular's, Scavengers, Recyclers, and Solutions for Solid Waste Management in Indonesia , Monograph No. 32 (Berkeley: Center for Southeast Asia Studies). Later this year Bob hopes to finish editing a collection on The Realm of the Sacred in Southeast Asia , which comprises a dozen papers on belief systems in Southeast Asia contributed by scholars in eight disciplines.
Michael Johns is in Argentina this summer. He has authored "The Urbanisation of a Secondary City: The Case of Rosario, Argentina, 1870-1920," Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, October, pp. 489-513, 1991. In the fall he will teach a new course on "The Political Economy and Historical Geography of Latin American Development."
Ted Oberlander underwent extensive surgery late in the spring term for removal of an egg-sized, benign neck tumor. He has since been recovering, his arm in a sling as a result of the severing of a nerve in his shoulder required in the operation. At least temporarily he has lost control of his left arm. A second round of operating room action was scheduled for early July in San Diego, where there is an expert surgeon who hopes both to be able to complete removal of the difficult-to-get-at tumor and to re-connect the severed nerve. With the assis tance of the good services of his friend Barbara Willsey (AB'53) he hopes to be back in action to take on his class and seminar on geomorphology in the fall. Barbara was in the same class as Bill Denevan and her TA in Geography 1 was Carl Johannessen.
Ted has not been entirely incapacitated. He not only has managed to complete two chapters for a book on arid lands being edited by Athol Abrahams of SUNY Buffalo but has a manuscript of close to 200 pages on unusual desert landforms that promises to be the making of a book-length study.
BULLETIN! Ted and Barbara were married June 28 in Virginia City, NV.
Though recurrent asthma may have somewhat slowed Dan Luten he comes in regularly for mail and was guest lecturer in the Natural Resources and Population course on at least one occasion this spring. Dan is a member of the AAG Development Committee conducting an Endowment Campaign for the AAG.
Beatriz Manz, teaching in Geography and Chicano Studies and beginning her third year on the staff, is spending the summer in her native Chile (cold and polluted!) after a June trip to Norway to participate in a UN conference on the world wide refugee crisis. Beatriz made several trips to Guatemala for collaborative research with AVANCSCO on vegetable exports to the US; this work is funded by a John D. and Catherine MacArthur grant. She is also begin ning possible comparative research on fruit and vegetable exports.
Forthcoming publications:
"Elections Without Change: The Human Rights Record of Guatemala," in Proceedings of SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials), Vol. 36, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1992.
"Representation, Organization and Human Rights Among Guatemalan Refugees in Mexico, 1980-1992." Harvard Human Rights Journal, forthcoming, Summer 1992.
"The Clamor for Land and the Clamor for a Better Life: Perspectives on Land and Poverty," in Michael Howard, Prospects for Democracy and Economic Development in Guatemala, forthcoming, Westview Press.
"Fostering Trust in a Climate of Fear," in Valentine Daniel and John Knudsen, Trust and the Refugee Experience, Oxford Univ. Press.
And finally, with husband Harley Shaiken and daughter Mariela, she has settled into a new home on Creston Road near the Parsons'.
Cherie Semans (PhD'87) taught Geo. 183 again this spring, and despite the state of our country's economy many of her students have continued to find employment in the cartographic field. Don Bain, without a facility assistant in spring, managed to give several computer classes for Cherie's cart students. Student projects this year, both traditional and computer, are outstanding, with many using new color printing techniques. This year's class field project was Sausalito. In addition, Cherie's class was one of three selected from the Berkeley campus as an example of innovative teaching--primarily the integration of computers in cartography. She and Don were interviewed and several of the students were videotaped for a segment that was shown at a Regents' meeting this spring.
Last fall the Berkeley campus, under the auspices of Vice-Chancellor Heilbron, decided to get involved in assisting one of the state's many struggling school districtsRichmond Unified. The goal has been to provide the district's teachers and students with guest lecturers, tutors, curriculum advisors, etc. from the Berkeley faculty and student community. From UC's side there have been over 300 eager volunteers. Cherie, who is a product of Richmond schools and has children in the district, has been named the coordinator for Social Sciences between UC and the district. She attends meetings in the district and on campus and recruits volunteers for specific needs that are identified by the district's social science faculty. So far the project encompasses two high schools, but as the program progresses it is hoped to expand to more junior and senior high schools.
Cherie also continues as the department cartographer. In her spare time she has been working on a book about the history and future of maps and mapping (with inclusion of non-European sources), and she has been providing assistance to the Exploratorium on a mapping /navigation exhibit entitled "Finding Your Way." Geography grad student Eric Hirsch is also involved in this project. A proto-type of the exhibit was recently featured at the Smithsonian's experimental gallery, and an article entitled "Paper Worlds: Maps vs. Reality" that Cherie authored this semester is to be published shortly.
Hilgard O'R. Sternberg, emeritus since 1988, continued on the move, with invited lectures in Germany, Japan, and at Los Alamos, NM, on Brazilian environmental issues during the course of the past year. He served as outside examiner on PhD dissertations at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India) and at the Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, to further add to the already international flavor of his activities.
An eventful two summer months (1991) in Brazil included an outboard trip up and down the Araguaia river, a helicopter survey of Serra Sul, Carajás mountains, and camping in the rainforest north of Manaus. His research in Brazil focused on paleoclimatic reconstruction. During field work in both Amazonian rainforest and savanna he collected 118 samples of wood from different ecosystems and 28 charcoal samples from rainforest sites. The wood and charcoal samples are being analyzed in terms of C13 by his son Leonel Sternberg, professor of biology at the University of Miami, in his stable isotope laboratory. The evidence they are developing casts doubt on the theory of a drier Amazon environment in the recent past, suggesting instead extensive Indian burning activities in occasional dry years as a principal factor in vegetation modification.
July 25, at a mass followed by a reception at the Brazilian Room at Tilden Park organized by their four children, Hilgard and Carolina will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
Jay Vance's This Scene of Man has been re-issued, with updated material and a new intro duction as The Continuing City: Urban Morphology in Western Civilization, Johns Hopkins, 1992. During the year he continued his work on the new high velocity trains of Europe and the potential they offer for Califor nia and the U.S. In late June, after a lingering case of cancer, his wife Jean passed away. Once some of the consequent domestic problems are disposed of he is expected to head north to the family retreat in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Orman Granger continued to be active in University service, as a member of the Graduate Council and Undergraduate Scholarship Com mittee, and Advisor to Environmental Science and to the Energy and Resources Group. He and his family are in Alberta, Canada for part of the summer.
Dan Stanislawski (PhD'44) labors away in good spirits on his studies of Guatemala tribute lists. He and Hilda recently hosted a luncheon seminar with the Woodrow Borahs, George Lovell of Queens University, and the Jim Parsons, all at one level or another involved in Colonial Middle American studies.
Doug Powell (MA'6 ), retired two years ago after many years teaching in the department, has been teaching at Sonoma State University as a replacement for the late Claude Minard (PhD'71).
Visiting Faculty and Scholars 1991-92:
Leticia Menchaca--UC Faculty Exchange Program, from UNAM
Steen Seierup--Research Fellow, Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sarah Michaels--Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow
You-Quan Liang--China International Travel Service, Beijing
Hans Bohle--Geography, University of Freiburg
Visitors expected for 1992-93:
Carmen Concepcion--Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellow, from UCLA
Stephanie Pincetl--Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellow, from UCLA
Bo Malmberg--Uppsala University
Brian Hudson--Queensland University of Technology
If publication is a measure of success recent Berkeley PhDs must be setting some sort of record. In the past five years the following dissertations have either been published or have been accepted and under contract with univer sity presses:
Barbara Brower ('87) Oxford
Martin Lewis ('87) California
Piper Gaubatz ('89) Stanford
Paul Starrs ('89) Johns Hopkins
Stan Stevens ('89) California
Kären Wigen ('90) California
Jack Wright ('90) Texas
In addition, Mark Bassin's ('83) dissertation is in press with Cambridge. Each falls squarely within the bounds of the 'traditional' cultural geography which is too often written-off.
Total enrollment in geography courses, 1991-92: 2,277. Courses with enrollments exceeding 100: Fall: G. 1 (Byrne)104; G. 4 (Reed)117. Spring: G. 4 (Nietschmann)148; G. 110 (Walker)168.
During the spring term Bob Rice ('90) taught Geography 7, once known as Introduction to Econmic Geog. but now 'The Local and the Global'; and Paul Starrs (PhD'89) has been responsible for Geography 130, 'Natural Resources and Population'. Soohyun Chon taught Japan and Korean under the sponsorship of the Center for Korean Studies; and Stan Stevens (PhD'89) taught 'World Agricultural Systems' in the Fall before heading off to LSU in January.
Summer 1992 lecturers: Alex Clapp (Spanish South America), Rich Griggs (Cultural Geography of Indigenous Peoples), Doug Powell (Global Environments), Bob Rice (Natural Resources and Population), and Elizabeth Vasile (Urban Field Geography).
Peter Haggett, distinguished British geographer (PhD Cambridge) and Professor of Geography at the University of Bristol delivered the 13th Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture before a receptive audience in the International House auditorium on April 28. He related Sauer's concepts of 'origins and dispersals' to his own work on the origins and dispersals of disease. In the evening he was guest of honor, along with George Lovell of Queens University, who was also visiting, at a dinner party at the Parsons. Haggett remained in the Bay Area for most of a week before proceeding on to Australia.
The 1992 department graduation saw a record-breaking 72 majors receive their Bachelor of Arts degrees along with another seven with minors in geography. For the first time the event was held in the shaded oak grove in front of the Earth Sciences building. Three MAs and one PhD were also granted, the latter #200 in a list dating back to 1927. Dr. Patricia Caldwell Lindgren (PhD UCLA'71), a cartographic consultant from Marin County, gave the commencement address. Undergraduate remarks were by Jonathan Stein, graduate remarks by Ken Orvis. The Department citation went to Austin Hill Shaw, a Phi Beta Kappa. Theodosia (Doty) Valrey organized the ceremony and a splendid reception afterwards. Dick Walker led the Sauer Singers (Kim Charnofsky (MA'89), Robin Sturgeon (AB'92), Victoria Randlett, Barbara Hadenfeldt, Charlie Hadenfeldt on drums, Brad Beck, and Christopher Hoadley) in an exceptional musical presentation.
Of 31 grad students advanced to PhD candidacy on Doty's list of April 1991 only one, Ken Orvis, completed in time to be included in the 1992 spring graduation. What goes on here? Watts leads the faculty, chairing 7 of the 31, followed by Walker (5), Pred (5), Nietschmann, Hooson and Oberlander (3 each). Given the flurry of writing activity by grads in the Dickinson Library/Computer Room, Brian Page, Rod Neumann, Mark Blumler, and perhaps others should file before the end of Fall term. Jim Proctor and George Henderson finished up too late for the May graduation.
New academic appointments:
Paul Starrs (PhD'89) to University of Nevada–Reno
Rod Neumann (PhD cand.) to Florida International University
Ted Whitesell (PhD cand.) to Michigan State University
Jim Proctor (PhD cand.) to UC Santa Barbara
Brian Page (PhD cand.) to University of Colorado, Denver
Mark Blumler (PhD cand.) to SUNY Binghampton (temporary)
Bob Argenbright (PhD'90) to Simon Fraser University (temporary)
The department will never be quite the same since the resignation last spring of Dan Holmes (MA'76), librarian and general factotum for uncounted years and the person who knew better than anyone else where things were when needed. Dan has joined the consulting firm of former grad student Barry Hecht (MA'72), Balance Hydrologics Inc, with offices on Solano Ave., Albany. His place is being ably taken by Margarete Monaghan (AB'85), who started right out by staging the biggest departmental map sale on record, attracting a full column of commentary by Steven Rubenstein in the Chronicle. "Maps to someplace sold for a dime, as long as the buyer didn't care which someplace he got. Large chunks of Alaska were a dime. The Okefenokee Swamp was a dime. Central Madagascar was a dime. The place was packed. Sell a map for a dime and you get the kind of people who suddenly must have maps, lots of maps." The sale netted some $1,900 divided between the Department and the Map Room in the Main Library.
Don Bain (AB'72), our computer room manager, writes of 'Atlas Pro' by Strategic Mapping Inc, San Jose, a desk-top computer mapping upgrade of 'Atlas MapMaker' in MacWeek March 9, 1992. Take his word for it, it's an exciting development. The new program offers many of the features of 'MapInfo' and Geography has its own copy. And on the computer front, a piece in Aldus Magazine (May–June 1992) on John Parsons' 'Eureka Cartography' notes how the cartography at the nearby university conveniently turns out a stream of skilled people to meet their needs.
Since the AAG began granting 'honors' in 1952 twenty-seven Berkeley-connected geogra phers have been included on the 'honors list,' the most recent Tom Veblen (PhD'75), Univ. of Colorado, in San Diego at the April annual meetings.
In a change in L&S graduation requirements each student will be required in the future to take one course from each of seven categories, one of which is 'International Studies' (language instruction excluded). This may well give a healthy boost to regional offerings in geography. We may likewise be affected by the dismantling, within the College of Natural Resources new academic plan, of the popular CRS (Conservation and Resources Study) major.
'Development' seems to be the new buzz word. Nine of the seventeen new admissions to the geography graduate program this year (all will not accept) include 'development' in the shorthand description of their interests. As institutionalized in recent years 'development studies' (and perhaps 'political economy') have sometimes seemed to serve as code terms for ideological critiques of capitalism and its excesses, which may or may not explain this popularity.
Births reported by grad students and recent graduates:
Bob and Elisa Rice, a daughter
Michael and Jocelyn Robinson, a son
Ted and Lucilene Whitesell, a son
Berkeley geography's concentration on the Third World continues, at least as measured by graduate student research. Of the 36 PhDs granted since 1985 24 have been sited in non-European foreign areas. Of the 28 dissertations in progress 16 appear to be similarly Third World oriented. Latin America, Africa, Asia and the former Soviet Union all have been well represented.
A measure of changing times:
The two introductory graduate seminars 'required' of all new grad students in the depart ment are entitled "Philosophical and Methodological Issues . . .," one in human and one in physical geography. There are field and lab "methods" courses as well, and 'social theory' too, has a place in the curriculum. In other times, as Jim Parsons notes, all seminars were problem and research-driven. Even newcomers jumped right in. It was sink or swim.
A Placement Office survey reveals that 65% of the geography PhDs graduated between 1980-89 (43 in all) are employed in the academic sector. For all disciplines campus-wide the comparable figure is 56.7%. In both cases the majority are in what are designated the 70 top research universities.
The Berkeley campus now boasts more than 150 endowed chairs (professorships) but none are in Geography. Explain! The Development Office (Gifts and Endowment) reports that it requires a minimum of $400,000 to establish such a chair.
Long moribund and presumed by some dead, Ibero-Americana, the highly regarded serial from the University of California Press, estab lished more than 50 years ago by Carl Sauer and Alfred Kroeber, has seen new life with the publication of volume 55 by historian Woodrow Borah on early colonial price trends in commodities paid in tribute in Nueva Galicia (Guadalajara). A study by Dan Stanislawski (PhD'44) on Guatemala tribute lists may soon be a future addition to the series. Nearly half of the volumes published in Ibero-Americana since its inception have been by Berkeley geographers. Only UC faculty and students have access to this outlet for their research.
Fulbright grants for the coming year will send Tom Bassett (PhD'84), Illinois, to Ivory Coast, Bob Rice (PhD'90) to Peru, and Herb Eder, former faculty member now at Cal State Hayward, to Ecuador.
Carl Sauer's The Early Spanish Main, with a new foreword by British historian Anthony Pagden and a handsome new cover, has been published by the University of California Press--$16 paper, 320 pp.
The lure of India has infected others besides Carl Johannessen of late. Michael Watts, Bob Reed, Bret Wallach, Fred Simoons, Stan Stevens, Barbara Brower come to mind. Martin Lewis, too, is succumbing. Martin is preparing to look at human-wildlife relations in Gujarat. Michael Watts is presently in Kerala state, one of the few places in the world where the "socialism to come" may in fact be a work ing reality (it's also one of the rainiest places on earth during the monsoon).
Betsy Burns (PhD'74), Arizona State University, was one of two persons elected to the AAG Council in the recent vote (also on the ballot--Dick Walker). She is the only Berkeley graduate in the entire AAG hierarchy, elected or appointed, unless Specialty Group chairs are counted. There we find Michael Heiman--Socialist geography; Tom Bassett--Cultural ecology; Mark Bassin--Soviet and East European (renamed?); and Ron Dorn--geomorphology. Bill Denevan is associate editor of the Annals and Yi-Fu Tuan and Tom Veblen are on the 34-person Annals editorial advisory board.
In a recent survey at the University of Wisconsin–Madison students selected the best teachers on campus, picking 131 out of over 2,000. Two geographers made it, Yi-Fu Tuan and Tom Vale, while Mark Bassin was on the Honorable Mention list. All three of course, are Berkeley PhDs. There are currently five Berkeley grads on the Madison faculty. Their only rival is Cal State Northridge, also with five. Berkeley itself has one.
Biogeography is booming at the University of Colorado where there are currently seven PhD candidates working on biological and ecological topics according to The Biogeographer, the newsletter of the AAG special interest group. The department includes three fully certified biogeographers, including Tom Veblen (PhD'75), departmental chair. The University of Georgia, where Jake Bendix (AB'80) is completing a PhD on the riparian vegetation in the Transverse Ranges of southern California, is another center of biogeographical strength.
A special issue of Pacific Science (46:2, April 1992), dedicated to F. Raymond Fosberg, contains ten papers on the vegetation ecology of the Pacific Islands. Included are contributions by David Stoddart, a long-time friend and associate, and Randy Thaman (MA'68), professor of geography at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. Stoddart reviews the biogeographical regionalization of the tropical Pacific with numerous maps, while Thaman looks at the disturbance and degradation of the vegetation of Nauru and the Gilbert Islands, on which he has extensive field experience.
Fosberg was for more than 40 years employed as a botanist with the USGS and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. An appreciation of his distinguished career as the world's premier island biogeographer by Dieter Mueller-Dumbois, University of Hawaii, leads off the volume. Ray has been a long-time friend of Berkeley geography. With close working relations at various times with Carl Sauer, the late Dave Blumenstock (PhD'43), and Bryce Decker (PhD'70) as well as our current chairman. The last warmly dedicates his paper to Fosberg "who as my mentor over 30 years has taught me that knowledge and understanding reside on the shores of distant islands and not only on the shelves of libraries."
Fosberg was the Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecturer in the department in 1980.
The concept of a 'Berkeley School' of geography just won't go away. At the AAG Southwest Division meeting at Nacodoches TX in October a special session appraising it was organized by Kent Mathewson. It was dominated by LSU students.
Ron Dorn (BA'80, MA'82) is organizing a special session for the San Francisco AAG 1994 meetings on "Honoring Geographical Geomorphology at Berkeley." If you wish to present a paper that honors advances made by Berkeley geographers who have conducted geomorphological research (Sauer-Kesseli-Oberlander-Stoddart-Wells), please contact Ron Dorn at the Department of Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0104 (FAX 602 -965-8313).
Risa Palm, former faculty member and now a dean at the University of Oregon, has widened her research interests to Latin America, actually to Puerto Rico, with which she is encantado. Under an NSF grant she has been studying the impact of Hurricane Hugo and its influence on disaster preparedness and planning there using data from surveys of 650 households. Risa has published two books and an Annals AAG article on the earthquake experience in California, especially as related to insurance and individual responses to disaster.
The preliminary program for the late September joint meetings of CLAG and NCGE in Santo Domingo (the quincentenary, you know) lists among others Godfrey, Parsons, Horn, Lobb, Zimmerer, Denevan, Edwards, Voeks and Salter.
Luna Leopold, emeritus professor of geology and landscape architecture and former head of the USGS Water Resources division, was one of 20 scientists receiving the National Medal of Science at ceremonies at the White House last fall. He was recognized "for the hydrodynamics of rivers, for influencing the direction of physical geography, and for outstanding service." Luna joined the Berkeley faculty in 1972 after 22 years with the USGS. He retired in 1986. His work shaped public policies concerning waterways, flood control and erosion. Glen Seaborg, chemist, Nobel Laureate and chancellor from 1958 to 1961, was similarly honored.
Could Kit Salter (PhD'70), chair at the University of Missouri, be our best known graduate, even the country's most influential professional geographer? The case could be made. His close involvement with geography's new prominence in K-12 education has made him a household name in the world of teachers from Maine to California. For 7 years he and wife Cathy Riggs Salter (herself an elected member of the NCGE Council) have spearheaded the National Geographic-sponsored summer institutes (4,000 classroom teachers in all) either in Washington, D.C. or one of the 47 states that have organized Geographic Alliances. They have also played a key role in developing the 'geography friendly' Houghton-Mifflin Social Studies series of texts that have come to dominate K-12 social studies instruction across the nation in response to both heightened sensitivities to race, gender, and culture and the well publicized geographical innocence of American students. The teachers' manuals accompanying each of the Houghton-Mifflin texts carry a full page, life-like photo of Kit sitting comfortably astride a stool along with his statement on the nature of geography and why it deserves a place in the curriculum.
In the National Education Goals proposal for curriculum standards that elevates geography to one of the five core disciplineswith math, English, science, and historythe Salters' behind the scenes hands can be readily recognized. Now comes the necessity of preparing minimum standards for the subject for the congressionally-appointed Educational Standards and Assessments Council which is to establish national subject proficiency tests beginning as early as 1994. Kit is co-chair (with Norman Bettis) of the geography consensus project with a supporting committee of 20 geographers plus five active ex-officio members. They have been meeting on and off throughout the past year with three large public hearings and more than 500 additional interested people reviewing and reacting to what is called "the Framework." Its mission is "to outline the basic understanding that all students need to acquire by grades 4, 8 and 12 but not everything a student should learn." The program and report calls for substantial cooperation from universities, especially L&S programs, in teacher preparation.
The proposal marks an important shift towards centralizing U.S. education and away from the local or state control of curriculum that has been the hallmark of American schools. States would be asked to voluntarily adopt the new standards. And the Salters are in the thick of it.
From The Geographical Error, the original departmental newsletter, Sept. 11, 1936, on the origins of a venerable institution: "There has been a noteworthy change at the regular Friday afternoon coffee hour. It is now possible to order tea instead of coffee, a novelty due in part to repeated requests of Britannia's loyal citizens. RGB"
The Error, 1935-42 (succeeded in 1955 by the Itinerant Geographer), was a monthly, mimeographed publication (10 cents a copy) that carried reports of departmental and grad student activities as well as book reviews and occasional brief but serious essays--e.g., Carl Sauer, "Soil Erosion"; John Leighly, "Atmo spheric Circulation as Horizontal Turbulence," and "Recent Papers on Antarctica"; Peveril Meigs, "Notes on Paradise Ridge"; Bob Bow man, "Glacial Channels in New Hampshire"; Felix McBryde, "The McBrydes in Guatemala"; Joe Spencer, "Geography in China", and Karl Pelzer (in German), "Ankunst in New York."
A group of 30-35 geographers will be spending the two weeks before the Washington IGU meetings this summer studying California agriculture under the leadership of Gerard Dorel (Universite de Paris I). Dorel wrote extensively on California farming during and after a visiting appointment at UC Davis some years ago and visited Berkeley on a number of occasions.
In the reapportionment of the Academic Senate's Universitywide Assembly the Berkeley campus ends up with seven representatives (out of 40). UCLA has nine, Davis six, San Diego and San Francisco four each, Santa Barbara and Irvine three, Santa Cruz and Riverside two.
The unprecedented October 20 firestorm in the East Bay hills took more than 3,000 homes. About 650 students, faculty and staff were left homeless. Among the 24 who died in the blaze was one pre-med student. The fire, the worst in California history, reached to within a block of the Claremont Hotel and the former home of the late Clarence Glacken, landmarks familiar to many geographers. At least 90 percent of the affected area was within the city of Oakland, the rest in Berkeley. The functioning of the university was uninterrupted. The combination of five years of drought and the extremely dry foliage of an artificial Monterey pine-cypress -eucalyptus forest under Santa Ana wind conditions set the stage for the catastrophe.
The Cal Monthly for December 1991 ("Havoc in the Hills") calls attention to the post-fire symposium last fall to share the University's expertise with the community. In discussing the hot Santa Ana-like weather that sparked and fanned the East Bay Hills fire the results of a 1973 analysis by John Monteverdi (PhD'78), then the official campus weather observer, were projected on a huge Zellerbach Auditorium screen. John had found that in an average year Berkeley has about four days of this type of weather, that three of these fall in October, and that two of the three normally fall in the last half of the month. So the October 20 fire had come right on schedule.
It is ironic in the extreme that the position of weather observer, couched in the Geography department for nearly a century, has been abolished on a questionable budgetary pretext. Can't someone do something!
Excavation to house a major underground addition to the Doe and Moffitt Libraries is underway and promises to disrupt cross-campus traffic for a year or more. The 'temporaries' in the glade (including 'T-5') are gone, replaced by a growing hole. Over 8,000 truckloads of dirt and debris will be removed by large diesel trucks through the campus West Gate, with gigantic yellow earth moving machines and possibly explosives to break up the underground bedrock being required. Moffitt Library (the reserve book room) will be closed until the end of the year in connection with the project, which also involves seismic strengthening of the library buildings. A part of the Moffitt collections is being moved to the Main Library until Moffitt reopens in the spring of 1993.
And as if this, and the re-furnishing of the gutted Life Sciences building (and our much-used Room 141 ES lecture hall) were not enough, Cowell Hospital is scheduled for dismantling to make room for a new School of Business, gift of the Haas family of San Francisco (Levis). All this while the university suffers the worst budget 'crunch' in its history. And 'seismic safety corrections' to our Earth Sciences building will begin later this year and continue through the spring of 1993.
The unprecedented state budget crisis and its impact on the University has been a preoccu pation of the campusstudent fee increases, hiring freezes, proposed program cuts, etc. It has not been eased by the brouhaha following the resignation of President Gardner and the widely publicized and embarrassing revelation of unprecedentedly generous separation payments and retirement benefits granted him in closed session by the Regents. The restructuring of that group along more representative and democratic lines has been proposed. Jack Peltason, chancellor at Irvine, has been named to replace Gardner.
Of the campus fall 1991 enrollment of 30,372, graduate students number 8,712. In the entering freshman class Asian-Americans outnumbered Caucasians for the first time: Asian-Americans 34.6%, Caucasians 30.0%, Hispanics 19.6%, African-Americans 7.8%, Native Americans 1.5%. As cross-cultural families increase such categorizations will become increasingly meaningless.
One explanation for the increase of Asian-Americans among new freshmen is that they apply in ever larger numbers each year. They have jumped 44 percent in five years, while white applications have declined, partly because of a change in the ethnicity of high school graduates.
Moreover the academic qualifications of would be Asian-American students have risen sharply, making them more competitive. At the same time, these students are more likely to enroll once they are admitted to Berkeley, than are Caucasians.
More than half of the entering class last year made a solid 4.0 grade average, or a straight A record, in high school.
To qualify as residents of California and so avoid non-resident fees out-of-state undergraduate students must henceforth offer proof that they have been financially independent of their parents for three years and not claimed by them as dependents.
Some 1200 'eyewitnesses to history' have been interviewed since 1954 by Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History program. The project dates back to 1859 when Hubert Howe Bancroft identified prominent westerners from many walks of life who were unlikely to write their memoirs and hired aides to record their recollections. The stenographic accounts came to be called the Bancroft "dictations."
The Earth Sciences Library and the Main Library's map room have been administratively merged, with Phil Hoehn as head.
The renaming of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology the Phoebe Hearst Museum has aroused much of the campus community. But we know, of course, where the money comes from.
Student reserved seating in the rooting section at Memorial Stadium is being instituted this coming fall.
After some 23 years of controversy and more than a million dollars spent policing unruly protesters and building a volleyball and sundry other improvements Peoples Park shows signs of settling down. No longer the vaguely menacing eyesore it once was, its fate nevertheless seems far from settled. The city and the university have assumed joint responsibility for its management, but for a few activists it remains a hallowed symbol of resistance to authority.
For Cal sports it was an up year even if geography again went without representation in intramurals, once a center of considerable activity. The football Bears scored an unexpect edly easy win over Clemson in the New Years Day Florida Citrus Bowl at Orlando. In the following weeks Coach Bruce Snyder resigned for greener pasture at Arizona State (he had been 'coach-of-the-year' but he couldn't beat Stanford) and Washington's offensive coordina tor Keith Gilbertson, coming off back-to-back Husky Rose Bowl wins, replaced him. Basket ball was a disappointment, but with super-star preps (especially All-American Jason Kidd of St. Joseph's, Alameda) signed on for next year hopes are high. After an abysmal start baseball surprised everyone by making it all the way to the 8-team College World Series in Omaha where they gave it their all but narrowly fell short. Oh yes, and there were those national championships in water polo and rugby.
It's been a topsy-turvy rainfall year, and the first in more than a century that Berkeley figures, so long provided by the geography -maintained campus station, are unrepresented in the statewide reporting network. After four drought years, Bay Area precipitation approaches 80% of normal (though Sierra snow pack is significantly shy). Southern California has been on the receiving end of more than its share of the precipitation. Forget the Pacific Northwest. Seattle, to the end of May (with 16.74 in.), had received half an inch less rainfall this year than Los Angeles, which was experiencing the driest year in 90 years of record-keeping.
Contributions for the establishment of a Fred Kniffen (PhD'30) Professorship at Louisiana State have nearly met the requirements for matching funds from the university. Fred was recently among the eight members of the AAG recognized for having been in the organization for 50 years or morein his case 58.
Emily Dicken, widow of the late Sam Dicken (PhD'31) writes from Oregon of her regret that the position of Campus Weather Observer has been terminated. "I always took a personal interest in that record because Sam taught me how to read the instruments and when he went on weekend geology field trips I climbed to the roof of Wheeler Hall to check the rain gauge, to the lawn for the temperature, and up on a counter in the Department to read the tall barometer. Can't remember how the wind gauge was read but I don't think it re quired a daily visit to the roof of South Hall" (where Geography was then located).
Les Hewes (PhD'40), long since retired at the University of Nebraska, keeps his hand in with an occasional seminar and writing book reviews. This summer he plans a tour to Tur key with daughter Carolyn. Istanbul will not be new as Les and Elma stopped there on their way to Iran in 1977. Earlier Les hoped to have visited his old stomping ground near Guthrie, Oklahoma, where he was born. His father, an '89er, homesteaded there on the "opening" of Oklahoma, while his mother came as a young girl in a covered wagon from Minnesota a year later. Still loyal to Berkeley after all these years, Les is considering a bequest to the department.
George Carter (PhD'42), emeritus at Texas A&M, was honored at a special meeting at the San Diego AAG meetings organized by his student Steve Jett. It was in his home town and his 80th year. The theme, of course, was the wide-ranging evidence of pre-Columbian contacts between the Old and the New World. George's own contribution focused on chickens and chicken bones dating from at least 1,000 A.D. reported from archeological digs in New Mexico and Arizona. The bones resemble those of Chinese chickens, which were commonly used for sacrifices and divination in East Asia. From AAG it was off to Rhode Island where George was to be honorary chair of the New England Antiquities Society meetings. He has a chapter on Early Man in a GSA guidebook to the San Diego area and a book on the 'chicken thing' is in the works. Add to that the editorship of the Occasional Papers of the Epigraphic Society and you have an octogenarian. The Carters' son, George Jr., by the way, is a PhD candidate in geography at Texas A&M. And his hair is red, just as his Dad's once was.
"Andrew Clark and Soil Conservation in New Zealand" is the title of a note by Michael Roche, Massey University, in the journal Historical Geography (vol. 21:1, 1991). Andy's Invasion of New Zealand by People, Plants and Animals (1949) was based on field work carried out in 1941-42 for his Berkeley PhD ('44) and remains a landmark in the methodological debates of historical geographers. The author traces the background of Clark's study, stating that it stands out in the scholarly literature "because it was strikingly different from con temporary historians' accounts of New Zealand's development." It's close attention to the soil erosion problem and Clark's relations with Professors Jobberns and Cumberland are especially remarked upon.
A study of the historical geography of mining in Sonora by Bob West (PhD'46), emeritus at LSU, is due out momentarily from the University of Arizona Press.
A special program honoring Ed Price (PhD'50), emeritus at the University of Oregon, is being organized, for the APCG meeting in Bellingham in September by Al Urquhart.
The Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee now has a Hammond Endowed Lecture series thanks to the generosity of Ed (PhD'51) who has been on the faculty there since 1970. He recently became emeritus.
Bowman & Littlefield have announced the publication of: The Emergency Evacuation of Cities: a Cross-National Historical and Geographical Study, by Wilbur Zelinsky (PhD'53) and Leszek Kosinski, 288 pp., $55 cloth. Additionally, Wilbur's Cultural Geography of the United States has been reissued in a revised paperback edition by Prentice-Hall, 212 pp., 1992, while his paper on "The Changing Nature of North American Culture Areas" is a chapter in Glen Lich, ed., Regional Studies: The Interplay of Land and People, Texas A&M Press, 113-134, 1992.
A Festschrift honoring Phil Wagner (PhD'53), retired at Simon Fraser University, has been edited by his colleague, S.T. Wong. It is due out this summer from Geosciences Publications, Louisiana State University Press.
Homer Aschmann (PhD'54), retired at UC Riverside, has had to abandon his cavernous office there for a smaller one. Successful cataract operations behind him, he reports that after a long dry spell a couple of things finally have been published. But what?
Arnold Court (PhD'56), retired from Cal State Northridge in 1985, fulfilled a longstanding desire by being, for a few minutes on Sunday, 11 August 1991, the northernmost person on the North American continent. He and Mildred took turns in this role during a 4 - hour "Tundra Tour" of Barrow, Alaska, which included a stop on the 7-mile long sandspit which juts eastward from Alaska's northern shoreline, then curves northward.
Travel later in the year included a 2-week drive to Denver (meteorological meeting) via Southwest Utah's parks and its memorable Dinosaur monument in the northeast, returning through Colorado Springs, Taos, Albuquerque, Socorro and the 27 giant radio telescopes on the San Augustin plain to the west, with a stop in Tempe to talk at Arizona State University. In the spring they'd been in Washington, where Arnold spoke at the AAAS meeting on "Our Climate Is Perfect," and in Denver, Detroit, New York City, Sarasota FL and Oklahoma City. In between trips, and occasionally at libraries during them, Arnold continues his research on the origins and development of climatic diagrams, especially wind roses and wind force scales used in them. His Barrow visit came just 50 years after he compared the radio sonde data from there (which began the previous year) with those he obtained during 1940 at Little America, more than 150° almost due south).
Fred Simoons (PhD'56), emeritus from UC Davis and now living in Spokane, has become involved with the geographers at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, where he has been both a program assessor and a visiting professor under an NSF Title 3 grant. Last year his monumental study of Food in China appeared and he is about to initiate a similar study of India. A revised version of his Eat Not This Flesh (University of Wisconsin Press, 1961) was recently published in an Italian edition as Non mangerai di questa carne (Milan: Eleuthera, 229 pp., 1991). In May he and Liz were in Baltimore for an NIA meeting honoring his UCSF colleague Norman Kretschmer, and from there they continued to Milan for a conference on ethnic food preferences and attitudes where Fred was to give a paper. They were to spend some time in Provence before heading back to Spokane to catch the late spring blooms in their garden.
The MADGEOGNEWS, a mini-newsletter out of the Wisconsin geography department (which sometimes crams into 4 pages more than the Itinerant Geographer does in 40) quotes the bi-weekly letter of Yi-Fu Tuan (PhD'57) for December 1: "I can speak only with human beings--with the kernel in each of us which responds to a human (rather than merely cultural or gender) voice. How does one communicate with students who only know of 'diversity,' and for whom 'common humanity' is an alien (and probably subversive) concept? . . . . I build my case on the worldview of an 8-year old African-American child . . . He likes Madison! He likes school! He likes math!--and doesn't give a hoot who (black or white) invented it. He's my kind of guy."
The book that made Yi-Fu a household name (and helped create a special niche for the concept 'sense of place'Topophilia, 1974) has been re-issued by Columbia University Press (1990, 260 pp.) with a new preface.
Fritz Kramer (PhD'57), emeritus at Portland State, writes that he recently 'discovered' in Vienna a significant scholarly library of an old friend and former teacher, now deceased, that he has been organizing and cataloging. It contains some 2,000 printed items and corre spondence dating back to 1918. In his latest trip to Vienna (his home town) he sorted out things relating to Austria or written by Austrians for donation to the Portland State University library as the nucleus of an Austrian Research Collection of which he is nominally 'Special Curator.' It all fits, for Fritz is now in his sixth year as president of the Austro-American Society of Oregon.
The Kramers, recently moved to a new home in Tigard, OR, are apparently busier than ever. After a half dozen operations and some low times Mary is back on her feet. Her MD says no skiing but she is on the golf course rain or shine. Fritz has been lecturing at the Lake Oswego Senior Center and this summer at the University of Oregon summer session. In the fall they will make an extended tour with Viennese visitors through Alaska and Nevada. And their oldest granddaughter (!) is to be married in Illinois in September. Fritz continues to ski (he was once a professional), some times in Austria, sometimes at Mt. Batchelor, but his speed is much diminished and, he insists, "my children ski circles around me."
Marvin Mikesell (PhD'59), University of Chicago, is joint author, with Alexander Murphy, of a lead article in the Annals AAG , December 1991 on "A Framework for Comparative Studies of Minority Group Aspirations" (pp. 581-605). Although Geography at Chicago continues to function as a 'committee,' enrollments are strong. He reports 70 students in an introductory course on 'The Human Habitat' and 85 in 'Cultural Geography,' unusual figures for Chicago. And there is still a graduate program, with four PhDs granted in the last two years. Of these two have been Marvin's students, bringing his total to 18 since he arrived at Chicago 34 years ago.
Although "retired" at the University of Oregon, Carl Johannessen (PhD'59) was recalled to teach for the spring semester between trips to India in search of evidence for pre-Columbian maize, sunflowers and other New World elements on the sub-continent prior to 1492. Writing continues on the black-boned, black-meated chicken and related topics, with time out for planting more apples, pears, and hazel nuts on the farm. He was recently interviewed for the Geographers on Film collection of rental film. At Santo Domingo in September he is to receive the 'Master Mentor' award of the National Council for Geographical Education.
Campbell Pennington (PhD'59), emeritus at Texas A&M now living in San Marcos TX, has been instrumental in deterring the World Bank from supporting a major forestry project in the pine-oak woodlands of Chihuahua that he knows so well.
Ward Barrett (PhD'59), University of Minnesota, contributes an essay on world bullion flows 1450-1800 in The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-distance Trade in the Early Modern World, James D. Tracy ed., Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Lee Talbot (PhD'63) continues as senior environmental advisor to the World Bank, primarily involved with Africa, Asia and Europe. As president of his own consulting firm he also handles environmental policies and biodiversity issues with other development agencies such as the Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, governments and govern mental agencies, universities and such organizations as the National Geographic Society.
Recent adventures with all or part of his family (Marty, his biologist-conservationist wife, sons Rusty, 14 and Lawrence, 21) have included a 6-week East African safari which incorporated climbing Mt. Kenya; a trip to South America, including Venezuela's Angel Falls ('92); scuba diving in Mauritius, camping and lemur watching in Madagascar and another visit to Kenya ('91); China and Japan ('91); and much skiing, bicycling and hiking. There were tentative plans for Tibet this summer.
Son Lawrence is a junior at Berkeley studying political economy of natural resources management.
Recent publications include:
Books (co-authorships); Crisis and Opportunity: Environment and Development in Africa, French and English editions; Dams and the Environment ('89); and two new editions (UK and India) of his '87 book To Feed the Earth: Agro-Ecology for Sustainable Development.
Major Reports, Booklets: Environmental Science and Technology in China, 1990 (Asian Development Bank); National Environmental Action Plans in Africa, 1991 (World Bank); plus chapters in six books since 1989 and several articles (his cumulative publication list, starting in 1955 and still growing, includes more than 200 titles!).
Lee continues his strenuous outdoor life, including formula an sports car racing in which he has twice won championships in recent years (against drivers who are often about a third his age). The Talbots live in McLean, VA. Until recently Lee was Adjunct Professor at George Mason University.
The Native Population of the Americas in 1492, edited by Bill Denevan (PhD'63), has been reissued by the University of Wisconsin Press as a quincentenary volume. The new edition leads off with an appreciation by George Lovell and a new introduction by Bill reviewing work and population estimates from the extensive literature since the original issuance in 1976. Bill has a contribution on a somewhat related theme in the forthcoming special issue of the Annals AAG being edited by Karl Butzer. His chapter on "Prehistoric roads and causeways of lowland Tropical America" appeared in Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World, Charles D. Trombold, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1991. Bill has been officially "retired" since last spring but will teach in the next two fall semesters. He recently calculated that he is supervising 17 grad students, presumably all in the cultural/Latin American field, so his departure will leave a sizable hole.
Don Vermeer (PhD'64), chairman at George Washington University, has largely recovered from a debilitating throat cancer but is thinking about retirement in year or two. He has been active as a host for the upcoming International Geographical Union meetings in Washington this summer, chairing the committee handling the allocation of travel funds (a pool of some $200,000) available to young non-U.S. geographers desirous of attending the sessions.
Charlie Markham (PhD'67), retired from Fresno State with wife Kay in Boulder City, NV is thriving in the desert air but wondering where all their energy went.
Glyn Williams (MA'67), reader in Sociology at the University of North Wales, Bangor, is the author of The Welch in Patagonia: the State and the Ethnic Community, University of Wales Press, 1991, 285 pp., undoubtedly in some measure an outgrowth of his Master's thesis here some 25 years ago. Book lists also mention another work by Glyn, Madoc: the Legend of the Welch Discovery of America, 226 pp., which sounds like appropriate reading for the quincentenary year.
Ray Collett (PhD'67), UC Santa Cruz, is on the Advisory Council of the Pacific Horticultural Foundation, publisher of Pacific Horticulture.
Ignacio Peri, a grad student in the 60's, is owner of a quality dress shop and art gallery on Ninth Street (Arlington Arcade) in downtown Oakland. It's a place worth a visit, in the Old Oakland reconstruction area. Ignacio designs some of the high style clothes he handles himself.
A special issue of the Journal of Historical Geography (18:1, June 1992) contains papers by Martyn Bowden (PhD'67), Clark University, and several of his students on the "Creation of Myth, the Invention of Tradition" relating to the American past. They derive from a symposium organized by Martyn at Clark in 1988 on the occasion of that institution's centennial celebration. Bowden's lead-off paper on "The invention of American tradition" derides the grand tradition of a pristine wilderness, a wild American nature far tougher to conquer than it actually was. It emphasizes the role of native peoples in transforming the pre-American wilderness, along with their humanity and cultural adaptability.
Len Sawatzky (PhD'67), University of Manitoba, on sabbatical leave next year, plans first to re-visit the Mennonite settlements of Chihuahua, the subject of his widely cited dissertation (They Sought a Country, UC Press 1971) and then, next spring, to go to Siberia with a Russian-speaking colleague to track down descendants of German colonists who settled in the Omsk area in the first years of this century, about the same time the German Mennonites were moving in large numbers to Canada.
Gene Wilken (PhD'67) has left Colorado State University after 25 years to take a position with USAID as Regional Environmental Advisor for the Caribbean with headquarters in Barbados. "Now that Karen and I have separated and the kids are off to college," he writes, "it seems a good time for new starts." As contractor, not career USAID, he escapes the worst of the bureaucratic entanglements, being physically but not organizationally in the local Mission. The job calls for him to travel widely, dealing on a day-to-day basis with policy, local law, private sector conflict and cooperation, non-governmental and private volunteer organizations, and a wide range of specific AID activities. "Everything I ever learned about energy budgets and mass transfers, economic relationships, and the delicate trade-offs of conflict resolution, come into play and it's still not enough." His address is USAID Regional Development Office, Box 302B, Bridgetown.
Bret Wallach (PhD'68), Univ. of Oklahoma, has been in India again during the spring term doing field work. His At Odds with Progress: Americans and Conservation, University of Arizona Press, appeared last year. The 'Geographers Journal' he contributes regularly to Focus featured China in the spring issue 1991 and India in the fall issue. Bret reports that he will be back in India in August, the third time this year! It's what he calls his "crackpot project."
John Lier (PhD'68), was feted at a retirement party at CSU Hayward in December. He joined the faculty there in 1968. Plans to retire in Britain (his wife Eve is from England, and John is a native of The Netherlands) have been put on hold for the time being.
Richard Peet (PhD'68), Clark University, continues his reflections on the need for and possibilities of radical social reform in Global Capitalism: Themes of Social Development (Routledge, 1991). In a short paper in the Professional Geographer, November 1991, pp. 512-519 he critiques a paper by Francis Fukuyama, "The end of history?", and suggests the necessity for the principle of a cooperative, democratic socialism (such as he sees as offered by Marx) for achieving a just and ecologically sustainable society. "Rumors of the death of Marxism are premature," he writes, pluckily standing by his long-held convictions.
Kit Salter (PhD'70), University of Missouri, reports that enrollment in the major in his department now is 107 with another 25 graduate students, nearly tripling in the last three years. His play written for the quincentennial, "The Other Side of the Story," was published in the Journal of Geography Jan-Feb 1991, and will be read at the NCGE meetings in Santo Domingo in September. Kit's "Life Lists and the Education of a Geogra pher," Professional Geographer, November 1991 (with Peter Meser) applies the birders 'concept of the personal Life List' to our on-site field experiences as professionals, suggesting it might help to organize a set of random but significant events into a framework useful to the teaching and writing of geography.
His department will host the West Lakes AAG meetings on the week-end of October 12 (Columbia--Columbus, get it?), with Jim Parsons lassoed in as one of the guest speakers. Salter's son Hayden, now an architecture student at Harvard grad school, was married last summer while daughter Heidi graduated from UC Berkeley in December (without so much as one geography course).
Against heavy odds Elinore Barrett (PhD'70) has been fighting the good fight to save geography at the University of New Mexico and may be winning. She coaxed the state Senate into passing a memorial supporting a strengthened geography program in the face of an unprecedented budget crisis combined with an unaccommodating dean, since departed. Elinore herself is scheduled to retire in two years. She and Bob are off to Japan this summer.
Peter Rees (PhD'71), University of Delaware, remarried and living in Landerberg, PA, travels through three states in the ten minute commute to his office. With Rees, Ed Bunkse (PhD'73) and Tom Meierding (MA'70) on the staff, Delaware's small department must have one of the greatest 'densities' of Berkeley geographers anywhere. Nearby George Washington University, with Don Vermeer (PhD'64), Martin Lewis (PhD'87), and Marie Price (AB'84) would be a near match.
Charles Sargent (PhD'71) has taken early retirement at Arizona State University, where he has been for 20 years. He is writing a book on the cities of the Southern Cone of South America and doing a spate of world traveling with his new bride.
Cal Wilvert (PhD'71) is on the board of the California Geographical Society. He re cently spent time in Spain and is working on a paper on sand-bed agriculture in the Almeria district.
The latest Geographers: Biobibliographic Studies (v. 13) includes an essay on "Clarence Glacken 1909-1989" by Anne Macpherson (PhD'71).
Larry Handley, former PhD Cand. and now with U.S. Fish and Game, has had his work base re-located to Lafayette, LA. His oldest son, Michael, is now working with the same outfit...wetland surveys and all that.
Glenn George (PhD'72) reports in from Orange County that his neighbors consider him a Communist simply for having a friend (Craig ZumBrunnen?) who is a Soviet (ex Soviet?) specialist and having looked at 'Das Kapital.' "There is still a marked difference between northern and southern California that someone ought to study." Glenn, a native of Wales, taught at Cal State Fullerton for ten years before being forced to retire due to multiple sclerosis. He lives with his wife Pat at 3154 Yorba Linda Blvd., Apt. E-12, Fullerton CA 92631.
Ann Withington (PhD'72) is on the History faculty at Michigan State University. Her field, 'Early America.'
Bob Gohstand (PhD'73), CSU Northridge, has published an atlas providing identifications for all ornamental plants on the Northridge campus. It includes nearly 400 species, with illustrations.
Kurt Rademacher (MA'73), Nature Conservancy naturalist, has researched the journals and letters of participants in an 1877 tour by John Muir, Sir Joseph Hooker, Asa Gray, and John and Annie Biswell from Mount Shasta along the McCloud River to Mount Lassen and Chico, finally floating down the Sacramento River to the Sutter Buttes. He co-led a trip by ten Conservancy members along this route last year and will repeat it again this September. On this one you travel first-class with travel by van and short hikes between lodging, including the McCloud River Preserve Conservancy cabin and the Bidwell's historic summer home at Lake Almanor. Along the way five Conservancy projects are visited. Other upcoming trips in which Kurt has a hand are to Santa Cruz Island, tracing the San Andreas fault, and exploring Ishi's homeland.
Tom Vale (PhD'73) has assumed the chair of the Department in Madison, Wisconsin. With a faculty of twenty-two, an undergraduate major total of 130, a graduate student popula tion of about one hundred, and a campus which is attempting to decrease its size, Tom finds his new obligations taxing. His recent publications include "Vegetation Management and Nature Protection" in Natural Areas Facing Climatic Change and "Moisture in Mountains: An Essential Part of the Western Essence," to appear in The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography. Time and the Tuolumne Landscape is still under contract with the University of Arizona Press, although progress toward seeing the book in print is "painfully slow," according to Tom. In October, Bill Denevan (PhD'63), Kit Salter (PhD'70), and Tom ("The Edge of the West") presented papers at the National Council for Geographic Education in a session honoring Jim Parsons as a master teacher.
Bob Gohstand (PhD'73) was in Russia and Ukraine this year. He has also edited a memorial booklet on the late Ted Shabad that includes an essay by David Hooson.
Edmunds Bunkse (PhD'73), University of Delaware, has sprung phoenix-like from the ashes with the liberation of his native Latvia and the subsequent independence of that Baltic country. He was in Latvia on a visiting fellow ship during much of the most critical period and has since been virtually commuting back and forth from Delaware to Riga or other European cities on special assignments. On February 26, 1991, he was awarded an honorary doctorate, (honoris causa), in geography by the University of Latvia.
His 1991-92 bibliography include six papers of which three were published in Latvia and two others in Denmark. His "God, Thine Earth is Burning: Nature Attitudes and the Latvian Drive for Independence," appears in GeoJournal 26:2, pp. 203-209, 1992. He has also partici pated in several conferences in the Baltic countries. His son Andres is currently teaching English in Latvia.
Vincent Berdoulay (PhD'74), earlier at the University of Ottawa, has been teaching at the University of Pau, France for the past two years and is continuing there. He is co-editing a book (with H. van Ginkel) on The History of Geography and Public Policy, in which David Hooson has a paper on "The New Political Geography in Russia."
Tom Veblen (PhD'75), beginning his last year as departmental chairman at the University of Colorado, Boulder (the country's largest geography department with 500+ majors), continues to be recognized for his research achievements. He has been Wallace Atwood Lecturer at Clark University (1990) and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Western Michigan, Kalamazoo (1991). He is one of some 30 foreign scientists who have been elected to honorary membership in the Royal Society of New Zealand (that country's national academy of science) and is a member of the Science Advisory Board of the Digit Fund(!). And now comes the Honors List of the Association of American Geographers, announced at the San Diego meeting in April, where the citation was "for his exemplary research on the impacts of natural and human disturbances on forest ecosystems, and for his contributions to the strengthening of American biogeography." Tom also has a new four-year grant with the National Park Service Global Change Program ($104,000) to study "The Effects of ClimateVariation on Disturbance Regimes and the Dynamics of Montane Forests in the Colorado Front Range."
And the above is only the frosting. In 1991 -92 Veblen's name appears on no fewer than ten papers or chapters on biogeographic themes relating to subalpine forests or fire history of the Colorado Front Range (5), Patagonia (2), and New Zealand, plant succession, and tree rings and the 11-year solar cycle (1 each). Of these, four are 'in press.' The articles all appear in major professional journals: e.g., Ecology, Physical Geography, Journal of Vegetation Science, Journal of Biogeography, Conservation Biology. As is the custom with Tom, all are jointly authored, often with his own students.
Along with his other activities he serves on the editorial boards of Annals AAG, Journal of Biogeography, and Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters.
Mary-Louise Quinn (PhD'76) reports that the last of her five articles on the Copper Basin of Tennessee is to appear in Land Degradation and Rehabilitation, a journal published in Britain, in the fall.
Nigel Smith (PhD'76), University of Florida, continues active as a consultant with CGIAR, World Bank, on international agricultural research issues and is collaborating with Brazilian scientists on a study of sustainable development in Amazonia with support from NSF and the UN University. Meanwhile he collects frequent flyer coupons--Brazil, Spain, England, Panama, Washington DC, even California. In December Nigel took the family (Lisa and three children) to London where he was inducted as a fellow of the Linnean Society. He is co-author of "Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation in Amazonia," Global Environmental Change Vol. 1:4, 313-319, Sept. 1991.
Janet Crane (PhD'77) has been lecturing part-time at Tufts and the University of Connecticut (her home is in Salem, MA) while she considers re-entry into the academic world full-time. Her background includes editorial work with Guilford Press, the National Geographic Society and the AGS as well as teaching at Rutgers and in Brazil. Her article on "Swapping debt for nature" appears in Sanctuary, The Journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Jan–Feb. 1992.
John Monteverdi (PhD'78), chair of Geosciences at San Francisco State, is joint author of a paper in Weather and Forecasting, March 1991, analyzing an unusual tornado occurrence in the northern Sacramento Valley.
Koichi Kobari, a grad student in the late 70's and native of Japan, is pictured in the New York Times of August 21, 1991, as owner of the "Japanese noodle" restaurant Honmura An in Manhattan. Noodles, hot or cold, made of eggs and buckwheat, are described as a basic Japanese dish along with sushi, and Koichi is a major figure in the industry. The original Honmura An restaurant and noodle factory was opened in Tokyo 65 years ago by his grandfather.
If you don't think Chris Exline (PhD'78) is a person to be conjured with on the University of Nevada-Reno campus you have another guess coming. A color brochure on the university (Join Us! ) has Chris as the centerpiece, surrounded by a group of bright-eyed geography students. UN-Reno moves this year into NCAA Division 1 in athletics and Chris, among his numerous responsibilities (he's also department chair), is the Faculty Athletic Representa tive. So look out for the Wolfpack! The department is inaugurating an MA program and adds Paul Starrs (PhD'89) to its staff this fall.
Suzan Rainey (MA'78) runs a private environmental and computer consulting firm, Rainey and Associates, in Oakland. She is reported to be engaged.
Jaime Kooser (PhD'80) has resigned her tenured position at Evergreen State College, Olympia WA, and moved back to Seattle where she is employed by the Shorelands and Coastal Zone Management Program of the University of Washington Department of Ecology. She reports that she is enjoying the new challenge of doing applied geography and is delighted to be back in Seattle.
Jerry Fish (PhD'80), Winthrop College SC, is in charge of his institution's quincentennial program "Convergence of Cultures: 1492-1992." His extensive experience in the Bahamas made him a 'natural' for this assignment.
Daina Dravnieks Apple (MA'80), Forest Service, USDA in Washington, DC, along with husband Martin and her parents will visit Latvia in September, the country her family fled during World War II when she was three months old. They will stay with her cousins who arrived for their first visit to the US two days after the coup that deposed Gorbachev last September.
Helena Ribeiro Sobral (MA'80) is associate professor at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil where she teaches Medical Geography and, at the graduate level, Society and Environment. Since 1990 she has been environmental adviser to the mayor of Sao Paulo. Helena has been elected to the executive committee of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) with headquarters in Toronto. She is currently organizing UNCED-parallel events in Sao Paulo.
Nancy Lewis (PhD'81), University of Hawaii, remains something of a power in the Pacific Science Association, having organized the successful 1991 congress in Honolulu.
Michael Storper (PhD'82), UCLA, is under contract to the EC for a study of comparative industrialization and flexible production systems in Europe. He's preparing a book on the subject with Robert Salais, and he has a recent book on flexible industrialization in Brazil.
Ron Dorn (MA'82) while serving this year as president of the AAG Geomorphology Specialty Group, organized among other things a 'Geomorphology Coordinating Board' to open lines of communication among the different geomorphology organizations in the United States. In addition, he served as Chair of the 1992 Nystrom Committee and ran an AAG field trip with Norman Meek (CSU San Bernardino) through Death Valley and the Mojave Desert. He was elected as a fellow of the Geological Society of America, and received the Castleton Award of the American Rock Art Association. This past academic year he has publications in American Scientist, Nature, Annals AAG, Physical Geography, National Geographic Exploration and Research, Pacific Science, Geology, Boletín de Lima, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Boletín de Arte Rupestre de Bolivia, all connected in one way or another with the desert varnish research he initiated at Berkeley with Ted Oberlander. This summer he expects to conduct rock-art research again in Wyoming and to prepare for work in Tibet next year.
The MA thesis of Tom Fletcher (MA'82), "Paiute, Prospector, Pioneer: the Bodie-Mono Lake Area in the 19th Century," Artemisis Press, Lee Vining 1987 is reviewed in the Southern California Quarterly, Spring 1990.
Mark Bassin (PhD'83), University of Wisconsin–Madison, is quoted as seeing his course on the Soviet Union as so problematic, given the rapidity of change in that part of the world, that he plans to concentrate his teaching on political geography, the history of ideas, and an undergraduate colloquium. His lead article in the Annals AAG, March 1992, pp. 3-22 is on "Geographical Determinism in Fin-de-Siècle Marxism: Georgii Plekhanov and the Environmental Basis of Russian History." In Soviet Geography, June 1991, he writes on "Russia between Europe and Asia: the ideological construction of geographical space," and in the American Historical Review 96(3): June 1991 on "Inventing Siberia: Visions of the Russian East in the Early 19th Century" 32 pp. Mark's dissertation will be published by Cambridge University Press as The Dream of a Siberian Mississippi: Imperial Vision and Geographic Fantasy in the Far East.
Paul Groth (PhD'83), Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Berkeley, is editor of Vision, Culture and Landscape: Working Papers from the Berkeley Symposium on Cultural Landscape Interpretation, March 1990, 245 pp.
Aviva Lev-Ari (PhD'83) moved to Boston in September 1990 and then into a new home in the Fall. She has started her own company, MultiDimensional Strategic Systems, Inc. headquartered in Newton, MA.
Tom Bassett (PhD'84), Univ. of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and family spent three months in Côte d'Ivoire this winter on a Fulbright Research Grant. Home videos show son Nick barbecuing bat and daughter Rebecca pounding and winnowing rice. Tom is the new Chair of the Cultural Ecology Specialty Group of the AAG. He will also be the Acting Director of the Center for African Studies at Illinois for 1992-93. A co-authored article with Phil Porter, "'From the Best Authorities': The Mountains of Kong in the Cartography of West Africa" recently appeared in the Journal of African History 32 (1991), pp. 367-413. The University of Wisconsin Press has published Land Tenure in Africa (1992), a volume edited by Tom.
Brian Godfrey (PhD'84), Vassar College, spoke on "Environmental Changes in the Brazilian Amazon" at SUNY Geneseo in March at a public lecture in memory of the late Donald Q. Innis (PhD'58), long time Geneseo faculty member.
Joan Cardellino (MA'84) and Briggs Nisbet (MA'86) both work for the Coastal Conservancy in Oakland.
Sally Horn (PhD'86), University of Tennessee, continues her work on the paleoecology and fire of the Costa Rican paramos initiated in her dissertation. She just returned from three weeks of paleoecological research in Costa Rica funded by NSF and NGS. Sally now has at least eight publications in major ecological journals and conference proceedings on this theme, the most recent "Microfossils and Forest History in Costa Rica" in Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South America, Harold K. Steen and Richard Tucker, eds. In this she begins to turn her attention to the Atlantic lowlands of Costa Rica, testing various hypotheses relating to prehistoric human subsistence, climatic history, and rainforest disturbance and diversity using pollen and tephra analysis of lake sediment cores. She has forthcoming papers in Quaternary Research, Biotropica and National Geographic Research and Exploration. In addition she has collaborated on a paper with Roger Horn and Roger Byrne on image analysis in paleoecology forthcoming in the Journal of Palynology.
Sally is one of eleven professional geographers on the Content Advisory Committee of the Geography Education Standards Project. This project is funded by the Department of Education and NEH and the goal is to provide world-class standards for geographical education. NCGE is administering the program in collaboration with the AAG, AGS and NGS. (see above, Kit Salter's involvement).
Fred Sowers (PhD'86) and Tisna Veldhuyzen van Zanten (PhD'86), after several years in Burkino Faso, are reported to have returned to the US and (perhaps) purchased a home in the Washington, DC area.
Judy Carney (PhD'86), co-authors with Michael Watts an article on "Rice, Mechanization and the Evolution of Mandinka Gender in Senegambia," in Signs 16(4), Summer 1991, 31 pp. Looking in another direction Judy has received a UC-Mexus development grant to study 'free trade, agricultural transformation, and gender' along the US-Mexico border.
Richard Fenske (MA'86) moved from Rutgers University in January 1991 to the University of Washington's School of Public Health and Community Medicine as an Associate Professor. He is continuing his research and teaching in the field of human exposure to chemical hazards.
Matthew Milukas (PhD'87), an energy consultant with the German engineering firm, Lahmeyer International of Frankfurt, has been in Jakarta much of the spring advising the Indonesian government on evaluating bids for a coal-fired power plant. It is to be built by private investors, who will contract to sell electricity to the government utility over a 30 year period at a guaranteed purchase price. This is a $1.5 billion deal. The advantage of the 'private' plant, Matt notes, is that the utility doesn't have to borrow the money or be in volved in the construction. He and Pat live in a rented house in Jakarta which doubles as office and guest house, complete with maid and chauffeur (Oh for the life of a consultant!). Potential future assignments--Malaysia, Egypt, the Ivory Coast or back to Frankfurt. In March Milukas tore an Achilles tendon playing squash. It required an operation in Singapore and a disabling cast. "Tell Bob Reed," he writes, "that I think of him every time I see a street hawker."
The dissertation of Barbara Brower (PhD'87), University of Texas, has appeared as Sherpa of Kumbu: People, Livestock and Landscape under the imprint of the Oxford university Press (New Delhi). It has already been favorably reviewed in the Delhi Statesman and with several illustrations. She is back at Jackson, WY, again this summer revising for publication her study of Wind River Range grazing controversies. A think piece "Crisis and Conservation" appears in Society and Natural Resources, v. 4, pp. 151-163, 1992.
Bob Voeks (PhD'87), CSU Fullerton, has been offered a three-year contract in the Sultanate of Brunei, made attractive by an extensive opportunity to carry out an intensive program of tropical rainforest research as well as teaching.
Scott Stine (PhD'87), CSU Hayward, has been elected to the California Academy of Sciences for his outstanding work on the Holocene history of Mono Lake. His authoritative statement on the subject is to be found in "Late Holocene Fluctuations in Mono Lake, Eastern California," Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 78(3/4):332-381, June 1990.
The dissertation of Martin Lewis (PhD'87), George Washington University, Wagering on the Land: Ritual Capital and Environmental Degradation, based on his field studies in northern Luzon, has been published by the UC Press ($40, cloth). Martin also has an Annals AAG piece (December 1991) "Elusive Societies: A Regional-Cartographic Approach to the Study of Human Relatedness," on ways of coming to terms with spatial patterns of social life. His example, from his Philippines work, joins some of the social insights of the 'new' regional geography with detailed locality mapping. Green Delusions: an Environmental Critique of Radical Environmentalism, Duke University Press, has been announced for October (288 pp., $24.95 cloth), while a hard-hitting paper (with Marie Price) on "Re-inventing Cultural Geography," is slated for the December Annals AAG. And there is another paper on "Agricul tural Regions of the Philippine Cordillera" in the Geographical Review, Jan. 1992, pp. 29-42.
Kären Wigen (PhD'90), is on the history faculty at Duke University. She and her husband have purchased a home in Durham, NC from which Martin (Lewis) commutes two or three times a week to Washington. Karen's historical study of change in a Japanese mountain valley above Nagoya has been accepted by the Stanford University Press. Her critical review article, "The Geographic Imagination in Early Japanese History: Retrospect and Prospect," leads off the February 1992 issue of the authoritative Journal of Asian Studies 51:1, pp. 3-29. In one colleague's words "It's like Voltaire discovering prose; we read this and discover we've been speaking geography all along."
Bob Raburn (PhD'88), who has been teaching this spring at New Mexico State University, is reported to have bought a home in the Mother Lode country with wife Pat from which he proposes to do geographic, cartographic and computer consulting. Pat, employed at Intel, is being transferred from Albuquerque back to California.
In December, Karl Zimmerer (PhD'88) settled in at his new base at the University of Wisconsin–Madison after completing a one-year field study of soil erosion and agricultural change in Bolivia, funded by the NSF and an SSRC Post Doctoral Fellowship. He writes that his Quechua received much practice and that US-funded military intervention in the coca-growing Chapare promises to be a complete disaster on all counts. Karl has produced some 12 research papers during the past 18 months, either published or in press. Most are derived from his dissertation work on biodiversity in peasant agriculturalists in the Paucartambo area of the southern Peruvian sierra. Included are articles on labor shortage and crop diversity (Geographical Review), wetland production and small-holder persistence (Annals AAG), genetic diversity in potatoes (Economic Botany), distribution patterns of potato cultivars (Journal of Biogeography), and other contributions in Mountain Research and Development, Journal of Ethnobotany, GeoJournal, and CLAG Proceedings. The Zimmerers have purchased a house in Madison.
While the rest of us read about those 'far out' places Tom Eley (PhD'88), University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is on "detached duty" to the Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue, some 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle and staring out across the Bering Straits. Herring and salmon fishing, bear watching (at the McNeil River rapids salmon-feeding ground), snowmobiling, and commuting to outlying villages for extension work keep him busy. Tom teaches natural resources, geography, biology, and maritime and rural development courses. He also advises local fishermen through the Marine Advisory Program of Sea Grants (though the fishermen--26 boats licensed to fish for salmon commer ciallyaren't really wanting for advice from any agency of the government). Tom has a shark research program underway, trying to work out the occurrence, abundance, and distribution of sharks in Arctic waters (their distribution miraculously stops at the Bering Straits although Atlantic sharks extend at least to 75-80° North). The Eleys made it out to the APCG meetings in Tucson last fall. A short monograph on maritime subsistence in Papua-New Guinea is on the way. In an Islands magazine's 10th anniversary issue feature (July–Aug 1991) Tom has a list of "10 Islands with Fragile Futures," followed by a list of "10 Island Creatures to Avoid" by Jerry Emory (MA'85).
Stan Stevens (PhD'89), Louisiana State, whose dissertation on Nepalese culture-environment issues is coming out with UC Press, was an invited participant at the National Parks Congress in Caracas this spring. In November he spent ten days at Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii as a participant in an international consultation on mountain protected areas which was sponsored by IUCN and the East-West Center. At the San Diego AAG meeting he organized and chaired a session on local resource management. Stan is spending the summer in Nepal, where he is conducting fieldwork on economic and environmental change in the heavily-inhabited eastern hills.
Piper Gaubatz (PhD'89) spent the fall as a visiting scholar with the Center for Chinese Studies, U.C. Berkeley. In November and December, she made a research trip to Toyokawa, Japan, to continue her research comparing post-war urban development in Japan and the United States. During the Spring semester, she taught two courses at Louisiana State University as a visiting assistant professor. She also travelled to Duke University to speak on Chinese urbanism, and to Washington D.C. for a 3-day Smithsonian symposium on Chinese cities. After a trip to Nepal, she divided her summer research time between research in Beijing and Shanghai (for the book generated by the Smithsonian symposium) and continued research in Toyokawa. Piper's opus on some lesser known cities of interior China has been accepted at Stanford University Press.
Wayne Bernhardson (PhD'89), is writing text for the Lonely Planet guidebooks out of London. He has recently been in Argentina and Chile, even as far out as Juan Fernandez and Easter Island, collecting background material. He returned in the spring to lecture at UC Santa Cruz and to write. Another geographer who has found guide book work congenial is PhD candidate Tom Howard who is working for Michelin on a green guide to California.
Jack Wright (PhD'90), New Mexico State University, has initiated research on tourism in Jamaica, where he visited over the Christmas break. His dissertation Searching Country: Conservation and Life in the Rocky Mountain West (concerned especially with land trusts) has been tentatively accepted by the University of Texas Press.
Bob Argenbright (PhD'90) was in Moscow early this year for three months, studying Soviet industrial relocation during World War II. He will teach at Simon Frazer University next year on a temporary basis.
Gail Fondahl (PhD'90), after two years at Middlebury College, has been the victim of budget cuts there and is looking for a job. She is currently in Buryat Mongolia and will be a Fellow of the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth this coming year.
Paul Starrs (PhD'90), who has been a Lecturer in the Department during the spring semester and joins the University of Nevada faculty in the fall, is chairman of the field trip committee for the April 1994 AAG meetings to be hosted by Berkeley and other northern California schools. Some 30 different excursions are being planned. Allan Pred is to be program chairman while David Stoddart is in charge of local arrangements.
In June Paul delivered an invited paper on the distinctiveness of the American Southwest at a Las Vegas NM meeting of the National Rural Studies Committee (a Kellogg Foundation creation) in which geographers Peirce Lewis and Julian Wolpert also participated. His "cyberpunk" talk at the AAG San Diego sessions generated wide interest (requests for nearly a dozen reprints, several from foreign countries).
Carolyn Cartier (PhD'91), her first year at Vassar College behind her, passed through in early June en route to Japan and Malaysia whereshe will spend part of the summer collecting materials for an interdisciplinary program on Asia and supplementing her earlier M.A. work in the area. She participated in a symposium on Ellen Churchill Semple at Vassar in April.
Recipients of the 1992 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor awards: Lisa Husmann and Roderick Neumann.
In September 1991, the Institute for the Study of World Politics awarded Deborah Santana Berman a grant to fund her dissertation research in Puerto Rico. The study documents the environmental and social effects of three different strategies of economic development upon a south coast community; it also analyzes community-based alternatives which are currently being proposed there. Deborah returned to Berkeley in 1992 to finish writing the dissertation, and will be presenting a paper at the APCG conference in September. Her article, "El desarrollo econòmico, la lucha ambiental y el poderìo comunitario en Puerto Rico" will be published in the November 1992 issue of Homines.
Mark Blumler (PhD cand.), on a two year appointment at SUNY Binghampton, has a paper on "Independent inventionism and recent genetic evidence on plant domestication," Economic Botany Jan.-Mar. 1992, 98-111 which argues à la Sauer and others that diffusion has been a more important process than independent invention in the origin and spread of agriculture. An earlier paper in the same journal (April-June 1991, pp. 243-250 ) on "Modelling the Origin of Legume Domestication and Cultivation" refutes a mathematical model published earlier in that magazine on the domestication of lentils and other Near Eastern legumes such as peas and chickpeas. In his latest (Fremontia, July 1992, pp. 22-27) he takes on several 'myths' relating to California grass lands and grazers.
Joanna Ellison (PhD cand.), with support from the Carl Sauer Fellowship and an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, was based at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research all year. She received invitations to several meetings to talk on mangrove response to climate change and sea-level rise: for example, in November to the UNEP (OCA-PAC) and UNESCO (COMAR) Joint Task Force Team expert meeting on impacts of climate change on mangroves, Bangkok, Thailand; in December it was off to a conference on Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystems and Species in The Netherlands; and another on global monitoring of coral reefs and mangroves at the Musée Oceanographique, Monaco; in February the IUCN World Parks Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas, in Caracas; in March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change workshop on the Rising Challenge of the Sea, Margarita Island, Venezuela; in May panels on the response of mangrove ecosystems to global climate change in Sarasota, Florida, and Niteroi, Brazil; and finally in June, yet another man grove conference in Rio de Janeiro. Joanna has ended up in American Samoa with an NSF sub-contract to look at Holocene sea-level history from mangrove stratigraphy.
Rich Griggs (PhD cand.) has recently returned from gathering hard-to-find dissertation research materials on Europe's unrepresented cultural minorities. His itinerary included The Grissons (Switzerland), Liechtenstein, South Tirol, Friuli, Slovenia, San Marino, Emilio-Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont, Monaco, Provence, Catalonia, Euzkadi, Flanders, Luxembourg, Skane, and The Hague to visit offices of the U.N.P.O. (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization). A major concern in contemporary Europe is whether the EC should be a "United States of Europe" with a single parliament of state representatives of "Europe of Regions" (cultural regions) in which the parliament includes regional representatives. Rich has a grant from the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation to study the role of Fourth World nations and to examine the role of persistent and often recalcitrant "nations" and the barriers they represent against state attempts to consolidate their territorial claims. A map of Europe's 'Fourth World Nations' is in the works and a book for the UC Press on "A Fourth World of 5000 Nations" being written jointly with Barney Nietschmann. Griggs returns to Europe in the fall.
George Henderson, who has just filed his dissertation, will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Commonwealth Center for the Study of American Culture, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. He begins this two-year postdoc in Fall 1992.
Jeannine Koshear (PhD cand.) has an USAID postdoc for the coming year in Washington, D.C.
Marcia Levenson has been teaching a seminar at George Washington University and pursuing her dissertation on the Bering Straits international border zone. She was in Alaska and Siberia recently and will be featured in a special series on that region to be aired on National Public Radio this Fall.
Frank Murphy had the misfortune to lose his home and his possessions during the Oak land fire. At the time he was with the Tropical Islands class in Moorea and stayed on there. When he came back he organized a session at the Coral Reef meeting in Berkeley in December, where students in the class gave some memorable presentations on their personal research projects. But he wasn't back for long: in April he accepted the post of interim manager at the Moorea Research Station and went there almost at once. He is close to finishing his master's thesis on the Moorea reef islands and gave a talk on them at the 7th International Coral Reef Symposiun in Guam in June.
Fred Hertz, on leave for a year, also lost his house and possessions in the Oakland fire.
Brian Page (PhD cand.) co-authors with Dick Walker, his supervisor, "From Settlement to Fordism: the Agro-industrial Revolution in the American Midwest," Economic Geography, October 1991, emphasizing the distinctive character of Midwestern industrial development and organization drawing on principles from "the new industrial geography" long championed by Dick. He joins the faculty at the University of Colorado–Denver in the fall.
Tom Howard continues as chief northern California writer for a forthcoming Michelin Green Guide to the state. Michelin is taking even longer on this project than Howard is on his dissertation. He plans to file in December, while Michelin now seems to be headed for a 1994 publication date.
Student awards for best papers or best research projects at the AAG annual meeting in San Diego went to Rick Shroeder (Cultural Ecology specialty group), for his paper "Shady Practice: Gendered Tenure in The Gambia's Garden/Orchards" and Marcia Levenson ($250, Slavic & East European specialty group).
Martine Kraus continues to work on biotechnology and the role of the State with an emphasis on the US, especially California. Most of her fieldwork will take place in the Bay Area and Sacramento. She has been invited by the Commission of the European Communities to a conference on biotechnology in October 1992, Grenoble. Publication: "Biotechnology: Industrial Structure and Policy Development in the European Community, the United States and Japan," European Parliament Research and Documentation Papers, Energy and Research Series no. 13, December 1991. Martine has been invited by the Center for German and European Studies to write an article on technol ogy and innovation in the European Community for a book entitled Europe after Maastrict to be published later this year.
Jim Proctor has filed his dissertation, "The Owl, the Forest, and the Trees: Eco-Ideological Conflict in the Pacific Northwest," for a December degree. He has accepted a tenure-track position in human geography at UC Santa Barbara starting in the Fall.
Jeff Schaffer (PhD Cand.) and family have moved to Napa, after selling their Hercules home. After 90 days of dissertation field work during the summers of 1990 and 1991 on the Stanislaus River basin's glacial history, Jeff abruptly switched his topic in January to the geomorphic history of Yosemite Valley. At the October 1991 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in San Diego, he presented a paper on the ineffectiveness of glaciers in transforming the Yosemite Valley. It wasn't until a chilly field day in December (mapping talus slopes) that Jeff realized the key to the valley's origin is joint-controlled mass wasting (especially rockfall). Conclusions from his Stanislaus glaciation field work appear in the 2nd edition of his Carson-Iceberg Wilderness book (June 1992), and conclusions for the Yosemite field work appear in the 3rd edition of his Yosemite National Park book (July 1992), both published by Wilderness Press.
Rick Schroeder, during Fall 1991, completed 10 months of research on cash crop vegetable production in The Gambia with support from NSF, Fulbright-Hays, SSRC /Rockefeller Foundation and a Andrew & Mary Rocca Memorial Scholarship. He organized and presented three research papers in November at the "National Workshop on Horticultural Programming in Rural Gambia," in Banjul, Gambia.
Sharon Johnson is co-editor of and contributor to Oaks of California ($18 plus tax), a handsome volume with fine color maps and illustrations recently published by the California Oak Foundation, 909 12th St., #125, Sacramento, CA 95814.
Carolyn Trist has been awarded a MacArthur grant for work on environment security in the Caribbean.
Serge Glushkoff travelled to Osaka and Kyoto Japan in January to give presentations about the Siberian forest protection movement, and to Fairbanks in April to serve as a panelist on the Siberian Forests section of the Alaska Environmental Assembly.
PhD. Qualifying Exam passed: Susanne Freidberg, Sharon Johnson, David Organ.
Entering Graduates Fall 1992
Jodi L. Bailey--BA'83 (Geography) University of California at Berkeley; MA'90 (Geography) University of Hawaii-Manoa
Gray A. Brechin--BA'71 (History & Geography) University of California at Berkeley; MA'76 (Art History) University of California at Berkeley
Sharad Chari--AB'91 (Physics) University of California at Berkeley
Jennifer Jones--BA'83 (Political Science) Carleton University; MA'88 (Public Policy) University of Chicago
James P. McCarthy--BA'87 (English/Environmental Studies) Dartmouth College
Luz Mena-Schrade--BA'92 (Latin American Studies) University of California at Berkeley
Elizabeth Oglesby--BA'86 (History/Spanish) Tufts University
David Smethurst--BA'86 (Development Studies) University of California at Berkeley; MS'88 (Journalism) Northwestern University
Charles R. Tambiah--BS'88 (International Wildlife) Davidson College; MS'92 (International Conservation and Sustainable Development) Duke University
Peter A. Walker--BA'86 (Economics) University of California at Berkeley; MPP'90 (Public Policy) Harvard University
Graduate Fellowships, 1992-1993
Deborah Berman--Chancellor's Minority Predoctoral Fellowship
Heather Carlisle--FLAS (Summer), FLAS/Regents (92-93) [Russian]; MacArthur Fellowship -I.A.S.
Michelle Cochrane--FLAS/Regents [Arabic]
Susan Craddock--SSRC
Eric Edlund--Regents Fellowship
Jolyn Eichner--Society of Women Geographers
Susanne Freidberg--Andre & Mary Rocca Scholarship
Florence Gardner--NSF
Paul Goodloe--Graduate Opportunity Grant
Lisa Husmann--FLAS (Summer) [Uzbek]
Sharon Johnson--Carl O. Sauer Memorial Fellowship
Jennifer Jones--Graduate Opportunity Grant
Marcia Levenson--MIGISS-I.A.S.
James P McCarthy--Regents Intern Fellowship
Luz Maria Mena-Schrade--Graduate Opportunity Grant
Katharyne Mitchell--Regents Fellowship
Frank Murphy--Regents Internship (Spring 93)
Scott Novins--Regents Internship
Mark O'Malley--FLAS/Regents [Czech]
Chuck Schmitz--FLAS/Regents [Arabic]
Rick Schroeder--Regents Fellowship
Stuart Siegel--Switzer Environmental Fellowship
Krisnawati Suryanata--Etta Ogden Holway Scholarship
Carolyn Trist--Witter Grant-in-Aid, MacArthur Fellowship-I.A.S.
[FLAS = Foreign Language Area Scholarship]
Doctorates:
Kenneth H. Orvis, "Probabilistic Physiographic Approach to Modeling Summer Rainfall in the Sonoran Desert." 1992. (Chair: Theodore Oberlander)
Master's:
Michelle Cochrane, "Deconstructing 'African Aids': An Analysis of the Production of Scientific Knowledge." 1991. (Chair: Michael Watts)
Charles Paul Schmitz, "Agrarian Transformation in Egypt." 1992. (Chair: Michael Watts)
Tim John Sturgeon, "The Origins of Silicon Valley: The Development of the Electronics Industry in the San Francisco Bay Area." 1992. (Chair: Richard Walker)
Association of Undergraduate Geographers' (AUG) officers for the past year have been Marilyn Bolak, Tina Espinosa, Jane Sterzinger, Bob Stanley. The AUG hosted the highly successful annual potluck dinner to kick-off National Geography Awareness Week last November, and carried on the tradition of Friday Beer-on-the-
