Visiting Scholars, 2004-2005


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Visiting Scholars and Post Doctoral Fellows


Gray Brechin PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1998. Research interests: urban, environmental and art history focussing on environmental history, particularly the parallels between the decline of classical civilizations and present-day California; mining as conceptual model for all resource exploitation.
Juliet Erazo PhD (Anthropology and Natural Resources), University of Michigan, 2003. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Scholar. Research interests: Research interests: history of and politics within indigenous social movements, particularly surrounding land use management, development, and property regimes. Faculty sponsors: Michael Watts and Nancy Peluso.
Jeff Kavanaugh PhD (Earth & Ocean Sciences), University of British Columbia, 2001. Research interests: environmental glaciology, glacier bed processes (hydrology and subglacial deformation), field measurements and instrumentation. Faculty Sponsor: Kurt Cuffey.
Benjamin Lintner PhD (Physics), University of California, Berkeley, 2003. Research interests: mechanisms of El Niño-Southern Oscillation impact on the tropical climate, mechanisms of passive tracer transport; circulation interannual variability; model-observation intercomparison. Faculty Sponsor: John Chiang.
Kathleen McAfee PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1999.  Research interests: global environmental governance and its application in Latin America, especially rural Mexico. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts
Frances Malamud-Roam PhD (Geography), University of California, 2002. Sea Grant Postdoctoral Fellow. Research Interests: paleo-environmental change, origins of agriculture, San Francisco Bay Estuary. Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Ingram.
Thomas Schreiner PhD (Architecture), University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Research interests: environmental and cultural implications of traditional Maya lime production; paleoenvironmental studies of North Peten Lakes. Faculty Sponsor: Roger Byrne.
David Smethurst PhD (Geography) University of California, Berkeley, 1997. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Johns.
Yit Arn Teh PhD (ESPM) University of California, Berkeley, 2005. Research interests: biogeochemistry and soil microbial ecology. Faculty Sponsor: Robert Rhew.
Visiting Student Researcher
Christian Abrahamsson PhD Student in the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden. Faculty Sponsor: Allan Pred


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