| Carl Anthony. BArch (Architecture), Columbia University, 1969; Ford Foundation Senior Fellow. Former President of the Earth Island Institute and he was co-founder, with Karl Linn, of Urban Habitat. Research interests: sustainable metropolitan communities, environment and development. Faculty sponsor: Richard Walker |
| Gray Brechin PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1998. Research interests: Dr. Brechin is co-director with photographer Robert Dawson of the New Deal Legacy Project sponsored by the California Historical Society which is documenting and mapping the largely invisible legacy of New Deal public works in California. The project will elucidate the vast expansion of the public domain during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt in order to demonstrate by contrast its collapse in our own time. |
| Daniel Buck PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2002; University Lecturer, School of Geography, University of Oxford. Research interests: political economy, economic geography, development and agrarian studies, political ecology, China, Taiwan, and East Asia. Faculty sponsor: Richard Walker |
| Mark Carey PhD (History), University of California, Davis, 2005. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Scholar. Research interests: Latin American history, environmental history (U.S. and Latin America), Andean region. Research Project: people and glaciers: a social analysis of climate change and natural disaster. Office: 591 McCone. Faculty sponsors: Nathan Sayre and Nancy Peluso |
| Ben Derudder PhD (Geography), Ghent University, 2006. Research interests: the integration of world city networks and global commodity chains. Faculty sponsors: Michael Johns and Michael Watts |
| Yue Fang PhD (Oceanography), Texas A&M University, 2005. Research interests: coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling and air-sea interaction, numerical modeling of ocean circulation, tides and tidal currents. Office: 531 McCone. Faculty sponsor: John Chiang |
| James Hobbs PhD (Conservation Biology), UC Davis, 2004. CalFed Science Program Postdoctoral Scholar. Research interests: fish ecology, development and implementation of geochemical analysis on the otolith microstructure to determine migratory history and habitat utilization of threatened delta smelt. Office: 595 McCone. Faculty sponsor: Lynn Ingram |
| Hugo Lambert D.Phil. (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics), University of Oxford, 2005. Research interests: global environmental change, processes governing land-sea contrasts in temperature and precipitation. Office: 595 McCone. Faculty sponsor: John Chiang |
| Pierre Lefevre M.A. (Geography and Planning), University of Toulouse, Le Mirail, France, 2003; PhD Candidate, University of Toulouse. Research interests: regional governance and new regionalism: a case study of the San Francisco Bay area. Faculty sponsor: Richard Walker. |
| 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. |
| Olivier Mazéas PhD (Biogeochemistry), University of Bordeaux, France, 2004. Research interests: analysis of organic compounds in the environment: halogenated trace gas fluxes; hydrocarbon and pesticide contamination, biotransformation and fate. Faculty sponsor: Robert Rhew |
| 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 |
| Leticia Menchaca PhD (Geography), University College of North Wales, 1998. Research interests: paleoecological research in Mexico. Faculty sponsor: Roger Byrne |
| Maria-Teresa Ramirez-Herrera PhD (Geomorphology), University of Edinburgh, 1994. Research interests: Earth surface processes and sea-level changes, coastal geomorphology, tsunami deposits, active tectonics, earthquake and tsunami hazards, erosion rates and tectonic uplift, the Pacific coast of Mexico, and river incision and bedrock uplift, Andes. Faculty sponsor: Roger Byrne |
| Gilles Rudaz PhD (Geography), University of Geneva, 2005. Research interests: environment, mountain communities and sustainable development. Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts |
| Fernando Sabaté-Bel PhD (Sociology) Universidad de La Laguna (Canary Islands, Spain), 2003. Professor of Geography, La Laguna University. Research Interests: nature, culture and territory in peasant pre-capitalist/protocapitalist communities. Faculty sponsor: Richard Walker |
| Melanie Samson MA (Political Studies), University of Witwatersrand, 2004; PhD candidate (Political Science), York University. Research interests: trade union research, gender, environment and development. Faculty sponsor: Gillian Hart |
| Annalisa Schilla PhD candidate (Geological Sciences), University of Colorado. Research interests: measurement and interpretation of stable isotopes in water from ice cores in order to understand past climate. Faculty sponsor: Kurt Cuffey |
| Yit Arn Teh PhD (ESPM) University of California, Berkeley, 2005. Research interests: biogeochemistry and soil microbial ecology. Faculty sponsor: Robert Rhew |
| Soon-ock Yoon PhD (Physical Geography) Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany, 1994; Professor of Geography, Kyunghee University, Korea. Research interests: geomorphology, history of vegetation and environmental changes during the Pleistocene and their implication for archaeological research in northeast Asia and America. Faculty sponsor: Roger Byrne |
| Miren Vizcaino PhD (anticipated 2006), Max Planck Institute for Earth System Modelling, Germany. Research interests: climate modelling, ice sheet-climate interactions during the last Ice Age. Faculty sponsor: John Chiang |
| Anna Zalik PhD (Development Sociology), Cornell University, 2005. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Scholar. Research interests: international political economy, comparative development policy, the aid industry and corporate philanthropy in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Research project: social regulation, corporate aid and petroleum security in the Nigerian Delta and the Mexican Gulf. Office: 563 McCone. Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts |
