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Youjeong Oh	Adam Romero	Dyuti Sengupta
Trevor Paglen	Timothy Rowe	Madeline Solomon
Hyo-Seok Park	Daniel Schmidt	Filip Stabrowski
Liam Reidy	Naomi Schulz	Jason Strange

Youjeong Oh		Personal interests:

E-mail: youjeong@berkeley.edu B Eng 2001 (Urban Studies) Seoul National University MS 2003 (Urban Studies) Seoul National University Masters of Urban Planning 2005, Harvard Design School Research Interests: Political economy of urban transformation in East Asia, Social aspects of digital city developments, public space and public sphere. Regional Focus: East Asia

Trevor Paglen		Hobbies: When I’m not doing my homework, you’ll generally find me on the telephone and Internet desperately trying to raise funds and arrange exhibitions for my projects. Websites: paglen.com Center for Land Use Interpretation www.clui.org RTMark www.rtmark.com Critical Art Ensemble www.critical-art.net Trevor Paglen www.paglen.com Museum of Jurassic Technology http://www.mjt.org/ The Atlas Group www.theatlasgroup.org Critical Resistance www.criticalresistance.org
E-mail: trevor@paglen.com BA 1998 (Religious Studies) UC Berkeley MFA 2002 (Art and Technology) School of The Art Institute of Chicago Research Interests: Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and geographer working at the intersections of social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to interpret the world around us. His most recent projects involve close examinations of state secrecy, the California prison system, and the CIA’s practice of “extraordinary rendition.” Paglen’s visual artwork has been shown at MASSMOCA (2006), the Warhol Museum (2007), Diverse Works (2005), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2007) and numerous other arts venues, universities, conferences, and public spaces. He has had one-person exhibitions at Deadtech (2001), the LAB (2005), and Bellwether Gallery (2006). Paglen’s first book, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (co-authored with AC Thompson; Melville House, 2006) was the first book to systematically describe the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program. His second book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (Melville House, 2007), an examination of the visual culture of “black” military programs, will be published in November 2007. He is currently completing his third book, entitled Blank Spots on a Map: Geography and State Secrecy, which will be published by Dutton/Penguin in late 2008 or early 2009. Regional Focus:

Hyo-Seok Park		Personal interests:

E-mail: hspark@berkeley.edu MS 2005 (Civil and Environmental Eng) Univ. of Washington. BA 2002 (Geography and Statistics ) Seoul National University Research Interests: Tropical climate dynamics and convection, monsoon interannual variability. The sensitivity of the Indian monsoon to atmospheric stationary waves. Regional Focus: India and West Africa.

Liam Reidy		Recent Oral Presentations: 2005 Stratigraphic evidence for the invasion, timing and migration of European weeds into California. 101st Annual Meeting of American Geographers, Denver, CO April 6th. 2004 European Weed Invasions in California and Dating Recent Large Earthquake Events in the San Francisco Bay Area. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers' 67th Annual Meeting at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, Oregon. September 10. 2004 European Weed Invasions in California and Dating Recent Large Earthquake Events in the San Francisco Bay Area. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers' 67th Annual Meeting at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, Oregon. September 10. 2004 Late Holocene Paleocological Record from Mountain Lake, San Francisco, California. 100th Annual Meeting of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA March 18th. 2003 Heavy Metal Contamination at Mountain Lake, San Francisco, California. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers' 66th Annual Meeting at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. September 20. 2003 Historic Environmental Change at Morro Bay, California. California Geographic Society 56th Annual Meeting at the American River College, Sacramento, California. April 26. 2002 Using non-native pollen as chronological markers in lake sediments from San Francisco, California. The 25th Applied Geography Conference, at Binghamton, State University of New York. Oct 25th. 2002 Late Holocene Vegetation Change at Mountain Lake in the San Francisco Presidio: Implications for Park Management Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 65th Annual Meeting at California State University, San Bernardino, California. Oct 4th. 2002 Evidence for Climate Change in San Francisco between A.D. 550-700? Bay Area Paleoclimate Group Meeting at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California. June 3rd. 2002 Aliens, Heavy Metal, and s Swan Song for Mountain Lake? Evidence of Environmental Change during the last 2000 years in the San Francisco Presidio. San Francisco Natural History Series, Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, California. January 24th. 2001 Recent Vegetation Change at Mountain Lake. Presidio Plant Nursery, Presidio, San Francisco, California. July 12th. 2001 Mountain Lake Vegetation-the last 2000 years, San Francisco. First Annual Mountain Lake Symposium at the California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. May 3rd. Recent Poster Presentations: 2002 2000 Years of Environmental Change at Mountain Lake, San Francisco. Second Annual Mountain Lake Symposium at the California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. May 9th. 2000 Paleoecological Record from Mountain Lake, San Francisco, California. Program Abstracts from the 2nd National Earth Science Meeting, Mexican Geophysical Union; pp. 173. Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. Oct. 29-Nov. 2. 2000 Heavy Metal Contamination of Mountain Lake, San Francisco, California. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 63rd Annual Meeting. Arcata, California. Sept. 19-23. Web sites: California Geographical Society The Society, founded in 1946, is the oldest and only statewide organization that seeks to enhance the understanding of geography and promote interaction among applied geographers and members of the general public who have an interest in geography. TIMECHS Timing and mechanisms of Holocene climate change in NW Europe Baynature.org Explore the natural world of the San Francisco Bay Area. LakeMerced.org A site that tracks the current and historic condition of Lake Merced in the Outer Sunset District of San Francisco. Limerick-Leader The paper that keeps me up to date with all the local news and sports from County Limerick. NOAA Paleoclimatology Program A central source for paleclimatic data, research, and information located at the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. APCG Homepage (Association of Pacific Coast Geographers) San Francisco GAA Local Gaelic Games in San Francisco Liverpool AFC My favorite soccer team!
E-mail: lreidy@berkeley.edu MA 2001 (Geography) UC Berkeley BA 1994 (Arts-Geography) National University of Ireland, Galway. Research Interests: Environmental Change in California following European Settlement, Pollen Analysis, Late Quaternary Paleoecology and Climate Change in the Western US, Historical Biogeography, Dating Late Holocene Paleo-Earthquake Events in Northern California. Regional Focus: California and Western United States Upcoming Event: Association of American Geographers AAG 2006 Annual Meeting April 17-21, 2007 San Francisco, CA Paclim Conference 2007 May 13-16, 2007 Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA California Geographical Society 61st Annual Meeting 2007 Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California March 16-18 Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 2007 Annual Meeting Long Beach, CA October 17-20 Publications in process: 2006 Heavy Metal Contamination at Mountain Lake, Presidio National San Francisco. Liam Reidy and Roger Byrne (in preparation) 2006 European Impacts on a natural lake in the Presidio National Park, San Francisco. Liam Reidy and Roger Byrne (in preparation) Recent Publications: 2005 Recent (1850-2005) and Late Holocene (AD 400-AD 1850) Sedimentation Rates at Bolinas Lagoon, Marin County, California. Roger Byrne and Liam Reidy (UC Berkeley) with the assistance of Matthew Kirby (Cal State Fullerton), Araon Arthur (Oregon State University), Beth Watson, Daniel Schmidt, Jena Krause, Jennifer Sullivan, Josh Borkowski, Alex Yiu (UC Berkeley) and Angela Menchaca (Berkeley High School). Final Report to submitted to the Marin Open Space District. 2005 Recent Sedimentation Rates at Watsonville Slough, Santa Cruz County, California. Final Report Submitted by Roger Byrne and Liam Reidy, (UC Berkeley) to The Watershed Institute, California State University, Monterey Bay, California. 26 pp. 2005 Suzanne Hecker, Daniela Pantosti, David P. Schwartz, John C. Hamilton, Liam M. Reidy, and Thomas J. Powers. The Most Recent Large Earthquake on the Rodgers Creek Fault, San Francisco Bay Area. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2005 95: 844-860. 2003 Kirby, M.E., Poulsen, C.J., Lund, S.P., Patterson, W.P., Reidy, L., and Hammond, D.E., "Late Holocene lake level dynamics inferred from magnetic susceptibility and stable oxygen isotope date: Lake Elsinore, Southern California", U.S.A., Journal of Paleolimnology, 31, p. 275-293. 2003 Changing Sedimentation Rates during the Last Three Centuries at Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, California. Roger Byrne and Liam Reidy (UC Berkeley), Matthew Kirby (Cal State Fullerton), Steve Lund and Christopher Poulsen (University of Southern California). Final Report Submitted to the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board, Riverside County, California. Final Report as pdf 2002 Using non-native pollen as chronological markers in lake sediments from San Francisco, California" pp 69-75 Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences. Volume 25, 2002 A Record of Large Earthquakes on the Southern Hayward fault for the Past 500 Years. James J. Lienkaemper, Timothy E. Dawson, Stephen F. Personius, Gordon G. Seitz, Liam M. Reidy, and David P. Schwartz. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol 92, No.7, pp. 2637-2658, October 2002. 2002 Logs and Data from Trenches Across the Hayward Fault at Tyson's Lagoon (Tule Pond), Fremont, Alameda County, California. James J. Lienkaemper, Timothy E. Dawson, Stephen F. Personius, Gordon G. Seitz, Liam M. Reidy, and David P. Schwartz. http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/map-mf/mf2386/ 2001 Evidence of Environmental Change over the last 2000 years at Mountain Lake, in the northern San Francisco Peninsula, California. Masters Thesis, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley. MA Thesis Believe it or not-the six meters of sediment at the bottom of Mountain Lake in the San Francisco Presidio contains an archive of local environmental change since the lake formed about 2000 years ago!. What could almost 20 feet of mud tell you about fluctuating lake water levels?, invasion of non-native weeds following the arrival of the first Europeans?, the impact of US Army activities on the lake?, and recent heavy metal contamination of the near surface sediments following the opening of Highway 1 alongside the lake after 1940? If you are interested in learning more about the history of environmental change at Mountain Lake, San Francisco you can download the thesis as a pdf file. (108 pgs.) Get Acrobat Reader to view PDF Current Projects: Identification of Historic Pollen Horizons from the Rodgers Creek Fault in Petaluma, California (with Suzanne Hecker, USGS, Menlo Park) Bolinas Lagoon Sediment Coring Project (with R. Byrne) Late Holocene Paleoecological Investigation at Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, California (with R. Byrne, M. Kirby, S. Lund and C. Poulsen) Recent Sedimentation Rates at Watsonville Slough, Santa Cruz County, California (with R. Byrne) Historic Heavy Metal Accumulation in the Marshes and Mudflats at Morro Bay, California (with R. Byrne) Identification of Historic Pollen Horizons from the Rodgers Creek Fault in Petaluma, California (with Suzanne Hecker, USGS Meno Park, California). Paleo-environmental reconstruction at Pine Lake, Stern Grove, San Francisco (with R. Byrne).

Adam Romero		Personal Interests:

E-Mail: heyadamr@gmail.com BS 2005 (Biology and Environmental Studies) UC Santa Cruz MS 2007 (Water Science, Policy & Management) University of Oxford, England Research Interests: Environmental change and its impacts on nutrient dynamics and water quality. Regional Focus:

Timothy Rowe		Personal Interests:

E-Mail: rowe@berkeley.edu BA 2003 (Geography) UC Berkeley Research Interests: Timothy is interested in the geography, real and constructed, of popular American music forms, particularly early recorded blues and country music. Regional Focus:

Daniel Schmidt		Personal Interests: When I'm not teaching or neck deep in mangrove mud I like to surf, ride my bike, and hang out with my amazingly rad wife.

E-mail: dps11@berkeley.edu BS 2001 (Geography and English) University of Wisconsin at Madison Research Interests: Dan is an ecologist with a focus on the paleoecology of coastal ecosystems. In California I have worked on a project reconstructing the ecology and rates of sedimentation in Bolinas Lagoon. For my dissertation I'm studying ecosystem dynamics of mangrove trees through the late Holocene. My research site is at a STRI Laboratory (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) near Colon, Panama. I am using pollen and a host of other paleo techniques to reconstruct the changing distributions of red, white and black mangroves over a time span of about 4,000 years. I am also teaching middle school (7th grade) at Adam's Middle School in Richmond. I am a fellow of the Exploring California Biodiversity project which is sponsored by Berkeley's Natural History Museums and the NSF. I really, really enjoy teaching and have taught in high schools, middle schools and in the outdoors as a guide for about 10 years. Regional Focus: Panama and California

Naomi Schulz		Personal Interests:

E-mail: naomischulz@berkeley.edu BA 2004 (Liberal Arts) California Institute of Integral Studies Research Interests: social movements, environmental justice, political ecology, and chemical weapons demilitarization in the US. Regional Focus: obsolete chemical weapons stockpiles dotted around the US.

Dyuti Sengupta		Personal Interests:

E-mail: dyuti@berkeley.edu BS 1995 (Engineering ) University of Washington, Seattle MA 2000 (Interdisciplinary Computer Science) Mills College, Oakland, CA Research Interests: Physical Geography, Environmental Change and Methods of Dating Environments Regional Focus: Western U.S., Mexico

Madeline Solomon		Personal Interests:

E-mail: redleaf@pon.net BA 1995 (Psychology and Anthropology) Sonoma State University MSC 2000 (Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy) University of Sheffield, UK Research Interests: Recovery of physical evidence of Northern California Indian peoples' anthropogenic landscape burning practices that were conducted before Euro-American settlement. Regional Focus:

Filip Stabrowski		Personal Interests:

E-mail: filips@berkeley.edu BA 1997 (Political Science) Oxford M.Phil. 2002 (Russian and East European Studies) Oxford Research Interests: Filip's interests include the dynamics of spaces of resistance-places that are necessarily left out of the homogenizing processes of capital and from which might emerge any variety of oppositional movements. Regional Focus:

Jason Strange		Personal Interests:

E-mail: strango@berkeley.edu BS (Biology) Eastern Kentucky University MA (Geography) University of Kentucky Research Interests: Jason's interested in political ecology as it occupies the intersection of the concerns of Marxist-inspired political economy, of ecology and conservation biology and of peasant studies, particularly in eastern Kentucky. Regional Focus:

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