Geography
Spring 2019 Newsletter
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Dear Berkeley Geographers,
It's been another highly productive academic year for Berkeley Geography, marked by high quality research publications (see below), mind-broadening course offerings, leadership in academic and research centers, and community engagement by all.
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This past year the department conducted two faculty searches: in Urban / Economic Geography (with linkages to Global Metropolitan Studies) and in Geospatial Representation (joint with the Berkeley Center for New Media). Such searches are prolonged, as the outcome should be new faculty that will help shape the intellectual direction of the department for years to come. I am optimistic that our next newsletter will have exciting news to share on this front.
As a symbolic manifestation of change, the main seminar room has been modernized in a way that will surprise those of you who have not been back to the Department in a while (see story below). The room orientation, which used to orient south to north, now faces west to east. Is there some greater geopolitical symbolism associated with this? The answer is 'no', but you can hear some discussions founded on actual empirical evidence in that room during next year's colloquium series.
Have a wonderful summer, and get lost (in Geography).
--Robert Rhew, Department Chair
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Glacken Seminar Room Update
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Thanks to a generous donation from Gray Brechin and Bob Chlebowski, the department was able to update its Clarence Glacken Seminar Room in 575 McCone Hall. The room now boasts updated projection technology with a large screen for presentations and brand new movable tables and chairs for classes, colloquia, and events.
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Consider a Donation to Berkeley Geography
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Your donation, of any size, will help us in many ways, including undergraduate field trips, graduate student travel to conferences, workshops, and research sites, and the weekly Colloquium series, which brings speakers from near and far to share their research. Click on the button below to donate or contact Department Chair Robert Rhew (
rrhew@berkeley.edu
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if you would like to learn more.
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Early Warning App for Wildland Fires
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Nov 8, 2018 infrared image, GOES satellite
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Professor Jeff Chambers and his lab have analyzed landscape impacts from the 2018 Camp Fire and described a potential early warning app for wildland fire.
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Department's Video Archives on YouTube
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Collections Manager Dan Plumlee has posted a number of the department's archived videos on
YouTube
for all to view. Along with colloquium talks and other presentations on the channel, check out these historical interviews with famous Berkeley geographers.
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Erin Beller
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Urban Ecology Program Manager, Google
Liz Carlisle
, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, UC-Santa Barbara
Alicia Cowart
, Geospatial Data Services Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Open and Digital Scholarship,
University Libraries,
University of Colorado-Boulder
Julie Klinger
, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Delaware
Hongxu Ma
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AI Software Engineer, Google X
Andrea Marston
, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University
Jesse Rodenbiker
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
Annie Shattuck
, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Indiana University
John Stehlin
, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Mary Whelan
, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
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Faculty & Staff
- Seth Lunine, Chancellor's Public Scholar, UC Berkeley, Fall 2019 & Guest Curator, Cal Conversations, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Fall 2019
- Sarah Varner, UC Berkeley Letters & Science Spot Achievement Award
Graduate Students
- Saalem Adera, American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Dissertation Fellowship & Soroptomist International Founder Region Fellowship
- Nick Anderman, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award
- Alexander Arroyo, Bancroft Library Hill Study Award 2019-20
- Alex Chow, Center for Chinese Studies ROC East Asian Fellowship
- Sherine Ebadi, Summer Language Training Program at University of Wisconsin & Institute for Critical Social Theory, The New School, Summer Program
- S. Freeman, Institute for Critical Social Theory, The New School, Summer Program
- Kaily Heitz, Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
- Adam Jadhav, 2019-20 SSRC Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship & 2019-20 Institute of International Studies Simpson Fellowship
- Alexander Lenc, Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellowship for Spring 2020
- Hongxu Ma, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award
- Evangeline McGlynn, 2019-20 American Councils Combined Research and Language Training Program in Armenia
- Brittany Meche, McMillan-Stewart Fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard; Gaius C. Bolin Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship, Environmental Studies at Williams College
- Caroline Tracey, Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research 2019-20 & AAG-Latin America Specialty Group 2019 Field Study Award
- Shu-Wei Tsai, Dr. and Mrs. James C.Y. Soong Fellowship (Fall 2019) & Center for Chinese Studies ROC East Asian Fellowship
- Ailén Vega, Summer FLAS for independent Portuguese study
- Leonora Zoninsein, Craft Research Fund grant & Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award
Undergraduate Students
- Maggie Li, David A. Rose Scholarship
- Erfan Moradi, James J. Parsons Scholarship
- Fernando Navarro, Cartography & GIS Award
- Justin Nghiem, Lucille McClish Oberlander Award
- Adriana Belen Preciado, Departmental Citation
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Carl Adler
received a scholarship from the State Department to study Hindi in Jaipur, India, from June through August.
Luke Birdsong
will be spending the summer working at Comcast NBC Universal's California Office in Livermore doing a Business Development Internship and continuing his URAP Research Project through their "Summer Awards for Students" program on the Urban-Rural Divide through the context of how leaders of the alternative food movement discuss farmers and farming on Twitter.
Maggie Li
will be traveling across Europe, China and Japan this summer before starting a Ph.D. program in Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, with an emphasis in climate and health, in August.
Justin Nghiem
will be starting a Ph.D. program at Caltech in the Geology option of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences where he'll be conducting research in geomorphology.
Sydney Payne
will be spending the summer rowing with the Canadian National Team in the hopes of making the 2020 Olympic Team next year.
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Summer Reading: Our Latest Publications
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Below is a sampling of articles written by members of the department this year.
Click here
to see more.
Hongbin Zhang, Michael L. Griffiths,
John C.H. Chiang
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Wenwen Kong
, Shitou Wu,
Alyssa Atwood
, Junhua Huang, Hai Cheng, Youfeng Ning, Shucheng Xie,
East Asian hydroclimate modulated by the position of the westerlies during Termination I
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Science
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Youjeong Oh
Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place
Cornell University Press
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Anthony W. Fontes
Mortal Doubt: Transnational Gangs and Social Order in Guatemala City
University of California Press
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John G. Stehlin
Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development
University of Minnesota Press
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Bob Quinn and
Liz Carlisle
Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food
Island Press
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