Geography Graduate Group Faculty

Anthropology; Behavioral Ecology; Conservation and Development

Investigating the effect of urbanization on plant community and nutrient dynamics and integrating ecological and social theories and urban design to enhance understanding and development of cities as sustainable coupled human-natural systems. Study exchanges of nutrients, pollutants, and organisms across landscape boundaries such as forest edges and riparian zones. Work across scales in metropolitan, semi-arid savanna and forest systems.

I am interested in how different forms of legal protection affects biodiversity at a landscape scale in tropical countries and in indicator, umbrella, keystone and flagship species.

Adela de la Torre, an agricultural economist, is the director and Professor of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Davis. Dr. de la Torre's publications and research primarily focus on health care access and finance issues that affect the Latino community as well as Border health issues. In addition, she has completed studies on the impact of education on occupational location of Hispanics

Geomorphology, Climate Change, Anthropogenic Disturbances, and Restoration

Ecosystems and Landscape Ecology

Environmental geography, biodiversity, education

Relationships between transportation and land use, including the impact of land use on travel behavior and the impact of transportation investments on land development patterns

Ecological modeling, geo-informatics, agricultural geography, biodiversity conservation, climate change

Law & Development, Development Planning, Social Policy & Welfare: Southern Africa, Southeast Asia

Food and economic systems; South America

Teratology and birth defects; North America, southeast Asia

"Movements of fishes, sharks, and
marine mammals relative to their social and physical environments;
ultrasonic, radio, and satellite telemetry; mechanisms of orientation
and migration"

Fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, watersheds, North America

Environmental justice, rural community development, participatory action research, political ecology, Central Valley

Environmental policy; community-based management; social networks, human cooperation; quantitative analysis

Urban forestry

North America and Caribbean. Native American community/economic development; political ecology; Federal Indian law; Native American natural resource policy; qualitative GIS; indigenous geography and cartography; Afro-indigeneity; intergenerational trauma and healing; participatory research methods; rural environmental justice; multi cultural dimensions of conservation, land use, and planning

Fluvial geomorphology, sedimentology, stratigraphy and basin analysis;
CENTER FOR WATERSHED SCIENCES

Design of the built environment and investigating the roles in which landscapes might adapt to provide ever-increasing productive and infrastructural programs to the global city, given economic, social, and environmental changes within urban development, including population growth and climate change

States and property in Latin America and Africa. The construction and mobilization of space with a focus on governance, categorization, citizenship, territory and movement. Social production of space and the stories and histories told about emplacement and the movement of ideas, people and things between Africa and Asia.

Environmental horticulture and water quality

Information Center for the Environment: Environmental informatics applied to conservation policy, biodiversity, land use, and water quality

Classical landscapes and the biophysical environment; eastern Mediterranean

Clothing and environmental hazards; North America, China

Evolution, population dynamics; North-South America

Agriculture and resource economics, econometrics, finance

Gender and Global Issues, feminist theory, tourism, China

Rangeland Watershed Specialist

Agricultural sustainability, sustainable food systems, sustainability metrics and indicators, sustainability science; Geography emphasis includes land use and land cover change

GIS, Remote Sensing, Watersheds, Riverscapes, Working Landscapes, Viticulture

Hydrological Science and Modeling (GIS)

Sustainable development; urban design; city and regional planning; land use; climate change

Environmental horticulture