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Department of Geography College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Meet Us

Staff

Pedro Garcia, ASC II

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Full-time Instructors

Jasmine Arpagian, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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  • Office Hours: MON 11:00am - 12:00pm//WED 10:00am - 12:00pm

Bruce Gervais, Ph.D.

Professor

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  • Office Hours: MON 11:00am - 12:00pm//TUE/THU 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Specialty & Interests: Biogeography; Climatology; Paleocology; Sustainability

Caroline Keegan, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

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  • Office Hours: Mon 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, or by Apt.
  • Specialty & Interests: Labor, Political Ecology, Race and Migration, Engaged Research, Feminist Qualitative Methods

Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson, Ph.D.

Assoc Prof & Geospatial Centroid Director

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  • Office Hours: MON/WED 8:00am - 9:00a, or by Apptpointment
  • Specialty & Interests: Paleoecology; Paleolandscape Modeling; Geovisualization; Augmented/Virtual Reality and Internet of Things (IoT); GIScience; Applied Geography

Tom Krabacher, Ph.D.

Professor

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  • Office Hours: MON/TUE/THU 10:30am - 11:45am//WED 12:00-1:00pm
  • Specialty & Interests: Cultural Ecology; Economic Development; Climate; Environmental History

Hanieh Molana, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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  • Office Hours: WED 12:00pm -3:00pm, or by Appt
  • Specialty & Interests: Cultural geography; Geography of the Middle East; Feminist Geography; Urban Geography; Qualitative Methods

Patrick Oberle, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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  • Office Hours: TUE/THU 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM; or by Appointment
  • Specialty & Interests: Urban Geography; GIScience; Participatory GIS; Historical Geography; Post-industrial Cities; North America

Erica Orcutt, PhD

Assistant Professor

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  • Office Hours: MON/WED 2:00pm - 3:30pm, or by Appt
  • Specialty & Interests: Specialty & Interests: Biogeography; Remote Sensing; Natural Resources; Climate; GIScience; Vegetation Dynamics

Miles Roberts, Ph.D.

Professor

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  • Office Hours: By Appointment
  • Specialty & Interests: Remote Sensing; GIS; Ecology; Spatial Statistics

Mathew Schmidtlein, Ph.D.

Department Chair & Professor

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  • Office Hours: MON/WED 12:00pm - 1:30pm, or by Appt
  • Specialty & Interests: Environmental Hazards and Vulnerability; GIScience; Human Geography; Public Health

James Wanket, Ph.D.

Professor

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  • Office Hours: TUE 1:30pm-3:00p//WED 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  • Specialty & Interests: Quaternary Studies; Climate; Geomorphology; Field Methods; California

Part-time Instructors

Jennifer Kusler

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Laura McGowan Ph.D.

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  • Office Hours: MON/WED 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm; by Appointment (Must Email in Advance for Meeting Room)

Marius Petraru Ph.D.

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  • Office Hours: MON/WED/FRI 11:00 am - 11:50 am/ Zoom / Meet Me

Matt Rosenberg

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  • Office Hours: WED 2:00 - 3:00, Via Zoom

João Santos Ph.D.

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  • Office Hours: TUE/THU 4:20pm - 5:20pm, by Appt

Jane Slavensky

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  • Office Hours: THU 11:30am - 12:30pm, or by appt.

Kimberly Walton

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  • Office Hours: MON 8:00 am - 8:45 am, by Appointment.

Emeritus Faculty

Robin Datel Ph.D.

Professor

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  • Specialty & Interests: Geography of the Sacramento Region; Historic Preservation; Urban Historical Geography; Europe

Marsha Dillon Ph.D.

Professor

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  • Location: Amador 552D
  • Specialty & Interests: Natural Resources; Population Change; United States & Canada; California

Robert Richardson Ph.D.

Professor

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  • Specialty & Interests: Digital cartography, climate change, off-grid solar power, biofuels

Michael Schmandt Ph.D.

Professor

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  • Specialty & Interests: Urban Planning; Geographic Techniques; Food; Applied Geography; Transportation Patterns; California Central Valley; Field Geography
Total Members: 23