Faculty Publication 1999-2004
Julie Cidell, who has just joined the Geography faculty this year (Fall 2004), brings with her a record of
quality scholarship. In 2001 she received the AAG (Association of American Geographers)
Transportation Geography Specialty Group Master’s Thesis Award, while in 2004 she was recipient of
the AAG Transportation Geography Specialty Group Dissertation Award. In addition, since 2003 she has
published two articles in the Journal of Transportation Geography (one forthcoming) and one in Critical
Planning Journal.
Robin Datel has published three books reviews (two for Material Culture, one for The Professional
Geographer), published three abstracts, two jointly-authored abstracts (one with Tom Krabacher, one
with Victor Wu) and one single-authored, for conference papers presented at meetings of the Association
of American Geographers and the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. She also presented a poster
(with Robert Richardson) on the History of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers at the
Association of American Geographers centennial meetings in Philadelphia in 2004. She prepared a series
of 33 student exercises to accompany the 2000 junior high school textbook World Geography Today. She
also served as a professional consultant in litigation on California’s 2001 legislative redistricting plan.
Bruce Gervais joined the Department in Fall 2003. Since that time he has had one jointly-authored book
chapter and two multiple-authored journal articles appear (one in Quaternary International the other in
The Holocene), all dealing with environmental change in the arctic and subarctic. In March 2004 he
published the abstract of a paper presented on dendrchronological research at the 100th annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Philadelphia. He is scheduled to present another
paper at the AAG’s 101st meetings in April 2005 in Denver. In addition, along with Jim Wanket, he has
helped set up the Geography Department’s paleoecology laboratory.
Thomas Krabacher has published two abstracts for papers presented at academic conferences. One,
jointly-authored with student Deborah Daniels, was presented at the 2001 annual meetings of the
American Anthropological Association; the other, co-authored with Robin Datel, was presented at the
2002 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. He also served as a manuscript
reviewer The Professional Geographer.
Miles Roberts, in 2003, prepared two reports, based on remotely-sensed data, for Ducks Unlimited on
land cover analysis at selected sites.
James Wanket, during his first three semesters here, has worked with Bruce Gervais to establish a
paleoecology laboratory in the Geography Department. In 2004 he presented a paper (and thus published
its abstract) at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers. He is currently planning
to present a paper (prepared jointly with student Heather Bills) at the upcoming meeting of the California
Geographical Society in April 2005.
