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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: Tue/Thur 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Bruce Gervais, Ph.D.

Professor

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  • Office Hours: Tue/Wed/Thur 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
  • Specialty & Interests: Biogeography; Climatology; Paleocology; Sustainability

Caroline Keegan, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

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  • Office Hours: Mondays 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. or by Appointment
  • Specialty & Interests: Labor, Political Ecology, Race and Migration, Engaged Research, Feminist Qualitative Methods

Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson, Ph.D.

Professor & Geospatial Centroid Director

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  • Office Hours: Mon/Wed 11:05 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. , or by Appointment
  • 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 3:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m., or by Appointment
  • Specialty & Interests: Cultural geography; Geography of the Middle East; Feminist Geography; Urban Geography; Qualitative Methods

Patrick Oberle, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

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  • Office Hours: Tues 1:00pm - 3:00pm, or by Appt.
  • 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: Wed/Thur 9:30am - 11:00am
  • Specialty & Interests: Specialty & Interests: Biogeography; Remote Sensing; Natural Resources; Climate; GIScience; Vegetation Dynamics

Mathew Schmidtlein, Ph.D.

Department Chair & Professor

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  • Office Hours: Mon/Thur 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
  • Specialty & Interests: Environmental Hazards and Vulnerability; GIScience; Human Geography; Public Health

James Wanket, Ph.D.

Professor

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  • Office Hours: Tue 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., Wed 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., or By Appointment
  • Specialty & Interests: Quaternary Studies; Climate; Geomorphology; Field Methods; California

Part-time Instructors

Sandra Garren, Ph.D

Lecturer

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  • Office Hours: Wed 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

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 7:45 a.m. - 8:40 a.m. , 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

João Santos Ph.D.

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  • Office Hours: Online Daily By Appointment

Jane Slavensky

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

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

Miles Roberts, Ph.D.

Professor

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

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: 21