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Visitors

Past Visitors:


Octavio Pescador

 

Anna Bullen

AnnaBullenphoto1.jpg Visiting USC from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, I am currently carrying out empirical research at the Los Angeles Eco-Village as part of my PhD. I completed my BA degree in Environmental Management and Resource Development, and an MA in Space, Place and Politics; my doctoral research examines the idea of 'sustainable citizenship.' This, briefly, is the hybridization of sustainable development and citizenship, employing the principles of sustainable development as a means of 'stretching' the notion of traditional citizenship and creating a global / environmental citizenry, with new perspectives on time, space, scale, and the non-human, whereby a sustainable society may be pursued. I will be spending the next few months examining the day to day practices of the eco-villagers, carrying out group workshops / discussions with them and one to one interviews in order to examine the contradictions, barriers and opportunities existent within thisnotion of sustainable citizenship.

Martin Kammerer

Martin Kammerer Martin Kammerer specializes in fluvial geomorphology and sediment transport. Working with Dr. Bernard Bauer, his dissertation was a field investigation of spatial performance patterns of sediment transport models when bed roughness was accounted for by stress partitioning. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and received his Master's degree from Arizona State University, where he worked on heavy metals in stream sediments under Dr. Will Graf. Martin. He gathered academic experience as faculty member and Chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Whittier College where he taught Environmental Sciences, Physical Geography, Geomorphology, Cartographic Methods, GIS, Physical Hydrology, and Integrated Field Methods. He has been active as a scientific consultant to local government agencies and various non-profit organizations working on stream-channel restoration and naturalization design. He now holds a scientific staff position at the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy where he continues to work on stream rotation and urban storm water projects. Martin remains a member of the academic research community at USC, holding a post-doctoral research assistant position.

Rania Bou Kheri

Raniaboukheirphoto1.jpgDr. Rania Bou Kheir, a researcher at the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research/National Center for Remote Sensing. Rania was granted a Fulbright scholarship by the by the American Embassy in Beirut. She has spent three months (July - September) working on collaborative research projects at the GIS Research Laboratory in the Department of Geography. Rania is working under the direction Professor John Wilson.

Rania has submitted a research paper, Use of terrain variables for predictive gully erosion mapping in Lebanon. She expects her research paper will be submitted by the end of 2004 to the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

Dr. Kheir's visit to the GIS Research Laboratory at USC has allowed her to plan for future research projects to be carried out in cooperation with Professor Wilson and his Ph.D. students. See her CV.

Hector Lucero

photo and info forthcoming

Diego Martino

DMartinofamilyphoto1.jpg Education:

  • Ph.D. Geography and Environmental Studies Carleton University, 2004
  • M.A. Geography, Carleton University, 2000
  • B.A. (Lic) International Affairs, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1996

Courses Taught:

  • Nature and Environment
  • Environmental Geography
  • Environmental Studies Colloquium

Research Interests:

  • Urban Ecology
  • Road Ecology
  • The role of modified environments in conservation
  • Perceptions of nature and conservation
  • Environmental Philosphy

Current Projects:

  • The importance of road verges for biodiversity conservation in southeastern Uruguay
  • Urban agriculture, conservation and youth involvement in Castillos City

Bard Romstad

bard_romstad1.jpg PhD Student in Geography at the University of Oslo (http://www.uio.no) and the International Centre for Geohazards (http://www.geohazards.no). Visiting scholar at USC until March 2005. His research focus is the use of GIS and terrain modeling for geohazard studies. While at USC, Bard is working with the use of terrain analysis for landslide hazard zonation.
Homepage: http://folk.uio.no/baardr/

Linchuan "Jack" Qiu

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