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MARJORIE OWENS HOLBERG
is a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder,
working on a doctoral project, “Mapping impacts: The visual
communication of climate change in U.S. media,” focusing on the role
that maps and graphics play in the current need to educate the
public on climate change and related impacts. She received a 3-year
National Science Foundation graduate fellowship. Molly completed her
MA in Geography at University of Colorado, Boulder, following her BA
in Geography in 2001 at Middlebury College, Vermont. Molly was born
in Bangor, Maine. She has a colorful website at www.mollymaps.com
where she shows samples of her work in custom, hand-drawn maps for
clients. She invites SWG members passing through Boulder to call or
visit her.
ERIN LEIGH MEYER,
coming from a double major in Marine Biology/ Biological
Oceanography and in Conservation/Applied Ecology in May 2004 at
Rutgers University, is now a PhD candidate in Integrative Biology at
UC Berkeley, expecting to finish in 2011. Her central focus is on
the genetic connectivity of populations of marine invertebrates in
the Western Atlantic and Caribbean. Her work began in Bermuda, and
is turning now to Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas,
Jamaica and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Following these areas, she
expects to extend her investigation subsequently to populations on
the South and Central mainland as well as other islands in the
Caribbean.
HEATHER ANNE SANDER
is less than a year away from her PhD in Conservation Biology at the
University of Minnesota. She took her MA in Geography at the
University of New Orleans, completing her work in 2004. Heather’s
undergraduate work was at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology. Her current research is
ecological impacts of land use change on the urban fringe, timely
because of increasing developmental pressures and associated local
conflicts in ex-urban communities across the United States.
JANN ELIZABETH VENDETTI
is currently in Japan on a grant from the National Science
Foundation, working with a Japanese colleague who studies whelks
there. Her work will take her into fish markets to obtain tissue for
DNA analysis. She also spent a year in Taiwan, where she taught
English and learned Chinese. Jann is adding to the world’s knowledge
of the history, biogeography, and biological diversity of buccinid
whelks, a family of marine snails that has fascinated natural
historians for centuries and figured in culinary and cultural
traditions throughout the world. Jann expects to earn her PhD in
Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley in
May, 2009.
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are now Posted. - January 2007
Begum Basdas
(UCLA)
is finishing her dissertation, “Cosmopolitanism in Istanbul: Everyday Claims to
Bodies, Sexualities and Mobility in the City.”
Zhihong Chen
(University of Oregon) is starting her dissertation, “Going to the Frontier:
Chinese Intellectuals’ Reconceptualization of Chinese Geography and
Peoples During the Nanjing Decade (1927- 1937).”
Jennifer Clare
(Berkeley) has studied Tamil and Sanskrit literature and is looking at the role
of literature in Tamil culture in South India for her PhD.
Megan Dixon
(University
of Oregon) is researching Russian culture, studying the experience of
Chinese migrants to Leningrad/St. Petersburg.
Rebecca R.
Hernandez
(California State
University, Fullerton) is interested in global environmental change, and
biological plant invasions in particular. She is working on a Masters of Science
in Biology.
Sandra Kerr:
(York University, Toronto) is in the Masters of Environmental Studies Program
working on a degree in Urban Planning.
Sara Beth Keough
(University of Tennessee) is completing a dissertation on the impact of
globalization on cultural policy in Canada, using the Canadian content
regulations for radio as her base.
Miri Lavi-Neeman
(Berkeley) is pursuing a doctorate on the role of Zionist environmental
education in the contested land of Israel’s Negev desert— Israel’s last land
reserve.
Jessica
Whitehead (Pennsylvania State
University) is working on a dissertation about the capacity of
community drinking water systems to adapt to climate change
Fernanda Santos
(Hunter College) is the New York group’s $5,000 grant winner. She is working on
her Master’s degree; her thesis topic is entitled, “Quantifying the scales
of the land surface heterogeneity.”
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