Berkeley Geography

UC Berkeley's Geography Department is a leading center of scholarship about earth’s landscapes and human relationships to the environment.

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Pumpkins for the pigs, pizzas for the humans, and stargazing for everyone! Undergrads, grad students, faculty, and alumni spent the weekend camping together in Pescadero, enjoying good food, great company, and some restful time outdoors at Prof Jake Kosek’s family farm 🎃🐷🍕✨🏕️

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Students have explored affordable housing in Berkeley, financial barriers facing international students, environmental inequalities in Oakland, & language preservation in Greece, demonstrating the value of connecting academic research with real-world issues and community needs.

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@BerkeleyNews highlights how Chase Hobbs-Morgan and his Geography students are taking their learning beyond the classroom by conducting research that addresses important social, economic, and environmental challenges. https://t.co/3mgSqxTKC6

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Congrats to Christina Maria Carasis on winning the APCG President’s Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation at this year's annual conference in Hilo, Hawaiʻi!

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We’re delighted to welcome Mosa Phadi, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Professor Phadi will be joining our department as a visiting scholar this semester!

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Congratulations to Sibahle Ndwayana, recipient of a @WennerGrenOrg Dissertation Fieldwork Grant! The award supports his research, “Sonic Territories: Sounding a Black Sense of Place from Santiago, Cabo Verde,” exploring how sound shapes place, belonging, and Blackness.

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Congrats to Geography PhD candidate Clara Pérez Medina on "Framing Displacement, Forcing Perspective" in Antipode! It shows how news photos of Oakland homelessness cast Black residents as "out of place," hiding racist housing policy. Here is the link: https://t.co/rrZE2Jv6Tv

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Congratulations to Professor John Chiang, elected a 2026 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)—given to 0.1% of the AGU membership. Chiang is recognized for his contributions to understanding large-scale climate dynamics, variability and change, and paleoclimate. 🌎

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They discuss how redevelopment & gentrification shape who can remain in a neighborhood and how SF’s environmental & social history continues to shape the urban landscape today. Here, the class sits in front of the former Pacific Stock Exchange, now an Equinox gym.

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Students in Seth Lunine’s Urban Field Study spend each Friday in the field, exploring the Bay Area by foot and learning to read urban landscapes. Last week, students walked through downtown SF & SoMa, looking for layers of history in the city’s streets, buildings, and waterfront.

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@clancywilmott has been in the international spotlight this week following the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of a resolution supporting the wider use of the Equal Earth projection. 🗺️ Watch here: https://t.co/FE3A7gqBng Listen here: https://t.co/oAPI6auHuQ

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We're hiring a tenure-track position in Impacts of Global Environmental Change at the rank of Assistant Professor! Check out the job description and apply here: https://t.co/Np8T5gphLS

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This collection is meant to be read and shared. Visit 583 Seminar Room, sign out a book, and return it when done so others can continue to learn through Don’s generosity. The collection is one way he remains among us. 🖤

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We are honored to announce the installation of the Donald S. Moore Geography Library in 583 Seminar Room. This collection of several hundred volumes is Don’s gift to our community—a living archive of Marxist, anti-colonial, and anti-racist thought. 📚

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Beyond his brilliant scholarship on spatiality, power, and race in Zimbabwe, Don was an unfailingly generous mentor, confidant, and friend who pushed us all to engage both texts and the world more deeply, radically, and humanely.

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What can a map tell us about a language, a landscape, and a family history? 🗺️ GEOG senior Christina Carasis is using mapping and community-based research to explore Arvanitika, an endangered language in Greece that is part of her own family history. https://t.co/kzuzfy7Qz4

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welcoming presence during her years in graduate school, a community mainstay for multiple cohorts of geographers, and an optimistic yet practical voice for building better futures. A fund has been established in her honor: https://t.co/nE6Hv6eZzP

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The geographic community mourn the loss of one of its most beloved alumni, Dr. Sarah E. Knuth. Her wide-reaching and impactful scholarly work covered both theoretical and practical approaches to energy transitions. Sarah is remembered as an extraordinarily bright, warm, and

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