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Students gain advanced knowledge of the spatial interactions between humans and the biophysical environment, including landscape change; sustainable resource management; human and physical geography; domestication and geographical dispersal of plants and animals; biogeography and climate change; acculturation of indigenous peoples and immigrants; indigenous agrosystems; women in development; and medical-nutritional geography. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in the acquisition, analysis and synthesis of geographic information.
M.A. Plan II
Ph.D. Plan B
College of Agriculture and Environmental Studies
Admissions and Fellowship Information
Continuing Student Fellowship: Jan 15, 2023
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Program Contact Information
Primary Program Contacts
Program Coordinator
Carrie Armstrong-Ruport
(530) 752-4119 | caruport@ucdavis.edu
Graduate Group Chair
Diana Davis
(530) 752-0802 | geovet@ucdavis.edu
Additional Contacts
Advisor: Admissions Only
Gwen Arnold
Environmental Science & Policy
(530) 752-6718 | gbarnold@ucdavis.edu
Advisor: General
Mary Cadenasso
Plant Sciences
(530) 754-6151 | mlcadenasso@ucdavis.edu
Advisor: General
Mark Cooper
Human Ecology
mhcooper@ucdavis.edu
Advisor: Primary Contact
Diana Davis
History
(530) 752-0802 | geovet@ucdavis.edu
Advisor: General
Ryan Galt
Human Ecology
(530) 754-8776 | regalt@ucdavis.edu
Advisor: General
Robert Hijmans
Environmental Science & Policy
(530) 752-6555 | rhijmans@ucdavis.edu