Christine M. Rodrigue, Ph.D.

Professional, University and Community Service Activities Since July 1992

Presentations to the Community
Campus Presentations
Service to the Profession
Media
Art Shows
Contract Research and Consulting
University Service
Community Service

Presentations to the Community

04/11

"Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Hazard." Presentation to the "Avenue 63 Area Potluck and Earthquake Plan," an ad hoc neighborhood earthquake and disaster preparedness group in Garvanza.

09/07

"Boldly Going Where No Geographer Has Gone Before: The Martian Classroom" (describing the Special Topics course I did on Mars in Spring 2007). Los Angeles Geographical Society.

09/03

"Mapping Charmlee Park, Summer 2003" (describing the results of a CSULB Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Program project). With Christopher T. Lee and Brian Sims. City of Malibu public talk, Malibu Bluffs Park.

11/02

"Careers in Geography and the Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project at CSULB," a Geography Awareness Week presentation to Irene Naesse's World Regional Geography course at Orange Coast College.

11/02

"The Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project at CSULB." With Crisanne Hazen, to Erik Bender's Introductory Geology course at Orange Coast College.

11/01

"The Five Themes of Geography," With Dr. Terence Young, to Ms. Jamie Vallianos-Healy's fourth grade class at Tincher Preparatory School, Long Beach.

05/94

"Narratives of a Disaster: Media (Mis)construction of the Los Angeles Earthquake," to an ad hoc neighborhood earthquake preparedness group in La Crescenta, California.

Campus Presentations

11/07

" Mid-Career Faculty Support: Institutional Obstacles, Culture and Publicity, Grant Writing Teams, and FAD Report Editing." Invited presentation to the Leadership Forum for Chairs, CSULB.

07/04

"G-DEP: Using Spreadsheets for Data Analysis and Visualization." CSULB Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project Colloqium.

07/04

"G-DEP: A Common Structure for Scientific Papers." CSULB Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project Colloqium, for South Coast Wilderness project participants, with Chris Lee.

07/04

"G-DEP: Introduction to Ethical Considerations in Research." With Rick Behl. CSULB Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project Colloqium.

07/04

"G-DEP: Jobs in the Geosciences." With Greg Holk and Sachiko Sakai. CSULB Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project Colloqium.

07/03

"G-DEP: Introduction to HTML and FTP." CSULB Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project Colloqium.

07/03

"G-DEP: Introduction to Ethical Considerations in Research." With Rick Behl. CSULB Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project Colloqium.

07/02

"G-DEP: Introduction to HTML and FTP." CSULB Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project Colloqium.

07/02

"G-DEP: Introduction to Ethical Considerations in Research." With Elizabeth Ambos and Roger Bauer. CSULB Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project Colloqium.

05/98

"Construction of an Interactive Map for the Web by Students in Paired Courses." CSUC Learning Productivity Project Final Meeting of 1997/98 (see http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/lpp/98-99/LPP_97-99.pdf).

03/98

"Feminist Geography," a workshop, with Susan Place and Bonnie Hallman, to the CSUC Women's Center conference on "Women's Lives: Past, Present, and Future." (see https://home.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/aag87.html

11/94

"Media, Natural Hazards, and Recovery," with Susan Place and Eugenie Rovai, as part of the National Geography Awareness Week program organized by the Geography and Planning Collective, the student club of the Department of Geography and Planning at CSUC.

11/94

"Behavioral and Social Science Approaches to Natural Hazards: The Case of the Los Angeles Earthquake." CSU, Chico, Associated Students Environmental Affairs Council forum, "Environmental Controversies: Integrating Alternative Perspectives."

11/93

Arranged for Mr. Howard Ripley of Independent Living Services of Northern California to make a presentation with me on location analytic consulting for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act to William Collins' GEOG 305 (Seminar in Applied Geography).

1993-present

Numerous presentations to colleagues' classes at Chico State and, now, Long Beach State, including CSULB GEOG 596, and CSUC GEOG 300, GEOG 298, and a Psychology course, on topics as diverse as hazards, economic geography, and the prehistoric origins of women's oppression.

Service to the Profession

01/11

Manuscript reviewer for revised manuscript on communications technology and safety Natural Hazards Review.

11/10

External reviewer of the Geography Program, Department of Anthropology and Geography, California State University, Stanislaus.

09/10

Manuscript reviewer on reconstruction after earthquake, Disasters Journal.

01/10

Manuscript reviewer on communication technologies and safety, Natural Hazards Review.

03/09

Manuscript reviewer for manuscript on communications technology and safety Applied Geography.

03/08

External reviewer of the Geography Program, Department of Geography and Global Studies, Sonoma State University.

03/07 - 10/07

Webmaster for the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers annual conference, hosted by Geography at CSULB and held at the Hilton Downtown Long Beach: https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/geography/apcg/

03/06

Chaired a paper session on Hurricane Katrina and Unnatural Local Disasters for the Hazards Specialty Group at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Chicago.

12/05

External reviewer of the Department of Geography and Planning, California State University, Chico.

10/05

Manuscript reviewer on perception of wildland-urban interface fire hazard for Natural Hazards Review.

10/05

Manuscript reviewer on risk analysis and vulnerability assessment for Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Policy, Studies and Management.

09/05

Short-listed as candidate for external reviewer of the Department of Geography, California State University, Sacramento.

08/04

Manuscript reviewer on lay versus expert perceptions of technological risk for The Professional Geographer.

07/04

Moderated a session entitled "Integrating Science and Society: The USGS Science Impact Program," 29th Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Boulder, CO.

12/03

Nominated Vincent Del Casino for the Glenda Laws Memorial Award for activist-scholarship in geography. This award is administered by the Association of American Geographers, with the co-sponsorship of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Institue of British Geographers, and the Institute of Australian Geographers. The nomination entailed coördinating letters with Dennis Fisher (Psychology, CSULB), Katherine Gibson (Human Geography, Australian National University), and John Paul Jones III (Chair, Geography, University of Arizona). Dr. Del Casino was given this award at the Association of American Geographers conference in Philadelphia on 03/19/04, becoming the first recipient of this new annual international honor.

11/03

Invited to review and critique an article on risk communication in wildfire situations for an anthology commissioned by the U.S. Forest Service. An honorarium of $1,000 was paid.

07/03

Served as recorder for a plenary session entitled "Communicating Risk: Overcoming the Challenges," 28th Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Boulder, CO.

07/02, 07/03, 07/04

Facilitator of the first ever and now institutionalized "First-Timers Orientation" for new invitées to the Hazards Research and Applications Workshop held annually in Boulder, Colorado.

05/02

Manuscript reviewer on seismic microzoning for Natural Hazards Review.

05/02

Chaired a paper session on geographic education at the California Geographic Society meeting in Lone Pine.

03/02

Organizer and Chair for a session on "Media and the Terrorist Attack of 11 September 2001," Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles.

03/02

Organizer for a session that addressed "Media in Hazards and Disasters," Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles.

03/01

I served as part of a panel of eight hazards experts flown in by the Center for Disaster Management and Hazard Management to evaluate 24 proposals for funding. The CDMHA is a relatively new center jointly run by the University of South Florida and Tulane University. I reviewed three research proposals on volcanic, flooding, and hurricane hazards in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean and made presentations on their strengths and limitations to the panel. I also read the 21 other proposals in order to discuss them after they were presented to the panel and CDMHA staff. Five of the 24 were recommended for funding, including two that I had presented.

02/01

Chaired a session entitled, "New Departures in Research on the Human Dimensions of Technological Hazards," Association of American Geographers, New York.

12/00

Chaired a session entitled, "New Tools and Perspectives on Understanding Natural Hazards Worldwide Posters," fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

04/00

I reviewed a National Science Foundation research proposal on land use change and environmental perception.

05/98

The governing board of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers requested that I run for Vice-President

02/98

French manuscript translator for Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

07/95

Invited participant in the Round Table on Center Coördination hosted by the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center during the 20th Annual Hazards Workshop in Boulder, CO.

04/97 to 12/98

Organizer and owner of scehc-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu, a listserver for the Board of Directors of the Southern California Environment and History Conference series

10/95 to 12/98

Member of the Board of Directors of the Southern California Environment and History Conference

11/96

French manuscript translator for Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

04/95

One of about 30 invited participants in a conference to bring hazards researchers together with California teachers and school administrators to incorporate "Hazard Education in the Curriculum: The Invisible Subject," San José

04/94

Chaired a session on education for the California Geographic Society meeting, Pomona

Media

Spring 2011

My work on Mars appeared in the CSULB magazine as "Geographer Advances Mars Research." Beach Review, "Research Notes" (Spring 2011): 20.

16 December 2010

I was interviewed about my sabbatical work on Mars for the CSULB Publications Department. This interview appeared as Manly, Richard. 2010. "Out of This World: Rodrigue Brings Mars Sabbatical back to Her Classroom Work." Inside CSULB (December). This was the lead story. Available at: http://www.csulb.edu/misc/inside/?p=16211

13 August 2006

I was interviewed by a BBC film crew doing a series on hazards in California about faulty hazard perception, December 2005. Broadcast was part of the "California" segment of the "Journeys into the Ring of Fire" series moderated by Iain Stewart for BBC Two. This segment broadcast on 13 August 2006 and has been re-broadcast in different shows since.

July/August 2006

I was interviewed in May 2006 by Colorlines: The National Newsmagazine on Race and Politics for a video feature on their home page, concerning hazards in Los Angeles, the effects of race and class in heightening vulnerability, City planning efforts, and community self-organization. This Colorlines Video allows the viewer to "Meet the people preparing for the moment disaster strikes in California."

13 September 2005

A letter to the editor on "Katrina and the rôle of the government" was published in the New York Times.

3 June 2005

A letter to the editor on the implications of a Supreme Court decision about guilt and the intent to commit crime, "Pleading ignorance," was published in the Los Angeles Times, in the Home Edition, "California Metro" section, Part B, Editorial Pages Desk, p. B.12.

11 December 2003

My interview by President Maxson about fire hazard in Southern California for the "Beach View" talk show was broadcast on Long Beach Channel 3.

23 November 2003

An article by David Reyes about the Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research described a project by Leslie Edwards, Andrew Huston, Doreen Jeffrey, and Leeta Latham on the 1991 Oakland firestorm under my supervision and that of Judith A. Tyner and Steven Stewart (CSU Chico). Leslie Edwards, Doreen Jeffrey, Leeta Latham, and I were interviewed in the article. " Rabbit Diets Were Just for Starters: More than 500 undergrads from 90 schools show research projects at UC Irvine," Los Angeles Times, California Section.

31 July 2003

An article by Anne Sobel describing the GDEP Mapping Charmlee Park project I led with Christopher Lee appeared in the Malibu Surfside News, "Project Makes Unknown Areas More 'Accessible' Geosciences Expand Understanding of Charmlee.

28 July 2003

An article about GDEP, with a large section on the Mapping Charmlee Park project, appeared in This Week @ the Beach, "CSULB Geosciences Grant Project Gives Students Field Experiences." It also appeared in the California State University System newsletter, Newsline. The article is available at: http://karl.papubs.csulb.edu/news-events/story.cfm?hackid=102

9 February 2001

A letter to the editor on my objections to the secession of the San Fernando Valley from the City of Los Angeles in light of the energy crisis in California was published by the Daily News.

January 2001

My research on media performance during natural disasters was profiled in the campus publication, Inside CSULB. The reference is: Manly, Richard. 2001. Some media coverage a disaster. Inside CSULB 53, 1: 1.

6 July 2000

A letter to the editor, entitled, "East L.A.'s Picasso: Out of this World," correcting a factual error about the Cassini mission, was published in the now-defunct Los Angeles New Times. Available at: http://web.archive.org/web/20000816220131/http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2000-07-06/letters.html

7 May 1997

My report on the epicenter and magnitude of a small earthquake felt in Chico was reported in an article in the CSU Chico student newspaper by Kimberley Bollander, "Earthquake Trembles Chico, Barely, The Orion 38, 14: 1. The article is available at: http://orion.csuchico.edu/Archives/Volume38/Issue14/News/EatrChbare.html.

18 May 1996

My objections to the secession of the San Fernando Valley from the City of Los Angeles were featured in the "Voices" section of the Los Angeles Times, p. B12, in the Copley papers, and in Il Manifesto (an Italian daily newspaper).

4 May 1994

The ethnic diversity content of my Geography 005 course ("California Cultural Landscapes") was featured in a CSUC Orion Spectrum Magazine article by Rachael Christman, "The 3 R's + Diversity: California State Universities Require Ethnic Studies Classes," p. 9.

2 February 1994

My use of the LandBank GIS to pinpoint the Reseda epicenter of the "Northridge" earthquake and my critique of media bias in disaster reportage was discussed in Kenneth Reich, "Whose Fault? Northridge Keeps Quake's Name and Fame but Not Its Epicenter," Los Angeles Times, p. A3.

January 1994

My experience in and work on the Los Angeles earthquake of 17 January, 1994, was the subject of a Chico News and Review article, "Up from the Rubble: CSUC Prof's Lessons from the Northridge Quake," Joe Martin.

Art Shows

09/98-11/98

My work was the focus of a show at the Student Health Center gallery at CSU Chico. Thirteen of my chalk and pencil drawings were on display.

07/98-08/98

Showed a pencil drawing, "L'esprit tutélaire," at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Show, "All City Open," in the Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park.

05/98

Showed three chalk drawings in the Staff and Faculty Art Show, CSU, Chico: "Stafford Estates: A Few Select Lots Still Available," "The Big Black Mare," and "Screwy."

04/98

Showed two chalk drawings in CSUC Women's Center Erotica/rt Show: "Weaving" and "Kundalini."

05/97

Showed three chalk drawings in the Staff and Faculty Art Show, CSU, Chico: "Before the Spill," "Dresden," and "Pup- pup."

07/96-09/96

Showed a chalk drawing, "Chimera," at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Show, "About Face," in the Barnsdall Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park.

05/94

Showed three pencil drawings in the Staff and Faculty Art Show, CSU, Chico: "L'esprit tutélaire," "Serena," and "Jacrada+."

Contract Research and Consulting

07/98-06/00

Webmaster for ALS Technologies, Inc., of San Clemente, CA.

12/97-01/98

Market area analyses for Bank One, through ALS Technologies, Inc., of Los Angeles

10/95-08/96

Various transportation surveys, market area analyses, and branch analyses via Intersect, Inc., of Chicago

02/95

Branch market area analyses for eleven branches of Texas Commerce Bank in Dallas and El Paso, via Area Location Systems, Inc., of L.A.

11/93-12/93

Market area survey for The Digger Shopper and News of Oroville. The survey was done by GEOG 215 students under my direction as an exercise in sampling and research design and use of survey data and Census data.

University Service

University-Level Service at California State University, Long Beach

2000-present

One of the fourteen core faculty of the new Environmental Science and Policy Program at California State University, Long Beach. ES&P is an innovative interdisciplinary major jointly operated by faculty from Geography, Geological Sciences, Biological Sciences, Economics, Chemistry, and Anthropology. It is housed in two colleges, the College of Natural Science and Mathematics and the College of Liberal Arts. Its curriculum consists of a limited number of courses from each of the participating departments, such that several ES&P majors will be taking many of the same classes together to create learning communities. The program was launched in Fall 2003 and has already attracted roughly 85 majors, somewhat more than its originally expected build-out of approximately 80 majors. The program consists of a Bachelor of Sciences option with two tracks, emphasizing geosciences or biosciences, and a Bachelor of Arts track, with one track, emphasizing policy. Students are encouraged to take double majors in order to acquire depth in a related discipline. Five Geography majors, thus, are also double-majoring in ES&P. With Stan Finney of Geological Sciences, I co-authored the Self-Study eventually submitted for program review.

09/01-present

Co-PI on the Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project (2001-2004), an $852,000 NSF-funded program designed to increase the interest of underrepresented students in the geosciences (geology, physical geography, and geoarchæology) through summer field and lab research assistantships. I directed the Charmlee Park biogeography projects and served as secondary faculty mentor in the Santa Monica Mountains remote sensing projects directed by Dr. Christopher Lee. Senior Faculty Associate on GDEP II (2007-2012), a $1,088,000 NSF-funded OEDG Track 2 project. Have served as webmaster for the web page for both GDEP projects, which explains the purposes of the programs, presents the various research projects supported by G-DEP, provides contact among the CSULB, community college, and high school faculty collaborators, provides access to G-DEP web resources, and informs faculty and student participants of news and special events associated with the program. The G-DEP home page is located at: https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/geography/gdep/. GDEP I coïncided with a growth in Geography majors from 50 in Spring 2001 to 127 by Spring 2007 and with the marked diversification of the students majoring in Geography.

04/02 and 04/03

Served as event captain for the Science Olympiad 2002, 2003, and 2007. The California State Competition event in 2002 and 2003 was "Weather or Not," and it entailed designing a challenging one hour lab on the meteorology of storms for two sections of seventh through ninth graders in California middle schools. I also recruited James Woods (lecturer and lab manager) and Aziz Bakkoury and Shaun Healy (graduate students) to participate as event captain for the "From a Distance" events targeted to high school students (Woods) and as volunteer assistant (Healy, who had captained an event in 2001). The Science Olympiad was not held at CSULB from 2004 through 2006. In 2007, I volunteered to captain the 10th grade through 12th grade Remote Sensing event, which this year was themed around Mars, since I was teaching a course on the geography of Mars in Spring 2007. The event consisted of exercises in constructing an elevation profile from a Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) derived map, interpreting a portion of Ganges Chasma to estimate the relative ages of surfaces and construct a sequence of geological events there, figuring out the solar constant at Mars from knowing Earth's and each planet's distance from the sun by applying the Inverse Square Law, figuring out Mars' orbital eccentricity and interpreting how it impacts Martian seasons, landform identification, converting the Martian geographic grid into the Earth's geographic grid and inferring which feature would be in the neighborhood of Long Beach's "Martian" coördinates, and using geometry and trigonometry to figure out the width of the Hellas Planitia crater from latitudes and longitudes.

04/00

Attended Second Annual Retreat, "Assessment: What? How? Why?" The Pointe at the Pyramid

College-Level Service at California State University, Long Beach

2002-present

Member, College of Liberal Arts Budget Committee.

2001-2003

Member, College of Liberal Arts Facilities Planning Committee.

1999-2003

Member, College of Liberal Arts Student Travel Committee, which entails reading proposals submitted by students to secure travel monies for their participation in professional conferences.

Department-Level Service at California State University, Long Beach

08/01-08/07

Department Chair. I worked to raise the visibility of my colleagues' considerable professional accomplishments, the prominence of the department and discipline regionally and nationally, the desirability of our graduate program at a state and national level, and the attractiveness of the CSULB Geography Department to community college students throughout Southern California. As well, I worked to foster a culture of program and course level assessment and to secure resources and facilities (e.g., a larger new computer instructional lab) to ease faculty excessive workload and poor working conditions and to support students in our program. This was achieved through discussions with the College of Liberal Arts, careful management of every fraction of Full-Time Equivalent Faculty activity on Faculty Activity Reports, encouraging alumni donations through web and newsletter publicity, and facilitating a culture of grant-writing within our Department and in collaboration with colleagues in other departments in two colleges. Additionally, I raised University-level emergent issues that are making recruitment and retention of top faculty very difficult: spousal hire, day-care for children (especially very young infants), and the special problems of international faculty dealing with the INS. Some avenues I pursued to support these goals beyond the normal activity of a department chair included proposing a joint doctoral program in geospatial education with UCLA, which Geography there has enthusiastically endorsed but which the campus chancellor eventually didn't, due to the opposition of the dean of the College of Education and Information Studies there; encouraging research collaborations across departments in two different colleges on this campus and ties with UCLA, UCSB, UCR, and JPL; integrating community colleges into a geography-focussed community through Geography Awareness Week/GIS Day, community college luncheons here, an articulation workshop, and the hiring of tenured community college faculty as adjunct lecturers here; and promoting everything on the web, listservers, internal campus publications, and the Newsletter of the Association of American Geographers.

09/06-01/07

Member of the RTP Committee for Dr. Paul Laris' successful application for early tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Normally, the Department has enough tenured faculty of appropriate rank to constitute a committee, leaving me to write a separate Chair's report. In 2006-07, all but one of the other tenured faculty were on sabbatical and thereby ineligible, so I served as a committee member, along with Dr. James Curtis, and, by special arrangement, Dr. Frank Gossette (who is on half-retirement).

09/01-present

Member of the Recruitment Committee for tenure-track positions in environmental geography/cultural ecology/landscape ecology and climatology/palæoclimatology.

09/01-present

As chair, I coördinate periodic evaluation activities for part-time lecturers, providing formative as well as summative assessment of their teaching performance, including peer classroom visits. This is an increasingly important activity in light of recent contractual developments, and I have formalized this activity into a Part-Time Lecturer Advisory Committee.

09/00-02/02

Member of the RTP Committee for Dr. James Curtis' application for promotion to Full Professor.

08/00-08/01

Chair, Assessment Committee. We developed a holistic approach to assessing the effectiveness of our curriculum and the progress of our students as they move through the program. I was granted one course release time and $1,500 for graduate assistance to allow me the time to develop our assessment plan in consultation with the department faculty and move it through approval processes as needed.

09/00-05/01

Member of the Recruitment Committee for a three-year lectureship in technical geography and for a three semester leave-replacement lectureship in physical geography.

01/00-present

Member, Curriculum Committee (Chair from 08/00 to 08/01). We are reviewing every facet of the Departmental curriculum in a wholistic manner and trying to incorporate assessment as we do so.

12/99-present

Department webmaster. I substantially revised the Department web page structure and moved it to the highest level subdiretory under the campus URL. I now maintain a news page for the Department, which entails revisions on at least a weekly basis and a lot of investigative reporting! My work can be viewed at https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/geography/.

10/99-present

Chair of the Scheduling Committee. Together with the then Department Chair, Dr. Joel Splansky, I built the course schedule for the following year. I instituted a formal survey of faculty, in which they assign ranks to courses by their desire to teach them and to time blocks they would like.

01/00-08/01

Member of the Travel Committee. Together with Dr. Judith Tyner (Chair), I helped draft a formal departmental policy on the allocation of travel monies (to have the Department simply pay only for conference registration fees, up to a maximum of $300 in any one year, for tenure-track and FERP faculty), which was eventually approved by the Department.

01/00-05/01

Member of the Post-Tenure Review Committee, reviewing Drs. Frank Gossette and Richard Outwater (2000) and Judith Tyner (2001).

08/00-12/00

Wrote the general education proposal for renewing Geography 140's current GE status (G.B3). This was particularly challenging, as I had been a member of the Department less than a week when it became apparent that no-one else could do the proposal. The College review committee commended my work as having the best formulated measurable objectives and suggested only minor revisions on makeup and withdrawal policy before sending it on to GEGC. GEGC, too, was impressed with the proposal and wanted only a very minor memo of clarification on one point. The course was granted a renewal of its G.B3 status, as a GE course building on quantitative foundation skills.

09/00-02/00

Member of the Recruitment Committee for a junior tenure-track GIS position and a senior remote sensing and GIS position.

University-Level Service at California State University, Chico

04/94-08/99

Founder, Director, and Co-Director of the Center for Hazards Research at California State University, Chico. This center provides a network and focus for the earthquake, fire, flood, drought, and technological hazard related research and curriculum development work of Eugenie Rovai, Susan Place, Richard Haiman, Guy King, Rick Narad, Dick Flory, Frank Bayham, Stew Oakley, Rich Holman, Rovane Younger, Mike Davis (Southern California Institute of Architecture), Brad Wallis (NASA-JPL) and myself. One result of this collaboration has been the proposed "Catastrophe and Humanity" Upper Division General Education Theme that has won conditional approval. It also brought in a small NSF-funded Quick Response grant from the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I maintained the CHR web page for community use as well, and I owned the hazards-l listserver.

1997-98

Successfully nominated Ms. Kathy MacKay for a Graduate Equity Fellowship for 1997-98.

11/96

I was invited to and participated in a discussion about the future of the Graduate School, Sponsored Projects, and faculty professional development.

1993-95

Member, Disabled Students Advisory Committee

1993-94

Campus Climate Subcommittee of the Educational Equity Coördinating Council

1992-99

Appointment to the University Graduate Council

1991-99

Appointment to the University Research and Development Council

College-Level Service at California State University, Chico

1996-98

Director of the Rural and Town Planning interdisciplinary master's degree program. I was responsible for graduate student advising, monitoring RTPL cross-listed classes in GEOP and POLS, chairing faculty meetings, and maintaining its web page.

Department-Level Service at California State University, Chico

1996-99

Graduate Coördinator, Geography master's degree program

1997-99

Department Webmaster.

04/97 to 08/99

Organizer and owner of the following lists for the department on the galaxy.csuchico.edu server:

geopfac-l

Tenured faculty, Geography and Planning

geopfacstf-l

All faculty and staff, Geography and Planning

geoggrad-l

All geography graduate students

rtplgrad-l

All RTPL graduate students

1996-98

Chair of the Recruitment Committee for a human geographer, first, as a one year replacement and, then, as a permanent replacement for a faculty member who moved on to a Ph.D.-granting institution. I turned to heavy Internet recruitment, which generated about four times as many applicants as our traditional advertising route in "Jobs in Geography." The applicant pools were large and of very high quality in both searches.

1997-98

Chair of the Curriculum Committee. I put together a course proposal package to restore natural science credit for GEOG 001. This entailed constructing a database showing the general education status of the course in all CSUs and community colleges offering it. The data were obtained from college catalogues, web pages, telephone calls, and e-mails, a very time- consuming process. The course receives natural science credit at virtually every community college offering it and at every other CSU except Humboldt. The package is now under consideration by GSAC. I also put together a new course proposal for GEOG 106, "Geographies of Disaster," for the newly approved "Catastrophe and Humanity" upper division theme coördinated by Dr. Place.

1997

Candidate for Chair, Department of Geography and Planning.

1996-97

Member of the Computer/GIS Committee.

Community Service

Political Activism

01/96 to 09/96

Lobbying the State Legislature against AB 2043, which would have made an exception to the Knox-Cortese bill to allow the San Fernando Valley to secede from the City of Los Angeles (with disastrous results for water resource management throughout the State in my opinion).

Community Job Placement for My Students

05/95 to present

My recommendations and professional contacts have directly placed students in permanent employment as a location analyst with Intersect, Inc., of Los Angeles and Chicago (one), temporary employment as computer analysts with ALS (three), temporary employment as location analysts with Independent Living Services of Northern California (two), permanent employment as a planner in Mammoth, CA (one), and possible consultancy as a dendroclimatologic expert in Arizona (one). I attend certain conferences (e.g., the Emerging Technologies series co-hosted by ALS Technologies, Inc., and a different major bank each year) to improve my knowledge of employer requirements and to familarize employers with CSUC Geography and Planning students' capabilities.

Other Outreach Activities

09/93 to present

Because of a lecture on "cybersegregation" in my GEOG 109 course, one of my students, Mr. Boise D. Jones, became interested in differential access to the Internet and to computers and its implications for perpetuating inequity of opportunity for minorities and women. He became Executive Director of Adopt-a-Bike/Computer in San Bernardino, which offers courses on computers and the Internet to central city youth. Mr. Jones commuted between his classes at Chico State and Adopt-a-Bike/Computer each week and attributed the cybersegregation expression to me in his tireless public activism in Southern California. I am pleased to have played a small rôle in encouraging this student's community service activities.

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