URAP

Tianna Bruno - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

In this project, undergraduate student researchers will focus on one or two of the following aspects of a broader digital humanities project: 1) archival analysis of historical records related to 'environmental burdens' in an environmental justice community. Students will work to chart a history of the country's largest refinery and...

Tianna Bruno - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Students will assist in the creation of a digital humanities project on Black geographies and environmental justice. Over the past four years, I have collaborated with community organizations and community members to collect oral histories focused on Black history, environmental relationships, and connections to place in Port Arthur, Texas, a...

John Chiang - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Climate science textbooks attribute the seasonal cycle of climate to Earth's axial tilt, and assumes that the influence of Earth's orbital eccentricity is negligible. However, a recent study that my colleagues and I published in Nature (Chiang et al. 2022) challenges this assumption by showing that orbital eccentricity plays a...

Gillian Hart - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

I am working on a book that compares the rise of right-wing nationalisms and populist politics in South Africa, India and the U.S. since the end of the Cold War. Instead of seeing the three countries as separate cases or bounded units, the idea is to bring them into...

Laurel Larsen - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The Okavango Delta in Botswana is one of the world’s largest and most significant wetlands. Land-use changes in its headwaters and climate change are altering its patterns of inundation, with potential consequences for wildlife and human livelihoods. Due to the vastness and remoteness of the Okavango, however, its changing...

Laurel Larsen - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

California supplies water to nearly 40 million people, sustains the most productive agricultural region in the US, and supports a rich diversity of freshwater species. However, persistent drought, extreme floods, and widespread environmental degradation are exposing significant vulnerabilities in the state’s water management system. Furthermore, decisions over how water is...

Laurel Larsen - Professor, Geography

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

River flow forecasting is essential for planning reservoir operations, defense strategies against flooding, and fluvial ecosystems management plans. However, flow forecasting is a highly uncertain science. One of the biggest uncertainties lies in resolving the timescales over which water is stored in the subsurface and time lags between perturbations in...

Laurel Larsen - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

The Environmental Systems Dynamics Laboratory (ESDL) focuses on the interplay between biological, physical, and human aspects of the environment using a combination of physically-based and data-driven models. This internship aims to expand on our current work exploring the use of deep learning for environmental predictions. Deep learning methods...

Robert Rhew - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are will accept up to 3 Fall URAP students to join the Atmospheric Biogeochemistry Laboratory for projects involving the terrestrial sources and sinks of trace gases in the atmosphere, including methane, methyl halides, hydrogen, and hydrocarbons. Students will gain laboratory skills and experience, including: prepping air sampling equipment, conducting...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project builds partnerships between community groups and academic researchers at studio.geo-?, an experimental mapping studio hosted out of the Department of Geography + the Berkeley Centre for New Media. It connects people and organisations who need cartographic assistance, from simple technical advice, access to geographic data + other resources to community...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

In partnership with a wide range of Pacific-based organizations including Fåha’ Digital Media, Pacific Islanders in Communication, the Northern Marianas Humanities Council, and Blue Ocean Law, this wide-ranging research consists of two central projects: - Researching, compiling and mapping films about Pacific Islander stories, made by or in partnership...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project is in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Botanic Gardens. It focuses on the use of signage and interpretive materials within the Crops of the World garden (and the gardens more broadly), with specific focus on geographical, cartographical and decolonial frameworks. It would suit an undergraduate student with interests...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

General Description The breaking apart of the American state is as old as the concept of the United States itself. This project seeks to document the scale of state secessionist movements through time using primary and secondary sources. The broader context of this project is a study of the co...