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Paul Laris

Academic Title: Professor

Administrative Title: Chair

Name: Paul Laris

 

Department: Department of Geography

Department Website: http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/geography/faculty/

Institution: California State University, Long Beach

 

Address: 1250 Bellflower Blvd
Long Beach, California 90840

 

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Expertise: My research interests include savanna ecology, fire ecology, political ecology, biogeography, remote sensing of fire, and restoration ecology. I have conducted research in the savanna of Mali and the rangelands of Tierra del Fuego and I work with a great team of graduate students in chaparral, coastal sage scrub and oak woodland environments of California. My teaching interests include environmental courses such as International Environmental Issues, Humans as Agents of Environmental Change, Biogeography, Field Methods of Landscape Analysis, Landscape Restoration and the History of Geographic Thought. I am currently serving as Chair of the Geography Department. I am a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Mali 1987-1990). I live in Long Beach with my son Finn and have two sons, Copeland and Quincy in college at Berkeley.



 

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