Marilyn Raphael

Dr. Marilyn Raphael is the past director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Professor of Geography at UCLA, and served as Department Chair from 2010-2013. Her primary research focus is Southern Hemisphere (SH) atmospheric dynamics and climate change and her major scientific goals are to characterize the Antarctic sea ice variability and to define and understand the interaction between Antarctic sea ice and the large-scale Southern Hemisphere circulation, focusing on interaction at the seasonal, interannual and decadal time scales. Her work includes global climate modeling with an emphasis on improving the simulation of sea ice and the atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere.

She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, current Chair of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s expert group, Antarctic Sea ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt) and Co-Chair of the World Climate Research Programme’s (WCRP) Polar Climate Predictability Initiative (PCPI). She has served on the National Research Council’s Committees on Future Science Opportunities in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations. 

Education 

B.A. (Hons) Geography, McMaster University, Canada M.A. Geography, The Ohio State University Ph.D. Geography, The Ohio State University 

Research Interests 

Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Circulation Dynamics and Climate, Antarctic Sea Ice Variability and change, Global Climate Modelling, The Santa Ana Winds of California. 

David Rigby

Education

B.A. Geography, University of Salford, 1981
M.A. Geography, McMaster University, 1983
Thesis: The Long Wave of Accumulation in Canada 1950-1980
Ph.D. Geography, McMaster University, 1988
Thesis: Technical Change in Canadian Manufacturing: A Regional Analysis

Research Interests

Agglomeration
Evolutionary Models of Technological Change
Impacts of Trade
Regional Growth and Uneven Development

Selected Publications

Kemeny, T. and D.L. Rigby 2011. Trading Away What Kind of Jobs? Globalization, Trade and Tasks in the U.S. Economy. Forthcoming in Review of World Economics.

Brown, W.M. and D.L. Rigby 2010. Agglomeration Economies: Where Do They Come From and To Whom Do They Flow? In Dynamic Geographies, Baathelt, H., Feldman, M., Gertler, M. and D. Kogler (eds.).

Baldwin, J.R., Brown, W.M. and D.L. Rigby 2010. Agglomeration Economies: Micro-Data Panel Estimates from Canadian Manufacturing. Journal of Regional Science.

Essletzbichler, J. and D.L. Rigby 2010. Generalized Darwinism and Evolutionary Economic Geography. In The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography, Boschma, R. and R. Martin (eds.) Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Burt, J., Barber, G. and D.L. Rigby 2009. Elementary Statistics for Geographers (3rd ed.) New York: Guilford Press.

Breau, S. and D.L. Rigby 2009. International Trade and Wage Inequality in Canada. Journal of Economic Geography.

Rigby, D.L. and S. Breau 2008. Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles: Analysis using Matched Employer-Employee Data. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Seth Riley

Anne Rimoin

Beate Ritz

Research Interests

Occupational epidemiology, pesticide exposure, Parkinson’s disease, radiation and cancer

Beate Ritz joined the faculty of the School of Public Health at UCLA in 1995 and is currently Professor and Vice Chair of the Epidemiology Department and holds co-appointments in the Environmental Health department at the UCLA School of Public Health and in Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine; she is a member of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), the Southern California Environmental Health Science Center (SCEHSC), and co-directs the NIEHS-funded UCLA Center for Gene-Environment Studies of Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Ritz received her MD and a PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of Hamburg Germany in 1983 and 1987; she was a research fellow and resident at the Psychiatric University-Hospital in Hamburg from 1987-1989, and received doctoral training and a PhD degree in Epidemiology in 1995 from UCLA.

Her research focuses on the health effects of occupational and environmental toxins such as pesticides, ionizing radiation, and air pollution on chronic diseases including neurodegenerative disorders (Parkinson’s disease), cancers, and adverse birth outcomes and asthma. She previously investigated the causes of cancer in chemical toxin and radiation exposed workers and assessed the impact of ergonomic work-place factors on musculo-skeletal disorders. For the past decade, she studied the effects of air pollution on adverse birth outcomes as well as asthma in children in Southern California. In 2006, she received the Robert M Zweig Memorial award for outstanding achievement in air quality and medicine from the South Coast Air Quality Management District. She also spend the past 15 years investigating the long-term effects of pesticide exposures on Parkinson’s disease and cancers and is currently conducting a project to implement a Parkinson’s disease registry required by a new law in California.

In her research she uses geographic information system (GIS) modeling of environmental exposures including pesticide use and traffic related air pollution in California and investigates links between genetic susceptibility factors and environmental exposures in populations. She is directing and collaborating in a large number of federally (NIH, DOD), state (California Air Resources Board), and foundation (Michael J Fox Foundation) funded research projects.

Michael Roberts

Allen Roberts

John Poulsen

Shauna Price

Mark Reynolds