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Patricia Gober
E-mail: patricia.gober@asu.edu | View
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Patricia Gober received a PhD in Geography from the Ohio
State University in 1975 and is currently professor of geography at Arizona
State University where she served as departmental chair from 1984 to
1991. Her research centers on issues of migration, retirement communities,
and environmental change in metropolitan Phoenix. She is especially interested
in the use of science for real-world decision-making. She is a past President
of the Association of American Geographers and former member of the Population
Reference Bureau’s Board of Trustees, currently serves as the Chair
of the College Board’s Advanced Placement Human Geography Committee,
and was recently appointed to the National Research Council’s Committee
on Geography which provides independent advice to society and to government
at all levels on scientific, technical, and policy matters related to
geography and geographic analysis. At ASU, she is the co-Director of
the Decision Center for a Desert City which studies water management
decisions in the face of growing climatic uncertainty in Greater Phoenix.
She holds an honorary doctorate of science from Carthage College in Kenosha,
Wisconsin in 1998.
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