Geography and Environmental Studies Department

Academic Advising

The Geography and Environmental Studies Department has mandatory advising for all department students each semester.

An email will be sent instructing students majoring in Geography to meet with an advisor. Prepare a list of courses that you are planning to take in the next semester and bring it with you to this meeting.

Regularly check your Degree Progress Report (DPR) in your Student Center.

SPRING 2025 Academic Advising Faculty with corresponding field
AreaFaculty Advisor(s)

New Student Advising

General Advising (Option in Physical and Environmental Geography, Option in Landscape Studies, Option in Environmental Studies)

Noriyuki Sato
nsato2@csuchico.edu

Certificate in Land Use and
Environmental Planning (LUEP)

LaDona Knigge lknigge@csuchico.edu

Certificate in Geospatial Technology (GST)

Naomi Lazarus
nlazarus@csuchico.edu

Option in Human Geography

Option in Landscape Studies

LaDona Knigge
lknigge@csuchico.edu

Option in Physical and
Environmental Geography

Option in Landscape Studies

Dean Fairbanks
dhfairbanks@csuchico.edu


Don Hankins
dhankins@csuchico.edu

Option in Environmental StudiesMark Stemen
mstemen@csuchico.edu