Interests
- Geography, Earth, United States, California, the San Joaquin Valley; currently interested in hydrological systems
- Leadership: individual, group, societal; definition of leadership; how to exercise leadership; generate leadership skills, abilities and talents of others; learning and teaching leadership
- California, history, public policy
- Urban planning, City of Merced and UC Merced, 404 Permitting Process, decision making of Army Core of Engineers
- Students, empowerment and involvement in the policy/decision-making processes at the campus, city, county, state and national level
- Public education system, focused on California’s public higher education system and the California Community Colleges, California State University and University of California segments; K-12 system; Preschool to PhD and beyond
- Grassroots movements, organizing, mobilizing; the emergence, cultivation and ascendancy of the grassroots leaders
- Transportation, transportation systems (inspired by the computer game Transport Tycoon Deluxe); transportation history and law in the United States
- Railroads, history and law in United States
- High speed rail, history and law in California, the United States
- Regions, sense and identity of region, regional cooperation, collaboration and governance, the future of the region
- Clean technology/energy, solar technology, wind energy, tidal, biofuel
- Political-economic borders/boundaries, history of nation-states, future of nation-states
- Public policy, making, decision-making, history of field of study
- Government, purpose of government, organization and structure of government, rule-making processes, individual function within definite and indefinite government systems, the politics of government and policy making at the campus, city, county, state level, focused on representative government in California and the United States, governing dynamics of California
- Party politics, state and national; Congressional politics, understanding issues of determined political-geographic area (i.e. “district”), how individuals identify with area, how internal (district residents) and external (not in district) forces develop issues; how to effectively champion such issues
- Congress, House of Representatives, history, legislative process, appropriations process, oversight process
- Learning, modes of learning, differences in learning styles, how individuals’ brains process information, how new knowledge is produced
- Outer space, NASA, future missions to the Moon and Mars, colonization of other planets (inspired by the computer game Outpost)











