Energy and Resources Group (ERG)
Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management (ESPM)

Research Interests: All of the below.

Research Interests: Climate change, conservation biology, ecophysiological responses,long-term conservation planning, reserve networks.

Zhibin He (Visiting Researcher, ESPM)

Research Interests: Forest ecology and hydrology,spatial patterns of vegetation,water resource management in the arid inland river basin.

Research Interests: Agroforestry; sustainable development; climate change mitigation; biomass energy and other renewable energy; biogeochemistry; global change ecology; biomimicry.

Research Interests: Global change ecology, biological invasion, biodiversity conservation, atmospheric science, micro-meteorology.

Thesis Research: Carbon cycling and material exchange in grasslands dominated by native and by exotic grasses in Northern Coastal California.

Sarah Richmond (M.S. ERG)

Research Interests: Geomorphology, hydrology, river restoration, GIS, California water resources management and policy.

Research Interests: Spatial patterns of species diversity, especially the species-area relationship; incentivization of conservation at the international level; teaching.

Danielle Svehla Christianson (Ph.D. ERG)

Research Interests: Vegetation climate interactions, spatial patterns of vegetation, science communication.

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (Ph.D. ESPM, 2006)

     Current Location: Assistant Professor, UC Merced

Research Interests: Role of soil erosion and terrestrial sedimentation in CO₂ sequestration; stabilization of buried soil organic carbon.

Current Location:
Post-doctoral researcher, Stanford University.

Research Interests: Equity and sustainability; democratic participation in environmental decision making; global climate change; carbon cycling; ecological economics; modeling.

Research Interests: Plant community assembly after large disturbance, species-area and species-time relationships.

Current Location:

Lecturer, Environmental Sciences, UC Berkeley
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~es196/
castanha@socrates.berkeley.edu

Research Interests: Soil development, biodiversity, paleoecology, and climate change.

My dissertation explores the influence of climate and mineralogy on soil carbon dynamics.  I am also interested in soils and geology as modulators of evolutionary and ecological responses of plants to climate.

 

Research Interests: Statistical models of the spatial patterns of plant and animal species, including spatial distributions for individual species, species-area relationships, range-area relationships, colonization dynamics, abudance estimation from presence-absence data, and applications to population viability and census design. Tests against serpentine grassland, moist tropical, and dry tropical plant censuses.

Research Interests: Land-use; natural resources; GIS; remote sensing; climate change.

Current Location: The Wildlife Conservation Society, Bozeman, MT.

Research Interests:  Incorporating climate change into habitat conservation planning; bridging the divide between climate change science and on-the-ground conservation activities; modeling invasive plant species distributions in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Current Location:
Visiting Researcher at the Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe, NM 87501

Research Interests: food-web theory and data, networks, computational
ecology, ecoinformatics, climate change, biodiversity loss, plant ecology,
cross-method integration

Current Location:
Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences,
University of California, Merced.

Research Interests:  Biogeography, microbial ecology, macroecology, biological conservation, theoretical ecology

Current Location: American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC.

Research Interests: How biological systems contribute and respond to global change. Developing approaches that decrease conflict between human activities, conservation, and climate protection. The use of science in policy.

Current Location: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship, Warner School of the Environment, University of Colorado, Fort Collins, CO

Research Interests: Ecosystem response (vegetative and soil parameters) to climate warming and changes in the traditional pastoral land use dynamic on the eastern Tibetan Plateau.

Research Interests: Species shifts in response to regional climate change; land-use impacts on regional climate; climate and species effects on carbon cycling; environmental and socioeconomic impacts of land-use activities undertaken to mitigate climate change.

Current Location: Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced.

Michael Loik (Post-doctoral fellow, 1993-1994)

      Research Interests: Synoptic ecohydrology, snowfall
      climatology, climate forecasting, mitigation & adaptation
      governance.

      Current Location: Associate Professor, Environmental Studies,
      University of California Santa Cruz.

Research Interests: Community-level phenomena; food web
properties; especially the effects of spatial scale, spatial structure and dispersal processes on these; the relative roles of chance events and stabilizing mechanisms in the coexistence of competing species and the implications of these roles for the stability and resilience of ecosystems.

Current Location: Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan.

Scott Saleska, (Ph.D. ERG)

         Current Location:
         Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
         University of Arizona
         Tucson, AZ 85721

Research Interests: biodiversity and non-random extinctions, valuation of ecosystem services, and conservation policy.