Karen D Holl
| Title | Professor and Department Chair |
| Division | Social Sciences Division |
| Department | Environmental Studies Department |
| Affiliations | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Latin American & Latino Studies |
| Phone | 831-459-3668 |
| FAX | 831-459-4015 |
| Web Site | Karen Holl's lab web page |
| Office | 461 Nat Sci 2 |
| Office Hours | Spring 2013 - 11 am-1 pm Thurs., sign up sheet on office door |
| Campus Mail Stop | Environmental Studies |
| 461 Natural Science 2 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 |
Biography, Education and Training
Dr. Karen Holl is a leader in restoration ecology. Her research focuses on understanding ecological factors that slow ecosystem recovery from human disturbance and using this information to improve restoration efforts. For over a decade, Dr. Holl has been on the faculty in the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she works closely with social scientists to develop policy tools to implement the results of her research. She is currently chair of the Environmental Studies Department.Dr. Holl directs large-scale restoration experiments in collaboration with land managers and farmers in tropical montane forest in Costa Rica and in riparian forest along the Sacramento River in California. In addition, she has studied the restoration of chaparral and grassland ecosystems in California; tropical forests in several countries in Latin America; and hardwood forests in the eastern United States.
Dr. Holl is co-director of the Center for Tropical Research on Ecology, Agriculture, and Development, the main goal of which is to train students and practitioners from tropical countries to be leaders in developing environmental solutions. She serves on the advisory board for various public and private land management agencies and was selected as an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow.