ENVS Faculty Profiles

Faculty Profiles

(Courses are subject to change)

Jeffrey Bury - Sustainable Development/Geography
Political Ecology, sustainable development, Latin American studies, international relations, institutional dimensions of natural resource conservation in the global south.
Teaches Courses: 100/L, 143

Weixin Cheng - Soil Ecology
Research interests: Soil Ecology, agroecology, biogeochemistry, global change ecology.
Teaches Courses: 23, 161A/L, 168

Margaret FitzSimmons - Environmental Policy
Research interests:  Social and spatial aspects of environmental change; the development and regulation of primary sector activities (agriculture and forestry) and the regional integration of environmental planning and resource management institutions in urban and rural settings.
Teaches Courses: 110, 130B

Gregory Gilbert - Ecology/Conservation Biology
Research interests: Disease ecology, forest ecology, tropical ecology, biological invasions, conservation biology.
Teaches Courses: 122, 163/L

Stephen Gliessman - Agroecology/Natural History
Research interests:  Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, tropical agriculture, ecology, natural history, California vegetation.
Teaches Courses: 91F, 107ABC, 130A/L, 138/L, 191F

Brent Haddad - Public Policy
Research interests: Fresh water economics, policy, and communications; economic institutions and the environment, climate change mitigation and adaptation, institutional and ecological economics.
Teaches Courses: 25, 165

Karen Holl - Restoration Ecology
Research interests: Ecosystem succession, tropical ecology, plant ecology, conservation biology, land-use management.
Teaches Courses: 160, 190

Deborah K. Letourneau - Ecology/Entomology
Research interests:  Agroecology, tropical biology/ conservation, insect-plant interactions, biological control as an alternative to chemical pesticides
Teaches Courses: 108/L, 190

Michael Loik - Plant Physiological Ecology, Climate Change Ecology, Ecohydrology 
Research interests: Plant responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental stress, climatology, implications of global environmental change for reproductive success and community composition, biogeography, physiology of ecosystem restoration
Teaches Courses: 80B, 162/L, 196A

Barry Nickel - Geographic Information Science
Research Interests: Spatial/landscape ecology; conservation biology, spatially-explicit ecological models, geospatial tool development; spatially-enabled web service and application development, spatial database design and modeling.
Teaches Courses: 115A/L

Daniel Press - Department Chair, Applied Environmental Policy Analysis
Research interests: Environmental politics and policy, resources management, land and species preservation, industrial ecology, climate policy, water quality.
Teaches Courses: 140

Ravi Rajan - Environmental History & Political Ecology
Research interests: Interface of environmental history and political ecology, urban environmental politics, environmental ethics and the science, technology and society interface.
Teaches Courses: 172

Alan Richards - Environmental Economics
Research interests: Agricultural and economic development, political economy, natural resource economics.
Teaches Courses: 141, 144, 196A

Carol Shennan - Agroecology & Sustainable Agriculture
Research interests: Plant physiology, sustainable agriculture, issues of gender & environment in agriculture & development.
Teaches Courses: 166, 167, 196V

Zdravka Tzankova - Marine and Coastal Policy
Research interests: Environmental policy and politics (U.S. and comparative); marine policy; democratic and conservation consequences of non-state, market-based initiatives in environmental governance.
Teaches Courses: 150

Christopher C. Wilmers - Conservation Biology
Research interests: Wildlife ecology and conservation, food webs and climate change, movement ecology, animal behavior, predator-prey dynamics, ecological modeling.
Teaches Courses: 120, 123

Erika Zavaleta - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research interests:  Biodiversity and global change, biological invasions, terrestrial plant and ecosystem ecology, ecological economics, human ecology, conservation
Teaches Courses: 100/L, 104A, 109, 18