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MA Program: Staff and Affiliated Faculty

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Program Staff

Bo Yang, GISTAR Program Director and Associate Director, Center for Integrated Spatial Research (CISR), Environmental Studies

  • Research Expertise-GIS, Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and AI in GIS, UAV Remote Sensing, Coastal Ecosystem Monitoring, Wildfire Mapping, Spatio-Temporal Modeling

Jeffrey Bury, GISTAR Program Associate Director and Director, Center for Integrated Spatial Research (CISR), Environmental Studies

  • Research Expertise-GIS, Cartography, Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Extractive Industries, Political Ecology, Conservation, Environmental and Climate Justice

Amy Kaskowitz-Profitt, Graduate Program Coordinator

Nasheli Hau-Gutierrez, GISTAR Program Administration

 

Affiliated Faculty

Chris Benner, Institute for Social Transformation, Community Studies Program, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Global & Community Health, Environmental Studies, Sociology

  • Research Expertise - Urban and Economic Geography, Urban Political Ecology, Technology and Social Change, Environmental Justice, Sustainable Communities, Inclusive Economies, City and Regional Planning

Michael Beck, Institute of Marine Sciences, Coastal Science & Policy, Ocean Sciences, Center for Coastal Climate Resilience

  • Research Expertise - Coastal Science, Climate Change

Elliott Campbell, Environmental Studies

  • Research Expertise - Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Atmospheric Science, Agroecology and Agriculture

Mark Carr, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Coastal Science & Policy, Institute of Marine Sciences

  • Research Expertise - Ecology, Coastal Science, Conservation, Fisheries, Marine Biology, Population Dynamics, Sustainability, Science Communication

Yihsu Chen, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Environmental Studies

  • Research Expertise: Economics and Policy in Energy, Water Resources and Transportation Sectors

Weixin Cheng, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Marine Sciences

  • Research Expertise - Rhizosphere Ecology, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles, Isotope Ecology, Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Change

Daniel Costa, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Marine Sciences

  • Research Expertise - Behavioral Ecology, Coastal Science, Animal Behavior, Biology, Ecology, Marine Biology, Ocean Studies, Scientific Method, Natural History

Gabriel Elkaim, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Autonomous Systems Lab

  • Research Expertise - Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering

Jeffrey Erbig, Latin American & Latino Studies

  • Research Expertise - Migration, Historical Cartography, Latin America

Madeleine Fairbairn, Community Studies Program, Science & Justice Research Center, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Coastal Science & Policy Program, Environmental Studies

  • Research Expertise - Agri-Food Systems, Environmental Sociology, Political Ecology, Globalization and Development, Ownership and Access to Land

Rebecca Fenwick, Engineering, CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research

  •  Research Expertise - Drones, Ecology, Environmental Information and Technology

Noah Finnegan, Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • Research Expertise - Geomorphology, Remote Sensing

Andrew Fisher, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Institute of Marine Sciences

  • Research Expertise - Hydrogeology, Water Resources, Crustal Studies, Heat Flow, Coupled Modeling, Geothermal Tool Development

Gregory Gilbert, Environmental Studies

  • Research Expertise - Ecology, Evolution, Science Education, Natural History, Tropical Forest

Miriam Greenberg, Sociology, Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies

  • Research Expertise - Urban Sociology, Geography, Urban Environmental Studies, Urban Political Ecology, Disaster and Crisis, Sustainability Studies, Housing, Media and Cultural Studies, Social Movements, Social Theory, and the Social, Cultural, and Environmental History of New York City, Buenos Aires, and California.

Karen Holl, Environmental Studies

  • Research Expertise - Ecology, Conservation, Plant Sciences, Natural History, Natural Resource Management, Land Management, Restoration Ecology 

Anne Kapuscinski, Environmental Studies, Coastal Science & Policy Program

  • Research Expertise - Agroecology and Agriculture, Coastal Science, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Policy, Environmental Studies, Natural Resource Management, Sustainability

Auston Kilpatrick, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

  • Research Expertise - Conservation, Disease and Immunity, Ecology, Mathematical Modeling, Population Biology, Population Dynamics, Biomedical Sciences, Endangered Species

Suresh Lodha, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Research Expertise - Computer Science, Data Studies, Data analytics and Visualization, Computational Social Science, Technology for Social Good and Data Journalism

Michael Loik, Environmental Studies, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department

  • Research Expertise - Climate Change, Climatology, Water, Plant Sciences, Plant Biology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Hydrology

Flora Lu, Environmental Studies, Anthropology Department, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, College Nine, John R. Lewis College

  • Research Expertise - Environmental Studies, Community-Based Research, Conservation, Diversity, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Intellectual Property, Latin American and Latino Studies, Social Justice, Sustainability

Cameron Monroe, Anthropology Department, Archaeological Research Center, History Department

  • Research Expertise - Archaeology, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Slavery, Atlantic World, Colonialism, Geographic Information Systems, Subsaharan Africa

Maywa Montenegro, Environmental Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, Center for Justice, Institute for Social Transformation, Global and Community Health

  • Research Expertise - Agroecology and Agriculture, Biotechnology, Activism, Science Studies

Barry Nickel, Environmental Studies

  • Spatial/Movement Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Conservation Biology, Spatial Statistics and Spatially-Explicit Ecological Modeling, Geospatial Tool Development, Spatially-Enabled Web Service and Web Application Development, Spatial Database Design and Modeling

Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, Environmental Studies

  • Research Expertise - Conservation, Ornithology, Tropical Forest, Ecology

Ingrid Parker, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

  • Research Expertise - Plant Ecology and Evolution, Invasion Biology, Plant Conservation, Restoration

Stacy Philpott, UCSC Agriculture Experiment Station, Environmental Studies, Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems

  • Research Expertise - Ecology, Conservation, Agroecology and Agriculture, Environmental Studies, Mexico

Don Potts, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Marine Sciences, Crown College, Environmental Studies

  • Coral Reef Ecology, Marine Biodiversity, and Remote Sensing

Pete Raimondi, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Marine Sciences, Environmental Studies

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Marine Organisms, Statisitics, Experimental Design and Analysis 

Borja Reguero, Coastal Science & Policy, Institute of Marine Sciences

  • Research Expertise - Coastal Science, Climate Change, Earth Sciences

Ricardo Sanfelice, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Robotics, Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling, Dynamical Systems

Katy Seto, Coastal Science & Policy Program, Institute of Marine Sciences, Global & Community Health

  • Marine and Coastal Law and Policy, Political Ecology, Marine Resource Governance

Elaine Sullivan, History, Anthropology Department, Classical Studies, Archaeological Research Center, Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)

  • Research Expertise - Egyptology, Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Ancient World / Classics, History

Christopher Wilmers, Environmental Studies

  • Research Expertise - Wildlife Ecology, Conservation Biology, Ecological Modeling and statistics, Global Change Ecology

Yu Zhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Research Expertise - Monitoring, Learning, and Management for Smart Power Grids, Optimal Resource Allocation for Cyber-Physical Systems, Robust, Stochastic, and Online Optimization, Deep Learning and AI.