Ecosystem Sciences

Ted Grantham

Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension
Freshwater ecology, stream hydrology, climate risk assessment

Lynn Huntsinger

Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Russell Rustici Chair in Rangeland Management, Head graduate advisor Rangeland and Wildlife Management
Rangeland conservation and management

Trevor Keenan

Professor
Ecosystem dynamics; carbon and water cycling; ecophysiology; vegetation states, rates and traits; biogeochemistry; micrometeorology; atmospheric science; mathematics and data science

Maggi Kelly

Cooperative Extension Specialist and Professor in Residence
GIS and remote sensing, historical ecology, drones, spatial data science

Siamak Khorram

Adjunct Professor

Paul Mayencourt

Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension in Engineered Wood Products and Design
About

Dr. Paul Mayencourt is a researcher and educator in low-carbon design solutions for the built environment. His research merges the field of structural design, forestry, and materials. Paul explores creative low-carbon approaches for building structures by leveraging recent advances in manufacturing technologies and computational optimization. He currently studies the use of undervalued timber resources such as small-diameter timbers and underutilized Californian hardwoods species for high-performance architectural and engineering applications.

Paul is...

Adina Merenlender

Professor of Cooperative Extension in Conservation Science
About

Merenlender was born in Seattle, Washington and raised in West Los Angeles, California. She graduated from UC California San Diego in 1985 with a BA in Biology, where she also received her MS from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 1986. She was a visiting graduate student at Princeton University from 1991 to 1993, and she graduated from the University of Rochester in 1993 with a PhD in Biology.

Education

PhD Biology University of Rochester, 1993
M.S. Biology University of California, San Diego, 1986
B.S. Biology University of California, San Diego,...

Arthur Middleton

G.R. and W.M. Goertz Professor of Wildlife Management, UC Berkeley
Wildlife ecology, management, and policy; Conservation policy; Landscape conservation; Science communication and outreach

Peter Nico

Adjunct Professor

Céline Pallud

Professor
Soil & environmental biogeophysics, fate & transport of contaminants