Ecosystem Sciences

Stephanie Pau

Associate Professor
Spectral ecology, global change ecology, biodiversity, ecosystem functions, remote sensing

Matthew Potts

Professor
natural capital, carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Miranda Redmond

Associate Professor in Forest Science and Climate Change
forest ecology, disturbance ecology, forest management

Daniel Sanchez

Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension
carbon dioxide removal, bioenergy, California forest products, climate policy, energy systems modeling

Christopher Schell

Assistant Professor
Urban ecology, animal behavior, endocrine mechanisms, human-wildlife conflict, social-ecological systems, environmental justice, mammalogy

Kristen Shive

Assistant Specialist of Cooperative Extension

Kristen is a Fuels and Forest Specialist with the University of California Cooperative Extension Program out of UC Berkeley. Her lab group broadly focuses on understanding the impacts of modern wildfires, prioritizing areas for restoration and restoring fire to fire-adapted ecosystems. She has 20 years of experience in conservation, forest and fire management, ecology and science, working for the National Park Service, Save the Redwoods League and The Nature Conservancy. She holds an M.S. in Forestry from Northern Arizona University and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy...

Whendee Silver

Professor
Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry

Scott Stephens

Professor
Wildland fire science, fire ecology, forest ecology, forest policy, forest management

Lucas Vargas Zeppetello

Assistant Professor

Studying land-atmosphere intearactions, climate variability, and the ecosystem response to climate change.

Ian Wang

Associate Professor
landscape genetics, ecological and conservation genomics, adaptive radiation