Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension in Engineered Wood Products and Design
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.
Specialist in Cooperative Extension in Conservation Science
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...
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...
