Environmental Research
Directory
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- Irma Adelman
- Professor; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 642-6417
- adelman@are.berkeley.edu
- Village economics in lesser developed countries; income
distribution; development and the environment;
agricultural development strategies; transition to market
economies in Eastern Europe.
- Barbara H. Allen-Diaz
- Asst. Professor; ESPM
- 642-7125
- ballen@nature.berkeley.edu
- Plant community succession and classification. Meadow,
hardwood rangeland ecology, forest grazing.
- Miguel A. Altieri
- Assoc. Professor; Biological Control
- 642-9802
- agroeco3@nature.berkeley.edu
- Agroecology and development of low-input technologies.
Biodiversity and pest management. Small farm development
in Latin America.
- Lisa Alvarex-Cohen
- Asst. Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 642-5969
- alvarez@ce.berkeley.edu
- Thermally enhanced remediation of subsurface
contamination. Groundwater remediation and innovative
hazardous waste treatment technologies with emphasis on
microbial processes.
- Nancy Amy
- Assoc. Professor; Nutritional Sciences
- 642-8178
- nkamy@nature.berkeley.edu
- Molecular basis of the function of trace elements.
- James N. Anderson
- Assoc. Professor, Emeritus; Anthropology
- 642-0705
- Social and economic organization and change,
ecology/economy, population, medical anthropology, social
development, Southeast Asia with emphasis on the
Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.
- Edward A. Arens
- Professor; Architecture
- 642-1158
- earens@ced.berkeley.edu
- Building science, climatology, human comfort,
thermodynamics, architectural history.
- Nan Crystal Arens
- Asst. Professor; Integrative Biology
- 643-8739
- nanarens@violet.berkeley.edu
- Interrelationships between ecology and evolution in
ancient plants and plant communities. The relationship
between climate change and vegetation change as recorded
in the fossil record.
- David B. Ashley
- Chairman; Civil Engineering
- 643-8739
- ashley@ce.berkeley.edu
- Construction management, risk analysis, risk management,
decision analysis, artificial intelligence, mathematical
modeling, financial planning.
- Herbert G. Baker
- Professor Emeritus; Integrative Biology
- 642-7036
- Evolution and ecology.
- Bruce Baldwin
- Asst. Prof. in Residence; Integrative Biology
- 643-7008
- bbaldwin@ucjeps.berkeley.edu
- Vascular-plant systematics, floristics, and conservation
particularly evolutionary processes, historical
biogeography, and the relationships of California plants.
- Eugene S. Bardach
- Professor; Public Policy
- 642-7422
- Policy process of energy, natural resources, and the
environment, as well as mental health and consumer
protection. Consultant on air quality maintenance and
transportation plans, drought management.
- Reginald H. Barrett
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-7261
- Ecology and management of wildlife communities,
especially on managed forest and range lands. Ecology and
management of feral animals, especially feral pigs.
Response of wildlife to forest fragmentation and human
activity. Modeling.
- James Bartolome
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-7945
- jwbart@nature.berkeley.edu
- Ecology, conservation, and management of Mediterranean
grasslands and savannahs. Specialty: rangeland ecology.
Effects of grazing and fire on native grassland in the
East Bay Hills.
- Robert G. Bea
- Professor; Civil Engineering
- 642-0967
- Database for inspection, maintenance, and performance of
marine pipelines; reassessment and re qualification of
offshore platforms; transient loading effects and
nonlinear performance characteristics of platforms.
- Frank Beall
- Director; Forest Products Laboratory
- 215-4233
- beallfc@nature.berkeley.edu
- Non-destructive evaluation of wood and wood-based
materials. Increased conversion of biomass into useful
products and stimulation of the production of additional
biomass within California.
- Russell A. Beatty
- Lecturer; Landscape Architecture
- 642-2421
- Urban forestry; environmental horticulture; planting
design; computerized plant material selection; landscape
removal.
- Sara Beckman
- Lecturer; Haas School of Business
- 642-1058
- beckman@haas.berkeley.edu
- Management of technology organizational behavior;
environmental management.
- Robert N. Bellah
- Professor; Sociology
- 642-4291
- Social theory; sociology of religion.
- Charles C. Benton
- Assoc. Professor; Architecture
- 642-0669
- cris@ced.berkeley.edu
- Building science, lighting, energy and energy
conservation, computer applications and design.
- Peter Berck
- Professor; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 642-7238
- peter@are.berkeley.edu
- Renewable resources, water economics, and portfolio
choice risk and futures.
- Gerald D. Berreman
- Professor; Anthropology
- 642-3632
- Social/cultural anthropology, social inequality,
interaction theory, research methods and ethics, urban
society, small scale societies; India, Himalayas, Arctic.
- William B. Berry
- Professor; Geology and Geophysics
- 642-3925
- Climate change: its effects on biodiversity;
Environmental education programs; San Francisco Bay area
environmental management case studies.
- Gregory S. Biging
- Assoc. Professor; ESPM
- 642-1249
- biging@nature.berkeley.edu
- Development of longterm predictive models of forest
growth under varying management regimes for the mixed
conifer forest of northern California. Development of
remote sensing technologies for estimating forest
structure and wildlife habitat.
- Leonard F. Bjeldanes
- Professor; Nutritional Sciences
- 642-1601
- lfb@nature.berkeley.edu
- Diet, nutrition and cancer. Gene regulation by dietary
anti-carcinogens.
- Gladys Block
- Professor; Public Health
- 643-7896
- Dietary patterns in Hispanic Americans; mortality and
diet in national follow-up surveys; antioxidant nutrient
intake and disease relationships.
- Peter C Bosselmann
- Assoc. Professor; City and Regional Planning
- 642-3028
- Environmental simulation; urban design; communication to
the public of land use and design issues and choices;
computer applications for visual simulation.
- Gail S. Brager
- Asst. Professor; Architecture
- 642-1696
- gail=schiller%faculty%arch@design.ced.berkeley.edu
- Energy; conservation; climate-responsive building design;
natural cooling and ventilation; wind-tunnel modeling;
human thermal comfort; indoor air pollution; innovative
task-conditioning systems.
- Jonathan Bray
- Asst. Professor; Civil Engineering
- 642-9843
- bray@ce.berkeley.edu
- Geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering,
environmental geotechnology, numerical and physical
modeling. Effects of foundation deformation on the
integrity of landfill liner systems.
- David L. Brink
- Professor Emeritus; Forest Products Laboratory
- 215-4214
- Conversion of biomass to commercially valuable products,
including ethanol, yeast, acetic acid, and others.
- Gary R. Brown
- Assoc. Professor;Architecture
- 642-4944
- gary_brown@ced.berkeley.edu
- Design, climatology.
- Bob B. Buchanan
- Professor; Plant Biology
- 642-3590
- view@nature.berkeley.edu
- Bioremediation. The use of microorganisms and plants to
remove pollution from contaminated sites.
- Patricia Buffler
- Dean, Professor; Public Health
- 642-2082
- Exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology.
Environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer in nonsmoking
women. Metaanalysis of brain cancer and occupational
exposure to electric and magnetic fields. Health effects
associated with exposure to hazardous waste sites.
- Richard Buxbaum
- Professor and Dean; Law
- 642-2547
- bux@uclink.berkeley.edu
- International environmental and economic relations.
- A. Roger Byrne
- Assoc. Professor; Geography
- 643-8108
- arbyrne@cmsa.berkeley.edu
- Historical biography, vegetation change, prehistoric
agriculture, pollen analysis.
- Elton J. Cairns
- Professor, Div. Director; Chemical Engineering
- 486-5028
- ejcarns@lbl.gov
- Electrochemical energy conversion.
- Roy L. Caldwell
- Chair, Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-1391
- 4roy@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Animal behavior, behavioral ecology of invertebrates and
marine invertebrate biology. Biodiversity, land use and
habitat.
- David D. Caron
- Professor; Law
- 642-7249
- International environmental law, law of the sea,
transnational pollution, global climate boundaries of
island nations.
- Claudia Carr
- Assoc. Professor; ESPM, Conservation and Resource Studies
- 642-2284
- cjcarr@nature.berkeley.edu
- International rural and resource development; public
policy and international aid of Third World rural, river
basin, and coastal development.
- John E. Casida
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-1695
- Environmental chemistry and toxicity, pesticides.
- Robert Cervero
- Assoc. Professor; City and Regional Planning
- 642-1695
- Transportation planning; land use planning; urban
economics; planning methods; microcomputers in planning;
mobility issues; international infrastructure finance and
development.
- George W. Chang
- Assoc. Professor; Nutritional Sciences
- 642-0603
- changlab@nature.berkeley.edu
- Fecal indicator bacteria in food and water. Diet,
nutritional status, and resistance to GI infection.
- F. Stuart Chapin
- Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-1003
- fschapin@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Ecosystem ecology: effects of vegetation on ecosystem and
atmospheric processes. Plant physiological ecology: how
do plant traits influence plant to plant competition,
plant microbial interaction, nutrient cycling, and trace
gas flux to the atmosphere. Research programs in the
Alaskan tundra and taiga and California grasslands.
- Mark N. Christensen
- Professor Emeritus; Energy and Resources Group
- 642-4210
- Matching of local resources to efficient sustainable
uses; organization for efficient use of energy and
renewable resources; community scale energy systems;
resources and environment in development.
- Carlo Cipolla
- Professor Emeritus; Economics
- 642-2295
- European economic history, demography, history of public
health, environment, health conditions and economic
development.
- Stephen Cohen
- Professor; City and Regional Planning
- 642-2808
- Economic development; social, economic, and political
planning; technology transfer and impacts; international
competition.
- Frederick Collignon
- Assoc. Professor; City and Regional Planning
- 643-6622
- Program planning and policy analysis; social policy;
economic development; urban services and infrastructure.
- Neville G. Cook
- Professor, Chair (ERG); Materials Science and Mineral
Engineering
- 642-5609
- Rock mechanics, fluid flow in rocks, mineral engineering
and resources; rock mechanics; fracture mechanics;
geophysics; energy and the environment; nuclear and toxic
waste isolation; environmental engineering.
- George A. Cooper
- Professor; Materials Science and Mineral Engineering
- 642-2996
- cooper@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Drilling for environmental monitoring and remediation,
novel drilling methods and materials, petroleum
engineering, rock destruction and drilling mechanics.
- Kenneth H. Craik
- Professor; Psychology
- 642-7139
- Personality theory and assessment; environmental and
political psychology.
- Galen Cranz
- Assoc. Professor; Architecture
- 642-4942
- Sociology of architecture; urban park history, design and
ergonomics (especially from a sustainable point of view),
public space and public life, particularly urban parks
and new models for integration of building, open space
and infrastructure.
- Carla D'Antonio
- Professor; Integrative Biology
- 643-6341
- cmditld@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Plant ecology. Plant population dynamics and the
feedbacks between plant population and ecosystem
processes. Intrusion of exotic species. Mechanisms
through which land use change and disturbance drive
changes in plant communities.
- Kent M. Daane
- Associate Specialist; ESPM, Bio. Control Lab
- 209 891-2500
- Sustainable agriculture and food safety. Grape and peach
research programs seek to improve the knowledge of insect
natural enemies and insect/plant interactions in order to
reduce pesticides and grower costs.
- Donald L. Dahlsten
- Professor; Biological Control
- 642-5505
- donald@nature.berkeley.edu
- Biological control of forest insects and pests of urban
trees and scrubs. Side effects of chemical insecticides
in forest communities. Population dynamics of bark
beetles and forest defoliators. Biology of cavity nesting
birds and impacts on forest insect populations.
- Joan M. Daisey
- Senior Scientist; Energy and Environment, LBL
- 486-7491
- jmdaisey@lbl.gov
- Human exposures to toxic and carcinogenic compounds in
indoor and outdoor air, and understanding the sources,
transport, transformation and fate of airborne
pollutants.
- Sam Davis
- Chair; Architecture
- 642-4942
- sdavis@ced.berkeley.edu
- Design, energy and energy conservation, housing, housing
policy, interior design, solar design, zoning.
- Alain de Janvry
- Professor; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 642-3348
- alain@are.berkeley.edu
- Agricultural policy and rural development in the Third
World including price policy, technological change, land
reform and integrate rural development projects.
- Lutgard C. De Jonghe
- Professor; Materials Science and Mineral Engineering
- 642-7393
- Ceramic processing science, ceramic composites,
electrochemical energy systems, fuel cells, batteries,
functional ceramic films.
- Elizabeth Deakin
- Assoc. Professor; Civil Engineering, City and Regional
Planning
- 642-4749
- eadtra@dante.lbl.gov
- Transportation-land use relationships, transportation
planning, transportation policy analysis.
- Benito O. Delumen
- Assoc. Professor; Nutritional Sciences
- 642-8144
- nitto@nature.berkeley.edu
- Biochemistry, molecular biology and nutrition of seeds
(legumes, cereals) as food sources.
- Thomas M. Devine, Jr.
- Assoc. Professor; Materials Science and Mineral
Engineering
- 643-8118
- Corrosion, electrochemistry, environmentally assisted
cracking, physical metallurgy.
- Marian C. Diamond
- Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-4547
- marian_diamond@maillink.berkeley.edu
- Environmental influences on brain morphology.
- Robert W. Dibble
- Professor; Mechanical Engineering
- 642-4901
- rdibble@me.berkeley.edu
- Combustion diagnostics, laser diagnostics in reactive
flow, gas-phase chemical kinetics, pollution studies.
- William Dietrich
- Professor; Geology and Geophysics
- 642-2633
- Hillslope and fluvial geomorphology including runoff
processes, landsliding, sediment transport; mechanics and
landscape evolution.
- Deborah E. Dobin
- Chair, Cont. Ed. Specialist; UCB Extension
- 643-6943
- ddr@unx.berkeley.edu
- Continuing environmental education for professionals and
the general public, environmental leadership education,
risk communication.
- Harvey E. Doner
- Professor; ESPM, Ecosystem Sciences
- 642-4148
- doner@nature.berkeley.edu
- Chemistry of trace elements in soils, mineral-organic
compound interactions, and chemistry of carbonates and
more soluble minerals in soils.
- David E. Dowall
- Professor; City and Regional Planning
- 642-2223
- Urban economics; housing; real estate development;
international planning and housing.
- Fiona M. Doyle
- Assoc. Professor; Materials Science and Mineral
Engineering
- 642-2846
- Chemical thermodynamic, electrochemistry, hydrolysis and
precipitation, hydrometallurgy, leaching, materials
processing, mine drainage pollution, rock/fluid systems,
solvent extraction chemistry.
- Timothy P. Duane
- Assistant Professor; Landscape Architecture, City and
Regional Planning
- 642-2454
- duane@ced.berkeley.edu
- Environmental planning and policy; infrastructure
planning; environmental impacts of energy systems; land
use planning; environmentally sustainable community
development and the impacts of urban development on
fragile natural systems. Local land use planning for
biodiversity in exurban regions. Bioregional planning.
Water policy and water rights transfer.
- Tom Dudley
- Co-ordinator of Env. Sci. senior research seminar,
aquatic biologist specializing in stream community
ecology, impacts and control of non-native species,
livestock grazing impacts and recovery, restoration of
stream and riparian ecosystems, wetlands conservation in
North America and Latin America.
- 643-3021
- tdudley@socrates.berkeley.edu
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- Leonard J. Duhl
- Professor; Public Health
- 642-1715
- Evaluation of healthy cities.
- John Dwyer
- Assoc. Dean, Professor; Law
- 642-2667
- Risk assessment, relationship of the courts and
regulatory agencies, SCAQMD. Management of hazardous
wastes at mining sites in California.
- Robert H. Edelstein
- Professor; Haas School of Business
- 643-6105
- edelstei@haas.berkeley.edu
- Urban real-estate economics and urban financial problems.
Property taxation and the role of the public sector.
Teal-estate developers and services and financial
institutions. Impacts of inflation and deflation on
real-estate values. Macroeconomic determinants of housing
construction. Design of optimal mortgage debt instruments
and variable-rate mortgages. Energy economics.
Environmental economics.
- Laura Enriques
- Asst. Professor; Sociology
- 642-2502
- Development in Latin America; rural sociology; social
policy; social movements.
- Lynn Epstein
- Asst. Professor; Plant Pathology
- 643-9224
- lepstein@uclink.berkeley.edu
- Environmental microbiology. Development of fungi on plant
surfaces in an attempt to find new strategies for plant
disease control.
- Brenda Eskenazi
- Assoc. Professor; Public Health
- 642-3496
- Reproductive hazards in the workplace, behavior
toxicology, teratology and reproductive epidemiology.
Investigation of spontaneous abortions in the
semiconductor industry. Cotinine levels in pregnant women
and child development.
- Peter Evans
- Professor; Sociology
- 642-5877
- pevans@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Development; comparative political economy; Latin
America; state and industrialism.
- Sally K. Fairfax
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-7171
- sally@nature.berkeley.edu
- Natural resource policy and administration. Resource
management policies on state land grant holdings.
Cultural resource management. Institutional and legal
aspects of resource administration, i.e. public lands
history and policy (forestry, range, and minerals);
Californian water; emphasis on federalism and management
of western resources.
- Joseph V. Farrell
- Professor; Economics
- 642-9854
- HDTV and technology choice, the formal standards process,
bargaining power and communication in organizations;
interest in environmental economics.
- Richard E. Fernau
- Professor; Architecture
- 642-7510
- Design, energy and energy conservation, interior design,
philosophy.
- Mary K. Firestone
- Professor; ESPM, Ecosystem Sciences
- 642-3677
- Soil biophysical controls of atmospherically reactive
trace gas production. Water and energy control of
microbial growth and activity. Coupling of microbial
transformation and physical transport processes in
biodegradation of pollutants in surface and subsurface
soil.
- Anthony C. Fisher
- Professor; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 642-7555
- fisher@are.berkeley.edu
- Environmental and resource economics. Economics of
climate change: model of investment in infrastructure
under uncertainty about climate change; application to
water resources in California. Water conservation: model
and statistical estimation of demand for water as a
function of price and nonprice (conservation) variables.
- Neil D. Fligstein
- Chair; Sociology
- 642-4575
- fligst@cmsa.berkeley.edu
- Organizations; economics sociology; methodology and
statistics; political sociology.
- Louise P. Fortmann
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-7018
- fortmann@nature.berkeley.edu
- Community control and management of natural resources.
Gender division of access, control, and use of natural
resource, including tree tenure in particular.
- T. Kenneth Fowler
- Chairman; Nuclear Engineering
- 642-7071
- Code development incorporating environmental, safety, and
economic aspects of fusion reactors; cooperative to
analyze heat transfer at high beta in D-III-D.
- Gordon Frankie
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-0973
- Applied conservation biology and ecology.
- Michael Freeling
- Professor; Plant Biology
- 642-8058
- freeling@insect.berkeley.edu
- Genetic engineering and analysis of plants. Understanding
the principles by which plants are designed.
- Ashok J. Gadgil
- Staff Scientist; LBL
- 486-4651
- ajgadgil@lbl.gov
- Indoor radon; indoor air pollutant dynamics; technology,
economics, and implementation polices for energy
efficiency in the developing countries.
- Donald P. Gasser
- Lecturer; ESPM
- 642-5059
- gasser@nature.berkeley.edu
- Studying thinning systems and small wood handling
methodologies. Studying non-conventional products and
interaction of harvest with agroforestry systems.
- Paul L. Gersper
- Assoc. Professor; ESPM
- 642-3005
- gersper@nature.berkeley.edu
- Sustainable agriculture and rural development, pedology,
and soil resource evaluation.
- Wayne M. Getz
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-8745
- getz@nature.berkeley.edu
- Population biology and modeling. Population dynamics,
focusing on the interplay between behavior and population
ecology especially as this relates to the evolution of
life history strategies brought on by human-induced
selection. Insect olfaction.
- Richard Gilbert
- Professor; Economics
- 642-9588
- Regulation; energy economic; technical change.
- J. Keith Gilless
- Assoc. Professor; ESPM
- 642-6388
- gilless@insect.berkeley.edu
- Economics and systems modeling of forest sector, regional
economics, international trade in forest products, land
use planning, and wildland fire protection planning.
- Todd Gitlin
- Professor; Sociology
- 642-0410
- Mass media; popular culture; sociology of culture;
literature; art; intellectuals; social movements.
- C. Roger Glassey
- Professor; Industrial Engineering
- 642-4997
- glassey@ieor.berkeley.edu
- Mathematical modeling of energy/economic systems.
- George Goldman
- Extension Specialist; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 642-6461
- goldman@are.berkeley.edu
- The estimation of local economic effects of resource use
and state and local government policy. Also, local
government finance, economic development, and the
economics of land use.
- Orman E. Granger
- Professor; Geography
- 642-3920
- Applied heat and moisture balance climatology, water
resources, micro-and bio-meterology, the environmental
and economic impact of climatic change, geophysical
hazards, the Caribbean.
- Harry W. Greene
- Assoc. Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-3059
- Evolutionary biology, particularly behavioral and
ecological factors in the origins of higher taxa. Special
interest in antipredator adaptations, the role of diet in
morphological diversification of reptiles, community
structure in vertebrates, and conservation of predators
in deserts and rainforests.
- Ralph Greif
- Professor; Mechanical Engineering
- 642-6462
- greif@me.berkeley.edu
- Convection, combustion, reactor heat transfer,
chemical-vapor deposition, thin films, phase change,
particulate flows, rotating flows, solar energy, thermal
radiation, insulation.
- Lawrence Grossman
- Professor; Nuclear Engineering
- 642-5107
- dsnp@cmsa.berkeley.edu
- Fission nuclear power: reactor technology, reactor
safety, innovative design.
- Paul E. Groth
- Assoc. Professor; Landscape Architecture
- 642-4884
- Public environmental education, American cultural
landscape historical preservation and conservation of
cultural resources, housing, ordinary building, social
issues in design, urban social history, vernacular
architecture and landscapes.
- Sylvia Guendelman
- Asst. Professor; Public Health
- 642-2848
- Household determinants of infant health.
- Andrew P. Gutierrez
- Professor; ESPM, Biological Control
- 642-9186
- Biological control. Ecosystem analysis, population
ecology.
- Ernst Haas
- Professor; Political Science
- 642-4657
- Implications for international conflict/cooperation of
all issues relating to resources and resource use,
science, technology; relationship between science,
knowledge, rationality, progress, peace; theories and
empirics of change at the international level.
- Joseph G. Hancock, Jr.
- Professor; Plant Pathology
- 642-4062
- Ecology and biology of soil borne plant pathogenic fungi.
In particular, the nature and dynamics of microbial
colonization of feeder roots of agricultural crops and
the complex interactions between microbes and roots
affecting plant health. Alternative to chemical
pesticides that can be applied in an integrate pest
management setting. Development of biological and
environmentally safe pesticides active against soil-borne
pathogens, and environmental modification in sustainable
agriculture.
- Michael Hanemann
- Assoc. Professor; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 642-2670
- hanemann@are.berkeley.edu
- Valuing natural environments, pollution control policy,
environmental economics and policy; water resources
economic policy; urban and stream values of water;
fisheries; public finance; micro economics of energy
demand and supply.
- James L. Hardy
- Professor; Public Health
- 642-3933
- Effect of environmental temperatures on mosquito-borne
viral encephalitis transmission cycles. Ecology of
Bunyamwerea and California serogroup bunyaviruses in
California.
- Robert A. Harley
- Asst. Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 643-9168
- harley@ce.berkeley.edu
- Urban and regional scale air quality; characterization of
air pollutant emissions; atmospheric chemistry and
physics. Estimation of on-road vehicle exhaust emissions
using gasoline sales and remote sensing data.
- Angela Harris
- Professor; Law
- 643-6354
- Environmental justice.
- Richard Harris
- Specialist; Forest and Resource Management
- 642-2360
- rrharris@nature.berkeley.edu
- Riparian management, forest management, and forest
ecology. Science-based decision analysis for planning and
implementing riparian vegetation restoration projects.
Training of professional and technical staff who manage
natural resources on Indian reservations.
- Robert Harris
- Associate Professor; Haas School of Business
- 642-0961
- Public utility regulation; antitrust policy;
transportation; telecommunications.
- Gillian P. Hart
- Assoc. Professor; City and Regional Planning
- 642-3257
- Development theory; comparative regional development and
planning; labor markets and the transformation of work;
gender studies.
- John Harte
- Professor; Energy and Resources Group
- 642-8533
- jharte@violet.berkeley.edu
- Ecological consequences of climate change;
biogeochemistry; ecosystem modeling; effects of land-use
practices on coastal zones; conservation biology and
endangered species protection. Experimental manipulation
of climate in subalpine meadow (Colorado Rockies); study
of biogeochemical and vegetational responses. Global
change. Environmental issues in the developing nations;
ecotoxicology; preservation of biodiversity; theoretical
ecology.
- John A. Helms
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-0376
- forchair@nature.berkeley.edu
- Tree physiology and silvicultural research relating to
regeneration and growth of trees and stands. Effects of
air pollution and elevated CO2 on tree growth.
- Slawomir Hermanowicz
- Assoc. Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 642-0151
- Biological processes in water and wastewater treatment,
mathematical modeling, water chemistry, nutrient removal.
- Eugene Herson
- Adjunct Professor; Civil Engineering
- (415)221-2971
- Solid waste, hazardous waste, environmental policy.
- Randolph Hester
- Professor; Landscape Architecture
- 642-4892
- Community design and urban form. Public use of urban
wilderness. Public participation in environmental
planning. Sacred landscapes; site planning; neighborhood
design; environmental anomie; community participation;
environmental justice; localism; community development,
place-appropriate economic development.
- Dorit S. Hochbaum
- Professor; Haas School of Business
- 642-4952
- Efficient use of resources. Flow and reliability problems
in networks. Very large-scale integrated chip design.
Geometric placement of robots and robot motion. Location,
distribution , and transportation problems. Routing
within communication networks, the topological design of
computer and communication networks. Efficient computer
algorithms for optimization problems. Optimal packing and
covering. The design and analysis of heuristics for hard
problems.
- John P. Holdren
- Professor; Energy and Resources Group
- 642-1139
- holdren@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Global environmental problems; comparative assessment of
the environmental and sociopolitical impacts of energy
choices; fusion-reactor design to minimize radiological
hazards; problems and prospects of arms control; the
interactions of energy and resource issues with
international security.
- Richard H. Holton
- Professor Emeritus; Haas School of Business
- 642-1424
- holton@haas.berkeley.edu
- International business. International management, joint
ventures, multinational corporations and their marketing
policies. Entrepreneurship and the development of the
young firm. Modernization of China and its implications
for business and marketing in China; foreign joint
ventures in China. Consumer behavior and market
imperfections. Antitrust policy as applied to the
distribution sector.
- Walter J. Hood
- Asst. Professor; Landscape Architecture
- 642-7419
- Landscape design; community development; citizen
participation, particularly ethnic groups; the design of
architecture and the landscape simultaneously.
- David J. M. Hooson
- Professor; Geography
- 642-1089
- Ex-Soviet Union, development of geographical thought,
political geography.
- Alexander Horne
- Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 642-1089
- Ecology, pollution, and management of aquatic systems.
Toxicity, biostimulation, nitrogen and carbon fixation in
lakes, estuaries, rivers and oceans; pollution;
environmental management.
- Oenes C. Huisman
- Assoc. Professor; Plant Pathology
- 642-3959
- majoch@nature.berkeley.edu
- Focus on the ecology of soil-borne fungi pathogenic to
plants. Development of a methodology for obtaining
reliable, quantitative data on colonization of the roots
by fungi, including bioassays and highly specific
immunohistochemical staining of fungal colonies in roots.
Work on the dynamics of and the competitive role of other
microbes.
- James R. Hunt
- Assoc. Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 642-0948
- jrhunt@ce.berkeley.edu
- Contaminant transport processes; environmental
restoration and waste management; experimental studies on
the response of cohesive sediments to wave motion;
subsurface transport processes in support of the Nevada
environmental assessment and research; transport and
cleanup of mixed liquid wastes trapped in soil; transport
and transformation of volatile organics in unsaturated
soil.
- Lynn Huntsinger
- Asst. Professor; ESPM
- 642-1022
- buckaroo@nature.berkeley.edu
- Woodland ecology and management. Effects of demographic
and environmental change on pastoral systems;
environmental history of Yurok forest.
- John G. Hurst
- Professor; Education
- 642-4475
- jhurst@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Democratic, environmental education; phenomenological
methods.
- Judith Innes
- Director, Professor; IURD
- 642-6579
- jinnes@ced.berkeley.edu
- Knowledge use in planning and policy and policy making;
land use planning and policy; social indicators; research
methods and design; planning theory; social policy and
theory; growth management; computers in planning. Growth
management, consensus building in environmental
management using 12 case studies.
- Allan B. Jacobs
- Chair; City and Regional Planning
- 642-4840
- Urban design; land use planning; urban planning
organization; the design of streets; street and block
patterns.
- David Jenkins
- Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 642-5337
- Activated sludge, biological waste treatment, wastewater
treatment processes, wastewater treatment plant
operation, wastewater chemistry, water chemistry.
- Linda L. Jewell
- Professor; Landscape Architecture
- 642-2980
- Landscape design; urban landscape design; the
relationship or landscape design and landscape
construction, material selection and ornamentation; sit
planning.
- William S. Jewell
- Professor; Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- 642-4928
- wsj@euler.berkeley.edu
- Stochastic models; reliability; quality control;
prediction, forecasting, and estimation; risk analysis;
decision analysis; actuarial science; approximations;
computer applications.
- Michael Johns
- Asst. Professor; Geography
- 642-0276
- johns@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Latin America, development issues, urbanization.
- Lane Johnson
- Professor; Geology and Geophysics
- 642-1275
- lrj@geo.lbl.gov
- Geophysics.
- Ned K. Johnson
- Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-3567
- Investigations in the biosystematics and variations of
New World birds, particularly at the near-species level.
Of special interest are within- and between- taxon
behavior, and habitat selection across zones of
environmental change.
- Harold Johnston
- Professor Emeritus; Chemistry
- 642-6911
- johnston@cchem.berkeley.edu
- Chemical kinetics and photochemistry; stratospheric
ozone, potential for global ozone reduction; chemical
mechanisms of photochemical smog.
- David L. Jones
- Professor; Geology and Geophysics
- 642-2514
- davey@perry.berkeley.edu
- Earthquake hazards.
- Robert A. Kagan
- Professor; Political Science, Law
- 642-4677
- The politics and enforcement of environmental and safety
regulation in the U.S. and Europe, and law affecting
seaports.
- Susan Kegley
- Lecturer; Chemistry
- 642-3746
- skegley@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Environmental chemistry education; selenium and mercury
in the San Francisco Bay-Delta; lead in urban gardens.
- John F. Keilch
- Senior Planner; Physical and Environmental Planning
- 642-1782
- jfk-cpo.cmsa.berkeley.edu
- Campus planning, educational facility planing,
environmental history, environmental planning.
- Mary Clair King
- Professor; Public Health
- 642-4100
- Genetic analysis of breast cancer in families. Genetic
epidemiology of heterosexual transmission of HIV.
- Janet C. King
- Professor; Nutritional Sciences
- 642-5202
- nschair@nature.berkeley.edu
- Zinc functions and requirements in humans. Effect of
pregnancy and lactation on nutrient utilization.
- James Kirchner
- Asst. Professor; Geology and Geophysics
- 643-8559
- kirchner@geomorph.berkeley.edu
- Environmental geochemistry, hydrology, and geomorphology.
Prediction of long-term response of watersheds to acid
deposition, stream channel network topology and sediment
transport mechanic. Measuring long-term rates of bedrock
and soil erosion; epistemology and testability of global
and systems-level theories; environmental data analysis
and modeling.
- Walter D. Koenig
- Assoc. Adj. Professor; Integrative Biology
- (408) 659-2684
- Behavioral ecology and population biology.
- G. Mathias Kondolf
- Assoc. Professor; Environmental Planning, Landscape Arch.
- 642-2904
- kondolf@ced.berkeley.edu
- Environmental, resource, and water planning,
Environmental river management. Gravel management in
California rivers. Research into physical impacts and
regulatory/management policies for gravel in rivers
affected by dams and aggregate mining. Stream
restoration. Hydrology; environmental geology;
environmental impact assessment; riparian zone
management.
- Catherine Koshland
- Associate Professor; Public Health
- 642-8769
- ckosh@uclink2.berkeley.edu
- Combustion and air pollution, particularly combustion
generated pollution, toxic combustion byproducts,
incineration of hazardous wastes and related health
effects; environmental regulation and policy related to
air pollution and waste management; environmental
regulation; Environmental chemistry.
- John D. Landis
- Assoc. Professor; City and Regional Planning
- 642-5918
- Housing, urban economics; planning methods; project
development; public economics, spatial information
analysis; land use planning.
- Robert S. Lane
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-4385
- Ecology and epidemiology of tick-borne diseases,
especially Lyme disease. Biology of ticks.
- Todd R. LaPorte
- Professor; Political Science
- 642-4673
- tlaporte@violet.berkeley.edu
- Technology and politics/social change; technology
assessment; technical systems and political legitimacy,
especially high hazard-low risk technologies, e.g.,
nuclear energy wastes, air traffic control, electrical
"grid" management; sociology of complex public
organization.
- Ronald Lee
- Professor; Economics
- 642-4535
- rlee@qal.berkeley.edu
- Economic demography, micro economic theory.
- Mark D. Levine
- Staff Senior Scientist; LBL
- 486-5238
- mdlevine@dante.lbl.gov
- Energy efficiency and global climate change; energy
issues of China; energy conservation policy studies (for
U.S. and developing countries); energy and environmental
training; fostering interest in the United States in
working with developing countries on energy efficiency
projects.
- Allan Lichtenberg
- Professor; EECS
- 642-4015
- ajl@eecs.berkeley.edu
- Energy conservation; energy economics; nonlinear
dynamics.
- William Z. Lidicker
- Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-3567
- lidicker@violet.berkeley.edu
- Mammalian Ecology, Conservation Biology.
- David R. Lindberg
- Assoc. Adj. Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-3926
- Evolution of rock, nearshore marine ecosystems, a habitat
that encompasses over 30% of the world's coastlines. This
program often incorporates paleontological, geological,
and biogeographical data, in addition to comparative
morphology, developmental biology, long-term experimental
manipulations, and phylogenetics.
- Steven E. Lindow
- Professor; Plant Pathology
- 642-4174
- icelab@violet.berkeley.edu
- Ecology and molecular genetics of epiphytic ice
nucleating bacteria; bacterial diseases and pesticide
resistance, biological control of weeks; epidemiology.
- Jere H. Lipps
- Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-9006
- jlipps@ucmp1.berkeley.edu
- Ecology, evolution, protists, oceanography.
- Scott Lynn
- Professor; Chemical Engineering
- 642-1634
- Process synthesis; pollution abatement.
- Beatriz Manz
- Director, Assoc. Prof.; Center for Latin American
Studies, Geography
- 642-2088
- bmanz@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Latin America, human and political geography, population
migration, peasants.
- Clare C. Marcus
- Professor; Landscape Architecture
- 642-2805
- Social behavior and the physical environment in housing
and open space; social implications of clutter housing;
children's environments; personal design values; design
for the elderly; post-occupancy evaluation; design
guidelines; site planning.
- Robert Martin
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-7931
- Wildland fire science management. Wildland/urban fire
problem, urban/wildland interface. Fires as agents of
biodiversity.
- Pamela Matson
- Professor; ESPM, Ecosystem Sciences
- 643-9880
- pamatson@nature.berkeley.edu
- Biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial ecosystems; the
effects of land use change and agricultural
intensification on nutrient cycling and trace gas fluxes
in tropical ecosystems; ecological causes and
consequences of global change.
- Joe R. McBride
- Professor; Landscape Architecture, ESPM
- 643-8074
- Forest succession in various forest types in California.
Physiological ecology of riparian species. Air pollution
impacts on California Vegetation and ecological analysis;
urban forestry; historic landscape restoration forests.
Regeneration of California oak species. Impact of
urbanization on native vegetation.
- John G. McColl
- Professor; ESPM, Ecosystem Sciences
- 642-1028
- forsoil@native.berkeley.edu
- Soil organic material; nutrient cycling in forests;
effects of forest management practices on nutrients in
soil; herbicide reactions with soil minerals; effects of
atmospheric inputs to forests.
- Dale R. McCullough
- Professor; ESPM, Ecosystem Sciences
- 642-8462
- mcculla@nature.berkeley.edu
- Examining the population dynamics and social organization
of large mammals, particularly deer, with reference to
exploitation and sustainable yield. Predation dynamics of
coyotes on domestic sheep. Basic ecology and behavior of
little known species of high economic value (Reeve's
Muuntac), hunted by Aborigines and sold in Chinese
market.
- William McKillop
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-0469
- mckillop@nature.berkeley.edu
- Econometric analyses of forest products demand, supply,
and trade. Assessment of regional and national impacts of
alternative resource policies and management strategies.
Regional timber supply modeling.
- Povindar K Mehta
- Professor; Civil Engineering
- 642-5463
- Utilization of crop residues and industrial byproducts
for making energy-saving building materials; durability
of building materials.
- Richard L. Meier
- Professor Emeritus; Environmental Design
- 642-1439
- Urban ecosystems, eco-structures and flows. Ecological
planning and design, especially for developing societies
(China, India, Sub-Sahara Africa, Indonesia...)
Eco-technology. Sociology of knowledge at the frontiers.
- Tasio Melis
- Professor; Plant Biology
- 642-8166
- melis@nature.berkeley.edu
- Biochemistry-Photosynthesis. The study of acclimation
responses of plants to environmental conditions.
- Peter S. Menell
- Acting Professor; Law
- 642-5489
- Liability of parent corporations under CERCLA, solid
waste regulation, and environmental liability systems.
Regulation of automobile emissions, evaluation of the
long-term environmental impacts of human habitation. The
use of economic incentives to increase the effectiveness
of recycling. Corporate behavior in response to
environmental laws.
- Carolyn Merchant
- Professor; ESPM, Conservation and Resource Studies
- 642-0326
- merchant@nature.berkeley.edu
- Environmental philosophies and ethics; radical ecology
movement; ecological history of New England 1600-1850;
implications of the seventeenth century scientific
revolution in Europe for the environment; women in
conservation; women and nature.
- Nicholas J. Mills
- Asst. Professor; Biological Control
- 642-1711
- mills@nature.berkeley.edu
- Biological control of insect pests of orchards and
forests. Ecology of natural enemies. Parasitoid community
ecology.
- Roger Montogomery
- Dean, Professor; Environmental Design
- 642-0831
- roger_montgomery@ced.berkeley.edu
- Zoning, housing policy, history of the profession.
- C. Bradley Moore
- Professor; Chemistry
- 642-3453
- cbmoore@cchem.berkeley.edu
- Atmospheric reactions. Atmospheric fate of pesticides and
pesticide products decomposition. Kinetics and
spectroscopy, atmospheric chemistry combustion.
Photochemical and free radical reactions.
- Michael L. Morrison
- Assoc. Professor; ESPM, Ecosystem Sciences
- 642-5344
- Wildlife ecology, with an emphasis on habitat use and
development of statistical models predicting distribution
and abundance of animals.
- Laura Nader
- Professor; Anthropology
- 642-1218
- Social anthropology, comparative ethnography of law and
dispute resolution, controlling processes, comparative
family organizations, the anthropology of professional
mind-sets, ethnology of the Middle East, Mexico, Latin
America, and contemporary U.S. Energy in culture and
society; anthropology of science and scientists.
- T. N. Narasimhan
- Professor; Materials Science and Mineral Engineering
- 642-4561
- vijaya@csa.lbl.gov
- Groundwater, contaminant, and environmental hydrology;
soil physics, reactive chemical transport, groundwater
contamination, sustainability of resources. Toxic wastes
and waste disposal. Radon.
- Wiliam W. Nazaroff
- Assoc. Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 642-1040
- nazaroff@ce.berkeley.edu
- Aerosol physics, air quality, atmospheric chemistry,
contaminant transport processes. Indoor ozone
concentrations: quantification of mechanisms of outdoor
concentration attenuation; indoor pollutant dispersion
and disposition; modeling stratospheric/tropospheric
exchange; particle deposition from natural convection
flow onto indoor surfaces; soil-gas transport: a
mechanism of indoor exposure to volatile organic
compounds.
- John Neilands
- Professor Emeritus; Molecular and Cell Biology
- 642-5621
- Solar energy and biological approaches to energy
conservation.
- Anthony V. Nero, Jr.
- Physicist; Energy and Environment, LBL
- 486-6377
- avnero@lbl.gov
- Conceptual frameworks for evaluating environmental risks,
carcinogenic risks from indoor environmental pollutants,
behavior of and exposure to radon and other indoor
pollutants.
- Daniel M. Neumark
- Professor; Chemistry
- 642-3502
- neumark@violet.berkeley.edu
- Spectroscopic studies of transient reactive species in
the stratosphere. Atmospheric reaction dynamics.
- Franco M. Nicosia
- Professor; Haas School of Business
- 642-2675
- nicosia@haas.berkeley.edu
- Psychology and social psychology applied to problems of
corporate managers and public-policy makers, especially
in areas of consumer and industrial behavior and
advertising management; Psychology of product packaging
design, copy testing, truth in advertising, and marketing
research. Consumer satisfaction and behavior in affluent
and developing countries. Consumer attitudes toward
technology-based products, energy conservation, and
pollution.
- Bernard Q. Nietschmann
- Professor; Geography
- 642-0364
- Fourth World theory, cultural-political geography,
tropical marine ecology, Latin America, the Pacific.
- Richard B. Norgaard
- Professor; Energy and Resources Group
- 642-3465
- norgaard@violet.berkeley.edu
- Ecological, energy, environmental and development
economics; development as social and ecological systems
coevolution; environmental epistemology.
- Thomas E. Novotny
- Assistant Dean; Public Health
- 643-6432
- novotny@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Economic costs of the health effects of smoking.
Developing the science base for public health practice.
- Michael O'Hare
- Professor; Public Health
- 642-7576
- mohare@cmsa.berkeley.edu
- Environmental policy, facility citing.
- Craig Osenberg
- Asst. Professor; Integrative Biology
- 643-7200
- osenberg@violet.berkeley.edu
- Aquatic and community ecology. Development of a
predictive framework understanding how species
interactions (particularly competition and predation) and
environmental factors (e.g., system productivity)
influence the abundance and dynamics of populations.
Application of ecological theory to environmental
problems.
- David W. Ow
- Adj. Asst. Professor; USDA Plant Gene Expression Center
- 559-5909
- ow@mendel.berkeley.edu
- Examine heavy metal tolerance, a problem for plants and
animals in polluted environments. By understanding the
molecular mechanisms of metal chelation, strategies
ultimately can be devised to engineer crop plants with
reduced accumulation of toxic metals.
- Lester Packer
- Professor, Physiology; Molecular and Cell Biology
- 642-1872
- Biological oxidations, free radicals, oxidative damage,
and mechanism of action of antioxidants both naturally
occurring and synthetic in protection against oxidant
damage.
- Velma Parness
- Continuing Ed. Specialist; UCB Extension
- 643-8278
- vip@unx.berkeley.edu
- Continuing professional education in integrated solid
waste management, contaminated site assessment and
remediation, environmental health and safety auditing.
- Tadeusz W. Patzek
- Asst. Professor; Materials Science and Mineral
Engineering
- 643-5834
- Reservoir engineering, thermal EOR, numerical modeling,
waste cleanup, foams, fluid and statistical mechanics.
- Oliver P. Pearson
- Professor Emeritus; Integrative Biology
- 642-3059
- Physiological ecology.
- William Pease
- Research Toxicologist; Public Health
- 642-8853
- pease@sph.berkeley.edu
- Chemical risk assessment and regulatory policy. Impacts
of pesticide use. Use pesticide data and poisoning
incident reporting to assess human health, ecological and
resource impacts. Risks of chemical exposure. Use
exposure databases and risk estimation models to
characterize and prioritize environmental health
problems.
- Deborah Penry
- Asst. Professor; Integrative Biology
- 643-5915
- dpenry@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Planktonic and benthic ecology. Oceanography.
- Per F. Peterson
- Asst. Professor; Nuclear Engineering
- 643-7749
- peterson@euler.berkeley.edu
- Heat and mass transfer in multispecies, multiphase
transport, thermal hydraulics, nuclear reactor design and
safety.
- Andrea Peterson
- Professor; Law
- 642-0397
- Takings clause.
- Frank A. Pitelka
- Professor Emeritus; Integrative Biology
- 642-1373
- Ecology, especially avian and mammalian.
- D. Malcolm Potts
- Professor; Public Health
- 642-4327
- wilburho@violet.berkeley.edu
- Costs and mobilization of resources for international
family planning. AIDS prevention strategies and resource
needs.
- Jerry A. Powell
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-3207
- saha@nature.berkeley.edu
- Biodiversity and inventory of insects; biosystematics,
biology and evolution of Lepidoptera, particularly
microlepidoptera.
- Thomas M. Powell
- Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-7455
- Physical oceanography, limnology, and aquatic ecology.
Physical and biologic processes in lakes, estuaries and
the ocean.
- Mary E. Power
- Assoc. Professor; Integrative Biology
- 643-7776
- mepower@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Freshwater ecology, food webs. Interest centered on river
food webs; the interaction among birds, fish,
invertebrates, and algae in temperate and tropical
rivers. Invading alien species; watersheds.
- Allan R. Pred
- Professor; Geography
- 642-3987
- Social theory, cultural studies, local and regional
transformation.
- Stanley G. Prussin
- Professor; Nuclear Engineering
- 642-5274
- Fission product release from nuclear fuels, nuclear
chemistry and applications, radiation detection.
- Alexander Purcell
- Chairman; ESPM
- 642-7285
- purcell@nature.berkeley.edu
- Role of insects in spread of plant diseases, especially
bacterial diseases; agricultural entomology.
- John M. Quigley
- Chairman; Economics
- 643-7411
- jmq-eco@cmsa.berkeley.edu
- Public finance, public policy, urban economics-
specifically municipal bond market and the effect of tax
law changes, decentralized provision of public goods;
interest in energy regulations and real estate markets.
- Robert D. Raabe
- Professor; Plant Pathology
- 642-3950
- Diseases of ornamental plants, cut flowers, and potted
plants. Composting.
- Margaret Race
- Assistant Dean; College of Natural Resources
- 642-8717
- race@nature.berkeley.edu
- Ecology/science communication. Science policy and public
decision making. Environmental Education. Assessment of
coastal zone mitigation policies in the U.S.
Environmental impacts of exotic species and assessment of
risk communication needs for sample return missions from
Mars.
- John D. Radke
- Asst. Professor; Landscape Architecture, City and
Regional Planning
- 643-5995
- ratt@ced.berkeley.edu
- GIS; database design and construction; spatial analysis;
pattern recognition; computational morphology;
environmental assessment; landscape characterization;
potential modeling; environmental planning. Metrics that
help measure morphology. Information systems that aid
planners and decision makers.
- Gordon Rausser
- Dean CNR, Professor; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 642-6592
- rausser@are.berkeley.edu
- Public policy and regulation, industrial organization,
futures markets, environmental and natural resource
evaluations. Environmental economics, food supply, toxic
materials, international conflict and the environment,
risk-benefit analysis.
- Kenneth N. Raymond
- Chair, Professor; Chemistry
- 642-7219
- raymond@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Design of ligands for encapsulation of uranium,
plutonium, and vanadium. Design of sequestering agents
for lead.
- James Rector, III
- Asst. Professor; Materials Science and Mineral
Engineering
- 643-7820
- Borehole seismic imaging techniques that are commonly
applied production problems, but can also be used for
environmental applications such as nuclear waste
disposal. Environmental side characterization,
contaminant detection.
- Robert R. Reed
- Assoc. Professor; Geography
- 642-3900
- Cultural and historical geography, non-Western urbanism,
religious geography, Southeast Asia.
- Vincent H. Resh
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-3763
- vresh@nature.berkeley.edu
- Aquatic insects: life history patterns and population
dynamics, in particular, the use of these organisms as
indicators of environmental quality; stream and wetland
ecology. Urban stream restoration.
- James Robinson
- Assoc. Professor; Public Health
- 642-0564
- Incentives for toxics use reduction; effects of
occupational and environmental health regulation.
- Gene I. Rochlin
- Professor; Energy and Resources Group
- 642-8194
- hirel@uclink.berkeley.edu
- Large-scale technological systems; social construction of
risks; organizations and technology; political economy of
energy and natural resources; arms control and
international security; national and international social
and political implications of scientific and
technological development.
- Emery M. Roe
- Coordinator; College of Natural Resources
- 642-1599
- emrnpa@nature.berkeley.edu
- Science, technology and environmental issues of policy.
Coordination of college activities in environmental and
natural resource areas. Sustainable resource development.
- Jeffrey M. Romm
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-6499
- jeffromm@nature.berkeley.edu
- Sustainable development; resource and environmental
policy. Policies affecting the contributions of natural
resources to rural, regional and national development;
intergovernmental relations and resource management;
river basin regimes; international resource/environmental
regimes.
- Christine Rosen
- Assoc. Professor; Haas School of Business
- 642-8695
- crosen@haas.berkeley.edu
- History of pollution law and regulation in America from
1840 to 1940, and of abatement technology. Pollution
control and environmental management. Past and present
issues in redevelopment of urban infrastructure and real
estate. Business and public policy; Business history;
role of business in city planning and local and regional
politics, focusing on urban development and environmental
regulation; historical perspective of the role of
business in American public policy processes; urban
rebuilding after great fires and other natural disasters.
- Lawrence Ruth
- Policy Specialist, Lecturer; ESPM
- 642-3765
- ergo@cavebear.berkeley.edu
- Natural resources law and environmental policy. Forest
land management: assessment of spotted owl conservation
strategies and their implications (social, political,
economic). Review of ecological approaches for management
of environmental and natural resource.
- Martin Sanchez-Jankowski
- Assoc. Professor; Sociology
- 642-4297
- sanjan@ucbcmsa.berkeley.edu
- Political sociology; urban development; race and
ethnicity; deviance; youth culture; survey research.
- Dale Sander
- Senior Planner; Physical and Environmental Planning
- 643-8777
- Environmental planning: urban/wildland interface,
landscape ecology. Impacts of development on wildlife.
Agroecosystems: EBMUD watershed.
- Jayant A. Sathaye
- Staff Scientist; LBL
- 486-6294
- jasathaye@lbl.gov
- Climate change mitigation options, carbon flows from
forestry and energy in developing countries, energy
efficiency, household energy use in developing countries,
long-term energy and carbon scenarios.
- Robert F. Sawyer
- Professor Emeritus; Mechanical Engineering
- 642-5573
- rsawyer@euler.berkeley.edu
- Air pollution, combustion, engines, fire safety, fuels,
propulsion, regulatory policy, toxic wastes. Automotive
air pollution: pollutant formation and control, fuel
effects. Toxic waste destruction: thermal destruction of
chlorinate hydrocarbons, pollutant monitoring.
- Joseph Sax
- Professor; Law
- 642-1831
- saxj@boalt.berkeley.edu
- Environmental law and policy. Water rights, public lands,
public trust doctrine, and Constitutional foundations of
property laws. The origins of the preservation ethic in
the U.S. and other countries.
- Annalee Saxenian
- Asst. Professor; City and Regional Planning
- 642-3619
- Regional economic development; high technology
regions;economic geography.
- Harry N. Scheiber
- Chair, Professor; Berkeley Division, Academic Senate; Law
- 642-4038
- Development and regulation of ocean resources.
- Rachel Schurman
- Asst.Professor; Energy and Resources Group
- 642-8866
- schurman@violet.berkeley.edu
- Fisheries; extractive industries; economic development;
Latin America.
- Franz Schurmann
- Professor; Sociology
- 642-4279
- Changes in contemporary US society; changes in the US
role in the world; development of world systems.
- Suzanne Scotchmer
- Professor; Public Policy
- 643-8562
- scotch@cmsa.berkeley.edu
- Expenditure decisions in public finance, cost benefit
analysis, welfare economics, intellectual property law,
and environmental economics.
- David Sedlak
- Asst. Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 643-0256
- sedlak@ce.berkeley.edu
- Transformation reactions in the atmosphere, specifically
photochemical reactions. Heavy metals in surface waters
and cloud droplets. Water and waste water treatment.
- Robert E. Selleck
- Professor Emeritus; Civil Engineering
- 642-3265
- Collection and distribution systems design; water and
waste water treatment processes.
- Steve Selvin
- Professor; Public Health
- 642-4618
- selvin@psi.berkeley.edu
- Populations at risk to environmental pollution. Data
analysis applied to environmental issues, particularly
graphic analysis.
- Hsieh Wen Shen
- Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 642-6774
- Fluvial hydraulics, hydraulic models, hydraulics.
California drought studies; fundamental study of debris
flow; Kissimmee river modeling studies; San Franscisco
hydraulic bay model management and operations.
- Paul S. Sheng
- Asst. Professor; Mechanical Engineering
- 642-9359
- psheng@euler.berkeley.edu
- Environmentally conscious manufacturing. Environmental
parameters in machining processes: analytical modeling of
tradeoffs between environmental and traditional
manufacturing (industry) factors. Design for
recyclability of computer workstations.
- Jerry Siebert
- Extension Specialist; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 643-5279
- siebert@are.berkeley.edu
- Marketing, management, and resource and environmental
economics. Special emphasis on farm program and macro
economic policy relationships to agriculture. The
economic consequences of exotic pest infestations and the
use of pesticides, with the focus on economic evaluations
of alternative policies and regulations as well as
alternatives to pesticides. Data and information from
sustainable systems is needed to evaluate the shift away
from chemical based management systems.
- Kenneth H. Simmons
- Assoc. Professor; Architecture
- 642-4098
- Black community and design issues, community development
and design, neighborhood commercial revitalization,
participatory design/planning, social issues in design,
urban design and planning.
- Nicholas Sitar
- Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 643-8623
- nsitar@violet.berkeley.edu
- Engineering geology, geotechnical engineering,
contaminant transport in groundwater, and groundwater
clean-up. Environmental management of toxic and hazardous
substances; evaluation of technologies for cleanup of
DNAPL contaminated sites; response of San Francisco Bay
deep fill deposits under cyclic loading. Development of
analysis methods for evaluation of seismic stability
coastal bluffs in the San Francisco Bay region.
- Doris Sloan
- Lecturer; Environmental Sciences Major
- 642-3703
- Geologic history of San Francisco-Delta system,
particularly stratigraphy, paleontology, and tectonics of
San Francisco Bay; paleoenvironmental analysis of
sediments.
- Allan H. Smith
- Professor; Public Health
- 843-1736
- allan_smith@rsvp.sph.berkeley.edu
- Epidemiology, environmental health, human health,
chemical risk assessment. Arsenic in drinking water and
bladder cancer. Risk assessment of health risks from
exposure to silica.
- Wallace F. Smith
- Professor; Haas School of Business
- 642-3442
- wsmith@haas.berkeley.edu
- Real-estate development. Computer simulation of Third
World urbanization processes and problems.
- Martyn T. Smith
- Assoc. Professor; Public Health
- 642-8770
- martyn_smith@rsvp.sph.berkeley.edu
- Toxicology: chemically induced leukemia and bladder
cancer. Metabolism and toxicity of benzene. Biomarkers of
genetic damage and susceptibility in humans. Studies of
genotoxic effects of benzene, arsenic, formaldehyde and
malathion in humans. Human health.
- Rodney J. Sobey
- Professor; Environmental Engineering
- 642-3162
- sobey@ce.berkeley.edu
- Coastal engineering, computational mechanics, estuarine
circulation, fluid mechanics, harbors, hydrodynamics,
ocean engineering, turbulence, wave propagation,
wetlands. Oil spills: wave-driven transport of surface
oil spills. Wetlands: hydrodynamic influences on the
survival of wetlands in SF bay.
- Wayne Sousa
- Assoc. Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-2435
- wpsousa@violet.berkeley.edu
- Population and community ecology, host-parasite
interactions.
- Michael Southworth
- Professor; Landscape Architecture
- 642-2930
- Urban and regional design, land use planning,
environmental psychology, environmental education, maps
and mapping.
- Robert C. Spear
- Director EEHSL, Prof.; Public Health
- 642-0761
- spear@sph.berkeley.edu
- Engineering aspects of environmental and occupational
health. Mathematical modeling studies: Uncertainty and
variability in large simulation models: schistosomiasis
risk in China; groundwater contamination from superfund
sites.
- Garrison Sposito
- Professor; ESPM, Ecosystem Sciences
- 643-8297
- Molecular environmental science: Mechanisms of reactions
of environmental significance in soils and waters;
theoretical formulations of transport in soils and
waters.
- David R. Stoddart
- Professor; Geography
- 643-8109
- stoddart@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Geomorphology and ecology of tropical islands and reefs,
coastal geomorphology, history of geographic though.
- Chip Sullivan
- Assoc. Professor; Landscape Architecture
- 642-2938
- Site planning; garden history and the symbolic meanings
of the garden as a metaphysical metaphor; the design of
gardens as passive heating and cooling devices; the use
of new methods and mediums to express the garden as an
art form.
- Ira Tager
- Professor; Public Health
- 642-3997
- Respiratory health effects of smoking during pregnancy
and the prenatal period on the respiratory health of
infants. Development of exposure assessment instruments
for studies of health effects of chronic ambient ozone
exposure in childhood and adolescence.
- Michael E. Tarter
- Professor; Public Health
- 642-4601
- Nonparametric estimation, computer and graphic
methodology, cancer and environmental studies.
- John W. Taylor
- Professor; Plant Biology
- 642-5366
- jtaylor@violet.berkeley.edu
- Evolutionary relationships of fungi.
- David J. Teece
- Professor; Haas School of Business
- 642-1075
- teece@haas.berkeley.edu
- Technology policy, antitrust policy and energy policy at
the national and international levels; OPEC, world oil
prices, tariffs on imported oil; regulation of oil
pipelines and implications of changes in governmental
regulation and competition; multinational enterprises;
technological and organizational factors; internal
governance.
- Michael Teitz
- Professor; City and Regional Planning
- 642-1812
- Regional and local economic development; housing
economics and policy; planning theory.
- Norman Terry
- Professor; Plant Biology
- 642-3510
- nterry@nature.berkeley.edu
- Application of plants to the cleanup of environmental
pollution, specifically selenium. Currently studying the
physiological and biochemical processes that control
plant release of selenium gases. Also, research on
salinity, drought, and nutrient stress.
- Irene Tinker
- Professor; City and Regional Planning
- 642-2764
- Urbanization and economic development globally,
especially urban food production and minority
enterprises; women in development; non-governmental
organizations.
- Kenneth Train
- Assoc. Adj. Professor; Economics
- 642-6649
- train@econ.berkeley.edu
- Regulation, supplied econometrics; past research in
public utility regulation, energy conservation,
telecommunications, transportation.
- Robert H. Twiss
- Professor; Environmental Planning, Landscape Architecture
- 642-2871
- twiss@ced.berkeley.edu
- Regional environmental planning. Plan implementation; GIS
applications. 12 county SF Bay/Delta regional
environmental GIS. Environmental assessments for regional
planning and land regulation; public land management
planning.
- Susan Ubbelohde
- Assoc. Professor; Architecture
- 642-4886
- Energy and design. Evaluation of available daylight and
energy software for architects.
- Kent S. Udell
- Assoc. Professor; Mechanical Engineering
- 642-2928
- udell@me.berkeley.edu
- Contaminated aquifer restoration, enhanced petroleum
recovery, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer,
multiphase transport in porous media, radioactive waste
disposal. Development of steam injection for in-situ
treatment of hazardous liquids; health effects of toxic
substances.
- Sim H. Van Der Ryn
- Professor Emeritus; Architecture
- 642-1670
- Design, natural environment, solar design.
- Pravin Varaiya
- Professor; Engineering, EECS
- 642-5270
- varaiya@janus.berkeley.edu
- Electric power utility automation; broad based
communication; urban economics.
- Francis Violich
- Professor Emeritus; Landscape Architecture, City and
Regional Planning
- 848-1236
- Urban planning and design with relation to contexts of
natural and built environment; experience as source of
human identity with place; environmental interpretation
through phenomenological method; international
environmental/cultural exchange.
- David Vogel
- Professor; Haas School of Business
- 642-5294
- Corporate governance and related shareholder issues;
business involvement and power in American politics;
international competitiveness of American business;
comparative analysis of governmental regulation of
business in western industrial societies, especially
health, safety, and environmental regulation.
- Loy E. Volkman
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-4500
- lvolkman@nature.berkeley.edu
- Studies of the interaction between viruses and their
insect hosts in order to manipulate interaction for
improved pest control.
- Marvalee Wake
- Professor; Integrative Biology
- 642-4743
- mhwake@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Biodiversity, global change, land use and habitat,
complex systems. Geographical ecology of tropical
Salamanders: Study of the ecological organization and
evolutionary development of communities of tropical
salamanders along elevational transects at 8 different
sites.
- David B. Wake
- Director; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
- 642-3059
- wakelab@cmsa.berkeley.edu
- Functional, developmental, and evolutionary morphology,
systematics, and geographical ecology of amphibians, and
reptiles. Emphasis on analysis of evolutionary patterns
and the processes that produce them.
- Richard A. Walker
- Chair, Professor; Geography
- 642-3901
- walker@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Economic geography, urban geography, environmental
studies. A geographic study of the economy, society and
culture of the Bay Area, including the dynamic suburban
expansion and the politics of environmentalism. Water
resources and environmental regulation, social theory and
Marxism, California and the West.
- Timothy L. Wallace
- Extension Specialist; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 642-5495
- twallace@are.berkeley.edu
- Public policy education (policy process), evaluation of
economic consequences to an area due to changes in
natural resource use, or as a result of policy changes.
Evaluation of irrigation water alternatives with
particular attention paid to water quality consequences,
international trade implications, and regional economic
development.
- Chi-Yuen Wang
- Professor; Geology and Geophysics
- 642-2288
- chiyuen@thrust.berkeley.edu
- Fluid Heat Flow.
- Thomas Wangerin
- Continuing Ed. Specialist; UCB Extension
- 643-9707
- tjw@unx.berkeley.edu
- Asbestos and lead inspection, abatement, and regulation.
- Michael Watts
- Professor; Geography
- 642-3902
- mwatts@violet.berkeley.edu
- Human ecology of West Africa, South India.
Drought/desertification. Political ecology of rice
production. Third World political economy, political
ecology, Africa, development, peasant economy, political
economy, social and cultural theory, U.S. agriculture.
- Lisa Wells
- Asst. Professor; Geography
- 642-1281
- lwells@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Geomorphology, geoarchaeology, paleoclimatology,
prehistoric land use and environmental impacts, Latin
America, the tropics. Use of tidal marsh sediments to
reconstruct long term environmental history of SF
estuary. Use of isotopes in long-lived reef corals to
reconstruct Pacific Basin climate history.
- Stephen C. Welter
- Assoc. Professor; ESPM
- 642-2355
- welters@nature.berkeley.edu
- Behavioral ecology and manipulation of beneficial insects
in agricultural systems.
- Jerome J. Wesolowski
- Adjunct Professor; Civil Engineering
- 540-2476
- Indoor and outdoor air quality, toxic air management,
total human exposure to toxic pollutants.
- Donald P. Weston
- Assoc. Adj. Prof.; Integrative Biology
- 231-5626
- dweston@uclink.berkeley.edu
- Ecotoxicology and benthic ecology. Ecology of marine
invertebrates. The impact of human activities on these
organisms at the individual, population, and community
levels. Application of basic research to current
environmental problems. Pollution, Bioaccumulation.
Aquacultural antibiotics.
- Warren Winkelstein, Jr.
- Professor Emeritus; Public Health
- 642-4304
- Epidemiology and natural history of AIDS and HIV
infection. Disease effects of air pollution,
epidemiological considerations in public policy
formulation, and cancer epidemiology.
- Diane Wolcott
- Continuing Ed. Specialist; UCB Extension
- 642-7537
- dlw@unx.berkeley.edu
- Continuing professional education in hazardous materials
and waste management, air quality management,
environmental law and management; environmental
leadership education.
- David L. Wood
- Professor; ESPM
- 642-5538
- bigwood@nature.berkeley.edu
- Biology of bark beetles, insect host selection behavior,
insect pheromones, use of behavior-modifying chemicals in
forest pest management, and forest entomology in general.
- Brian D. Wright
- Professor; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 642-9213
- wright@are.berkeley.edu
- Agricultural policy, commodity storage, market
stabilization, and the economic response to risk. Debt
forgiveness in exchange for environmental services.
- Ronald W. Yeung
- Professor; Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering
- 642-5464
- rwyeung@garnet.berkeley.edu
- Ocean waves, ship shore interaction, mathematical
modeling.
- David Zilberman
- Professor; Agricultural and Resource Economics
- 642-6570
- zilberman@are.berkeley.edu
- Environmental and resource problems in agriculture, water
and pesticides.