UCPE - Center Director:
Stephanie Pincetl
Institute of the Environment
University of California, Los Angeles
La Kretz Hall, Suite 300,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496
spincetl@ioe.ucla.edu
(310) 825-2434
Research Teams
City of Los Angeles Million Tree Initiative Research
Diane Pataki, Ph.D.
Biological Sciences
School of Physical Sciences
University of California, Irvine
dpataki@uci.edu
(949) 824-9411
3313 Croul Hall, Mail Code: 3100
Irvine, CA 92697
Dr. Pataki and her lab study plant physiological ecology and ecosystem ecology with an emphasis on the role of plants and soils in the atmosphere/ climate system, and how this role is being modified by land use change, land cover change, and urbanization.
Jean Daniel Saphores, Ph.D
Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
University of California, Irvine
saphores@uci.edu
(949) 824-3480
Dr. Saphores studies, infrastructure economics and management, urban and transportation economics, planning, and policy, water resources, waste management, environmental and natural resource economics and policy, and applied econometrics. More generally, he is interested in decision making under uncertainty using the theory of Real Options.
Sassan Saatchi, Ph.D.
Institute of the Environment
Center for Tropical Research, University of California, Los Angeles
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA, 91109
ssaatchi@ucla.edu
Dr. Saatchi’s research activities include land cover classification, biomass and soil moisture estimation in boreal forests, land use and land cover change, forest structure and carbon stock in tropical forests, and applications of remote sensing in biodiversity and conservation.
Nancy Grulke, Ph.D.
Plant Ecophysiologist
Pacific Southwest Research Station Forest Fire Laboratory
4955 Canyon Crest Drive Riverside, CA 92507
ngrulke@fs.fed.us
(951) 680-1556
The Pacific Southwest Research Station represents the research and development branch of the USDA Forest Service in the states of California and Hawaii and the U.S. affiliated Pacific Islands. Our primary work occurs in California and Hawaii. Developing and delivering science-based information, technologies, understanding, and applications to help people make well-informed decisions about natural resource management, conservation, and environmental protection.
Tom Gillespie, Ph.D.
Department of Geography
University of California, Los Angeles
1255 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524
tg@geog.ucla.edu
(310) 825-1818
Dr. Gillespie’s interests focus on using geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing data for predicting patterns of species richness and rarity for plants and birds at a regional spatial scale.
What Brings Children to Parks?
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Ph.D.
Department of Urban Planning
University of California, Los Angeles
sideris@ucla.edu
(310) 206-9679
Dr. Loukaitou-Sideris' research focuses on the public environment of the city, its physical representation, aesthetics, social meaning and impact on the urban resident. Her work seeks to integrate social and physical issues in urban planning and architecture. An underlying theme of her work is its "user focus." She seeks to analyze and understand the built environment from the perspective of those who live and work there.
California Conservation Politics since the Passage of Proposition 13
Daniel Press, Ph.D.
Olga T. Griswold Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
dpress@ucsc.edu
(831) 459-3263
Dr. Press’ work addresses several dimensions of environmental politics and policy, with a US-based geographic focus. He is interested in understanding the potential that local and participatory politics has for environmental management and protection. He also works on resource conservation issues and is very interested in the policy questions that arise over industrial pollution and resource consumption.
Pete Halloran
PhD Candidate
University of California, Santa Cruz
peteh@ucsc.edu
Developing Watershed Quality Indicators, Research funded by CalFed Team
Watershed Sustainability Indicators for Los Angeles
Nancy Steele, Ph.D.
Executive Director LASGWC
Department of the Environment
700 N. Alameda St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
nancy@lasgwc.org
(213)-229-9950
The Los Angeles San Gabriel Watershed Council, whose mission is to facilitate inclusive consensus processes to preserve, restore and enhance the economic, social and ecological health of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed through education, research and planning.
Fraser Schilling
Researcher
University of California Davis
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
fmshilling@ucdavis.edu
(530) 752-7859
Research interests include watershed assessment and adaptive management, road ecology and wildlife crossing, environmental justice (especially fish contamination), & ecosystem services and indicators
Terri Hogue, Ph.D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
5731F Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
thogue@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 794-4239
Dr. Hogue’s research interests include investigation and application of optimization techniques to rainfall-runoff and land-surface modeling, and integration of these methods into operational flood forecasting. Her research also involves analysis of land-atmosphere interactions in semi-arid climates, with special emphasis on modeling surface fluxes in these regions. This research provides insight into the hydrologic, energy, and carbon cycles and possible response of these cycles to climate change. Knowledge and integration of these processes on the earth’s surface is critical as we plan the future requirements of water resources.
Robert Vos, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Geography
University of Southern California
vos@usc.edu
(213) 821-1311
Dr. Vos' research emphasis is in the area of industrial ecology, including projects on regional materials flow analysis, eco-industrial park planning, life-cycle assessment, and sustainability indicators. He has also published extensively on theories and concepts of sustainability. His co-edited book, Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability, won the Lynton K. Caldwell Prize from the Section on Technology and Environmental Policy in the American Political Science Association for the best book published between 1995 and 1997 on environmental politics and policy.
Mark Fenn, Ph.D.
Plant Pathologist
Pacific Southwest Research Station Forest Fire Laboratory,
4955 Canyon Crest Drive Riverside, CA 92507
(951) 680-1565
mfenn@fs.fed.us
Dr. Fenn’s primary research interests are evaluating the long term effects of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition on sensitive biotic communities, forest health (including pests and pathogens), soil chemistry and biology, nutrient cycling processes, and water quality. He is interested in multiple stress and multiple pollutant interactions as they impinge on forest sustainability, and water quality and quantity of chronic N deposition.
Date Posted: 8/29/2008