Environmental Studies
2017-18 General Catalog
405 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building
(831) 459-2634
http://envs.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Christopher Benner
Social aspects of information technology, social equity in urban and regional development, social movements and innovative community/labor organizing, political ecology of urban systems
Jeffrey T. Bury
Political ecology; sustainable development; Latin America; extractive industries; climate change; new models of conservation
Weixin Cheng
Soil ecology, agroecology, biogeochemistry, global change ecology
Tim Duane
Environmental law and policy, renewable energy development, ecosystem-based management, land use planning and regulation, water law and policy, conservation easements, climate law and policy
Gregory S. Gilbert
Disease ecology, forest ecology, tropical ecology, biological invasions, conservation biology, applied evolutionary ecology
Brent Haddad
Fresh-water economics, policy, and communications; renewable energy policy and management; economic institutions and the environment; climate-change mitigation and adaptation; institutional and ecological economics
Karen D. Holl
Restoration ecology, conservation biology, landscape ecology, tropical ecology
Deborah K. Letourneau
Agroecology, tropical biology, insect-plant interactions, biological conservation for ecosystem services, biological processes as an alternative to pesticides, environmental risks of genetically engineered organisms, redwood forest community ecology
Michael E. Loik
Plant physiological ecology, climate change ecology, biometeorology, ecohydrology
Flora Lu
Ecological anthropology, indigenous resource management and household economics, conservation, oil extraction, environmental justice, inclusive sustainability, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador
Stacy M. Philpott
Agroecology, biodiversity, climate change, community ecology, conservation biology, ecosystem services, food sovereignty, landscape ecology, insects, tropical biology, urban ecology
Daniel M. Press
U.S. environmental politics and policy, water quality, industrial ecology, resources management, policy analysis
S. Ravi Rajan
Environmental history and political ecology, risk and disaster studies, science and technology studies, North-South environmental conflicts, environmental social theory, environmental ethics
Carol Shennan
Agroecology, ecosystem processes, organic agriculture, alternatives to soil fumigation, participatory research, agricultural development with a focus on Africa
Andrew Szasz
Environmental sociology (environmental movements, policy, environmental justice), theory
Christopher C. Wilmers
Wildlife ecology, conservation biology, global change ecology, ecological modeling
Associate Professor
J. Elliott Campbell
Food-water-energy nexus, carbon cycle science, regional and global atmosphere-biosphere modeling, life-cycle assessment, geospatial modeling
Assistant Professor
Madeleine Fairbairn
Environmental sociology, sociology of agriculture, property ownership and land tenure, food politics and social movements, political ecology
Adam Millard-Ball
Transportation planning and policy, environmental economics, urban sustainability, climate change policy
Katherine Seto
Marine and coastal law and policy, marine resource governance, sustainable seafood systems, political ecology, sustainability science, maritime security and globalization
Kai Zhu
Ecology, environmental sciences, global change, statistics
Adjunct Professor
Jeffrey Kiehl
Human dimensions of climate change, intersection of climate change and psychology, changes in Earth’s water cycle, climate communication
Martin Quigley
Landscape ecology, restoration ecology, botany, horticulture, landscape architecture
Adjunct Associate Professor
Renée Kidson
Hydrology, water resource management, urban water supply training, climate change and Antarctic science, military history
Environmental Studies Emeritus Faculty
Robert R. Curry
Bryan H. Farrell
Margaret FitzSimmons
Stephen R. Gliessman
David Goodman
Sheldon Kamieniecki
Paul L. Niebanck
James E. Pepper
Alan Richards
Michael E. Soulé
Environmental Studies Lecturers
Chris Lay
Natural history museum collections management, field-based natural history education, California natural history
Katie Monsen
Sustainable agroecosystems, nutrient dynamics, and freshwater ecology, sustainability engineering
Sarah Rabkin
Environmental and science journalism, the literary and visual arts in natural history practice
Andrew Schiffrin
Environmental assessment, transportation, land use planning, water supply planning
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Hillary Angelo (Sociology)
Urban sociology, nature and society, infrastructure, social theory, urban political ecology, historical methods
Doris Ash (Education)
Informal science learning, teacher professional development, science discourse in and out of the classroom
Giacomo Bernardi (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Fish biology, phylogenetics, evolution
Kenneth W. Bruland, Emeritus (Ocean Sciences)
Edmund Burke III, Emeritus (History)
Melissa L. Caldwell (Anthropology)
Poverty and public health; welfare, charity, and assistance; food and consumption; gardens, nature, and landscapes; religion; socialism and postsocialism; Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe
Yihsu, Chen (Technology Management)
Economics and policy in energy, water resources and transportation sectors
Patrick Y. Chuang (Earth and Planetary Science)
Clouds, aerosols and climate
Mark Cioc (History)
German history, modern European history, environmental history
Daniel P. Costa (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds
Donald Croll (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Ecology and conservation of islands and seabirds
Ben Crow (Sociology)
International development, sociology of water and markets, global inequality, South Asia and East Africa, political economy, and green enterprise
T.J. Demos (History of Art and Visual Culture)
Contemporary art and visual culture, investigating in particular the diverse ways that artists and activists have negotiated crises associated with globalization, including the emerging conjunction of post-9/11 political sovereignty and statelessness, the hauntings of the colonial past, and the growing biopolitical conflicts around ecology and climate change
Jennifer Derr (History)
Colonial and Post-colonial Middle Eastern history; Egypt; agricultural and environmental history; Ottoman history; spatial politics; African history; Islamic history; history of science; history of medicine
Lindsey Dillon (Sociology)
Urban geography, critical race theory, political ecology, environmental justice, feminist approaches to science and technology studies
Kent Eaton (Politics)
Comparative politics, Latin America, international relations, political economy, public policy, political institutions
James Estes (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Ocean Sciences)
Marine sciences, community ecology, species interactions
Andrew Fisher (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Hydrogeology, crustal studies, heat flow, modeling
Laurel R. Fox (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (Anthropology)
Neolithic Africa and Eurasia, colonial New Mexico, origins of food production, pastoralists, zooarchaeology, history of archaeology, interpretive theory, visual anthropology
James B. Gill, Emeritus (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Gary B. Griggs (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Coastal processes, hazards and engineering
Daniel Guevara (Philosophy)
Kant, moral philosophy, moral psychology, environmental ethics, history of modern philosophy
Julie H. Guthman (Social Sciences)
California agriculture, sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, international political economy of food and agriculture, politics of food and health, political ecology, race and food, epigenetics and environmental health, critical human geography
Donna J. Haraway, Emerita (History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies)
Susan Harding, Emerita (Anthropology)
Sikina Jinnah (Politics)
International relations, global governance, environmental politics, trade/environment politics, climate change, biodiversity, international cooperation, climate engineering governance
A. Marm Kilpatrick (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Disease ecology, population biology, conservation
Paul L. Koch (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Isotope biogeochemistry, vertebrate paleontology
Kristy Kroeker (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Global change biology, community ecology, applied marine ecology, climate change, ocean acidification, multiple stressors
Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Politics)
International relations; global political economy; foreign policy; resource/environmental politics; global political networks; global civil society and social movements; popular culture and politics; technology and society; risk society, state transformation and global governmentality
Kristina Lyons (Feminist Studies)
Feminist and decolonial science studies, environmental humanities of the global South, politics of "nature" and "matter," ethnographic theory, literary ethnography and poetics, politics and the political in Latin America, socioenvironmental justice and ethics
Andrew Salvador Mathews (Anthropology)
Environmental anthropology, science and technology studies, conservation and development, climate change, environmental history, Mexico, Latin America, Italy
Ingrid M. Parker (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Plant ecology, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions
Adina Paytan, IMS Research Scientist (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Biogeochemistry, paleoceanography, environmental and aquatic chemistry
Maya Peterson (History)
Russian and Soviet history; environmental history; comparative empire; colonialism; global exchanges of scientific knowledge and expertise; technology transfer; historical geography, spatial history and mapping, Central Asia; Silk Roads
Jarmila Pittermann (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Plant physiology
Grant H. Pogson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Molecular population genetics, ecological genetics, marine invertebrates and fishes
Donald C. Potts (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Coral reef ecology, genetics, evolution, and geological history; marine biodiversity; tropical biology, global change, and remote sensing
Peter T. Raimondi (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Marine ecology, evolutionary ecology, experimental design, applied ecology
Jennifer E. Reardon (Sociology)
Science studies; sociology of science, technology, and medicine; feminist theory; race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/class; biology and society
Barry Sinervo (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Animal behavior, evolution, physiological ecology
Lisa C. Sloan, Emerita (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Donald R. Smith (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Neurotoxicity, cellular and organismal responses to environmental toxins
Dana Y. Takagi, Emerita (Sociology)
Anna Tsing (Anthropology)
Culture and politics; feminist theory; globalization; multi-species anthropology; social landscapes and forest ethnoecologies; multi-sited ethnography; Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.
Slawek M. Tulaczyk (Earth and Planetary Science)
Glaciology and glacial geology, soil mechanics
Jeremy West (Economics)
Applied microeconomics, public economics, energy/environmental economics
Terrie M. Williams (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Large mammal physiology, bioenergetics, exercise and environmental physiology
Erika Zavaleta (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Biodiversity and global change, biological invasions, terrestrial plant and ecosystem ecology, human ecology, conservation science
Revised: 09/01/17
