Current Graduate Students

Shasta Ferranto

Second year Ph.D. student. GIS, Land Use Change, Private Land Conservation. Co-advised with Lynn Huntsinger.

Marek Jakubowski

Third year Ph.D. student. Remote sensing, Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project.

Sarah Lewis

First year Ph.D. Remote sensing, GIS, land use change.

Lisa Schile

Second year Ph.D. student, Fall 2007. Wetland ecology, GIS & Remote sensing, Climate change modeling. CalFed Phd Fellowship recipient. Working on the climate change and tidal wetlands project.

Esther Zeledon

Fifth year Ph.D. student. Links between land cover change and global climate change in Nicaragua. Department of Energy, Global Change Environmental Research Fellowship and UC Berkeley Graduate Opportunity Fellowship recipient.

Currrent Visiting Students

Shufei Lei

Shufei is a second-year Ph.D. student working with Dara O'Rourke. He will be working with us this semester on webGIS applications.

Staff

John Connors

John joins us from Clark University Geography Department where he worked on land-use mapping and map comparison methods, specifically object-based and fuzzy classification. He will be working on the Sudden Oak Death project.

Postdoctoral Scholars

Oliver Sonnentag

Oliver has joined us and is working on the Methane in the Delta project. Oliver received his PhD from the University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Planning. Oliver's dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Jing Chen focused on peatland hydrology and carbon cycle modelling in a remote sensing-driven modelling framework. His first degree was a Master's degree in Applied Geology from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Following a stint as a GIS technician and consultant for a surveying company, he pursued a postgraduate Master's degree in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Alan DiVittorio

Allen will be working on the Biofuels project. He will be primarily based at LBL with Norm Miller, but will be co-located in the GIF. Allen's dissertation focused on leaf-level spectrometry and forest ecology.