Tim
De Chant
Fourth year Ph.D. student. GIS, landscape ecology, fragmentation in oak woodlands.
Shasta Ferranto
First year Ph.D. student. GIS, Land Use, Conservation easements. Co-advised with Lynn Huntsinger.
Marek Jakubowski
Second year Ph.D. student. Remote sensing, Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project.
Lisa Schile
First 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.
Ken-ichi Ueda
Second year School for Information Managmement MS Student. Participatory webGIS. Projects include Vegetation
Type Mapping and Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project.
Esther
Zeledon
Fourth 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 Undergraduate Students
I am working with three undergraduate researchers this semester through the Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) program.
Susan Nawbury is working with Tim DeChant and me on "Oaks on the Edge: Ecophysiological Analysis of Coast Live Oaks in the Wildland-Urban Interface." This project seeks to understand the impact of urban development on the physiology of coast live oak trees in California. Susan is in charge of measuring and analyzing the ring widths of the prepared coast live oak cores and correlating the changes in ring width with detailed development histories and weather data from the past 50 years.
Andrea Kristof is working with Lisa Schile and me on "Isotopic characterization of San Francisco Bay tidal wetland vegetation, invertebrates and fish." This project examines changes to sea level and salinity regimes due to climate change that will likely have an impact on the SF Bay estuary. Andrea will be involved with the field sampling in estuarine marshes. The researcher will also process samples of vegetation, invertebrates, and fish.
Daniel Song is working with the GIIF and me on "The Living Campus: Mapping UC Berkeley's Ornamental Trees." Daniel is helping us map the location and condidtion of the beautiful ornamental trees on campus using GPS and GIS.
Currrent Visitors
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.
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