Academic Advisors
| Name | Title | Current Research | Contact |
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| Joseph Archie | Lecturer, Earth Systems Program | jparchie@stanford.edu | |
| Nicole Ardoin | Assistant Professor of Education and Center Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Professor Ardoin's research focuses on environmental behavior as influenced by environmental learning and motivated by place-based connections. In particular, she is interested in considerations of geographic scale, which is an understudied yet crucial aspect of people-place relationships in a rapidly globalizing, urbanizing world. |
212 Cubberley (650) 721-2231 nmardoin@stanford.edu |
| Kevin Arrigo | Donald & Donald M. Steel Professor in Earth Sciences; Victoria and Roger Sant Director, Earth Systems Program |
Investigates role of ocean biology in gobal carbon and nutrient cycles. |
Y2E2 Building, Room 141 (650) 723-3599 arrigo@stanford.edu |
| Gregory Asner | University Faculty other teaching Environmental Earth System Science Professor (by Courtesy) |
My research centers on how human activities alter the composition and functioning of ecosystems at regional scales. I combine field work, airborne and satellite mapping, and computer simulation modeling to understand the response of ecosystems to land use and climate change. |
260 Panama Street (650) 325-1521 |
| Sally Benson | Director, Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor of Energy Resources Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy |
My research is focused on reducing the risks of climate change by developing energy supplies with low carbon emissions. Students and post-doctoral fellows in my research group work on carbon dioxide storage, energy systems analysis, and pathways for transitioning to a low-carbon energy system. |
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Bldg. (650) 725-0358 smbenson@stanford.edu |
| Barbara Block | Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Professor in Marine Sciences and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Thermal physiology, open ocean predators, ecological physiology and tuna biology |
Pick up (831) 655-6236, (831) 655-6237 bblock@stanford.edu |
| Marshall Burke | Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
My research focuses on quantifying the economic and social consequences of environmental change. |
Y2E2 365 (650) 721-2203 mburke@stanford.edu |
| Ken Caldeira | University Faculty other teaching Environmental Earth System Science Professor By Courtesy |
My research strives to improve the science base needed to allow human civilization to develop while protecting our environmental endowment. |
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| Karen Casciotti | Associate Professor of Earth System Science |
Assistant Professor in EESS, focus on marine chemistry and biogeochemistry. |
kcasciotti@stanford.edu |
| Page Chamberlain | Professor of Earth System Science |
I use stable and radiogenic isotopes to understand Earth system history. These studies examine the link between climate, tectonics, biological, and surface processes. |
Building 320 (650) 725-6835 chamb@stanford.edu |
| Sara Cina | Undergraduate Program Director |
Geocorner 112 (650) 724-8899 saracina@stanford.edu |
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| Larry Crowder | Edward Ricketts Provostial Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment | Ecology, conservation, fisheries, protected species, ecosystem-based management |
120 Oceanview Blvd (831) 655-6217 Larry.Crowder@stanford.edu |
| Gretchen C. Daily | Bing Professor in Environmental Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment | Land use, biodiversity dynamics, ecosystem services |
(650) 723-9452 gdaily@stanford.edu |
| Jenna Davis | Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Professor Davis’ research and teaching is focused at the interface of engineered water supply and sanitation systems and their users in developing countries. |
The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Bu (650) 725-9170 jennadavis@stanford.edu |
| Anne Dekas | Assistant Professor of Earth System Science | Environmental microbiology, deep-sea microbial ecology, marine biogeochemistry | dekas@stanford.edu |
| Mark Denny | John B. and Jean De Nault Professor of Marine Sciences | Biomechanics, ecology, and ecological physiology |
Pick up (831) 655-6207, (831) 655-6208 mwdenny@stanford.edu |
| Noah Diffenbaugh | Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
He studies the dynamics and impacts of climate variability and change. Much of his work has focused on the role of fine-scale processes in shaping climate change impacts, including studies of extreme weather, water resources, agriculture, human health, and poverty vulnerability. |
Y2E2 (650) 725-7510 diffenbaugh@stanford.edu |
| Rodolfo Dirzo | Bing Prof in Environmental Science and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Ecological and evolutionary aspects of plant-animal interactions, largely but not exclusively, in tropical forest ecosystems. |
Department of Biological Sciences (650) 736-7643 rdirzo@stanford.edu |
| Rob Dunbar | W.M. Keck Professor in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Ocean processes, biogeochemistry, climatology/paleoclimatology, isotopic chemistry, ocean policy |
Bldg. 320, Rm. 325 (650) 725-6830 |
| William Durham | Bing Professor in Human Biology and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
I study indigenous resource management, human health, and conservation issues in the tropics. My current research focuses on environmental causes of emerging infectious diseases in tropical areas, conservation tradeoffs in the Galapagos Islands, and ecotourism as a means to poverty alleviation and self-determination among indigenous and local peoples. |
BLDG 50, Room 51C (650) 723-0894 EB.WHD@stanford.edu |
| W Gary Ernst | The Benjamin M. Page Professor In Earth Sciences, Emeritus |
Petrology/geochemistry and plate tectonics of Circumpacific and Alpine mobile belts; ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in Eurasia; geology of the California Coast Ranges, the cental Klamath Mountains, and White-Inyo Range; geobotany and remote sensing of the Southwest; mineralogy and human health. |
Mitchell Bldg room B53 (650) 723-0185 wernst@stanford.edu |
| Walter Falcon | Helen C. Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy, Emeritus |
biotechnology; food security; food and agricultural policy in developing countries |
ENCINA HALL, RM 404E (650) 723-6367 wpfalcon@stanford.edu |
| Scott Fendorf | Huffington Family Professor in Earth Sciences and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Soil and environmental biogeochemistry |
Green Rm. 301 (650) 723-5238 fendorf@stanford.edu |
| Chris Field | Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and at the Woods Institute for the Environment | Global ecology, climate change impacts, global carbon cycle, ecosystem ecology |
Carnegie Institution (650) 319-8024 cfield@ciw.edu |
| Christopher Francis | Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Microbial cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and metals in the environment; molecular geomicrobiology; marine microbiology; microbial diversity |
Dept. of Environmental Earth System Science caf@stanford.edu |
| Zephyr Frank | Professor of History |
My research interests include wealth and inequality, Brazilian social history, Latin American economic history, and spatial history. |
BLDG. 200 zfrank@stanford.edu |
| David Freyberg | Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
A hydrologist and water resources specialist, Freyberg studies reservoir sedimentation and hydrology, hydrologic ecosystem services, summer drying of Pacific coast intermittent streams, tropical rainfall and throughfall, surface water-ground water interactions, especially in reservoir/sediment systems, and scaling and spatial distribution of recycled water systems. |
Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Bldg. (650) 723-3234 freyberg@stanford.edu |
| Tadashi Fukami | Associate Professor of Biology |
Ecological and evolutionary community assembly, with emphasis on understanding historical contingency in community structure, ecosystem functioning, biological invasion and ecological restoration, using experimental, theoretical, and comparative methods involving bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals. |
Department of Biology (650) 721-1711 fukamit@stanford.edu |
| Margot Gerritsen | Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, Director of the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, with courtesy appointment in Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering |
I specialize in renewable and fossil energy production. I am also active in coastal ocean dynamics and yacht design, as well as several areas in computational mathematics including search algorithm design and matrix computations. |
GESB 088, M10 Huang (650) 725-3542, (650) 725-2727 margot.gerritsen@stanford.edu |
| Deborah M Gordon | Professor of Biology |
Professor Deborah M Gordon studies the evolutionary ecology of collective behavior. Ant colonies operate without central control, using local interactions to regulate colony behavior. |
GILBERT RM410B (650) 725-6364 dmgordon@stanford.edu |
| Steven Gorelick | Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
As a hydrogeologist, my research involves the study of water resources with emphasis on groundwater. Using lab and field data, our aim is to develop an understanding of fundamental aspects of the transport of fluids and contaminants, and to investigate regional water resources systems |
Bldg. 320, Rm. 210 (650) 725-2950 GORELICK@stanford.edu |
| Lawrence Goulder | Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research |
Department of Economics (650) 723-3706 goulder@stanford.edu |
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| Elizabeth Hadly | Paul S. and Billie Achilles Professor in Environmental Biology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
The research of Elizabeth Hadly probes how perturbations such as climatic change and human modification of the environment influence the evolution and ecology of vertebrates. |
GILBERT HALL (650) 498-4995 ext. lab, (650) 725-2655 hadly@stanford.edu |
| Thomas Hayden | Professor of the Practice, Earth Systems |
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Bldg (Y2E2) (650) 721-5722 thayden@stanford.edu |
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| George Hilley | Associate Professor of Geological Sciences |
Active tectonics, quantitative structural geology and geomorphology; Geographic Information Systems;unsaturated zone gas transport; landscape development;active deformation and mountain belt growth in central Asia, central Andes, and along the San Andreas Fault; integrated investigation of earthquake hazards. |
Department of Geo. and Envi. Sci. hilley@stanford.edu |
| David Kennedy | Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus |
Reflecting his interdisciplinary training in American Studies, which combined the fields of history, literature, and economics, Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history. |
Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) dmk@stanford.edu |
| Julie Kennedy | Professor (Teaching) of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute and the Landreth Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education |
I have specific interest in interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and in the effective communication of complex interdisciplinary problem descriptions, analysis methods, and solutions to expert and non-expert audiences. I advise and work on research projects with undergraduate and master's level students whose interests include ecology, energy, land systems management, ocean science and policy, sustainability, environmental education, and science communication. |
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (650) 725-4911 juliek@stanford.edu |
| Rosemary Knight | The George L. Harrington Professor in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Environmental geophysics |
(650) 736-1487 rknight@stanford.edu |
| Jeffrey Koseff | William Alden Campbell & Martha Campbell Professor in the School of Engineering and the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment |
His research focuses on the interaction between physical and biological systems in natural aquatic environments, and in particular on turbulence and internal wave dynamics; transport, mixing, and phytoplankton dynamics in estuarine systems; and coral reef, kelp forest, and sea-grass hydrodynamics. |
Yang and Yamazaki Env & Energy 185 (650) 736-2363 koseff@stanford.edu |
| Anthony Kovscek | Keleen and Carlton Beal Professor in Energy Resources Engineering |
I am interested in the recovery of unconventional hydrocarbon resources and mitigating carbon emissions from fossil fuels via geological sequestration of greenhouse gases. My research group and I examine the physics of flow through porous media at length scales that vary from the pore to the laboratory to the reservoir. |
Department of Energy Resources Engineering (650) 723-1218 kovscek@stanford.edu |
| Eric Lambin | George and Setsuko Ishiyama Provostial Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
My research is in the area of human-environment interactions in land systems. I develop integrated approaches to study land use change by linking remote sensing, GIS and socio-economic data. I aim at better understanding causes and impacts of changes in tropical forests, drylands, and farming systems. |
Y2E2 371 elambin@stanford.edu |
| David Lobell | Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Woods Institute for the Environment |
We study the interactions between food production, food security, and the environment using a range of modern tools. |
dlobell@stanford.edu |
| Gilbert Masters | Professor (Teaching) of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus |
Gil Masters works on energy efficiency and renewable energy systems as keys to slowing global warming, enhancing energy security, and improving conditions in underserved, rural communities. Although officially retired in 2002, he continues to teach CEE 176A: Energy-Efficient Buildings, and CEE 176B: Electric Power: Renewables and Efficiency. |
(650) 725-1049 gmasters@stanford.edu |
| Pamela Matson | Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Environmental Studies and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute |
Her research addresses a range of environment and sustainability issues, including sustainability of agricultural systems; vulnerability of particular people and places to climate change; and global change in the nitrogen and carbon cycles. With multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, managers, and decision makers, she has worked to develop agricultural approaches that reduce environmental impacts while improving livelihoods and human wellbeing. |
Mitchell 101 (650) 723-2750 Pamela.Matson@stanford.edu |
| Stephen Monismith | Obayashi Professor in the School of Engineering and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Hydrodynamics of lakes, estuaries, coral reefs, kelp forests and the coastal ocean |
Room 313b (650) 723-3921 monismith@stanford.edu |
| Harold Mooney | Paul S. and Billie Achilles Professor in Environmental Biology, Emeritus |
Harold Mooney has demonstrated that convergent evolution takes place in the properties of different ecosystems that are subject to comparable climates, and has pioneered in the study of the allocation of resources in plants. |
HERRIN LABS RM 477 hmooney@stanford.edu |
| Rosamond Naylor | William Wrigley Professor, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics |
My research focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive food production systems, and the food security dimensions of low-input systems. |
ENCINA 400 East (650) 723-5697 roz@stanford.edu |
| Richard Nevle | Deputy Director, Earth Systems Program |
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (650) 724-0984 rnevle@stanford.edu |
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| Stephen Palumbi | Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences, Director of the Hopkins Marine Station and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
We're interested in ecological, evolutionary, and conservation questions related to marine (and sometimes terrestrial) organisms and ecosystems. We use evolutionary genetics and molecular ecology techniques, and our fieldwork takes us all around the world. Currently, we're studying coral diversity, the adaptive potential of corals in response to climate change, the movement of organisms between marine reserves, genetic changes in abalone in response to environmental. |
Dept. Biological Sciences (831) 655-6210, (831) 655-6214 spalumbi@stanford.edu |
| Jonathan Payne | Associate Professor of Geological Sciences and, by courtesy, of Biology; Chair of Geological Sciences |
My goal in research is to understand the interaction between environmental change and biological evolution using fossils and the sedimentary rock record. How does environmental change influence evolutionary and ecological processes? And conversely, how do evolutionary and ecological changes affect the physical environment? I work primarily on the marine fossil record over the past 550 million years. |
450 Serra Mall (650) 721-6723 jlpayne@stanford.edu |
| Kabir Peay | Assistant Professor of Biology |
Our lab studies the ecological processes that structure natural communities and the links between community structure and the cycling of nutrients and energy through ecosystems. We focus primarily on fungi, as these organisms are incredibly diverse and are the primary agents of carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. By working across multiple scales we hope to build a 'roots-to-biomes' understanding of plant-microbe symbiosis. |
371 Serra Mall (650) 723-0552 kpeay@stanford.edu |
| Kathleen Phillips | Lecturer, Earth Systems Program |
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (650) 725-3028 kphill@stanford.edu |
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| Bala Rajaratnam | Assistant Professor of Statistics and of Earth System Science | brajarat@stanford.edu | |
| Ashley Lillian Erickson Reineman | University Staff Center for Ocean Solutions Academic Prog Prof 3 | ashleye1@stanford.edu | |
| Dan Reineman | Lecturer, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources |
My research examines the relationships between coastal resources and coastal societies in the context of resource management in a changing environment. I combine natural science, social science, and citizen science in order to advance the theory and practice of coastal management through engagement with coastal resource user communities. |
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| Matthew Rothe | Lecturer, Earth Systems Program |
(510) 543-6846 mrothe@stanford.edu |
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| Gary Schoolnik | Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Emeritus |
Structure-function analysis of bacterial adhesion proteins and toxins; design and synthesis of synthetic antigens; immunobiology of human papillomaviruses |
Beckman B241 schoolni@cmgm.stanford.edu |
| George Somero | David and Lucile Packard Professor in Marine Science, Emeritus |
We examine two aspects of organism-environment interactions: How does stress from physical (e.g., temperature) and chemical (oxygen levels, pH) factors perturb organisms and how do organisms respond, adaptively, to cope with this stress? We examine evolutionary adaptation and phenotypic acclimatization using a wide variety of marine animals, including Antarctic fishes and invertebrates from intertidal habitats on the coastlines of temperate and tropical seas. |
Hopkins Marine Station (831) 655-6238 somero@stanford.edu |
| Erik Sperling | Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences | esper@stanford.edu | |
| Jenny Suckale | Assistant Professor of Geophysics |
Mitchell 363 (650) 497-6456 jsuckale@stanford.edu |
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| James Sweeney | Director, Precourt Center, Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Senior Fellow at Precourt Center and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution |
Determinants of energy efficiency opportunities, barriers, and policy options. Emphasis on behavioral issues, including personal, corporate, or organizational. Behavior may be motivated by economic incentives, social, or cultural factors, or more generally, by a combination of these factors. Systems analysis questions of energy use. |
Yang & Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building (650) 723-2847 jim.sweeney@stanford.edu |
| Leif Thomas | Associate Professor of Earth System Science |
Physical oceanography; theory and numerical modeling of the ocean circulation; dynamics of ocean fronts and vortices; upper ocean processes; air-sea interaction. |
473 Via Ortega Y2E2 Bldg (650) 721-1140 leift@stanford.edu |
| Barton Thompson | Robert E. Paradise Professor in Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute |
A leading expert in environmental and natural resources law and policy, Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson, Jr. has contributed a large body of scholarship on environmental issues ranging from the future of endangered species and fisheries to the use of economic techniques for regulating the environment. |
CROWN QUAD N343 (650) 723-2518 buzzt@stanford.edu |
| Peter Vitousek | Clifford G. Morrison Professor in Population and Resource Studies, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Earth System Science |
Vitousek's research interests include: evaluating the global cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus, and how they are altered by human activity; understanding how the interaction of land and culture contributed to the sustainability of Hawaiian (and other Pacific) agriculture and society before European contact; and working to make fertilizer applications more efficient and less environmentally damaging (especially in rapidly growing economies) |
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building 375 (650) 725-1866 vitousek@stanford.edu |
| Virginia Walbot | Professor of Biology |
Our current focus is on maize anther development to understand how cell fate is specified. We discovered that hypoxia triggers specification of the archesporial (pre-meiotic) cells, and that these cells secrete a small protein MAC1 that patterns the adjacent soma to differentiate as endothecial and secondary parietal cell types. We also discovered a novel class of small RNA: 21-nt and 24-nt phasiRNAs that are exceptionally abundant in anthers and exhibit strict spatiotemporal dynamics. |
HERRIN LABS RM 251 (650) 723-2007, (650) 723-2227 WALBOT@stanford.edu |
| Michael W Wara | University Faculty Law School Assoc Professor |
An expert on energy and environmental law, Michael Wara’s research focuses on climate and electricity policy. His current scholarship lies at the intersection between environmental law, energy law, international relations, atmospheric science, and technology policy. |
michael.wara@stanford.edu |
| Paula Welander | Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and by courtesy, of Biology |
Biosynthesis of lipid biomarkers in modern microbes; molecular geomicrobiology; microbial physiology |
Green Earth Sciences 201 (650) 723-7341 welander@stanford.edu |
| Mark Zoback | Benjamin M. Page Professor in Earth Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy |
I conduct research on in situ stress, fault mechanics, and reservoir geomechanics with an emphasis on shale gas, tight gas and tight oil production, the feasibility of long-term geologic storage of CO2 and the occurrence of induced and triggered earthquakes. |
MITCHELL 347 (650) 725-9295 zoback@stanford.edu |
