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PPIC senior fellow Ellen Hanak is director of the PPIC Water Policy Center. The center’s research network is a dynamic group of top researchers with expertise in a range of disciplines—including biology, economics, engineering, geology, and law.

Water Center Staff

Ellen Hanak

Vice President and Center Director

415-291-4433

Expertise:

Economics

Caitlin Peterson

Associate Center Director and Research Fellow

415-291-4435

Expertise:

Agroecology

Andrew Ayres

Research Fellow

415-291-4461

Expertise:

Economics

Sarah Bardeen

Center Communications Manager

415-291-4428

Joy Collins

Research Associate

415-291-4478

Expertise:

Environmental health

Alvar Escriva-Bou

Senior Fellow

916-440-1125

Expertise:

Water resource engineering

Kayla Granados

Research Administrator

415-291-4490

Brian Gray

Senior Fellow

415-565-4719

Expertise:

Environmental law

Jeffrey Mount

Senior Fellow

415-291-4476

Expertise:

Hydrology

Annabelle Rosser

Research Associate

415-291-4488

Expertise:

Environmental planning

Gokce Sencan

Research Associate

415-291-4408

Expertise:

Water policy

Carlos Torres

Center Administrator

415-291-4434

Research Network

Newsha Ajami

Director of Urban Water Policy, Stanford University, Water in the West

650-724-8162

Expertise:

Water resource hydrology

Maura Allaire

Assistant Professor, Water Economics and Policy, University of California, Irvine

949-824-5797

Expertise:

Environmental economics

Karrigan S. Bork, JD, PhD

Acting Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law

202-271-9392

Expertise:

Environmental law, ecology

Timothy Bradley

Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

949-824-8483

Expertise:

Aquatic ecology

Ellen Bruno

Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics- University of California, Berkeley

510-642-3345

Expertise:

Agricultural economics, environmental economics

Van Butsic

ADJUNCT FELLOW, PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA

ASSISTANT COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SPECIALIST & ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT

510-666-5400

Expertise:

Land use planning

Daniel Cayan

Research Meteorologist, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

858-534-4507

Expertise:

Climate science

James Cloern

ADJUNCT FELLOW, PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA

Senior Research Scientist, United States Geological Survey

650-329-4594

Expertise:

Aquatic ecology

Bonnie Colby

Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona

520-621-4775

Expertise:

Water and energy economics

Helen E. Dahlke

Associate Professor, Integrated Hydrologic Sciences, University of California, Davis

530-302-5358

Expertise:

Surface water, groundwater

Frank Davis

Distinguished Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and Director, La Kretz Center for Research at Sedgwick Reserve

University of California, Santa Barbara

805-893-3438

Expertise:

Landscape ecology

Michael Dettinger

Visiting Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Michael Dettinger Climate Science, LLC Retired, Research Hydrologist, United States Geological Survey

619-368-2896

Expertise:

Hydroclimatology

John R. Durand

Research Scientist, University of California, Davis

530-601-3001

Expertise:

Estuarine ecology and restoration

Andrew T. Fisher

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

831-459-5598

Expertise:

Groundwater

John Fleck

Director, University of New Mexico Water Resources Program

505-277-0124

Expertise:

Colorado River Basin governance

William Fleenor

Senior Researcher, University of California, Davis

530-752-5669

Expertise:

Water resource engineering

Graham Fogg

Professor Emeritus of Hydrogeology, Departments of Land, Air & Water Resources, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis

530-304-9370

Expertise:

Groundwater

Richard Frank

Director, University of California, Davis, School of Law, California Environmental Law and Policy Center

530-752-7422

Expertise:

Environmental and water law

Greg Gartrell

Adjunct Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California

Independent Consultant

925-260-7424

Expertise:

Water resource engineering

Ted Grantham

ADJUNCT FELLOW, PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA

COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SPECIALIST, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

510-664-4664

Expertise:

River science

Sarge Green

Project Director, Fresno State University, California Water Institute

559-278-8653

Expertise:

Water resource management

Letitia Grenier, Ph.D.

Adjunct and PPIC Caltrout Ecosystem Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California

Program Director, Senior Scientist San Francisco Estuary Institute, Resilient Landscapes Program

510-746-7342

Expertise:

Landscape ecology, conservation biology

Jennifer L. Harder

Associate Professor, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

916-739-7189

Expertise:

Water law, environmental law

Thomas Harter

Hagan Endowed Chair in Water Management and Policy, University of California, Davis, Land, Air, and Water Resources

530-400-1784

Expertise:

Groundwater hydrology

David Jassby

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Los Angeles

310-825-1346

Expertise:

Water and wastewater treatment, membrane separations, electrochemistry

Katrina Jessoe

Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, Agricultural and Resource Economics

530-752-6977

Expertise:

Economics

Yufang Jin

Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis, Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Change

530-219-4429

Expertise:

Ecosystem change

Douglas Kenney

Director, Western Water Policy Program

Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment; University of Colorado

303-492-1296

Expertise:

Colorado River policy

Wim Kimmerer

Research Professor, San Francisco State University, Romberg Tiburon Center

415-338-3515

Expertise:

Aquatic ecology

Susie Kocher

Forestry Advisor

University of California Cooperative Extension

530-542-2571

Expertise:

Forestry and fire ecology, extension education

Matt Kondolf

Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

510 664-7804

Expertise:

River management

Carolyn Kousky

Executive Director, Wharton Risk Center, University of Pennsylvania

215-573-0515

Expertise:

Economics

Yusuke Kuwayama

Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland

Fellow, Resources for the Future

202-328-5190

Expertise:

Water resource economics

Jay Lund

Director, University of California, Davis, Center for Watershed Sciences

530-752-5671

Expertise:

Water resource engineering

Josué Medellín-Azuara

Adjunct Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced

209-228-3636

Expertise:

Economics

Dean Misczynski

Independent consultant

916-440-1136

Expertise:

Public policy

David Mitchell

Adjunct Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California

Principal, M.Cubed

510-547-4369

Expertise:

Economics

Peter Moyle

Associate Director, University of California, Davis, Center for Watershed Sciences

530-752-6355

Expertise:

Fish biology

Sarah Null

Adjunct and PPIC Caltrout Ecosystem Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California

Associate Professor, Utah State University

435-797-1338

Expertise:

Water policy, systems modeling, climate change adaptation

Doug Parker

Director, University of California, California Institute for Water Resources

510-987-0036

Expertise:

Economics

Debra Perrone

Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara

Expertise:

Water policy, groundwater systems, water-food-energy tradeoffs

Gregory Pierce

Co-Director, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation

Co-Director, UCLA Water Resources Faculty Group Faculty Member, UCLA Department of Urban Planning

310-267-5435

Expertise:

Water equity policy

Nicholas Pinter

Professor, University of California Davis, Center for Watershed Sciences

530-754-1041

Expertise:

River management

Brett Sanders

Professor, University of California, Irvine, School of Engineering

949-824-4327

Expertise:

Water resource engineering

Kelly T. Sanders

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California

213-821-0095

Expertise:

Energy-water nexus

Kurt Schwabe

Adjunct Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California

Professor, University of California, Riverside, School of Public Policy

951-827-2361

Expertise:

Economics

David Sedlak

Co-Director, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Water Center

510-643-0256

Expertise:

Water quality engineering

Edward S. Spang

Assistant Professor, Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis

530-754-5447

Expertise:

Food-water-energy nexus

Eric Stein

Department Head, Biology Department

Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

714-755-3233

Expertise:

Ecohydrology, environmental assessment, stormwater monitoring and assessment

Scott Stephens

Henry Vaux Special Professor of Forest Policy,

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE POLICY AND MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT

510-642-7304

Expertise:

Fire ecology and management

Daniel Sumner

Frank H. Buck, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis

Director, University of California Agricultural Issues Center

530-752-1668

Expertise:

Economics

Daniel L. Swain

Researcher, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA Research Fellow, National Center for Atmospheric Research

California Climate Fellow, The Nature Conservancy

303-497-1117

Expertise:

Regional climate change and extremes

Leon Szeptycki

Professor of Law, University of Virginia

434-924-8956

Expertise:

Environmental law

Barton "Buzz” Thompson

Director, Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment

650-723-2518

Expertise:

Environmental law

Paul Ullrich

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELING, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, DEPARTMENT OF LAND, AIR, AND WATER RESOURCES

530-400-9817

Expertise:

Regional climate change

Joshua Viers

Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Director, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, Associate Dean for Research, School of Engineering

University of California, Merced

209-591-8423

Expertise:

Watershed science and management

Robert Wilkinson

Adjunct Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Bren School of the Environment

805-893-8768

Expertise:

Public policy

Sarah Yarnell

Senior Researcher, University of California, Davis, Center for Watershed Sciences

530-752-9367

Expertise:

River science and management