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Jeffrey Bury Title:  Assistant Professor Email:  jbury@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4015 Fax (831) 459-3685 Office Office:  428 ISB Office Hours:  Winter 2009 Not teaching;email for office hours. Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~jbury/ Interests:  My current research is centrally concerned with the transformation of natural and social environments in Latin America by the forces of globalization, neoliberalism and geopolitical change.

Weixin Cheng Title:  Professor Email:  wxcheng@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-5317 Office (831) 459-4015 Fax Office:  416 ISB Office Hours:  Winter 2009 1:30-3:30pm Wed & by Apt. Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~wxcheng/ Interests:  Ecological interactions between soils and plants, Root imaging and isotope tracing. Rhizosphere processes. Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on soil microbial processes.

Margaret I. Fitzsimmons Title:  Professor; Associate Director, Monterey Bay Regional Studies Program Email:  fitzsim@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3525 Office Office:  417 NS2 Office Hours:  Fall 2008 - 1:30-3pm Wed. Interests:  Social and spatial aspects of environmental change, development and regulation of primary sector activities (agriculture and forestry), the regional integration of environmental planning and resource management institutions in urban and rural settings.

Gregory Gilbert Title:  Professor Email:  ggilbert@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-5002 Office Office:  439 ISB Office Hours:  Winter 2009: Undergrads Mondays 9:30-10:45; Grads only Mondays 11:00-12:15; in 439 ISB Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~ggilbert/ Interests:  Use of ecological knowledge in conservation; Emergent diseases and plant disease ecology; Tropical ecology and conservation; California plant ecology.

Stephen R. Gliessman Title:  Alfred E. Heller Professor of Agroecology and Environmental Studies Email:  gliess@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2178 Office Office:  435 NS2 Office Hours:  Winter 2009: On Sabbatical Interests:  Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, tropical agriculture, ecology, natural history, California vegetation.

Brent M. Haddad Title:  Professor Email:  bhaddad@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4149 Office Office:  493 Natural Sciences 2 Office Hours:  Winter 2009: 1:40-3:10 Mon, 1:40-3:10 Fri & by Apt. Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~bhaddad/ Interests:  Urban and Regional Water Policy and Economics

Karen D. Holl Title:  Professor Email:  kholl@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3668 Office Office:  461 NS2 Office Hours:  Winter 2009: 3:30-4:30 Mon, 12:00-1:00 Tues Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~kholl/ Interests:  Restoration ecology, landscape ecology, tropical forests, grasslands, riparian systems

Sheldon Kamieniecki Title:  Professor; Dean of Social Sciences Email:  sk1@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3212 Office (831) 459-3661 Fax Office:  Humanities/Social Sciences Building Room 460 Office Hours:  By appointment only. Personal Page:  http://www2.ucsc.edu/socialsciences/administration/ Interests:  Environmental politics and policy at the local, state, national, and international level.

Deborah K. Letourneau Title:  Professor Email:  dletour@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2860 Office Office:  423 NS2 Office Hours:  Winter 2009: Not Teaching, please contact for office hours. Interests:  Agroecology, tropical biology/conservation, insect-plant interactions, biological control as an alternative to chemical pesticides.

Michael E. Loik Title:  Associate Professor Email:  mloik@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-5785 Office Office:  431 NS2 Office Hours:  Winter 2009: 11-12 Weds, 12:30-1:30 Fri, and by appointment Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~mloik/ Interests:  My research examines the physiological responses of plants and ecosystems to climate change.

David Morell Title:  Lecturer Email:  dmorell@gmail.com Phone:  (831) 459-2825 Office Office:  479 ISB

Barry Nickel Title:  GIS Lab Manager Email:  bnickel@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2890 Office (831) 459-4015 Fax Office:  485 ISB Personal Page:  http://gis.ucsc.edu/

Daniel M. Press Title:  Olga T. Griswold Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies Email:  dpress@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3263 Office (831) 459-4015 Fax Office:  429 ISB Office Hours:  Fall 2008 - 1-3pm Wed. Interests:  My work addresses several dimensions of environmental politics and policy, with a generally US-based geographic focus.

Sarah Rabkin Email:  srabkin@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2306 (831) 459-4015 Fax Office:  413 NS2 Office Hours:  Thurs 12:30-2:30. Personal Page:  http://envs.ucsc.edu/Rabkin_W07/

Ravi Rajan Title:  Associate Professor Email:  srrajan@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4158 Office Office:  424 ISB Office Hours:  No office hours fall 2008. Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~srrajan/ Interests:  Environmental Risks Technology Assessment Environmental Governance and Institutions Environmental History, Politics and Ethics

Alan Richards Title:  Professor Email:  arr@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4662 Office Office:  430 ISB Office Hours:  Winter 2009:On Sabbatical. Interests:  Environmental economics, environmental and natural resource economics, economics of sustainable development, political economy of water, and the interaction of environmental problems and political conflict.

Andrew Schiffrin Title:  Lecturer Email:  aschiffr@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2825 Office (831) 454-2200 Office Office:  479 ISB Office Hours:  Spring 200*: Wednesday: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Carol Shennan Title:  Professor Email:  cshennan@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4181 Office Office:  459 ISB Office Hours:  Winter 2009; Not teaching. Personal Page:  http://envs.ucsc.edu/shennan/ Interests:  Agriculture, Environment and Society: Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Agriculture, Management of Multifunctional Landscapes: Nutrient Cycling, Water quality, Landscape Biodiversity, Wetlands; participatory research, gender, and agricultural development: Africa,Mongolia.

Sean Swezey Title:  Lecturer Email:  findit@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4367 Office (831) 459-4140 Message Office:  Farm, Agroecology Center

Zdravka Tzankova Title:  Assistant Professor Email:  tzankova@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4561 Office Office:  477 ISB Office Hours:  Winter 2009: Mon. 1:30 - 3:30pm Interests:  U.S. and comparative environmental policy and politics, esp. the politics of ecological risk and the politics of scientific advice; market-based governance in fisheries and aquaculture; coastal and marine policy; bioinvasions policy; the definition and management of environmental and social impacts of marine aquaculture

Jan Washburn Title:  Lecturer Email:  janowash@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-2825 Office Office:  479 ISB

Chris Wilmers Title:  Assistant Professor Email:  cwilmers@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4015 Fax (831) 459-3001 Office Office:  445 ISB Office Hours:  Tues 10:00-12:00pm. Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~cwilmers/ Interests:  Population and community ecology; wildlife conservation; predator-prey dynamics; climate change impacts on biodiversity.

Erika Zavaleta Title:  Assistant Professor Email:  zavaleta@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-5011 Office:  443 NS2 Office Hours:  11:30-1:30 Thursday (fall 08) Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~zavaleta/ Interests:  Ecology and conservation biology; biodiversity and global change; biological invasions; Terrestrial plant and ecosystem ecology, ecological economics, human ecology, restoration.