Principal Investigators

Michael Goulden
Director; Professor of Earth System Science- UC Irvine

Roger Bales
Co-Director; Distinguished Professor of Engineering - UC Merced

Yufang Jin
Co-PI; Associate Professor of Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Change - UC Davis

Toby O'Geen
Co-PI; Professor & Soil Resource Specialist in Cooperative Extension; Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis

John Battles
Co-PI; Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management- UC Berkeley

Benis Egoh
Co-PI; Assistant Professor of Earth System Science - UC Irvine

Catherine Keske
Co-PI; Associate Professor of Management - UC Merced

Chris Field
Co-PI; Director, Woods Institute for the Environment - Stanford University

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Co-PI; Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering - UC Irvine

James Randerson
Co-PI; Ralph J. and Carol M. Cicerone Professor of Earth System Science - UC Irvine

Anthony LeRoy Westerling
Co-PI; Professor of Management of Complex Systems - UC Merced

Martha Conklin
Co-PI; Professor of Engineering - UC Merced

Padhraic Smyth
Co-PI; Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science - UC Irvine

Safeeq Khan
Co-PI; Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist, Water and Watershed Sciences - UC ANR

Stephen Hart
Co-PI; Professor of Environmental Science - UC Merced

Tapan Pathak
Co-PI; Specialist in Climate Adaptation in Agriculture - UC ANR

Walter Oechel
Co-PI; Distinguished Professor of Biology - San Diego State University

Joseph Wagenbrenner
Advisor; Research Hydrologist - United States Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station
Project and Research Staff

Constance
Academic Coordinator- UC Irvine

Aurora Gutierrez
Project Specialist - UC Irvine

Max Eriksson
Project Scientist - UC Merced

Meghan Cook
Stakeholder Engagement Specialist- UC Merced
Postdoctoral Researchers

Jon Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Irvine

Jian Lin
Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Merced

Min Gon Chung
Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Merced

Charity Nyelele
Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Irvine
Graduate Students

Shane Coffield
PhD Candidate - UC Irvine

Nicole Hemming-Schroeder
PhD Student - UC Irvine

Carl Norlen
PhD Candidate - UC Irvine

Yuhan Huang
PhD Candidate - UC Davis

Kyle Lunneberg
PhD Student - San Diego State University and UC Davis

Ved Bhoot
PhD Student - UC Irvine

Han Guo
PhD Student - UC Merced
Previous CECS Researchers and Staff

Carmen Tubbesing
Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley

Clarke Knight
Previous PhD Researcher at UC Berkeley

Jaquelyn Lugg
Previous Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator at UC Merced

Bin Chen
Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Davis

Mahnoor Khan
Previous Data Specialist at UC Irvine

Cesar Hinojo Hinojo
Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Irvine

Kyle Hemes
Previous Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University