Research Team

Michael Goulden

Director; Professor of Earth System Science- UC Irvine

Developing improved science and technology solutions to manage California’s wildlands for climate change

Roger Bales

Co-Director; Distinguished Professor of Engineering - UC Merced

Collaboratively testing, improving and disseminating strategies to manage California’s wildlands for climate change

Yufang Jin

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

Remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems

Toby O'Geen

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

Community outreach and stakeholder engagement

John Battles

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

Forest Ecology and Ecosystem Dynamics

Benis Egoh

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

Ecosystem service valuation, conservation planning

Catherine Keske

Co-PI; Associate Professor of Management - UC Merced

Environmental and rural economics

Chris Field

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

Terrestrial ecosystems and global change

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

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

Machine learning

James Randerson

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

Wildfires, remote sensing, and carbon

Anthony LeRoy Westerling

Co-PI; Professor of Management of Complex Systems - UC Merced

Climate-ecosystem-wildfire interactions, Resource management and policy

Martha Conklin

Co-PI; Professor of Engineering - UC Merced

Metal cycling; surface water/shallow groundwater interactions; organic chemical distribution in soil and groundwater

Padhraic Smyth

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

Machine learning

Safeeq Khan

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

Climate, vegetation, soil, and geology control on critical zone processes related to water

Stephen Hart

Co-PI; Professor of Environmental Science - UC Merced

Controls on biogeochemical processes and productivity in managed and wildland terrestrial ecosystems

Tapan Pathak

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

Climate adaptation in agriculture

Walter Oechel

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

Terrestrial ecosystems, climate change and greenhouse gases

Joseph Wagenbrenner

Advisor; Research Hydrologist - United States Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station

Hydrology, ecosystem function and health

Raiven Greenberg

Project Coordinator- UC Irvine

Coordinates research, handles reporting, communicates with State agencies, built and maintains project website

Mahnoor Khan

Project Specialist- UC Irvine

Developing GIS Data Layers for a Shared Project Database

Aurora Gutierrez

Project Specialist - UC Irvine

Max Eriksson

Project Scientist - UC Merced

Facilitating and analyzing stakeholder engagement

Jaquelyn Lugg

Project Specialist - UC Merced

Develops stakeholder engagement and science communication strategies

Jon Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Irvine

Kyle Hemes

Postdoctoral Researcher - Stanford University

Biogeochemical and biophysical impacts of fire and fuels management

Cesar Hinojo Hinojo

Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Irvine

Remote sensing of vegetation processes

Bin Chen

Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Davis

Remote sensing, Data fusion, Geospatial big data analysis

Jian Lin

Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Merced

Integrating multiple geospatial layers to support decision-making

Min Gon Chung

Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Merced

Estimating the supply and value of ecosystem services

Charity Nyelele

Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Irvine

Economic valuation and mapping of different beneficiaries for various ecosystem services

Carmen Tubbesing

Postdoctoral Researcher - UC Berkeley

Vegetation responses to fire management and severe wildfire

Shane Coffield

PhD Candidate - UC Irvine

Data analysis of relationships between climate, biomass, and wildfire

Nicole Hemming-Schroeder

PhD Student - UC Irvine

Modeling dead wood decay

Carl Norlen

PhD Candidate - UC Irvine

Forest Vulnerability to Drought

Clarke Knight

PhD Candidate - UC Berkeley

Gathering data and integrating various management data layers maintained by the State of California

Yuhan Huang

PhD Candidate - UC Davis

Modeling and analysis of wildfire and carbon dynamics with remote sensing and machine learning

Kyle Lunneberg

PhD Student - San Diego State University and UC Davis

Carbon flux modeling of large chaparral systems

Ved Bhoot

PhD Student - UC Irvine

Californian ecosystem recovery responses to wildfire disturbances