Researchers

Institute Leadership

Patrick Gonzalez

Executive Director UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity

Associate Adjunct Professor

Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

patrickgonzalez@berkeley.edu

(510) 643-9725

Gonzalez UC Berkeley web site

Holly Doremus

Faculty Co-Director UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity

James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation Berkeley Law

hdoremus@law.berkeley.edu

(510) 643-5699

Albert Ruhi

Faculty Co-Director

UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity

Associate Professor

Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

albert.ruhi@berkeley.edu

(510) 664-5381

Ruhi Lab web site

Former Leadership
Jonathan Jarvis, Executive Director 2017-2019
Steve Beissinger, Faculty Co-Director 2017-2023

Faculty Affiliates

Faculty Affiliates provide the core expertise of the Institute. Faculty come from all colleges at UC Berkeley. We welcome new affiliates if you are a faculty member interested in helping advance meaningful progress for parks, people, and biodiversity. Just contact us and we'll be pleased to talk.

David Ackerly, Plant ecology, climate change impacts on California biodiversity, landscape conservation
John Balmes, Public health, environmental health, air pollution
John Battles, Forest ecology, management, and policy, forest change and dynamics
Steve Beissinger, Birds, wildlife conservation, behavior, and population biology
Stefano Bertozzi, Public health policy and management
Eric Biber, Environmental, natural resources, and land-use law
Justin Brashares, Wildlife ecology, conservation, socio-economics, East Africa, California
Jason Corburn, City and regional planning, urban climate justice, environmental health
Todd Dawson, Plant physiological ecology, climate change impacts on vegetation, ecohydrology
Holly Doremus, Water law and drought
J. Keith Gilless, Forest economics, forest products, wildfire planning

Patrick Gonzalez, Climate change, forest ecology, biome shifts, wildfire, ecosystem carbon, national parks, environmental policy
Dacher Keltner, Psychology, emotional and social Interaction, nature and human well-being, awe
Charles Marshall, Paleontology, evolutionary biology
Adina Merenlender, Conservation in working landscapes, connectivity, community science
Arthur Middleton, Wildlife ecology and policy, large landscape conservation, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Albert Ruhi, Freshwater ecology, conservation of streams and wetlands
Scott Stephens, Fire ecology, management, and policy, forest restoration
Neil Tsutsui, Entomology, insects, ants, community science, mentoring youth
Jennifer Wolch, City and regional planning, sustainable urbanism, urban design and public health

Research Affiliate

Deniss Martinez, Native American natural resource policy, community based research, Indigenous fire governance