Slugs in Action

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Contents 1 Alumni 2 Current Students 3 Faculty 4 Emeritus Faculty 5 In Memoriam

Alumni

Orson Aguilar ('96 C8) in his role at the helm of the Greenlining Institute, focuses on private and public policies that promote investments and equity in low-income and minority communities like East Los Angeles where he grew up. Prior to the Greenlining Institute, he was a fellow with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. He recently testified before Congress.

Tony Bautista worked on green issues like climate change.

Brent Constantz developed technology to make "green" cement that could help slow global warming and ocean acidificationbase on a revolutionary product for healing broken bones inspired by the research on coral reefs he had conducted as a UCSC graduate student.

Teresa Ish helps consumers find sustainable fish

Kevin Danaher Co-founder of Global Exchange and an expert on globalization and green economy. He often writes for Alternet

Brock Dolman (College Eight '92, Environmental Studies/Biology), Director of The WATER Institute Ecologist Permaculture Program

John Francis, vice president of research, conservation, and exploration for the National Geographic Society works with Crittercam

Tim Galarneau was recently profiled in Mother Jones news on sustainable food.

John Gamman literally wrote the book on environmental mediation.

Drew Goodman, organic farmer

Nina Grove, formerly of Genentech, works on malaria in Africa

Richard Harris covers science and environmental issues for National Public Radio.

John Jeavons worked with pioneer organic gardener Chadwick (see below) and founded Ecology Action, which now has partners all over the world. Article "The Man Who Would Feed the World"

Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a collection that tells the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present diversity. Hoping for a glimpse of the world the way it was in the age of photosynthesizing stromatolites, "back before the sky turned blue," Lanting journeyed to a remote lagoon in Australia, the only place in the world where stromatolites still exist. The story moves forward from there, via a lyrical collection of photographs set to a soundtrack from Philip Glass. TEDtalk video

Nell Newman, Founder of Newman's Own Organics and Santa Cruz local interviewed by Josh Kornbluth (iTunes podcast video)Grist interview 2004

Aire Celeste Norell, poet

Chuck Savitt, Pres. and co-founder of Island Press in 1984, was able to unite his passion for the environment and the work of the nonprofit community with his business sense for publishing. With more than 800 books in print and publishing 40 new titles annually, Island Press is the nation’s leading environmental publisher.

Jason Scorse, international environmental policy program director at Monterey Institute of International Studies. [Blog.

Cheryl Scott runs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) office in East Africa

Bruce Stein maps biodiversity

Kennan Ward leading wildlife photographer

Gordon Wiltsie National Geographic photographer has worked everywhere from Peru to the North Pole.

Current Students

UCSC Fullbright scholars study global warming, agroecology, and biodiversity.

Adelia Barber is using Google Earth to map research on Bristlecone Pines.

Chris Darimont does research on human super-predatory activities on fisheries.

Katie Roper has done internships in Kenya, and spent a year living in a "sustainable community" on campus. She she single-handedly produced a six-minute video documentary called Thirsty Trees: And the Search for Better Alternatives

Gabriel Sady wins UCSC enviro scholarship to study forests in Costa Rica

Adelia Barber helps fight local battle against logging.

Nathaniel Dominy helped document that he legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135 victims.

Myra Finkelstein studies marine bycatch.

Melinda Fowler tags very large elephant seals

Lara Hale works on energy issues.

Fulbright Awards: Timothy Krupnik, Michelle Olsgard, and Anna Zivian have received 2008-2009

Hoyt Peckham studies endangered turtles

Allison Luengenstudies toxins in the ocean

Chris Bacon studies sustainable coffee

Anna Gonzales studies Chromium-6

Amy Morris looks at the governance of conservation easements, which which has environmental justice aspects.

Engineering students develop a coral reef monitoring system

GIIP student Roslyn Wang served an internship with Kiva. Kiva was the world’s first micro-lending site, giving individuals the opportunity to make small loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Mele Wheaton just received a Switzer Fellowship for improving teaching about the environment. She has worked on conservation, including sea otters.

Faculty

Rachel Barnett-Johnson, a fisheries biologist, investigates salmon population.

Jeffrey Bury studies privatized conservation efforts, ecotourism, and livelihood transformations in the Cordillera Huayhuash in Peru. personal webpage

Melissa Caldwell, food policy expert, will be discussing the global food crisis at international conference sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Patrick Chaung studies pollution in the atmosphere, which may help refine global warming models.

Nancy Chen breaks down divisions between food and medicine, and she underscores that medicinal foods are the "front line of healing."

Dan Costa and his students are tagging marine life to send back realtime information never before available. You can follow activities at TOPP and see Video from KQED's Quest as well as PBS's Ocean Animal Emergency

Ben Crow studies inequality around water and land issues.

Melanie DuPuis is the author of the book Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink (McHenry GT2920.M55 D86 2002) and numerous scholarly articles on food and food-related topics. She is currently co-editor of an issue of the current special "politics of food" issue of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture

Myra Finkelstein, an environmental toxicologist says she hopes that her recent findings will help spur cleanup efforts on Midway Atoll, where lead-based paint from abandoned military buildings contaminates nearby albatross nests.

Global Warming research is being done by Christina Ravelo, a professor of ocean sciences and James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences.

Julie Guthman researches organic agriculture

Roberto Gwiazda and Don Smith, environmental toxicologists at UCSC, track uranium exposure

David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering, said development of the Genome browser was driven by the needs of cancer researchers, who are now using powerful technologies for genome analysis and DNA sequencing in their efforts to understand cancer at the molecular level.

College 8 instructor Glenn Stewart worked on Exxon Valdez cleanup and is breeding and releasing hawks, falcons and other predatory birds

Steve Gliessman works to improve organic agriculture and Fair Trade. City on a Hill article on his work with coffee. Also excerpts from his book

Brent Haddad establishes water study program at UCSC

Bill Henry and Myra Finkelstein are researching plastic in the oceans.

Marm Kilpatrick (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) researches climate change impact on West Nile Virus

Paul Koch has done some great research on pre-history which may have implications for our time, such as helping condors survive in the wild.

Raphael Kudela, professor of ocean sciences, participated in a study that links seabird deaths to soap-like foam produced by red-tide algae.

Deborah Letourneau has done research into GMO's along with Joy Hagen and Ingrid Parker.

Michael E. Loik, (environmental studies )investigates how changing precipitation patterns will affect the ecosystems that help to feed, fuel, and house us.

Marc Los Huertos investigates nitrogen in river and ocean systems including the Pajaro River.

John Mock works to remove landmines and preserve wildlife in Afghanistan.

David Palleros works in Green Chemistry.

Ingrid Parker studies invasive plant species.

Adina Paytan does research on how dust affects algae in oceans.

Donald Potts, a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is studying increasing ocean acidification, which has often focused on its potential effects on coral reefs, but broader disruptions of biological processes in the oceans may be more significant.

Peter Raimondi, professor and chair of ecology and evolutionary biology, studies marine reserves' effects on fish.

Alan Richards teaches a popular course Blood and Oil on the Middle East.Current sustainability course Spr 08

Mary Silver researches algae blooms

Barry Sinervo and students are creating games to teach about lizard behavior.

Don Smith and graduate student, Molly Church, who is now at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine have established lead poisoning in condors from ammunition.

Mark Snyder researches climate change. Radio interview 09

Sean Swezy, College 8 instructor, works on organic sustainable farming techniques

Ali Shakouri works to make energy use more efficient. his website

Andy Szasz also studies Environmental Justice. New book on Inverted Quarantine is Shopping Our Way to Safety [1]

John Thompson's research may help us learn to cope with ecological change.

Tim Tinker researches sea otters. Video Info on otter mortality.

Slawek Tulaczyk investigates effects of global warming on ice sheets in Anarctica. Tulaczyk and Andrew Fisher, both professors of Earth and planetary sciences, will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study hidden processes that govern the dynamics of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Link.

Erin Vogel studies primate population.

Terrie Williams, professor of biology and director of the Marine Mammal Physiology Project (MMPP) at UCSC's Long Marine Laboratory sprang into action and were ready when an oil-soaked otter arrived from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where she had been stabilized. Williams has also done research on seals during the Antarctic winter, the harshest season in the harshest environment on Earth.

Chris Wilmers and Terrie Williams, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCSC, will team up to explore questions of puma behavior, physiology, and ecology. Cougar GPS story

Jonathan Zehr, professor of ocean sciences and his team has found an unusual microorganism in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems.

Emeritus Faculty

Ray Dasmann was one of the pioneers in developing the the conservation concepts of "eco-development," and "biological diversity," and identified the crucial importance of recognizing indigenous peoples and their cultures in efforts to conserve natural landscapes. These concepts over the last thirty years have coalesced in American and international environmental thinking as "sustainable development," the key dynamic concept informing contemporary conservation efforts. Article

Manuel Pastor studies Environmental Justice issues

Michael Souvde (short bio), one of the founders of conservation biology, and currently an advocate of Rewilding. Interview

In Memoriam

Alan Chadwick helped establish organic farming at UCSC and propagate the ideas widely. He came to UCSC at the behest of his friend, a countess who was the widow of a member of the Resistance who was killed in the retribution after the failed Hitler assassination. Film on him at McHenry VT8996 called Garden Song History of organic farming at UCSCArticle.

Terry Freitas, UCSC grad student killed trying to stop Indigenous people from being harmed by oil company.

Ken Norris, cetologist who helped establish Natural Reserves and Long Marine Lab oral history online and in Science Library QH31.N67 J37 1999. "His pioneering investigations in marine mammalogy confirmed dolphin echolocation skills in a series of elegant experiments. Much of what is now known about whales and dolphins, specifically their social and familial interactions is due to his work. His expertise in marine mammalogy also resulted in his strong influence on public policy in the crafting of the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972. His leadership and research were also instrumental in the national campaign to reduce the dolphin kill in tuna fishing. Norris was the author of over a hundred scientific papers and several books on dolphins and porpoises."

Stephen D. Vance (College 8, '79, American studies) was killed by gunmen during an ambush in Pakistan, where he directed a U.S.-funded job creation and workforce development project in the country's FATA region.

Bill Walton, Predatory Bird Research Group leader, was instrumental in saving the Peregrine Falcon, the fastest animal in existence, from extinction. Article on falcon comeback The history of falcon recovery is told by him in this 42 minute video.