Celina Balderas Guzman

• Bachelor of Science in Architecture, MIT
• Master of Science in Architecture Studies, Urbanism, MIT
• Master of City Planning, MIT

Coastal adaptation, resiliency, nature-based solutions, green infrastructure

Adrienne Dodd

• Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies, Southwestern University
• Master of Science in Natural Disaster Mitigation and Management, National Cheng Kung University

Evan (Scott) Elder

• Bachelors of Architecture, University of Oregon
• Masters of Science in Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia University

I am interested in how the impulse to commemorate can play out within the disciplines of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Particularly when addressing some movement on a vast scale, I am curious how collective memory is crystalized into institutional goals and structures, and also how this scenario might catalyze design decisions at a metropolitan scale.

Pol Fite Matamoros

• Master in Design Studies in Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology (Distinction), Harvard University Graduate School of Design
• Graduate Research Master in Urbanism, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
• Architecture degree (professional degree, equivalent to a B.Arch. + M.Arch.), Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)

Critical Urban Theory, Geographical Political Economy, Industrial Restructuring, Authoritarian Regimes, History of Landscape and Urban Form

Yiyi He

• BA in City and Regional Planning, Nanjing University
• MLA in Environmental Planning, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley

Network resilience, GIScience, Machine Learning

Yang Ju

• Bachelor of Engineering in Urban Planning, Nanjing University
• Master of Landscape Architecture (focusing on Environmental Planning), University of California Berkeley

Geospatial analysis, nighttime light remote sensing, vulnerability to environmental disasters.

Nate E. Kauffman

• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, UC San Diego
• Masters in Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley

Sarah Lindbergh

• Bachelor in Geography - University of Montpellier III, France
• Master in Territories, Society, Planning & Development - (professional) Major in Environmental Disaster Risk Management - University of Montpellier III, France

My interests lie in climate/weather-related disaster risk management. I am currently researching infrastructure network vulnerability to climate threats with an emphasis on organizational scales and climate adaptation governance. My goal is to address misalignments between landscape-scale hazard processes, network-scale exposure of stakeholders and infrastructure, and climate adaptation policies. California's transportation energy sector and the U.S. national airspace system are the infrastructures systems I apply my research to. I am enthusiastic about mixed methods and the inherent interdisciplinarity of environmental problems. Risk management and governance, environmental modelling, stakeholder assessment, geospatial analysis, and network science are the main tools I focus on to tackle these problems.

Jennifer L. Natali

• Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Smith College
• Masters in Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley

I study the interactions of water, sediment, plants and climate in montane meadow ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada in California. In my research, I hope to inform restoration and planning by revealing underlying processes and mechanisms operating across regional, watershed, and meadow scales. 

Specializations:  geomorphology, hydrology, plant ecology, remote sensing and terrain analysis.

Anneliese M. Sytsma

• BS, Civil-Environmental Engineering from Seattle University + Minor in Mathematics
• MS, Environmental Engineering from University of California, Berkeley

Urban hydrology/ ecohydrology, hydrological modeling, landscape pattern analysis, development patterns, geospatial tools

Jose Vicente Tinoco Ochoa

• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Universidad de Cuenca
• Master of Science in Water Resources Engineering, University of Leuven

Rivers; landscape processes; quantitative analysis to estimate sediment loads and sediment yields; field measuring; landscape interpretation; data interpretation to inform reality; geographic information; acknowledgment of uncertainties; numerical analysis; fluid mechanics; energy; metrics for decision making in landscape planning; history of fluvial geomorphology.

Janet Torres

• Bachelor of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Master of Science in Water Management & Hydrological Sciences at Texas A&M University at College Station

Janet’s primary research interests are climate change adaptation, multi-level governance, and sustainable development. She believes research in these topics requires an integrative and transdisciplinary strategy and uses a mixed methods approach to her own research, integrating physical geography, policy analysis, and ethnography within a relevant historical context. Her current research is on the development trajectory of the Republic of Cuba and the role of culture in improving the adaptive capacity of communities.

Alan E. Waxman

• MLA Harvard Graduate School of Design
• BA Anthropology major, Japanese minor Whitman College

Landscapes of health, embodiment, ecosocial theory, big data systems and cryptography, hotspots and real time adaptive management, landscape painting, urban rhythms, tactile immersive wet environments, dance, humor, interspecies communication, psychology of space, toxic/ sacred spaces.

Sooyeon Yi

• Bachelor of Science in Hydrologic Sciences, University of California, Davis
• Master of Science in Hydrology, University of California, Davis

Water-energy nexus, water transfer projects, hydrologic modeling, water resources management