Eric Hoek
Eric Hoek is a professor in UCLA’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability and the California NanoSystems Institute. Dr. Hoek is also Faculty Director of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, which is a campus wide initiative and partnership with the City of Los Angeles to help LA become the world’s most sustainable megacity by 2050.
Dr. Hoek’s academic work explores the union of nanomaterials, membrane technology and electrochemistry for water, energy and environmental applications – all keys to a more sustainable future. Dr. Hoek has advised over 50 graduate students, published over 110 peer-reviewed scientific publications and filed over 70 patents filed globally. He has written books on Sustainable Desalination & Water Reuse, Oil & Gas Produced Water Management and is co-editor in chief of The Encyclopedia of Membrane Science. He is the founding and current editor-in-chief of npj Clean Water and a former associate editor of Desalination.
Dr. Hoek has also applied this knowledge as an entrepreneur having co-invented/founded several technology companies (e.g., NanoH2O, Water Planet, PolyCera, IntelliFlux) and as a consultant having advised various government agencies, technology companies, investment funds and law firms. Dr. Hoek has a Ph.D. from Yale University, M.S. from UCLA, B.S. from Penn State.
Terri Hogue
Research Interests
Dr. Hogue’s research focuses on improving the understanding and prediction of hydrologic fluxes at a range of space and time scales.
Droughts, floods, urbanization, wildfires, climate variability and an escalating global population are creating scientific challenges on scales previously not encountered. Improving the understanding and prediction of a dynamic hydrologic cycle and its interface with a growing society is critical for addressing future water security and to reduce the detrimental impacts of land-cover change and natural hazards on watershed processes. Her work centers on the development and improvement of tools to better understand land-atmosphere interactions and improve the prediction of hydrologic processes, with a special focus on semi-arid regions. Various projects include: catchment response to wildfire, urbanization impacts on coupled eco-hydrologic systems, hydrologic modeling, remote-sensing of land surface properties, operational flood forecasting, and application of parameter estimation methods to hydrologic models.
Education
- B.S., (1995), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- M.S., (1998), University of Arizona
- Ph.D., (2003), University of Arizona
Sydney Holland
Sydney D. Holland, CEO of Rich Hippie Productions, launched the company in 2012 as a vehicle dedicated to developing and financing film, television and web-based content. She served as Executive Producer for the company’s first feature-length film ‘Amnesiac’, helmed by celebrated indie director Michael Polish and starring Kate Bosworth and Wes Bentley. She also Co-Executive Produced (alongside Morgan Spurlock and Nigel Lythgoe) the documentary film ‘Dancing in Jaffa’, which was released in 2013.
Holland previously worked in fashion as a consultant on the establishment and expansion of some of the most well-known international brands including Lisa Stewart, Isabella Fiore, Rachel Leigh, Sage, Jude Frances Jewelry, Tomassini, Kitson and European style house Hugo Boss. She also launched LIV GRN, an eco-conscious celebrity favorite line of yoga wear and developed Zooey Green, a line of designer graphic tees made of 100% organic and fair trade grown cotton.
A renowned philanthropist, Sydney founded The Sydney D. Holland Foundation in 2012 with the principal commitment to raising awareness of at-risk youth and to funding substance abuse prevention programs serving women and the young. She serves on the board of several charities, including the Go Campaign, which improves the lives of orphans and vulnerable children around the world by partnering with local heroes to deliver local solutions; The Music Center/Center Dance Arts; UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; A Place Called Home, a nationally recognized safe haven in South Central Los Angeles where underserved youth are empowered through programs in education and the arts; and Friendly House LA, one of the first recovery and treatment centers in the country for women. She is also an Acquisition Committee Member of MOCA.
With a passion for the arts, Sydney has made a name for herself in the dance world – underwriting numerous events that have brought over 4,000 students to the Music Center to watch the American Ballet Theater and The Alvin Ailey Dance Company. She has also been a major supporter of the Glorya Kaufman presents Dance at the Music Center and three premier local Los Angeles dance companies, Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project, BodyTraffic and the Barak Ballet.
Her philanthropic work has been celebrated by A Place Called Home – who honored her with a prestigious “GirlPower” award, and Friendly House LA – who bestowed upon her the esteemed “Woman of The Year” award.
She resides in Los Angeles with her daughter Alexandra Red.
Jeff Holmquist
Research Interests
My research group addresses questions concerning plant-animal interactions, landscape structure as a determinant of faunal movement and assemblage character, and the effects of anthropogenic and natural disturbance on ecological function. Much of our work emphasizes invertebrates, although we utilize other taxa as questions dictate. We have used both experimental and observational approaches, and recent studies have extended across several scales, ranging from patch boundary dynamics at the microhabitat level to experimental manipulations of rivers. This work has taken us to alpine meadows and streams, montane ponds, tropical seagrass meadows, and desert springs and playas.