Water Resources Group

Meet Our Team

Directors

Gregory Pierce

Faculty, Department of Urban Planning; Co-Director, Luskin Center for Innovation, Water and Transportation Initiatives; Director, Water Resources Group

Glen MacDonald

WMRC Director, John Muir Memorial Chair in Geography and Distinguished Professor, Founding Director, Water Resources Group

Department of Geography, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Leadership

Makenna Cavanaugh

Graduate Student, Water Resources Group Executive Committee

Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Hannah Chun

Graduate Student, Water Resources Group Executive Committee

Urban and Regional Planning, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Onja Davidson Raoelison

Graduate Student, Water Resources Group Executive Committee

Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering, UCLA Samuel School of Engineering

Past Student Leadership

Sam Good

Graduate Student, Water Resources Group Executive Committee

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Ariana Hernandez

Graduate Student, Water Resources Group Executive Committee

Master's Urban and Regional Planning

Hayat Rasul

Graduate Student, Water Resources Group Executive Committee

Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs

Robert Reny

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Improving water management in Southern California through excellent understanding of climate impacts and broad contexts

Peter Roquemore

Graduate Student Water Resources Group Executive Committee

Luskin School of Public Affairs

Emilie Tarouilly

Graduate Student, Water Resources Group Executive Committee

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Manon von Kaenel


Graduate Student, Water Resources Group Executive Committee

PhD Candidate in the Hydrology & Water Resources program at the UCLA Civil & Environmental Engineering

Laura Yraceburu

Graduate Student Water Resources Group Executive Committee

UCLA School of Law

Faculty

Richard Ambrose

Professor Emeritus

Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Stephen Aron

Professor and Chair

Institute for the Study of the American West, Autry National Center UCLA Department of History

Jon Christensen

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, Luskin Center for Innovation, Center for Digital Humanities

Yoram Cohen

Professor

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Lara Cushing

Assistant Professor and Jonathan and Karin Fielding Presidential Chair in Health Equity

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Alvar Escriva-Bou

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Timu W. Gallien

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Noah Garrison

Environmental Science Practicum Director

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Mark Gold

Director of Water Scarcity Solutions, People & Communities Program

NRDC

Alex Hall

Professor

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Veronica Herrera

Associate Professor of Urban Planning

Luskin School of Public Affairs

Eric Hoek

Faculty Director

UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge

Terri Hogue

Associate Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

David Jacobs

Professor

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jennifer Jay

Chair, B.S. in Environmental Science; Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Robert Lempert

Adjunct Professor

Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Shaily Mahendra

Associate Professor and Samueli Fellow

Environmental Engineering

Steve Margulis

Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sanjay Mohanty

Associate Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

David Neelin

Professor

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Thomas Painter

Visiting Associate Researcher

Department of Geography, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering

Stephanie Pincetl

Founding Director and Professor

California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA; Chair, PhD in Environment and Sustainability;

Erik Porse

Assistant Adjunct Professor

California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA

Deepak Rajagopal

Associate Professor; Director, Leadership in Sustainability Certificate Program

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Michael Roberts

Executive Director of the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law

Rebecca Shipe

Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Michael Stenstrom

Distinguished Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mel Suffet

Distinguished Professor

Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Environmental Science and Engineering Program

V. Kelly Turner

Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Geography; Co-Director, Luskin Center for Innovation, Urban Environment Research

Urban Planning

Yongkang Xue

Professor

Department of Geography, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

William Yeh

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Researchers

Affiliates

Mike Antos

Past co-chair Graduate Student Water Resources Group

Senior Integrated Water Management Specialist, Stantec

Paula Daniels

Board of Public Works Commissioner

City of Los Angeles

Sabrina Drill

UC Cooperative Extension, Natural Resources Advisor, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties

Sassan Saatchi

Senior Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Adjunct Professor

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
people

The UCLA Water Resources Group brings together water resource experts from across the UCLA campus and water resources researchers, managers and policy makers from beyond the campus, including members from:

At UCLA

Partner UCLA Water Research Centers

From other organizations