School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
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Ethan Lopes
Ph.D. Student in Geophysics
Program Assistant, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental SciencesBioEthan is an experimental geophysicist interested in using paleomagnetism to elucidate questions pertaining to ancient Mars's magnetic field. As a PhD candidate, his current work involves the study of magnetic mineral production via fluid-rock interactions.
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Rachael Madison
Assistant Director of Student Services, Department of Geophysics - Geophysics
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Director of Student Services, Department of Geophysics
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Rosalyn McCambridge
Research Administrator 3, Department of Geophysics - Geophysics
Current Role at StanfordResearch Administrator 3
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Joel Moxley
Adjunct Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
BioJoel Moxley is a Precourt Energy Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. He currently teaches Stanford Climate Ventures (Energy 203). Joel received his B.S.E in chemical engineering from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute for Technology. He is a partner at Echelon Capital and a member of the investment team of Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
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Josheena Naggea
Research Asst - Graduate, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
BioJosheena is a doctoral candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER). She researches the most pressing marine governance issues in small island states focusing on the Western Indian Ocean, and particularly her home country, the Republic of Mauritius. She has most recently worked on assessing the compounding social impacts of COVID-19 and the 2020 Wakashio oil spill disaster on coastal communities in Mauritius. Her doctoral work is situated at the nexus of political ecology and marine policy and focuses on adaptive management of marine protected areas (MPAs), community inclusion, and the valorization of natural and cultural heritage in marine governance. Josheena’s community-based scholarship explores the complexities of local environmental stewardship efforts and environmental identity in a post-colonial context.
Prior to coming to Stanford, she worked as a program manager for a marine conservation NGO in Mauritius, where she spearheaded several environmental awareness campaigns, including a marine Eco-Guide certification program for tourist operators around a marine park, and was actively involved in the first national closure of octopus fisheries, a pioneering initiative led by multiple stakeholder groups. She is motivated to pursue her current research because of her personal connections in her communities of study. -
Lauren Oakes
Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth System Science
BioLauren E. Oakes is an ecologist and human-natural systems scientist. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University and a Conservation Scientist on the Forests and Climate Change team at the Wildlife Conservation Society. Lauren teaches workshops and short-courses in narrative science writing and interdisciplinary environmental sciences, and she combines ecological research with methods from the social sciences to help people adapt to climate change impacts. Her work focuses on understanding the impacts of climate change to forest ecosystems and advancing best practices in adaptation and implementation of nature based solutions. She earned her PhD from Stanford University’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (2015) and her bachelor’s degree from Brown University (2004) in Environmental Studies and Visual Art, studying film and photography. Her first book, In Search of the Canary Tree (Basic Books, Hachette Book Group), is a narrative science memoir about finding faith in the ability of people to cope with a rapidly changing planet. Science Friday selected the Canary as one of the Best Science Books of 2018.
For nearly 20 years, Dr. Oakes has worked on a suite of environmental issues as a researcher, scholar, advocate, and documentarian (Alaska Gold 2012; Red Gold 2008). During that time, she confronted changes in rural communities and challenges in conservation, such as mining development in pristine watersheds in Alaska or road development through the temperate forests of Chile. She witnessed whole communities transformed by oil and gas development in the American West. She spent six years studying climate change impacts to forest ecosystems in the Alexander Archipelago, Alaska. At the core of her passions for research, teaching, and communicating issues of environmental change is the desire to improve resource management and conservation practices.
In addition to publishing her climate- and forest-related research in peer-reviewed journals, Lauren has contributed to National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Scientific American, and Anthropocene Magazine, Emergence Magazine, and Lit Hub.. Her research has been profiled by The Atlantic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, Outside Magazine, National Geographic, The Christian Science Monitor, Adventure Kayak Magazine, and ClimateWire, among other outlets. With years of experience in professional outdoor guiding, she has also lead multi-day expeditions for National Geographic Expeditions and co-designed/co-taught Stanford field courses in Alaska and the Grand Canyon. -
Kenneth Peters
Adjunct Professor, Department of Geological Sciences
BioKen Peters retired as Geochemistry Advisor for Schlumberger in 2020 where he used geochemistry and numerical modeling to study petroleum systems. He has 42 years of experience with Chevron, Mobil, ExxonMobil, USGS, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Schlumberger and published >200 peer-reviewed geology, geochemistry, and basin modeling books and papers. He was Honorary Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and Visiting Professor at Jacobs University in Germany. He is a Schlumberger NExT instructor, an EAGE Lecturer, Fellow in the Geochemical Society, AAPG Charles Taylor Fellow, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University where he is a founding co-principal in the Basin Processes and Subsurface Modeling Industrial Affiliates Program [https://bpsm.stanford.edu/]. He was Chair of the 1998 Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, Co-Convener of two AAPG Hedberg Research Conferences on Basin and Petroleum System Modeling (2009 and 2016), Chair of the AAPG Research Committee (2007-2010), and AAPG Distinguished Lecturer (2009 and 2010). He is principal author of The Biomarker Guide (1993, 2005), editor for the 2009 AAPG compact disk Getting Started in Basin and Petroleum System Modeling and principal editor of the 2012 AAPG Hedberg Series 4 volume on Basin Modeling: New Horizons in Research and Applications. He is co-editor for the 2012 SEPM Special Publication 103 on Analyzing the Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins: Methods and Case Studies. He is Associate Editor for AAPG Bulletin, Journal of Petroleum Geology, and Organic Geochemistry. He received the 2009 Alfred E. Treibs Medal presented on behalf of the Geochemical Society for major achievements over a period of years in the field of organic geochemistry. He received the 2013 AAPG Honorary Member Award for service and devotion to the science and profession of petroleum geology and the 2016 EAGE Alfred Wegener Award for outstanding contributions to the scientific and technical advancement of petroleum geoscience [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxWei5Da2mI]. He twice shared the Schlumberger Henri Doll Prize for Innovation (2009, 2013). In 2017, he was one of 100 ‘Heritage of the Petroleum Geologist’ honorees selected by the Division of Professional Affairs of AAPG to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of AAPG. In 2019, Ken received AAPG’s highest honor, the Sidney Powers Memorial Award, at the AAPG ACE in San Antonio [https://www.aapg.org/videos/award/articleid/53126/ken-peters-receives-the-2019-sidney-powers-award]. In 2022 Ken became an elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering in recognition of development and application of geochemistry for basin analysis, hydrocarbon production, and biodegradation metrics [https://www.nae.edu/]. Ken has B.A. and M.A. degrees in geology from UCSB and a Ph.D. in geochemistry from UCLA. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QvmmOJYAAAAJ&hl=en Ken has B.A. and M.A. degrees in geology from UCSB and a Ph.D. in geochemistry from UCLA.
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Krishna Rao
Teaching Asst-Graduate, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
Research Asst - Graduate, Stanford Data Science InitiativeBioI am an Earth scientist currently pursuing my PhD. in the Remote Sensing Ecohydrology Group at Stanford University. I develop technologies to measure forest health using remote sensing and machine learning to assess climate change impacts on the Earth System, including droughts and wildfires. Read more at https://krishnakrao.github.io/
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Anjana Richards
Director of Transition Planning and Implementation, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
BioAnjana is the Director of Transition Planning and Implementation for Stanford’s new school focused on climate and sustainability. She serves as core programmatic staff for the complex charge of the new school creation and transition, working in close collaboration with faculty leadership and senior administration on all elements of the transition.
Anjana joined Stanford in 2014. Prior to her current role, Anjana served as Associate Director for Program Strategy for the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER), and ran E-IPER’s joint MS degree programs. Prior to joining Stanford, she spent ten years driving environmental improvements within manufacturing and research practices, and creating sustainability strategies for large corporate clients. She also worked for five years in community college education, leading multi-stakeholder teams to build clean energy, environmental science, and sustainable campus initiatives, and deliver social innovation programs that served a diversity of communities.
Anjana brings a sustainability mindset and a practitioner’s lens to her roles in higher education administration. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Science in Environmental Management from the Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business. Anjana enjoys being an active parent and avid traveler to friends, family, and forests near and far. -
Sarah Dawn Saltzer
Managing Director of SCCS, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
Current Role at StanfordManaging Director Stanford Center for Carbon Storage
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Bianca Santos
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources
Student Employee, Department of Earth System ScienceBioBianca Santos is a PhD student in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, where she is interested in developing innovative science-based solutions to mitigate human activities and conserve protected marine species. Her current research focuses around science and policy for managing human impacts on highly migratory marine animal in the Pacific. Her research applies interdisciplinary methods from the fields of marine science, ocean governance and policy, and environmental decision-making. In addition to her research, Bianca is passionate about science communication and outreach.
Prior to Stanford, Bianca served as a 2018 National Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellow in NOAA Research’s Office of International Activities and as a fisheries policy intern with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. -
Nikhil Sawe
Academic Staff - Hourly - Csl, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
BioNik Sawe grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, receiving his BS in Biology at Stanford. Nik's two great loves have always been biology and writing, and in high school he published a fiction novel, Wolf Trails, about the trials of a wolf pack reintroduced into the wild. As an undergrad, he worked in the Sapolsky and Zhao labs as a neuroscience researcher, examining intracellular cell signaling pathways that protected against stroke. This paved the way for a career in medical writing, crafting journal papers on new research for doctors and biotech companies. But Nik wanted to return to ecology, and eventually struck upon a potential crossroads between neuroscience and environmental science in the budding field of neuroeconomics.
Through functional MRI, neuroeconomics analyzes the financial decision-making process at the level of discrete brain structures, allowing insights into the way we think about and route information. Nik's research adapts neuroeconomics techniques to assess decision-making in environmental questions.
Mobilizing successful conservation efforts to preserve both local and global resources and ecosystems requires a new way of thinking. Our brains' innate wiring favors short-term rewards over long-term planning, familial and individual concerns over global ones, and hinders our ability to perceive gradual change in our environment. These tendencies confound our ability to evaluate trade-offs between our own personal convenience and the sustainable future of the Earth. Obtaining a clear picture of how we evaluate long-term environmental risks on a neural level is an important step in characterizing how and why we make unsustainable environmental decisions, and can help inform new approaches in environmental economics, policymaking, and education.
At the heart of Nik's research is environmental risk perception and its impact on philanthropy and behavioral changes, and upstream of that, how framing effects, education, and semantics impact our environmental risk perception. This will hopefully yield a clearer view of how media & language influences perception, and ultimately, proactive environmental behavior. -
K Sharp
Senior Web Developer, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
Current Role at StanfordSenior Web Developer for Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Dean's Office, developing back end infrastructure for school, department, program, and research group web sites as well as special projects and other areas of interest.
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Joanna Sun
Assistant Director of Student Services, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
Current Role at StanfordStudent Services, Department of Energy Resources Engineering
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Clare Swan
Web Services, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
BioClare works in Web Services as a Site Builder and all around Web Support for the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.
Prior to Stanford, Clare worked at Hewlett Packard where she was the technical support for over 200 internal business consultants. She developed database and website interfaces, conducted server administration and provided all around technical support. She has been a web developer for over 20 years. She has a B.S. from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. -
Briana Swette
Research Asst - Graduate, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
BioBriana studies rural land use change and governance, using methods from geography, ecology, and the social sciences. She is currently investigating how public lands livestock grazing is changing in Idaho's High Divide landscape, and the consequences for communities and ecosystems. Before graduate school, she worked as a research associate at Earth Innovation Institute, supporting land use research and policy implementation in the Brazilian Amazon. Previously Briana ran operations at a natural food manufacturing company, and farmed vegetables in Morgan Hill, CA.
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Shannon Switzer Swanson
Research Asst - Graduate, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
BioShannon is a marine social ecologist from San Diego, California. In her research, she blends theory and practice from the fields of anthropology, psychology, and ecology to address today’s most pressing marine conservation issues. Her work to date has focused on community-based management of marine resources in Southeast Asia and Oceania, primarily in the Philippines and Indonesia. She is a National Geographic Explorer and holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences and B.A. in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Barbara and a Masters in Coastal Management from Duke University. As a current PhD candidate in the Emmet Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University, she applies mixed methods from both the social and natural sciences. She also explores decolonizing participatory research methods using film and photography to engage community members as active and equal participants in the research process and to understand how coastal communities interact with their resources and how they can improve management to sustain their culture and livelihoods well into the future.
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Simona Vallone
Research Assistant, Department of Earth System Science
Staff, Department of Earth System ScienceBioSimona Vallone is an agricultural scientist with training and experience in science and technology of food production, sustainable development studies, food science and product development. She focuses on understanding the challenges and opportunities of sustainable food systems; evaluating the potential for innovations in agricultural technology, supply chain and governance in mitigating the socio-environmental impact of food systems; investigating the sustainability of the affluent diets and their impact on global land use and on rural livelihood.
Her training and research experience covers several aspects of the food system: from soil health and plant physiological adaptation to environmental stress; ripening processes and post-harvest physiology; to the development of processed food, its nutritional value, regulatory aspects and consumer preference. During her postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Davis, and later working in the food technology startups in the Silicon Valley, her research often involved exploring technological innovations and their potential in reducing food waste and losses, as well as increasing consumer access to nutritious food.
Before working in the private sector, she was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis until 2013. She holds a PhD in Science and Technology of Agro-food Production from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy (2010); a master in Social Policies and Sustainable Development from the University of Bologna, Italy (2006), and a master degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Naples, Italy (2005). -
Bolivia Vega
Research Engineer, Department of Energy Resources Engineering - Energy Resources Engineering
Current Role at StanfordResearch Engineer at the Energy Resources Engineering Department
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Karrie Weaver
Research and Development Scientist and Engineer 2, Department of Earth System Science
Current Role at StanfordLab Manager, SIGMA Shared Lab Facility
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Mele Wheaton
Associate Director of Program Strategy, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Current Role at StanfordResearch Scholar, Graduate School of Education and Woods Institute for the Environment
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Jeffrey Wong
Research Administrator 3, Department of Geological Sciences
Current Role at StanfordJeff is responsible for supporting the Geological Sciences Department’s sponsored grants portfolio and faculty members' financial accounts. Jeff assists faculty members with budgeting and submitting sponsored research proposals, and managing the financial aspects of their sponsored awards. Additionally, Jeff serves as a department financial liaison with other university departments and schools, the Office of Sponsored Research and other academic institutions involved in collaborative research projects.
