Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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Thomas Robinson
The Irving Schulman, M.D. Professor of Child Health, Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Robinson originated the solution-oriented research paradigm and directs the Stanford Solutions Science Lab. He is known for his pioneering obesity prevention and treatment research, including the concept of stealth interventions. His research applies social cognitive models of behavior change to behavioral, social, environmental and policy interventions for children and families in real world settings, making the results relevant for informing clinical and public health practice and policy.
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Terry L Root
Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsImpacts of climate change on wild plants and animals including extinction
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Lea Rosenbohm
Director, Policy & Engagement, Woods Institute
Current Role at StanfordDirector, Policy & Engagement
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Scott Rozelle
Helen C. Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThemes related to China, especially agricultural policy, the emergence and evolution of markets and other economic institutions, and the economics of poverty and inequality.
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Rita Sader
Director, Finance and Operations, Woods Institute
Current Role at StanfordAs Director of Finance and Operations for the Woods Institute for the Environment, Rita Sader manages and oversees day-to-day operations for the institute, its centers, programs, and initiatives, including all finance functions, research administration, human resources, faculty affairs, administration, development, and facilities.
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Dustin Schroeder
Professor of Geophysics, of Electrical Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
BioDustin Schroeder is a Professor of Geophysics and of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His research primarily focuses on observing and understanding the role of continental ice sheets and their contribution to the rate of sea level rise. A growing secondary focus of his work is the subsurface exploration of icy worlds. He also works on the development, use, and analysis of geophysical radar systems optimized to observe hypothesis-specific phenomena.
He serves on the Science Team for the REASON radar instrument on NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and previously co-chaired the mission’s Interior Working Group. At Stanford, he serves as Associate Chair of Geophysics, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in Electrical Engineering, Faculty Director for COLLEGE 102: Citizenship in the 21st Century, part of Stanford’s new first-year core curriculum, and Chair of the Faculty Senate. Beyond Stanford, he serves as Vice President of the International Glaciological Society and has served for more than two decades with the National Science Olympiad, including as chair of its national Earth and Space Sciences committee and as a member of its Executive Board.
Schroeder is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Senior Member of IEEE, and is a recipient of the AGU James B. Macelwane Medal and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. His teaching has been recognized with awards across Stanford and through his selection as a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
Before joining Stanford, he was a Radar Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD in Geophysics from the University of Texas at Austin and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Physics from Bucknell University. Between his undergraduate and graduate studies, he worked as a Platform Hardware Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor. -
Brady Seals
Director, Electrification for Health, Human and Planetary Health
Current Role at StanfordDirector, Electrification for Health
Center for Human and Planetary Health
Woods Institute for the Environment
Doerr School of Sustainability
