CESU Network - Californian Information Portal

The Californian CESU was established at the University of California (Berkeley) in 2003. Originally consisting of four federal agency and eight non-federal partners, the CESU has grown to include a total of 13 federal partners and 27 non-federal partners.

The mission of the Californian CESU is to provide research, technical assistance and education across the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences to address natural and cultural resource management issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context in California and nationally as appropriate.

HOST	University of California (Berkeley)
ESTABLISHED	2003
WEBSITE	https://cesu.cnr.berkeley.edu/
CO-DIRECTORS	Dennis Baldocchi Executive Associate Dean and Professor of Biometeorology Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley 130 Mulford Hall, #3114 Berkeley, CA 94720 PHONE: (510) 642-2874 EMAIL: baldocchi@berkeley.edu Nalui Garcia, J.D. Financial Analyst - Dean's Office Rausser College of Natural Resources University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-3100 EMAIL: naluig@berkeley.edu
ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2003) Amendment 1 adding the Natural Resources Conservation Service Amendment 2 adding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Amendment 3 adding the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense - Installations and Environment, California Polytechnic State University, California State University, Chico, and Humboldt State University Amendment 4 adding California State University, Northridge Amendment 5 adding California State University, Stanislaus Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2008) Amendment 1 adding California Department of Fish and Game Amendment 2 adding National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Amendment 3 adding California State University, Channel Islands and the Institute for Bird Populations Amendment 4 adding the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers–Civil Works, San Diego State University, and Institute for Wildlife Studies Amendment 5 adding Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2013) Amendment 1 adding California State University Sacramento (Sacramento State) Amendment 2 adding San Bernardino County Museum and San Diego Natural History Museum Amendment 3 adding Carnegie Mellon University Amendment 4 CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (on behalf of California State University, Fullerton) and Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc. (on behalf of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) Amendment 5 adding Bureau of Indian Affairs, California Association for Resource Conservation Districts, and Point Blue Conservation Science Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2018) Amendment 1 adding Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research and The Marine Mammal Center Amendment 2 adding Stanford University Department of Earth System Science Amendment 3 adding Smithsonian Institution and Southern California Marine Institute Amendment 4 adding Sierra Streams Institute Amendment 5 adding California Academy of Sciences Amendment 6 amending U.S. Forest Service authorities language to include National Forest System Amendment 7 adding National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers and replacing the University of Southern California School of Architecture with the University of Southern California Amendment 8 adding Natural Communities Coalition
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UNIT PARTNERS
	TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE	ADMINISTRATIVE REPRESENTATIVE
FEDERAL PARTNERS
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Civil Works	Jennifer Seiter-Moser Acting Technical Director Civil Engineering Programs Engineer Research and Development Center jennifer.m.seiter-moser@usace.army.mil	Sherry Whitaker CESU Program Manager sherry.l.whitaker@usace.army.mil Chelsea Whitten Lead Contract Specialist Chelsea.M.Whitten@usace.army.mil Davita Baloue Grants Officer Davita.S.Baloue@usace.army.mil
Bureau of Indian Affairs	John Mosley Branch Chief, Tribal Climate Resilience Office of Trust Services john.mosley@bia.gov	Jo Ann Metcalfe Grants Management Specialist jo.metcalfe@bia.gov
Bureau of Land Management	James Weigand Ecologist jweigand@blm.gov	Thelma Mosley Grants Management Officer tmosley@blm.gov
Bureau of Ocean Energey Management	Cathie Dunkel Environmental Studies Coordinator Pacific OCS Region catherine.dunkel@boem.gov	Jennifer Ewald Science Communication Outreach Liaison Division of Environmental Sciences jennifer.ewald@boem.gov
Bureau of Reclamation	Jobaid Kabir Chief, Decision Analysis Branch jkabir@usbr.gov	Brenda Davis Deputy Manager, Acquisition Services Mid-Pacific Region bdavis@usbr.gov
Department of Defense	Dawn M. Lawson Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific Sr. Natural Resources Specialist dmlawson@spawar.navy.mil Liz Galli-Noble Program Manager, DoD Legacy Resource Management Program elizabeth.j.galli-noble.civ@mail.mil	Lori Kruse-Johnson SWD CESU Program Manager Lori.M.Kruse-Johnson@usace.army.mil
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Larry Rabin Assistant Regional Director, Science Applications USFWS Region 8 larry_rabin@fws.gov Cesar Cadena Blanco Chief, CVPIA Project Implementation Division cesar_blanco@fws.gov	Anna-Marie York Grants Management Specialist Science Applications anna-marie_york@fws.gov
U.S. Forest Service	A.J. Duggan, J.D. Research Planning Director Pacific Southwest Research Station arthur.a.duggan@usda.gov Stephanie Coppeto Regional Monitoring Coordinator Pacific Southwest Region stephanie.coppeto@usda.gov	Jennifer Jones Grants and Agreements Specialist Pacific Southwest Research Station jennifer.jones2@usda.gov Constance Zipperer Grants and Agreements Specialist Pacific Southwest Region constance.zipperer@usda.gov
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Hugo Hoffman NEPA Compliance and Natural Resources Environmental Management Division Ames Research Center hugo.a.hoffman@nasa.gov Tina Norwood Program Manager NEPA and Natural Resources NASA Headquarters tina.norwood@nasa.gov	Beatrice Morales bmorales@mail.arc.nasa.gov
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Kristen Koch Deputy Director Southwest Fisheries Science Center kristen.c.koch@noaa.gov	Meghan Donahue Director, Operations, Management and Information Southwest Fisheries Science Center meghan.donahue@noaa.gov Michael Liddel CESU Program Manager Acting Branch Chief, Commercial Fishery Statistics michael.liddel@noaa.gov
National Park Service	Benjamin Becker Science Advisor NPS Regions 8, 9, 10, and 12 NPS Research Coordinator, Californian CESU University of California, Berkeley ben_becker@nps.gov	Lilette Baltodano Financial Agreements Officer Pacific West Regional Office lilette_baltodano@nps.gov
Natural Resources Conservation Service	Weihuan “Mark” Xu Director, Resource Inventory and Assessment Division, SSRA weihuan.xu@usda.gov David Lindbo Director, Soil and Plant Science Division david.lindbo@usda.gov	Aileen Anderson Grants Management Specialist aileen.anderson@usda.gov
U.S. Geological Survey	Miguel Villarreal Supervisory Research Geographer Western Geographic Science Center mvillarreal@usgs.gov	Faith Graves CESU Contract Specialist fgraves@usgs.gov
UNIVERSITY PARTNERS
California Polytechnic State University	Benjamin Ruttenberg Assistant Professor Biological Sciences Department bruttenb@calpoly.edu	Melissa Mullen Director, Sponsored Programs mrmullen@calpoly.edu
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	Jayson Smith Assistant Professor Biological Sciences jaysonsmith@cpp.edu	Sadiq Shah Associate Vice President Research, Innovation, and Economic Development sayedshah@cpp.edu David Prenovost CFO, Foundation Financial Services Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc. dfprenovost@cpp.edu
California State University, Channel Islands	Tina Knight Assistant Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs tina.knight@csuci.edu	Donald Rodriguez Associate Professor and Chair Environmental Science and Resource Management Program Donald.Rodriguez@csuci.edu
California State University, Chico	Kevin M. Kelley Associate Vice President, Research and Sponsored Programs kmkelley@csuchico.edu	John Miner Office of Research and Sponsored Programs jminer@csuchico.edu
California State University, Fresno	Steve Blumenshire Director of Research and Education CA Water Institute sblumens@mail.fresnostate.edu	Maral Kistmenian Grants and Research Administrator mkismetian@csufresno.edu
California State University, Fullerton	Jennifer Burnaford Department of Biological Science College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics jburnaford@fullerton.edu	Denise Bell Office of Sponsored Programs CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation dbell@fullerton.edu
California State University, Los Angeles	Andres Aguilar Department of Biological Sciences aaguil67@calstatela.edu	Alma Sahagun Director of Contracts and Grants asahag@cslanet.calstatela.edu
California State University, Monterey Bay	Marsha Moroh Dean, College of Science, Media Arts and Technology mmoroh@csumb.edu	Cindy Lopez Director, Sponsored Programs Office clopez@csumb.edu
California State University, Northridge	Amalie Jo Orme Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies amalie.orme@csun.edu	Sheree Schrager Managing Director Research and Sponsored Programs sheree.schrager@csun.edu
California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State)	David P. Earwicker Associate Vice President Office of Research Affairs david.earwicker@csus.edu	Monica Kauppinen Director, Sponsored Programs Administration mkauppinen@csus.edu
California State University, Stanislaus	Patrick A. Kelly Professor of Zoology and Coordinator, Endangered Species Recovery Program pkelly@esrp.csustan.edu	Heidi Britt Lead Grant and Contract Specialist Office of Research and Sponsored Programs HBritt@csustan.edu
Carnegie Mellon University	Bob Iannucci Associate Dean, Carnegie Mellon University - Engineering Director, Carnegie Mellon University – Silicon Valley campus bob@sv.cmu.edu	Julia Sobol Contracts Officer sobolj@andrew.cmu.edu
Humboldt State University	James H. Howard Dean, College of Natural Resources cnrsdean@humboldt.edu	Rhea L. Williamson, Ph.D. Dean, College of Research and Sponsored Programs Rhea.Williamson@humboldt.edu
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories	Jim Harvey Director jharvey@mlml.calstate.edu
Occidental College	Daniel J. Pondella, II Associate Professor, Biology Department Director, Vantuna Research Group pondella@oxy.edu	Kerry Thompson Interim Dean of the College and Vice President for Academic Affairs kthompson@oxy.edu
San Diego State University	Rebecca Lewsion Associate Professor, Biology Department rlewison@mail.sdsu.edu	Barry Janov Director, Sponsored Research Project Management bjanov@foundation.sdsu.edu
San Francisco State University	Gretchen LeBuhn Assistant Professor, Department of Biology lebuhn@sfsu.edu	Alison Sanders Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs asanders@sfsu.edu
Smithsonian Institution	Scott Miller Chief Scientist, Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Research MillerS@si.edu	Karen Otiji Associate Director, Office of Sponsored Projects OtijiK@si.edu
Sonoma State University	Adrian Praetzellis Professor of Anthropology adrian.praetzellis@sonoma.edu	Jeff Wilson Senior Director, Sponsored Programs Administration jeff.wilson@sonoma.edu
Stanford University Department of Earth System Science	Robert Jackson Douglas Provostial Professor and Chair Department of Earth System Science rob.jackson@stanford.edu	Jennifer Scerri Contract and Grant Officer Office of Sponsored Research jscerri@stanford.edu
University of California, Berkeley	Steve Beissinger A. Starker Leopold Chair in Wildlife Biology and Professor of Conservation Biology beis@berkeley.edu	Pam Miller Interim Executive Director, Sponsored Projects Office plfmiller@berkeley.edu
University of California, Davis	James F. Quinn Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy jfquinn@ucdavis.edu	Ahmad Hakim-Elahi Executive Director, Sponsored Programs ahakimelahi@ucdavis.edu
University of California, Irvine	Travis Huxman Director, Center for Environmental Biology thuxman@uci.edu	Nancy Lewis Executive Director, Sponsored Projects nrlewis@uci.edu
University of California, Los Angeles	Phillip Q. Spinks Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology pqspinks@ucla.edu Gary Bucciarelli Director of Research, UCLA Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve garyb@ucla.edu	Kathy Kawamura Assistant Director, Grants and Cooperative Agreements Office of Contract and Grant Administration kathy.kawamura@research.ucla.edu
University of California, Merced	Qinghua Guo School of Engineering and Sierra Nevada Research Institute qguo@ucmerced.edu	Thea Vicari Contract and Grant Officer tvicari@ucmerced.edu
University of California, Riverside	Emma L. Aronson Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology emma.aronson@ucr.edu	Teeny Ellis Senior Contract and Grant Officer teeny.ellis@ucr.edu
University of California, San Diego	Johnathan Shurin Professor, Division of Biological Sciences jshurin@ucsd.edu	Linda P. Collins Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director, Office of Contract and Grant Administration lcollins@ucsd.edu
University of California, Santa Barbara	Susan Warbrick Associate Director, Marine Science Institute, Natural Reserve System swarbric@lifesci.ucsb.edu	Cora Diaz Director, Sponsored Projects diaz@research.ucsb.edu
University of California, Santa Cruz	Dan Costa Center for Ocean Health costa@biology.ucsc.edu	Larry Castro Director, Office of Sponsored Projects lcastro@ucsc.edu
University of Southern California	James Murday Director of Physical Sciences Office of Research and Development murday@usc.edu	Jeri Muniz Executive Director Department of Contracts and Grants jeri.muniz@usc.edu
OTHER PARTNERS
California Department of Fish and Wildlife	Christina Sloop Science Advisor and Science Institute Lead christina.sloop@wildlife.ca.gov
California Academy of Sciences	Rebecca Johnson Co-Director, Center for Biodiversity and Community rjohnson@calacademy.org
California Association for Resource Conservation Districts	Karen Buhr Executive Director karen-buhr@carcd.org
California Invasive Plant Council	Doug Johnson Executive Director dwjohnson@cal-ipc.org
Institute for Bird Populations	Rodney Siegel Executive Director rsiegel@birdpop.org
Institute for Wildlife Studies	David Garcelon President garcelon@iws.org
Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research	Gregory Schorr President gschorr@marecotel.org
The Marine Mammal Center	Jeffrey Boehm Chief External Relations Officer boehmj@tmmc.org
National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers	Valerie Grussing Executive Director valerie@nathpo.org	Melissa Madrigal Operations Director melissa@nathpo.org
Natural Communities Coalition	Danny Fry Science Coordinator/Wildland Fire Lead dfry@occonservation.org	James Sulentich Executive Director jsulentich@occonservation.org
Point Blue Conservation Science	Dan Robinette Coastal Marine Program Leader Point Blue Vandenberg Field Station drobinette@pointblue.org
San Bernardino County Museum	Melissa Russo Museum Director Melissa.Russo@sbcm.sbcounty.gov Tamara Serrao-Leiva Curator of Anthropology Tamara.Serrao-Leiva@sbcm.sbcounty.gov
San Diego Natural History Museum	Kevin Clark Ecologist kclark@sdnhm.org
San Diego Zoo	Ronald Swaisgood Brown Chair/Director of Applied Animal Ecology Institute for Conservation Research San Diego Zoo Global rswaisgood@sandiegozoo.org
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden	Steve Windhager Executive Director swindhager@sbbg.org
Sierra Streams Institute	Joanne Hild Executive Director joanne@sierrastreams.org
Southern California Marine Institute	Daniel Pondella Director pondella@oxy.edu