Faculty & Staff Directory

Dr. Jeremy James

(Department Head)

Phone: (805) 756-6391
Office: 180-209
Email: jjames20@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Restoration Ecology · Climate Change · Invasive Plant Ecology

Dr. Aakash Ahamed

Phone: (805) 756-0919
Office: 10-239
Email: aaahamed@calpoly.edu

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Areas of Focus

Remote Sensing - Hydrogeophysics - Agroforestry

Dr. Chip Appel

Phone: (805) 756-1691
Office: 180-515
Email: cappel@calpoly.edu

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Areas of Focus

Soil and Water Chemistry · Tropical Soils

Dr. Nicholas Babin

Phone: (805) 756-2373
Office: 181-317
Email: nbabin@calpoly.edu

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Areas of Focus

Agroecology · Sustainable Food Systems · Natural Resources Policy and Planning · Watershed Management · Political Economy

Dr. Yu Cao

Phone: (805) 756-1854
Office: 180-505
Email: ycao12@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Environmental Policy · Energy Justice and Security · Corporate Social Responsibility · Arctic Policy

Dr. Yiwen Chiu

Phone: (805) 756-2972
Office: 180-504
Email: yichiu@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Environmental Management · Application of GIS · Life Cycle Analysis · Quantitative Simulation

Dr. Richard Cobb

Phone: (805) 756-6333
Office: 10-238
Email: rccobb@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Forest Pathology · Forest Entomology · Ecosystem Ecology · Epidemiology

Dr. Charlotte Decock

Phone: (805) 756-6360
Office: 180-415
Email: cdecock@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Soil Health and Fertility Assessment · Soil Conservation · Fertilizer Management · Sustainable Agriculture

Austin Joseph Ferguson - Academic Advisor

Phone: (805) 756-7574
Office: 74M-A
Email: cafesadvising@calpoly.edu

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Currently Supporting:

Environmental Earth and Soil Sciences

Environmental Management & Protection

Forestry and Fire Sciences

Dr. Samantha Gill

Phone: (805) 756-6205
Office: 180-507
Email: sgill@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Forest Biometrics · Forest Mensuration · Geographic Information Systems

Ms. Rebecca Graham - Lecturer

Phone: (805) 756-2898
Office: 10-254
Email: rfgraham@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Soil Science – Lab Safety – Sustainable Agriculture

Dr. Ashley Grupenhoff

Phone: (805) 756-0747
Office: 181-314
Email: agrupenh@calpoly.edu

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Areas of Focus

Fire Ecology · Prescribed Fire · Fuel treatment impacts and effectiveness · Understory plant response to fire

Dr. Lilli Kaarakka

Phone: (805) 756-6378
Office: 181-254
Email: lkaarakk@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Forest Carbon Management · Forest Soils · Silviculture

Dr. Bwalya Malama

(Soil Science Graduate Coordinator)

Phone: (805) 756-2971
Office: 180-516
Email: bmalama@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Soil Biophysics · Groundwater Hydrogeology · Hydrogeophysics · Contaminant Transport

Cortney Newby

Administrative Support Coordinator

Phone: (805) 756-6392
Office: 180-209
Email: cfnewby@calpoly.edu

Jamie O'Kane

Instructional Support Technician

Phone: (805) 756-1541
Cell Phone: (805) 440-3383
Office: 11-301
Email: jlokane@calpoly.edu

Dr. Yamina Pressler

Phone: (805) 756-6338
Office: 181-313
Email: ypressle@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Soil Ecology · Soil Food Webs · Pedology · Coastal Grasslands · Ecological Restoration

Dr. Gordon Rees

(Coordinator for EESS Major)

Phone: (805) 756-6346
Office: 180-517
Email: grees@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Pedology · Soil Mineralogy · Forest and Range Soils

Dr. Seeta Sistla

(Graduate Programs Coordinator)

Phone: (805) 756-6306
Office: 180-514
Email: ssistla@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Soil and Ecosystem Ecology · Terrestrial Carbon and Nutrient Cycling · Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Soils · Global Environmental Change

Craig Stubler

Instructional Support Technician

Phone: (805) 756-2188
Office: 180-252A
Email: cstubler@calpoly.edu

Dr. Chris Surfleet

Professor Emeritus
Email: csurflee@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Hydrologic Change due to Land Management · Water Quality · Watershed Assessment and Monitoring · Hydrologic modeling · Hydrologic Effects due to Climate Change

Dr. Anastasia Telesetsky

Phone: (805) 756-6334
Office: 181-311
Email: ateleset@calpoly.edu

Office Hours Listings

Areas of Focus

Environmental Law · International Environmental Law · Ocean Governance · Fisheries Law · Ecological Restoration · Climate Change Law · International Disaster Law