Director
Ruth Langridge, PhD
Director of Water Management for Sustainability under Climate Change, Researcher, UCSC, Department of Politics, Affiliate, UCSC Center for Agroecology
Ruth Langridge’s work focuses on California water law and policy including land useand water under climate change, and groundwater governance. She is the Coordinating Lead Author for California’s Fifth Climate Assessment and is the PI on a project examining scientific and management elements of California’s adjudicated groundwater basins with respect to sustainability and equity goals. She just completed a Strategic Growth Council Project examining relationships between
water and land use on California’s Central Coast.
Team
Current Collaborators:
University of California, Santa Cruz
- Anaya Hall
Stanford University
- Esther Conrad
- Hailey E. Rochin
- Johanna L. Flodin
- Zulfiyya Kishiyeva
SF Bird Observatory
- Nathan Van Schmidt
University of California, Berkeley
- Christopher Ansell
San Jose State University
- Julia Gaudinsky
CSUMB
- Seth Gustafson
Regeneracion Pajaro Valley
- Eloy Ortiz
Eco-Act
- Kirsten Liske
Former Investigators, Collaborators and Advisors
University of California, Berkeley
- Karen Chapple, Timothy Thomas, Julia Greenberg
USGS
- Tamara Wilson, Paul Selmants, Ben Sleeter
University of Californai, Davis
- James Thorne, Ryan Boynton
USGS
- Lori Flint, Michelle Stern
University of California, Santa Cruz
- Andrew Fisher, Ben Crow, Mark Snyder
University of California, Merced
- Nigel Quinn
Former Postdoctoral Scholars, Graduate and Undergraduate Students:
- Nathan Van Schmidt
- Hillary Henry
- Amanda Fencl
- Linda Esteli Mendez Barrientos
- Stephen Sepaniak
- Kristen Rudestam
- Abigail Brown
- Bruce Daniels
- Esther Conrad
- Andrew Racz
- Peter Towin
- Blake Hihara
- Kimberly Schneider