Center for Fire Research and Outreach > People > Staff

Staff

Sergio Alcantara, Budget and Administration

Sergio can be reached at UC Berkeley, Center for Fire Research and Outreach, 137 Mulford Hall #3114, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114. Phone: (510) 642-4239. Email: salcanta (at) nature (dot) berkeley (dot) edu

Faith Kearns, Associate Director

Faith Kearns is the Associate Director of the Center for Fire Research and Outreach. She is responsible for day to day management of the center, while also leading communications and outreach efforts, participating in research, and fundraising. She received her doctorate from the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley, where her research focused on landscape ecology and community-based natural resource monitoring using web-based Geographic Information Systems. She spent a year as a AAAS diplomacy fellow at the US Department of State before returning to Berkeley.


Faith can be reached at UC Berkeley, Center for Fire Research and Outreach, 137 Mulford Hall #3114, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114. Phone: (510) 643-0409. Email: fkearns (at) nature (dot) berkeley (dot) edu

Meg Krawchuk, Post-doctoral Researcher

Meg Krawchuk is a post-doctoral researcher working with the Center for Fire Research and Outreach in association with the Nature Conservancy’s Global Fire Assessment on a project to describe the “abiogeography” of fire at national and global scales. Meg did her Ph.D. research at the University of Alberta (Canada) with a dissertation focused on the biophysical regulation of lightning fire in mixedwood boreal forests of Canada in the context of forest management and climate change. Meg is a research generalist and her interests cover a wide range of topics including: functional elements responsible for broad-scale ecological patterns, disturbance ecology, impacts of landscape change on component species, statistical analysis of hierarchical data, scale variance and invariance in ecology. Most of these interests stem from previous research on a variety of taxa and systems in Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, West Virginia, and Belize. Click here to view Meg's CV.


Meg can be reached at UC Berkeley, Center for Fire Research and Outreach, 137 Mulford Hall #3114, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114. Phone: (510) 643-1377. Email: megk (at) nature (dot) berkeley (dot) edu

Tadashi Moody, Staff Research Associate

Tadashi can be reached at UC Berkeley, Center for Fire Research and Outreach, 137 Mulford Hall #3114, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, phone: (510) 643-1377. Email: tmoody (at) nature (dot) berkeley (dot) edu




Former staff:

  • Casey Cleve, Staff Research Associate
  • Deanna Duffy, Lab Assistant
  • Patty Frontiera, Post-doctoral Researcher
  • Noah Goldtein, Post-doctoral Research Affiliate (LLNL)
  • Brent Pedersen, Programmer Analyst
  • Joe Sapp, Lab Assistant
  • Stephanie Waite, Lab Assistant
  • Eric Waller, Staff Research Associate