People

Lawrence Susskind has served in a variety of roles in the DUSP over the past 35 years, including as Head of the Department. He is currently Director of the Environmental Policy and Planning Group. He is Founder of the Consensus Building Institute (a Cambridge-based, not-for-profit) that provides environmental mediation services around the world. more:::

Herman Karl is a scientist in the U..S. Geological Survey (USGS) and co-director of the MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative. He studies the role of science and scientists within a collaborative process model that applies a joint fact finding and adaptive management approach to environmental policy and natural resource management decisions. more:::

Alan Berger is Founding Director of the Project for Reclamation Excellence (P-REX), a global think tank and multidisciplinary studio lab dedicated to solving the world's most challenging landscape reclamation and sustainability issues through creative design, strategic planning, and ecological thinking. He is a design consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund and Bilateral Brownscape Initiatives, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. more:::

Dr. Flaxman's primary research interest is in the use of spatial simulation modeling in the planning and design of cities and regions. He is particularly interested in the development of tools for stakeholder-based planning which present evaluative models in context using visual simulation. more:::

Harvey Michaels is Energy Efficiency Lecturer in DUSP as well as a Research Scientist within the MIT Energy Initiative. more:::

Anne Spirn has worked in inner-city neighborhoods on the design of community space and landscape. She is a member of the CDD faculty and director of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project — integrating teaching, research, and community service — cited as a "Model of Best Practice" at a White House summit in March 1999. more:::

James Wescoat is an historian of Mughal garden designs in Islamic South Asia, an environmental researcher focusing on water management and policy and a preservationist who worked with Professor Rahul Mehrotra on the restoration of the Taj Mahal. more:::

David Mattson is a Research Wildlife Biologist with the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center and a Lecturer and Visiting Senior Scientist at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. David received degrees in Forest Resource Management and Forest Ecology and a doctorate in Wildlife Resource Management from the University of Idaho. more:::

Stephen Faulkner is a Research Ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA and an Adjunct Professor in the School of the Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University.more:::

Keith Robinson is currently the Director of the USGS New Hampshire-Vermont Water Science Center. Previously he managed the hydrologic studies section of the Water Science Center and was the Study Chief of the New England Coastal Basins Study of the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program. more:::

Dr. Juan Carlos Vargas Moreno is a MIT Postdoctoral Fellow leading and managing researcher on MUSIC's Everglades Climate Change project. He is also a Lecturer at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. more:::

Linda Ciesielski Prior to MIT, she worked in landscape architecture and planning offices in Amsterdam, New York City, Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California. She brings an interest in local knowledge and civic engagement from working at StoryCorps; which is a non-profit oral history project. more:::

Tyler Corson-Rikert has taught English in China, worked as a native language tutor in Colorado public schools, and conducted conservation easement monitoring for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado. more:::

Kim Foltz has worked on an international tobacco control treaty, co-coordinated a bi-national network of worker rights organizations, and helped found a center to support progressive organizing. more:::

Sarah Hammitt spent this past summer completing New York City's greenhouse gas inventory for Mayor Bloomberg's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. more:::

Chris Horne worked in law and architecture before coming to MIT. more:::

Beaudry Kock has professional experience in exploration geology, mine water remediation, and more recently in water resources management and policy. He is currently working towards a doctorate at MIT's department of Urban Studies and Planning. more:::

Deborah Lightman has worked in the field of Canadian water policy, studying both community-led and government-led source water protection activities. more:::

Stephen Lloyd spent the last three years at Ecotrust, a non-profit based in Portland, OR, where he worked as a GIS Specialist in support of projects that enable economic, social, and environmental prosperity. more:::

Mattijs Van Maasakkershas worked with the University of Amsterdam and the city of Amsterdam to set up the Amsterdam Center for Conflict Studies. He interned at the Consensus Building Institute and the Office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. more:::

Amanda Martin has worked with the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Carson City, Nevada. more:::

Evan Paul has worked at America Speaks from 2005-2008 managing large-scale participatory projects on issues ranging from the New Orleans recovery planning to collaborative action on climate change. more:::

Todd Schenk has worked with both civil servants and non-governmental organizations across Central and Eastern Europe on governance for sustainability and capacity building projects. more:::

Olivier Barreteau is senior water scientist at Cemagref, the French research institute on environmental and agricultural engineering, within joint research unit G-EAU in Montpellier, dedicated to water management and water uses. more:::