Overview

Our Carbon
Commitment

Team

Technical Advisory Board

Technical Advisory Board

Dr. Montague W. Demment – Director of the Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), a program funded by USAID and the US university community, and professor of Ecology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California Davis. He has served in this role since June 1994. The Global Livestock CRSP involves scientists from 12 US universities and 60 foreign institutions that address issues of food security, trade, environment, climate change, and policy related to the livestock sector in developing countries. Demment is past president of Association for Agriculture and Rural Development) and chairs National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges International Agriculture Coordinating Committee that advocates for international issues in agriculture. He recently chaired the Globalization Commission for the university and is past director and founder of its Sustainable Agriculture Program. He has worked for NIH in Cameroon, Kenya and Ethiopia on primate ecology, done consultancies on development in West Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. A native of New York, Dement earned his BA from Harvard in Architectural Sciences, his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Zoology. He received an NIH postdoctoral fellowship to study animal nutrition at Cornell before arriving at UC Davis in 1982.

Dr. Emilio A. Laca – Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California Davis. He received his Ph. D. in Ecology in 1992 from the University of California Davis and holds a M.S. in Range and Wildlands Science and B. Sc. Agricultural Engineering. He has research and teaching experience in multivariate systems and modeling, physiological basis for grazing management and ecology and conservation of natural resources. His recent work has covered statistical protocols for measuring carbon flux, carbon sequestration in the rangelands of Central Asia and, quantification of CO2 exchanges using tower measures, modeling and remote sensing. He serves as chair for three committees in Environmental Sciences and Ecology at the University. He is the Associate Editor Rangeland Ecology and Management and serves to review manuscripts and proposals from multiple international journals and funding agencies. He manages a team of 17 Ph. D. and MS students who are engaged practical applications of carbon measurement research and field science.

Dr. Susan L. Ustin – Professor in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at the University of California Davis. She received a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California Davis in 1983 in the area of plant physiological ecology. She became interested in remote sensing research as a post-doctoral fellow when she had the opportunity to participate in the first stage of development of imaging spectroscopy at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her research since this time has focused on developing and testing methods for retrieving ecological information from remote sensing data at spatial scales from microscopic to global and encompasses both theoretical and applied research. She has served on a wide range of state and federal panels and committees, most recently an NRC review of 50 years of NASA Earth Science Research and NPOESS Science Advisory Board for Northrup-Grumman. She manages the CSTARS laboratory of about 25 people.