UM BRIDGES External Advisory Committee

EAC Members

Jan Boll

Professor
Affiliation: Washington State University

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Bio:

Dr. Boll’s research interests include water resources, watershed hydrology, water quality, hydrologic modeling, integrated water resources management, and vadose zone hydrology. He is currently co-PI on the NSF-INFEWS grant titled: Global-FEWS: Global Food, Energy, Water, and Land Security in a Climate Constrained World. At his previous institution, he received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Trainee) program in 2013 to study the effects of climate change and population dynamics on water resources.

Before coming to Washington State University, Dr. Boll was the director of Environmental Science and Water Resources programs at the University of Idaho, where he was a tenure-track professor for 19 years. He teaches advanced hydrology, engineering hydrology and environmental water quality at WSU.

Eric Hallstein

Scientist
Affiliation: The Nature Conservancy

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Bio: 

Dr. Eric Hallstein, Chief Economist and Director of Conservation Investments, leads The Nature Conservancy of California's work in environmental economics and conservation finance. He focuses on understanding how to harness investments, financial tools and economic levers to create solutions that are both good for people and good for the environment. Eric received his doctorate from the University of California Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group, where he was a National Science Foundation fellow. 

Kristal Jones

Assistant Research Scientist 
Affiliation: National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland

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Bio: 

Dr. Jones is a research scientist at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland, where she leads a variety of projects related to the methods and communication of synthesis research, and conducts social science research focused on food systems and natural resource management. Current projects include the development of a process and interface for data discovery in the food-energy-water nexus, creating guidelines and approaches for sharing and reusing qualitative data in mixed methods research, and coordinating a portfolio of food systems research projects funded by SESYNC.  Her own research has focused on the political economy of international agricultural research and development, agricultural household decision-making in Francophone West Africa, and the socio-environmental dynamics of the global food system using an equity and rights-based framework. Dr. Jones received her Ph.D. in Rural Sociology and International Agriculture and Development from the Pennsylvania State University, and has previously worked for the CGIAR Consortium and USAID on applied agricultural research projects.

Carina Wyborn

Research Advisor
Affiliation: Luc Hoffmann Institute

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Bio:

Carina is the Research Advisor at the Luc Hoffmann Institute. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist with background in science and technology studies, and a focus on climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation. Carina is particularly interested in the connections between science, policy and practice, and the capacities that enable effective and ethical governance for conservation. In practice, this has meant working with conservation agencies and NGOs in Australia, the US and Colombia on climate adaptation, collaborative governance and connectivity conservation. She is an active member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and on the weekends can be found playing in the mountains or cooking up a storm.