Associate Professor, CSU Channel Islands
Dan is an Associate Professor of environmental science and resource management at CSU Channel Islands. Previously, he directed the Educational Initiatives Team at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences (SE3). In that role, he focused on developing new, innovative undergraduate courses for SE3. He also taught in SE3’s Wrigley Program in Hawai’i, for which he received the university’s Gores Award for excellence in teaching. Dan completed his PhD in environment and resources at Stanford in 2015, with a dissertation titled, “The human dimensions of wave resource management in California.” This research explored the value and vulnerability of waves in California by combing social, natural, and citizen science. He received his BS in marine biology at UCLA and his MS in oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He worked on ocean and coastal policy in Washington DC as a Knauss Fellow with Congressman Sam Farr before coming to Stanford. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, where he studied the implications of environmental change and coastal management on coastal resources and access. Dan has spent much of his life in, on, or under the water, beginning with his childhood in San Diego, CA. Perhaps not surprisingly, his favorite color is blue.