Laguna Watershed Knowledgebase

Karen Gaffney is an ecologist and the Land Stewardship Manager at the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District. Karen is interested in integrated regional planning, large-scale restoration of ecosystem functions and processes, and is committed to working with a broad cross section of the community on innovative conservation initiatives. A graduate of U.C Berkeley, she has a Master’s degree in biology from Sonoma State University. Karen is the past president of the Society for Ecological Restoration, California Chapter, is a Switzer Environmental Leadership Fellow, and has served on the board of directors of the Watershed Management Council. She is an instructor at the Santa Rosa Junior College, where she teaches watershed ecology and restoration.

Stuart B. Weiss, Ph.D. (Stanford University 1996) is an internationally recognized environmental scientist who has worked extensively on biophyisical ecology and the effects of climate change on biodiversity. He has studyed microclimate and its effects on organisms for more than 25 years, and has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers. He and colleagues started the Creekside Center for Earth Observation (www.creeksidescience.com) to provide expert scientific advice to conservation problems. Since 2000, he has applied many microclimate techniques developed for conservation biology and ecology to California vineyards, and in 2008 started Precision Viticulture International (www.precisionviticulture.com) to bring the techniques to a wide audience of vineyard managers and winemakers.

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