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G. Mathias Kondolf
Associate Professor of
Environmental Planning and Geography
Chair, Portuguese Studies Program
Department of Landscape Architecture
and Environmental Planning
202 Wurster Hall
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720-2000
kondolf (at) berkeley.edu
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Biography
PROFESSIONAL FOCUS
Dr. G. Mathias Kondolf is a fluvial geomorphologist specializing
in environmental river management, impacts of human development on runoff
and sediment yield, and restoration of rivers and streams. He recently
edited a reference work on methods in his field, Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology
(Wiley 2003), and has conducted research throughout California and other
Mediterranean-climate regions. Dr. Kondolf is Professor of Environmental
Planning at UC Berkeley, where he teaches courses in hydrology, river restoration,
and environmental sciences. He was a principal investigator in the
National River Restoration Science Synthesis project, a national-level
study of river restoration, a member of the Federal Interagency Levee Policy
Committee, a member of the National Research Council Committee on Hydrology,
Ecology, and Fishes of the Klamath River Basin, and the Environmental Advisory
Board to the Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Dr. Kondolf was a
co-author of the CALFED Ecosystem Restoration Program Strategic Plan and
served on the program’s science board until 2005. He developed the
restoration flow regime for the San Joaquin River below Friant Dam adapted
in recent settlement negotiations to restore salmon in the San Joaquin.
Dr. Kondolf co-authored the UC report ReEnvisioning the Delta, and as chair
of the board of the UC Berkeley Delta Initiative, organized a 2006 symposium
on urbanization of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, its potential impacts,
and alternative futures. He serves on the editorial boards of the
international journals Environmental Management, Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology,
and Journal of River Basin Management, and he has presented over 200 talks
to international scientific meetings, universities, industry conferences,
and travel seminars on all seven continents. He has presented expert
testimony to committees of the US House of Representatives and the California
State Senate and Assembly, and in legal proceedings.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Environmental Planning & Geography (joined faculty
1988, tenured 1994)
Affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group, 1994 to present
Courses: Hydrology for Planners, Restoration of Rivers and Streams,
Ecological Analysis in Urban Landscape Design, Introduction to Environmental
Sciences, and Mediterranean-Climate Landscapes
White Mountain Research Station Research Scientist,
1989-1993 (33% appt)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science
Division Graduate Research Participant, 1985-1987
US Geological Survey Hydrologic Field Assistant, 1985
RECENT AWARDS
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Award of Distinction,
2007.
Fulbright Fellowship to France 1997-1998, research on Mediterranean
climate rivers Fulbright Fellowship to Portugal, 2001, teaching/research
on Mediterranean climate rivers