BATFN Board of Directors: Kate Brauman, Stanford University Kate Brauman is a 6th year doctoral candidate in Stanford University's Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER). Her graduate work is focused on hydrologic ecosystem services, evaluating the effects of land cover on water supply and the value of different land-management schemes to water users. With Professors Gretchen Daily and David Freyberg as her primary advisors, she is leading a project on the Big Island of Hawai'i measuring the biophysical and economic effects of forest and pasture on water supply in Kailua-Kona. This case study illustrates the principles of hydrologic ecosystem services laid out in "The Nature and Value of Ecosystems Services: An Overview Highlighting Hydrologic Services" in Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources, 2007, which she co-authored with Prof. Daily. Kate earned her BA in Science and Religion from Columbia University and worked in New York at the Natural Resources Defense Council prior to entering Stanford with a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a David and Lucille Packard Stanford Graduate Fellowship. She expects to graduate in Spring 2010. Back to BATFN Board of Directors { About | Facebook Page | Board | Participants | Supporters | Tropical Forest News }