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DIANE PATAKI

Adjunct Professor

School of Biological Sciences

  • Adjunct Professor
    School of Biological Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My lab studies human-environment interactions related to urban vegetation, resource use, and landscape design. In our research projects in semi-arid, irrigated cities we collaborate with social scientists, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers, philosophers, and local stakeholders to understand the interacting roles of climate, biodiversity, and human agency in urban ecological processes.

GRANTS

  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Can green infrastructure maximize ecosystem processes related to nitrogen?
    National Science Foundation5 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2022
    National Science Foundation
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    CNH2-L: Toward a theory of trees as living infrastructure
    University of California Riverside9 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
    University of California Riverside
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    The Nature of Cities Summit
    NSF DEB4 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
    NSF DEB
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    COVID-19 HYDROLOGIC CONSEQUENC
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2022
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    HYDROLOGIC CONSEQUENCES
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2022
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MSB-FRA: ALTERNATIVE ECOLOGICAL FUTURES FOR THE AMERICAN RESIDENTIAL MACROSYSTEM
    1 Jan 2017 - 30 Sep 2023
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Collaborative Research: MSB-FRA: Alternative ecological futures for the American Residential Macrosystem
    NSF Macrosystems1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2020
    NSF Macrosystems
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    NSF INCLUDES: Alliance to Strengthen the STEM Tapestry (ASSisT): Motivating Critical Identity Shifts to Weave the STEM Disenfranchised into Science and the Sustainability Workforce
    National Science Foundation1 Jan 2017 - 1 Jan 2019
    National Science Foundation
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    TURF REPLACEMENT PROGRAM
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS A1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2017
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS A
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    Predicting CO2 emissions associated with urban development in the western U.S.
    NOAA1 Jan 2014 - 31 Jul 2019
    NOAA
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    MRI: Acquisition of an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Tracing Human-Environment Interactions
    National Science Foundation1 Sep 2013 - 31 Aug 2017
    National Science Foundation
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Mobile greenhouse gas flux analyzer for unmanned aerial vehicles
    NASA SBIR primary awardee Los Gatos Research Inc.1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
    NASA SBIR primary awardee Los Gatos Research Inc.
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    Collaborative research: Ecological homogenization of urban America
    National Science Foundation1 Aug 2012 - 7 Jan 2015
    National Science Foundation
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    iUtah-innovative Urban Transitions and Aridregion Hydro-sustainability
    National Science Foundation7 Jan 2012 - 31 Jul 2018
    National Science Foundation
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    WSC-Category 3: Collaborative: The role of local water resources in the water sustainability of Los Angeles
    National Science Foundation7 Jan 2012 - 31 Aug 2017
    National Science Foundation
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    Collaborative research: Mechanisms for the decline of leaf hydraulic conductance with dehydration and plant- and environment-level impacts dehydration and plant- and environment-level impacts
    National Science Foundation2 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2016
    National Science Foundation
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Dynamics of urban ecosystem services and their relationship to ecohydrology: Exploratory study for a Los Angeles Urban Long-term Research Site (LA-ULTRA)
    National Science Foundation4 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2012
    National Science Foundation
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    Reductions in urban outdoor water use as an adaptation to rising temperatures and declining water supplies in southern California
    California Energy Commission PIER4 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2012
    California Energy Commission PIER
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    Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS-1)
    U.S. Dept. of Energy12 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2012
    U.S. Dept. of Energy
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    Collaborative Research: Toward a biogeography of urban forests
    National Science Foundation9 Jan 2009 - 31 Jul 2013
    National Science Foundation
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    Creating sustainability indicators to assess the physical social and economic values of greening cities
    EPA5 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2010
    EPA
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    Distinguishing between greenhouse gas emissions from cropland animal operations and urban land cover with isotopic tracers
    USDA1 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2010
    USDA
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    Collaborative Research: A study in the dynamics of human behavior in institutional innovation and learning
    National Science Foundation9 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2010
    National Science Foundation
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    The spatial distribution of isotopic tracers in urban organic matter: understanding multiple and confounding effects of human activities on urban vegetation
    National Science Foundation8 Jan 2006 - 31 Jan 2010
    National Science Foundation
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Controls on C and N cycling in a Southern California urban turfgrass ecosystem Kearney Foundation of Soil Science
    Kearney Foundation of Soil Science1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2006
    Kearney Foundation of Soil Science