Tim Duane in the Dolomites

Tim Duane, '82, MS '83, PhD '89, is professor emeritus of environmental studies at UC-Santa Cruz. He is also an attorney with more than four decades of professional experience in the fields of energy, climate, land use, natural resources, water, and environmental policy, planning and law. Tim now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, and has lectured on water, climate, and energy law and policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the Stanford School of Engineering. He has been a faculty lecturer on Stanford Travel/Study trips to India, Southeast Asia, Iceland, Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, the American West, and Southern Africa and also on another dozen trips for Cal Discoveries. His love of travel was first inspired as a Stanford junior studying in Cliveden during his junior year.

• Senior fellow, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, University of Utah, 2022–2024

• Professor in residence, 2018–2022, and visiting professor, 2013–2018, University of San Diego School of Law

• Professor, environmental studies, UC-Santa Cruz, 2009–2018 

• Associate professor: environmental planning and policy, UC-Berkeley, 1991–2009

• Visiting professor: Seattle University School of Law, 2012; and Vermont Law School, 2008–2012 

• Author, Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West (UC Press, 2000) 

• BA ’82, human biology, MS ’83 and PhD ’89, civil engineering, Stanford University 

• JD ’06, environmental law, UC-Berkeley