Affiliated Researcher

University of New Mexico

Interests:

Watershed, landscape and fire governance, resilience of social-ecological systems, complex systems science

Bio:

Jaishri Srinivasan is an interdisciplinary researcher in the complex social-ecological systems space. She has a Master’s in Renewable Energy from Murdoch University in Australia, a Master’s in Climate Change from the University of Leeds, UK, and a PhD in Sustainability (conc. in Complex Adaptive Systems Science) from Arizona State University. Her research has spanned organizational and ecosystem resilience analyses of the Colorado River recovery programs. She served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Transformation Network, where she undertook research on landscape and collaborative heterogeneity in wildfire management approaches in watersheds of the Intermountain West. Currently she is researching agricultural transition potentials in groundwater dependent regions in the West, particularly in Central Valley, California as part of the USDA funded Secure Water Futures project. She continues to be involved in TN research.