# People

**Source**: https://espp.fas.harvard.edu/people/board-of-tutors
**Parent**: https://espp.fas.harvard.edu/pages/academics

## What is the Board of Tutors?

The concentration is overseen by a Standing Committee, which functions as a Board of Tutors, and includes faculty from other departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and from several Schools as appropriate to ensure the requisite breadth of the program.

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[### Stephen Ansolabehere](/people/stephen-ansolabehere)
[sda@gov.harvard.edu](mailto:sda@gov.harvard.edu)

Chair/Head Tutor Spring 2026

Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government

Stephen Ansolabehere is the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is an expert in public opinion and elections, and has published extensively on elections, mass media, and representation, political economy, and public opinion...

[### Jeannine Cavendar-Bares](/people/jeannine-cavendar-bares)
[jcavender@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:jcavender@fas.harvard.edu)

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

I am interested in the physiological and evolutionary dimensions of plant ecology that influence community assembly and ecosystem function. A current focus is a collaborative effort to determine protocols and best practices for NextGen spectral...

[andrew\_davies@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:andrew_davies@fas.harvard.edu)

On Leave Spring 2026

Associate Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Research Interests: Our research examines how animals interact with the environment and each other to affect ecosystem processes at landscape scales. We draw on the fields of community and ecosystem ecology, animal behavior, and remote sensing to explore...

[### Christopher Golden](/people/christopher-golden)

Bruce A. Beal, Robert L. Beal and Alexander S. Beal Associate Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health

Research Interests: Two primary portfolios of research: 1) creating systems of climate-smart public health through data science approaches to climate and environmental monitoring and disease surveillance; and 2) evaluating the connections among climate...

[### N. Michele Holbrook](/people/noel-michele-holbrook)
[holbrook@oeb.harvard.edu](mailto:holbrook@oeb.harvard.edu)

On leave 2025-26

Bullard Professor of Forestry

Professor of Biology

Research Interests: The physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants with the goal of understanding how constraints on the movement of water and solutes between soil and leaves influences ecological and evolutionary processes. Dr. Holbrook is...

[phuybers@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:phuybers@fas.harvard.edu)

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Developing a better understanding of the climate system and its implications for society. On-going research involves interactions between volcanism and glaciation, trends and predictability of extreme temperatures, and implication of...

[sjasan@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:sjasan@fas.harvard.edu)

Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies

Harvard Kennedy School

Research Interests: The role of science and technology in the law, politics, and policy of modern democracies, with particular attention to environmental and biotechnology regulation in Europe and the U.S.

[mlinz@seas.harvard.edu](mailto:mlinz@seas.harvard.edu)

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering

Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Marianna Linz explores a broad range of topics within climate dynamics, including the distribution of trace gases in the stratosphere, temperature extremes in the troposphere, and heat transport in the ocean. In order to understand what to expect with...

[kmccoll@seas.harvard.edu](mailto:kmccoll@seas.harvard.edu)

Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering

[### Michael McElroy (In Memorium)](/people/michael-b-mcelroy-0)

Mike was a founding member of the concentration and served on the Faculty Board from its establishment in 1993 until his passing in January 2026.

Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies

John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Mike was a founding member of the concentration and served on the Faculty Board from its establishment in 1993 until his passing in January 2026. Research Interests: Changes in the composition of the atmosphere, with an emphasis on the impact of human...

[paul\_moorcroft@harvard.edu](mailto:paul_moorcroft@harvard.edu)

Chair/Head Tutor Fall 2025

Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

Research Interests: Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; ecology of animal movement.

[### Forest Reinhardt](/people/forest-reinhardt)
[freinhardt@hbs.edu](mailto:freinhardt@hbs.edu)

John D. Black Professor of Business Administration

Harvard Business School

Research Interests: Behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources; economics of externalities and public goods; environmental management; energy strategy.