University of Redlands
Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, Geography- Berkeley, CA
M.A. Stanford University, Latin American Studies- Palo Alto, CA
B.A. University of Redlands, Ethnobotany- Redlands, CA
Dr. Krantz is a recognized authority on flora of the San Bernardino Mountains; as well as the geography of the Salton Sea, where he served as the Salton Sea Database Program Director for eight years, overseeing a $4.7 million federal-assistance grant to develop a regional geographic database for the area. He served on the Salton Sea Science Subcommittee-an inter-agency panel established by then-Secretary of Interior, Bruce Babbitt; is the Senior Editor of the Salton Sea Atlas, and author of several encyclopedia entries on the Salton Sea and related topics. More recently, Dr. Krantz has been speaking and writing about the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", in California. Harkening back to his original botanical roots, Tim was recently appointed as the first Director of the Southern California Montane Botanic Garden at The Wildlands Conservancy's Oak Glen Preserve just 30 minutes from Redlands.
Dr. Krantz currently serves as one of 23 Fulbright Ambassadors in the United States, speaking to other colleges and universities about his Fulbright experience and opportunities for the international exchange of scholars. Dr. Krantz was awarded a Fulbright Lecturer position in 2009-2010 to facilitate environmental technology and policy exchange between the U.S., European Union, California and Austria. Based at the Technische Universität Wien, he was a guest lecturer at TUW and TU Graz, as well as featured speaker before the Austrian National Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and several international renewable energy conferences. After completion of his appointment at TUW, Dr. Krantz served for three years as an American-Austrian Program Peer Reviewer, evaluating other American applicants to the Austrian Fulbright Scholars Program; and more recently was appointed as a Fulbright Ambassador.
Ph.D., Geography, University of California at Berkeley, 1994;
M.A., Latin American Studies, Stanford University, 1991;
B.A., Ethnobotany, University of Redlands, 1977
Dr. Krantz has broad experience in the field of Environmental Science. For the past several years, his research has focused on renewable energy technologies, sustainable buildings and communities where he is working with local agencies and developers to integrate land use planning, architecture and RE technologies.
He has 30+ years of land use planning and environmental impact assessment experience, specializing in endangered species mitigation, environmental remediation, and ecological restoration projects. He has worked on more than 150 environmental assessments, evaluating a wide range of projects, from urban development, to mining applications and oil and chemical remediation.
Dr. Krantz is a recognized authority on the Salton Sea, where he served as the Salton Sea Database Program Director for eight years, overseeing a $4.7 million federal assistance grant to develop a regional geographic database for the area. He served on the Salton Sea Science Subcommittee-an inter-agency panel established by then-Secretary of Interior, Bruce Babbitt; is the Senior Editor of the Salton Sea Atlas, and author of several encyclopedia entries on the Salton Sea and related topics.
Dr. Krantz is the foremost authority on the flora of the San Bernardino Mountains, having published a compilation of more than 15,000 herbarium collection records of the 1,600 plant species known to occur within the range; and has broad expertise with plant taxonomy and ornithology in the Southwestern U.S., Central America, Hawaii, and French Polynesia.
37+ years of environmental assessment and land use planning experience
Served on the San Bernardino County Planning Commission for six years from 1982-1988
Senior Associate Scientist with Levine-Fricke-Recon from 1995-1997, an environmental engineering company based in Emeryville, California, where he was in charge of the Ecological Services Division for the nationwide firm, primarily directing chemical and oil remediation and ecological restoration projects.
Sustainable Buildings and Communities
Physical Geography
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Geography of Southern California
Design Studios (various applied resource management and land use planning projects)
Plant Taxonomy
Ornithology
Krantz, Timothy. 2007. "United to Protect the Environment: University of Redlands and Salzburg kick off a summer program on environmental policy." In Bridges, official publication of the Austrian Office of Science and Technology, Vol. 13, April 2007.
Cloern, James (Lead Author); Timothy Krantz (Contributing Author); J. Emmett Duffy (Topic Editor). 2007. "Eutrophication." In Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [Retrieved July 21, 2008].
Krantz, Timothy, and Jesse Seamon. 2007. "The Calimesa Vision-a Multi-use Recreational and Open Space Plan." Prepared for and presented to the City of Calimesa, May 21, 2007, Riverside County, California.
Krantz, Timothy. 2007. "Heritage Oaks Equestrian Community Specific Plan." Approved by the City of Calimesa, August 13, 2007, Riverside County, California.
Krantz, Timothy (Lead Author); Brian Black (Topic Editor). 2007. "Lake Cahuilla, United States." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth October 17, 2006; Last revised March 25, 2007; Retrieved July 21, 2008].
Krantz, Timothy (Lead Author); Brian Black (Topic Editor). 2006. "Salton Sea, California." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of Earth September 21, 2006; Retrieved July 21, 2008].
Krantz, Timothy. 2005. "Salton Sea International Avian Airport: bird band data and their indications of importance of the Salton Sea for migratory birds." Proceedings of the Salton Sea Centennial Symposium, A Salton Sea for the 21st Century: Science, Rehabilitation, Management, March 30-April 1, 2005, San Diego, California.
Krantz, Timothy. 2003. "Salton Sea." Encyclopedia of Water Science, Bobby Alton Stewart and Terry A. Howell, eds. Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1040pp.
Krantz, Timothy. 2003. "Salton Sea: California's Everglades." A briefing booklet prepared for U.S. Congressional and other elected officials, published by the Salton Sea Authority. 23pp.
Joseph E. Buckles, K. Kashiwase, and T. Krantz. 2002. "Reconstruction of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla shoreline using GIS and GPS." In Hydrobiologia 473:1-3.
Redlands Institute. 2003. "Interactive Salton Sea CD-Atlas." Timothy Krantz, Sr. Ed. and Program Director. Produced and published by the Redlands Institute, University of Redlands.
Krantz, Timothy. 1997. Chapters: "The pebble plains in Big Bear Valley; Carbonate endemics of the San Bernardino Mountains; and Santa Ana River Wash." California's Wild Gardens-a Living Legacy, Phyllis Faber, Ed. Published by the California Native Plant Society for the California Department of Fish and Game. 170-175.
Krantz, Timothy. 1994. "A phytogeography of the San Bernardino Mountains," San Bernardino County, California. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California Berkeley. U.M.I. Dissertation Services. 412pp.
Krantz, Timothy. 1988. "Limestone endemics of Big Bear Valley." Fremontia 16(1):20-21.
Krantz, Timothy. 1987. "Island biogeography and preserve design of an insular rare plant community." Conservation and Management of Rare and Endangered Plants, T.J. Elias, ed. 605-614.
Krantz, Timothy. 1983. "The pebble plains of Baldwin Lake." Fremontia 10(4):9-13.
Krantz, Timothy, Ed. 2002. "Salton Sea Atlas." ESRI Press. 127pp.
Sculley, Bob, et alus. 2002. "The potential for fugitive dust problems at the Salton Sea if water levels are lowered significantly from current conditions." White paper summary of the Salton Sea Science Office Air Quality Workshop, April 3-4, 2002, La Quinta, California.
Montane Ecological Restoration Group (Krantz and three students). 2001. "Bluff Lake Preserve Habitat Management Plan." Prepared for The Wildlands Conservancy, October 23, 2001. 48pp.
Krantz, T., Buckles, J., and Kashiwase, K. "Reconstruction of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla and Early American settlement patterns in Southeast California using GIS." Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, California, 2000.
Krantz, Timothy. 2008. "Austria and California-Working Together for Environmental Protection, Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on Sustainability (TARDIS)," October 27, 2008
Krantz, Timothy. 2008. "Toward a Humane Metropolis-Lessons from Austria." Invited speaker, conference hosted by the Lincoln Institute for Sustainable Development, January 24, 2008, Riverside, California.
Krantz, Timothy. 2007. "United to Protect the Environment: University of Redlands and Salzburg kick off a summer program on environmental policy." In Bridges, official publication of the Austrian Office of Science and Technology, Vol. 13, April 2007.
Krantz, Timothy. 2007. "Mitigating Global Warming." Invited speaker at the California Environmental Quality Act and Climate Change Workshop, March 2, 2007, Irvine, California.
Krantz, Timothy. 2005. Featured in the four-time Emmy Award-winning documentary film, "Voices of the Monument," U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Palm Springs, California.
Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, Vienna, Austria, 2009-2010
Invited U.S. delegate to the Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on Sustainability (TARDIS), held at Schloss Seggau, Austria, October, 2008, and more recently at Estes Park, Colorado, June 2014.
Invited U.S. delegate to the inaugural George C. Marshall Visit to Austria Program, October, 2007
Alumni Achievement Award for Environmental Planning, University of Redlands, 1989
Outstanding Achievement Award, for founding the Big Bear Valley Preserve system, The Nature Conservancy, 1988
Certificate of Honor, for six years of service on the San Bernardino County Planning Commission, San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, 1988
Rare Plant Conservation Award, California Native Plant Society, 1987
