Tim Krantz Ph.D.

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. 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 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.

Professional Experience

• 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.

• 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