Anna Schiller
Program Manager, Climate Resilient Water Systems
Work
Anna supports EDF’s Central Valley Resilience Initiative through stakeholder engagement, spatial analysis and project management. Her current work is focused on sustainable groundwater management and multibenefit land conversion.
Background
Anna holds a master’s degree from UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and a B.S. from UC Davis, where she studied wildlife, fish and conservation biology.
Anna began working with EDF as a graduate student at the Bren School. With a team of graduate students, Anna worked with EDF to build a spatial prioritization tool to recommend land conversion approaches that achieve groundwater sustainability targets and support ecologically important habitat at the lowest cost.
While at the Bren School, Anna also researched the use of voluntary conservation agreements in the energy sector and accessibility of groundwater management information and data. Anna previously worked at an economic and financial consulting firm that specializes in natural resource use, preservation and protection.
Latest pieces
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As drought intensifies, this California water manager is testing new tools to help farmers, communities and wildlife
August 19, 2021
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Report provides guidance on repurposing California farmland to benefit water, landowners, communities and wildlife
March 25, 2021
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After decades of inequity, this woman is bringing long-overlooked voices to California’s land and water decisions
January 7, 2021
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Location, location, location: New tool shows where groundwater recharge will maximize benefits
July 10, 2020
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How water managers can build recharge basins to boost resilience for farmers and birds alike
March 13, 2020