Ann Willis

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, Staff Researcher

Ann Willis, PhD, is a senior staff researcher at the Center for Watershed Sciences, a Fellow of the UC Davis John Muir Institute for the Environment, and Fellow alumna of the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. She focuses her research on working lands conservation, recognizing that people’s interaction with their environment is integral to large-scale stream conservation. She has worked on stream conservation issues in northern California, including the Shasta and Scott watersheds of the lower Klamath Basin, the Sacramento-San Joaquin basins, and California's Central Coast. In 2016, she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to pursue her doctoral degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis, which she completed in 2020.