Dr. George Mathias Kondolf

Prof. G. Mathias (Matt) Kondolf is a fluvial geomorphologist and Professor of Environmental Planning at the University of California Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.  He teaches courses in environmental planning, environmental science, and river restoration.  His research concerns human-river interactions, including managing flood-prone lands, urban rivers, sediment in rivers and reservoirs, and river restoration.  He has worked on process-based restoration projects in diverse environments, seeking to return rivers to more natural processes as the most sustainable path to ecosystem restoration.  He served as Clarke Scholar at the USACE Institute for Water Resources, two terms on the Environmental Advisory Board to the Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers, and is currently a member of the International Scientific Board for the Ecole Universitaire de Recherche des Sciences de l'Eau et des Hydrosystèmes (H2O'Lyon). He received his PhD in Geography and Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, a master's in Earth Sciences from UC Santa Cruz, and an AB in Geology from Princeton University.