Steve Blumenshine a Professor of Biology and the Director of the Research & Education
Division of the California Water Institute at California State University-Fresno.
He leads the R&E Division/WRC efforts in developing and strengthening water research
and scholarship at Fresno State in collaboration with external partners and other
water stakeholders. These efforts focus on the critical agricultural, urban, and
environmental water issues in the Central Valley, with an awareness and application
of the governmental and societal roles in the allocation of overprescribed and stressed
water resources.
Steve progresses to this position from the Biology Department at Fresno State, where
he leads funded research projects in our region on: headwater streams in the Sierra,
foothill rivers, reservoirs, and watersheds, the San Joaquin River, flooded Ag fields
as conservation habitat in the Central Valley, and the SF Bay-Delta. His international
water experience includes two U.S. Fulbright Scholar Awards, and overall includes
collaborations in China, Germany, Israel, Switzerland, and Thailand.
