Robert H. Twiss is a Professor Emeritus of Environmental Planning at The University of California, Berkeley, and also maintains a private professional practice as a consultant in the field of Environmental Planning.
Current activities include:
Work has included all levels of planning, with research and consultancies for local, regional, state, and federal agencies. He has also served foreign governments and institutions (China, Mexico, Australia, and the United Nations, with three missions to Montenegro). He was a founder and serves as President of Geostage Inc., which develops and deploys software and services in web-based geographic information systems.
From 1996 to 1999 he was a faculty participant
in the UC Berkeley Digital Library Project.
He served as Faculty Principal Investigator for the Research Program in Environmental Planning and Geographic Information Systems (REGIS), which developed information and tools for open access to geographic information on land use, natural resources, and the environment. REGIS developed the world's first web-based GIS in 1993 and placed it in the public domain.
Public offices and consulting services have
included:
Member,
California Bay-Delta Authority
Independent Science Board (2003- on)
Member,
CALFED Water Management Science
Board (2005)
Co-Chair,
CALFED Ecosystem
Restoration Program Science Board (2000-2005)
Chairman of the California State Mining and
Geology Board (1977-1980) at which time the agency was adopting
regulations for surface mining and land-use zoning.
Chairman of the Governing Board,
California/Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (1980-83), developing and
implementing the Regional Plan and ordinances.
University service involved graduate-level teaching of ecological planning and environmental law, service as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Chair of the Faculty of the College of Environmental Design, and initiation and direction of the Ph.D. program in Environmental Planning.
He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the School of Natural Resources, The University of Michigan (1962), and an AB from San Jose State University (1955). He also served in the US Air Force as a Tactical Fighter Pilot (1956-58).
Revised: October 28, 2007