Concurrent 4C:Watch What They Do: How a Researcher, Librarian, and Student…

Charles (Chuck) Eckman has served as Director of Collections at UC Berkeley since June 2006. Prior to that he worked for eleven years in various capacities including head of social science libraries at Stanford University. He served at Berkeley from 1987 to 1995 as a librarian in Environmental Design and Government Documents libraries.

Nathan is in the first year of a 3-year Masters of Architecture Program at UC Berkeley. His professional experience includes environmental planning and middle school education. He received a BA degree in Economics from Yale University in 1999.

Professor Benton is Consultant to the PG&E Pacific Energy Center and was Principal Investigator of Vital Signs: a Curriculum Materials Development Project. He has lectured and published extensively on topics of curriculum development, field evaluation methods, thermal comfort, and daylighting. Professor Benton has received two Progressive Architecture Research Awards and an AIA Education Honors Honorable Mention. He teaches courses in the areas of energy and environmental management, daylighting analysis using physical models, technology transfer, and field evaluation of building performance. Current research interests include field investigation of thermal comfort, visualization of sunlight and shadow patterns, and post-occupancy measurement of physical building performance.

Prior to joining the Environmental Design Library in 1984, Elizabeth Byrne served as Head of the Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Library at the University of Cincinnati; as Assistant Head of the Fine Arts Department at the Detroit Public Library; and as Head of the Art Library at the University of Louisville. She received the Mellon Library Fellowship for Teaching and Learning from UC Berkeley in 2004-05, the Holway R. Jones Distinguished Service Award from the Council of Planning Librarians in 1997, and a UC Berkeley Distinguished Librarian award in 1991.