Climate change

David Anthoff

David Anthoff

Assistant professor in the Energy and Resources Group

Areas of expertise: climate change, environmental economics, environmental policy, economics of climate change.

Maximilian Auffhammer

Maximilian Auffhammer

Professor of agricultural and resource economics

Economics of energy, climate change impacts on energy consumption.

William Boos

William Boos

Associate professor of earth and planetary science

Expertise: Hurricanes, climate change, atmospheric science, monsoons.

Paul Fine

Paul Fine

Professor of integrative biology

    Areas of expertise: Rainforest conservation, ecology, trees.
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    Spanish-speaking

    Inez Fung

    Inez Fung

    Professor of earth and planetary science

    Expertise: Climate change, atmospheric science, biogeochemical cycles.

    Patrick Gonzalez

    Patrick Gonzalez

    Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

    Climate change, forest ecology, wildfire, national parks, ecosystem carbon, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    John Harte

    John Harte

    Professor in the Energy and Resources Group and of environmental science, policy and management

    Areas of expertise: ecology, climate change, effects of human actions on biogeochemical processes, ecosystem structure and function, biodiversity and climate, climate-ecosystem linkages.

    Daniel M. Kammen

    Daniel M. Kammen

    Professor of energy and society in the Energy and Resources Group

    Areas of expertise: developing and employing renewable, appropriate sources of energy to reduce energy cost and boost efficiency; cultural context and social impacts of new technologies and resources management system.

    Maggi  Kelly

    Maggi Kelly

    Cooperative Extension specialist and professor in residence in environmental science, policy and management

    Expertise: geographic information system, remote sensing and landscape change.

    Lara Kueppers

    Lara Kueppers

    Assistant professor in the Energy and Resource Group and Berkeley Lab faculty scientist

    Areas of expertise: ecological responses and feedbacks to climate change and climate-ecosystem interactions in forests and agroecosystems.

    Meg Mills-Novoa

    Meg Mills-Novoa

    Assistant professor of environmental science, policy and management

    Areas of expertise: Climate change adaption, climate change policy
    Spanish-speaking

    Rachel Morello-Frosch

    Rachel Morello-Frosch

    Professor of public health

    Areas of expertise: Environmental health, climate change, wildfires, environmental chemicals, environmental justice
    Spanish-speaking

    Richard  Muller

    Richard Muller

    Professor emeritus of physics

    Area of expertise: general and popular physics; nuclear waste disposal; concept of time; Earth cycles; climate change

    Richard B. Norgaard

    Richard B. Norgaard

    Emeritus professor in the Energy and Resources Group

    Areas of expertise: economics of renewable energy, economics of climate change and the economic, institutional and historical contexts of energy.

    Albert Ruhi

    Albert Ruhi

    Assistant professor of environmental science, policy and management

    Areas of expertise: Drought in California, impacts of climate change and invasive species on aquatic ecosystems
    Spanish-speaking

    Margaret Torn

    Margaret Torn

    Co-head of the Climate and Carbon Sciences Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and adjunct associate professor in Energy and Resources Group

    Areas of expertise: natural carbon cycle, anthropogenic influence on the carbon cycle through land use and climate change, impacts of ecosystems and the services they provide to society.

    Water and drought

    Ellen Bruno

    Ellen Bruno

    Cooperative Extension Specialist in quantitative policy analysis

    Water policy, agricultural policy, environmental policy

    Oil spills

    Robert G.  Bea

    Robert G. Bea

    Professor of civil engineering, emeritus

    Area of expertise: Risk assessment and management, reliability, human and organizational factors, quality assurance and quality control, design, construction, maintenance, operations, decommissioning, ocean engineered systems.

    Policy and regulation

    David Anthoff

    David Anthoff

    Assistant professor in the Energy and Resources Group

    Areas of expertise: climate change, environmental economics, environmental policy, economics of climate change.

    J. Keith Gilless

    J. Keith Gilless

    Professor of forest economics

    Expertise: forest economics and management, wildland fire protection planning.

    Maggi  Kelly

    Maggi Kelly

    Cooperative Extension specialist and professor in residence in environmental science, policy and management

    Expertise: geographic information system, remote sensing and landscape change.

    Jonas Meckling

    Jonas Meckling

    Associate Professor of energy and environmental policy

    Expertise: Climate policy, energy policy, political economy

    William Stewart

    William Stewart

    Cooperative Extension specialist in environmental science, policy and management

    Expertise: forest management, resource economics, and watershed management.

    Steven Weissman

    Steven Weissman

    Lecturer emeritus in law and in public policy

    Public utilities, environment and climate change, energy and air quality and solid waste management policies,

    Pollution

    John Balmes, M.D.

    John Balmes, M.D.

    Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

    Air pollution, respiratory and cardiovascular health, exposure to pesticides, exposure to psychosocial stress

    Ronald Cohen

    Ronald Cohen

    professor of chemistry, earth and planetary science

    Expertise: Atmospheric chemistry; air quality monitoring in urban neighborhoods; air quality sensors; formation of atmospheric aerosols.

    William Nazaroff

    William Nazaroff

    Professor of environmental engineering

    Expertise: air quality engineering with an emphasis in pollutant dynamics in indoor air and exposure science.

    Wildlife and Conservation

    Wayne Getz

    Wayne Getz

    Professor of wildlife ecology

    Wildlife management, population modeling epidemiology, zoology, disease ecology, conservation biology.

    Sunaura Taylor

    Sunaura Taylor

    Assistant professor of environmental science, policy and management

    Disability studies, queer and crip theories, ableism, animal studies/ethics, interspecies, interdependence and theories of care, environmental humanities, ecofeminism, environmental justice, capitalism and inequality, work and labor

    Forestry

    J. Keith Gilless

    J. Keith Gilless

    Professor of forest economics

    Expertise: forest economics and management, wildland fire protection planning.

    William Stewart

    William Stewart

    Cooperative Extension specialist in environmental science, policy and management

    Expertise: forest management, resource economics, and watershed management.