Environment | Expert Topics

David Anthoff

Assistant professor in the Energy and Resources Group

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

John Balmes, M.D.

Director of Joint Medical Program and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

jbalmes@ucsf.edu

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

Ellen Bruno

Cooperative Extension Specialist in quantitative policy analysis

ebruno@berkeley.edu

Water policy, agricultural policy, environmental policy

Inez Fung

Professor of earth and planetary science

ifung@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Climate change, atmospheric science, biogeochemical cycles.

Wayne Getz

Professor of wildlife ecology

wgetz@berkeley.edu

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

J. Keith Gilless

Professor of forest economics

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

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

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.

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

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.

Richard Muller

Professor emeritus of physics

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

William Nazaroff

Professor of environmental engineering

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

John Radke

Professor of city and regional planning and of landscape architecture and environmental planning; director of UC Berkeley's geographic information science center

Areas of expertise: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), pattern recognition; metrics and methods for characterizing spatial structure, association and relationships between objects embedded in the landscape; designing hazard models to predict and assess risk.

William Stewart

Cooperative Extension specialist in environmental science, policy and management

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

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.

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,

Climate change

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

Professor of agricultural and resource economics

Economics of energy, climate change impacts on energy consumption.

William Boos

Associate professor of earth and planetary science

william.boos@berkeley.edu

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

Inez Fung

Professor of earth and planetary science

ifung@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Climate change, atmospheric science, biogeochemical cycles.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Cooperative Extension Specialist in quantitative policy analysis

ebruno@berkeley.edu

Water policy, agricultural policy, environmental policy

Oil spills

Robert G. Bea

Professor of civil engineering, emeritus

bea@ce.berkeley.edu

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.

Climate change

Water and drought

Oil spills

Policy and regulation