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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Mahasin Mujahid

Mahasin Mujahid

School of Public Health

Multi-level determinants of racial/ethnic health disparities, neighborhood environments and cardiovascular health, breast cancer treatment and survivorship Methods in social epidemiology, population health

Severin Borenstein

Haas School of Business

energy markets, electricity deregulation, industrial organization, environmental economics, applied microeconomics, airline competition, market pricing & competition

Matthew Shutzer in outdoor setting

Matthew Shutzer

Dept of History

environmental history, modern South Asia, energy history, Science and Technology studies, histories of development and decolonization, empire, political economy, comparative history, historical sociology, social theory

Dept of History

colonialism, nationalism, women and gender, childhood and youth, activism and environmental conservation, agricultural labor history

John Coates in lab with equipment in background

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

Precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry

Goldman School of Public Policy

climate change regulation, public policy, economic organization, environmental markets, school finance, utility regulation, criminal justice

Britt Koskella in the greenhouse

Dept of Integrative Biology

Bacteriophage, Microbiome, plant-pathogen interactions, disease ecology, agricultural sustainability, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, plant microbiome, evolutionary ecology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biogeochemistry, iron reduction, metals and contaminants, soil aggregates, selenium kinetics of organic matter degradation, nitrate reduction, soil and environmental biogeophysics, biogeochemical cycles, fate and transport of nutrients, sulfate reduction, wetland soils, littoral sediments, spatial variation in biogeochemical processes

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, nuclear engineering, energy, resources, risk analysis as applied to global warming, methodological studies of forecasting, hazard assessment, renewable energy technologies, environmental resource management

Jake Kosek

Dept of Geography

cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

agricultural and environmental and resource economics, public and regulatory policy, political economy, bargaining theory, futures markets, law and economics, industrial organization and antitrust analysis

Bethanie Edwards

Bethanie Edwards

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

oceanography, chemical oceanography, environmental microbiology, molecular tools for microbial ecology, mass spectrometry, lipidomics, lipid metabolism, marine biogeochemistry, microbial carbon cycling, ocean carbon cycle dynamics

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, genome mapping, eukaryotic genomes, whole-genome analysis

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

Photo by Diamela Cutiño

Courtney Desiree Morris

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships

Kristie Boering in her UC Berkeley laboratory with graduate student Katie Mar

Kristie Boering

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

physical chemistry, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, ozone, earth and planetary science, isotopic compositions of atmospheric trace gases, stratospheric ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, molecular hydrogen, methane

Nathaniel Wolfson

Nathaniel Wolfson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies

Yoram Rubin

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

risk assessment, hydrogeology, contaminant transport, geostatistics

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Karen Trapenberg Frick

Dept of City & Regional Planning

political polarization, politics of infrastructure, transportation policy and planning

Richard L Hindle

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

patents, landscape architecture, ecology, technology, innovation, fabrication, horticulture

Todd Dawson

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Integrative Biology

physiological plant ecology, evolutionary plant ecology, ecosystem processes, adaptations of plants, carbon, water, nitrogen

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water

Jill Banfield working at the East River watershed field site in Colorado

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

genomics, geomicrobiology, biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, minerology