Research Bio

Tamma Carleton is an environmental and resource economist, using large geospatial datasets to answer questions at the intersection of environmental change and economic development. She studies climate, water, air pollution, and remote sensing.

Her research combines economics with datasets and methodologies from remote sensing, data science, and climate science to quantify how environmental change and economic development shape one another. Her work focuses on climate change, water scarcity, and the use of remote sensing for global-scale environmental and socioeconomic monitoring. She is an active member of the Climate Impact Lab, the Director of the Climate & Energy Program at the Environmental Markets Lab, a research affiliate at CEGA, a Beijer Young Scholar, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Environmental Health Matters Initiative Standing Committee. 

Read more at www.tammacarleton.com.

Research Expertise and Interest

environmental and resource economics, remote sensing, climate change, water resources, health effects of air pollution