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Department

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Africa, disease ecology, wildlife conservation, resource management

environmental law, natural resource law, law and science, biodiversity conservation, public and private land management, property rights

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

Louise Fortmann

Louise P. Fortmann

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

natural resource sociology, political ecology, rural development, gender

Nancy Lee Peluso

Nancy Lee Peluso

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political ecology, Indonesia, resource policy and politics, forest and agrarian change, property and access

Alain de Janvry

Alain De Janvry

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, labor management and policy

ARE PhD students and Sofia Villas-Boas

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Working with cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire

David Zilberman

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

marketing, biotechnology, water, risk management, biofuels, natural resources, agricultural and environmental policy, the economics of innovation, the bioeconomy

Mathias Kondolf wearing hat and holding notebook at the Bill Williams River in Arizona

G. Mathias Kondolf

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

environmental planning, fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, flood risk management, river restoration, urban rivers, environmental impact assessment, river corridor management, sediment management, hydropower, strategic dam planning, integrating energy planning and river management

Lynn Huntsinger

Lynn Huntsinger

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

ecosystems, rangeland ecology and management, natural resources, Native American history, livestock, China

Joseph Gonzalez

Joseph Gonzalez

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, database management systems

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

ecological restoration, rangeland ecology and management, California climate change, physiological plant ecology

Ion Stoica

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

networking and distributed computer systems, quality of service (Q of S) and resources management, modeling and performance analysis

photo of Becky Staiger

School of Public Health

health policy and management, access to healthcare, health economics, medicaid, provider behavior, healthcare delivery

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

mechanical engineering, use of machine learning to develop high performance energy conversion and thermal management technologies, micro-to-nanoscale modeling of the thermophysics of multiphase systems, waste plastic transport in environmental watersheds, waste plastic recycling

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

Maximilian Auffhammer

Maximilian Auffhammer

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

climate change, social cost of carbon, econometrics, air pollution, environmental economics, energy economics, species conservation

Paolo D'Odorico wearing a blue shirt, with unfocused greenery in background

Paolo D'Odorico

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

hydrology, ecohydrology, water resources, Water and Society, environmental sciences, Drylands, Desertification

Rosemary G. Gillespie

Rosemary G. Gillespie

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

systematics, insect biology, evolution and conservation biology, spiders, oceanic islands

Field work in on Oahu

George Roderick

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, environmental science, sustainability, biodiversity, invasive species, population genomics

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

environmental economics, climate policy, integrated assessment models

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research, community-engaged research / scholarship, gender, intersectionality, agriculture, environmental justice

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

theoretical ecology, stochastic processes, optimal control, decision theory, ecoinformatics, data science, tipping points

Meg Mills-Novoa's photo

Megan Mills-Novoa

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

climate change adaption, energy transitions, political ecology of global change, critical development studies, water justice, participatory mixed methods, Latin America

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

data mining, integer programming, discrete optimization, network flow techniques, clustering, image segmentation, machine vision, pattern recognition