Students
ERG's sixty plus graduate students are geographically and ethnically diverse. About half are in the two masters-degree programs and half in the PhD program. The students come from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds in engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities; the characteristics they have in common are an ability to cross disciplinary boundaries, an interest in the complex problems at the interface of technology and society, and the intellectual credentials to survive a highly competitive admissions process. Graduates of the program are employed across the United States and around the world in governmental and international agencies, legislative staff positions, national laboratories, public and private utilities, other energy and resource companies, consulting firms, public-interest organizations, and universities.
Nate Aden, MS/PhD *
Energy efficiency; development; environment; resources; China.
Alisar Aoun, MS/PhD
Sustainable development;social and environmental justice;environmental policy, lifecycle assessment.
Joshua Apte, MS 2008 / PhD
Transportation; air quality engineering, management and policy; exposure assessment; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency; climate change policy; sustainable development. Particular focus on India and other parts of Asia.
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Carolina Balazs, MS 2006/PhD
Drinking water quality in California's Central Valley; equity and environmental health; water and development in Latin America; environmental justice.
Merrill Jones Barradale, MBA 2000 / PhD
Renewable energy financing; wind power.
Sam Borgeson, MA 2009/ PhD
Design, construction and operation of high performance buildings; low energy cooling strategies; natural ventilation; building energy retrofit programs; policy design for deep and broad energy efficiency programs; interface between the built environment and the natural one.
Kristin Brainerd, MA *
Environmental policy; law; environment; economics; water.
Zachary Burt, MS 2009/ PhD
Common property management; water resource allocation; waste water treatment; rural development; urban-rural migration.
Douglas Bushey, MA 2005/ PhD
Science advising in International Agreemnets; science-law interaction; science technology studies (STS).
Christian Casillas, MS 2008/PhD
Innovations in energy and energy policy research; power generation; transmission and distribution.
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Zoe Chafe, MS/PhD
Environmental health; climate change and public health; environmental justice; ecosystem services; waste management; carbon trading; incentives for decreasing consumption.
Christa Chavez, MS *
Environmental science; environmental justice; consumer choices; sustainability, health.
Deborah Cheng, MS 2008/PhD
Water supply and quality in developing countries; urban sustainability; resource consumption and management.
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Daniella Svehla Christianson, MS 2008/ PhD
Plant community ecology, ecosystem degradation or biodiversity loss.
Andrew Crane-Droesch, MA/PhD *
Climate change; sustainable development; ecological change; climate risk assessment & management.
Lara Cushing, MA/PhD
Biofuels; environmental justice; climate change.
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Naim Darghouth, MS 2006/ PhD
Biofuels in sub-Saharan Africa; energy policy and markets; sustainable development; life-cycle emissions of biofuels; food security.
Michael B. Dwyer, MS 2003/ PhD
Political ecology and development studies in Southeast Asia, focusing on the use of mapping in new agribusiness investment and the creation of rural infrastructure in northern Lao PDR.
William (Jamil) Farbes, MS
Renewable energy; fuel cells; biofuels and biorefineries; energy economics; climate change.
Kevin Fingerman, MS 2007/PhD
Ecological and social impacts of increased biofuel production; agroecology; water-use efficiency in agriculture; focus on India.
Julian Fulton, PhD *
Water systems; water management; CA delta.
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D. Asher Ghertner MA 2004/PhD
Development studies, India, environmental justice, political ecology.
Mary Gifford, MS/PhD
Rural Renewable Energy; India; microfinance; solar home systems; climate policy.
Anand Gopal, PhD
Renewable and sustainable energy and fuel cells.
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Eric Hallstein, MS 1997/ PhD
Understanding the influence of environmental, social and health-related information on consumers' product choices; micro-economics with a focus on empirical industrial organization, consumer behavior and applied econometrics.
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Barbara Haya, MS 2002/ PhD
Equity within international efforts to mitigate climate change, the
Clean Development Mechanism, international finance institutions, power sector
restructuring in South East Asia.
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Stacy Jackson, MS 2008/ PhD
Climate science & policy: mitigation of near-term climate change, climate feedback effects, measurability of emissions.
Josiah Johnston, MS 2009/ PhD
Advancing "open source" methodologies in sustainable development, LED off-grid home lights, community development, job creation; technology design; energy efficiency; renewable energy; computer modeling, climate change mitigation.
Andrew Jones, MS 2006/ PhD
The social and ecological impacts of biofuels including food security, energy security, climate, and land use issues; climate policy, market-based policy, transportation, agroecology, biogeochemistry, and mathematical models.
Fredrich Kahrl, MS 2007/ PhD
Rural energy economics and technologies in China; bioenergy in East and Southeast Asia; energy implications of economic transition; climate policy economics.
Margareta (Gogi) Kalka, PhD
Sustainables
Joseph Kantner, MS/PhD
Democratization/decentralization of the energy grid; local, comprehensible-scale; renewable energy; solar; hydrogen; thermal depolymerization processing.
Taylor Keep, MS *
Food system practices; sustainability.
Amber Kerr, PhD
Renewable energy; sustainable development; climate change; ecology and biogeochemistry; agroforestry.
Michael Kiparsky, MS 2004/PhD
Climate adaptation in water resources management; risk and decision making in water resources; governance and management of complex systems; science/policy interface.
Laura Koteen, PhD
Conservation biology; global climate change science and policy; biological invasion; North-South policy interactions.
Catherine Kunkel, PhD
Local and state-level energy and environmental policy; sustainable cities.
Derek Lemoine, MS 2007/PhD
GIS; energy networks; renewables; land use; energy markets; novel policy responses to climate change; option value; uncertainty, policy, and economics.
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Nadia Madden, MS 2009/PhD
Water Resources and international development with a focus on India. Sustainable development; safe water for the 1.2 billion who go without.
Andrew McAllister, MS 1992/ PhD (on leave)
Rural integrated energy planning in developing countries; renewable
energy systems and applications; decentralization; technology transfer;
industrial processes.
Ana Mileva, MS *
Climate change policy; sustainable resources.
Andrew Mills, MS 2006/ PhD
Renewable energy technologies; distributed generation; rural development; water rights and policy.
Anita Milman, MA 2004/ PhD
Water along the US-Mexico border, water and development and indicators of sustainability.
Anna Motschenbacher, MS 2008/ PhD
Environmental policy making; balancing short-term pressures with long-term needs; climate changes policies; economics; decision analysis; ecology.
Bessma Mourad, MA/PhD
Freshwater resources; development; water pollution; environmental health; women's health; environmental justice; Middle East; politicization of water.
Erica Newman, MS/PhD*
Physics and conservation; fire ecology; global warming; carbon output; fire dynamics.
Zachary Norwood, PhD
Distributed concentrating solar combined heat and power; urban waste to fuel; renewable energy vehicle conversions; biofuel emissions; rural electrification.
Hazel Onsrud, MS *
Sustainable development; strategic ecological city planning.
Tracey Osborne, PhD
Carbon forestry activities; carbon markets; Mexico; agrarian political economy; development studies; political ecology.
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Carla Peterman, PhD
Energy policy; renewable energy technology; innovation strategy; enviromental history; technology adoption.
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Autumn Petros-Good, MS *
Renewable energy usage; energy distribution & management policy.
Richard Plevin, MS, 2006/PhD
Climate change and renewable energy, particularly biofuels; organic agriculture and mitigating environmental harm from bioenergy crop production; whole-systems thinking; modeling.
Malini Ranganathan, MS 2005 / PhD
Energy and resource efficiency; Urban sustainability; Governance, reforms, and equity; Politics of development and international aid; Climate change and energy policy in developing countries.
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Fermin Reygadas, MS 2006/PhD
Rural energy; water purification systems; cookstoves; energy policy in developing countries; migration; renewable energy; appropriate technologies; Latin America.
Alejandra Rueda, MA
Bioenergy, sustainable renewable;public policy;biofuels for rural development.
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Jalel Sager, MA/PhD *
Global environmental change; urban sustainability; Vietnam.
Laura Schewel, MA/PhD *
Global climate and food security; mobility systems.
Imran Sheikh, MS
Whole-systems thinking; product design; energy efficiency; implementation barriers; behavior change; business-led solutions; industrial ecology; distributed generation; demand side management; vehicle electrification.
Emma Shephardson, MS
Climate change; food distribution; sustainability; social and corporate change via non-profit or government organizations.
Rebekah Shirley, MS/PhD *
Alternative energy systems; the Caribbean region & developing regions.
Anne Short, MS 2005/ PhD
Environmental governance; rural land use change; water quality; land management and conservation planning; science and policy.
Froy Sifuentes, MS/PhD *
Sustainable development; water; environment.
Jelena Simjanovic, MA
Carbon markets and finance; offset project development; domestic climate policy development; international climate policy negotiation and energy efficiency.
Anna Sommer, MA
Energy planning and economics
Zachary Subin, MS 2008/ PhD
Air pollution; sustainable electricity generation and transportation; energy policies.
Niels Tomijima, MS 2008/PhD
Implementing environmental reforms or technologies; energy sources for developing countries and energy policy; climate effects on society & development.
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Sintana Vergara, MS 2007/PhD
Solid waste management, in US and developing countries; waste conversion technologies; life cycle analysis; drinking water treatment technologies and application in the developing world; adoption of Point of Use water treatment technologies; biodiversity; industrial ecology.
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Christopher Williams, MA *
China; energy & development; environmental law.
Maggie Witt, MS *
Climate change; energy policy.
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, MS 2007/ PhD
Energy markets; energy and development;energy policy; energy and water nexus.
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