Agriculture

Dr. Jones is an Earth scientist who works at the interface of human and environmental systems. His research uses quantitative models and data analysis to understand climate change and human-Earth system interactions at decision-relevant scales. He also collaborates with social scientists and interacts closely with stakeholders to understand how science can effectively provide actionable insight into strategies for increasing resilience of energy water, food, and urban systems.

He is a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he leads the Earth Systems and Society...

Paul Berne Burow is incoming Assistant Professor in the Energy and Resources Group, joining the faculty in July 2027.

An environmental anthropologist by training, his research develops moral ecology as a framework for understanding how cultural values shape environmental governance, climate adaptation, and land stewardship. He works at the intersection of environmental anthropology, human-environment geography, and the Indigenous environmental sciences, using mixed methods that span ethnography, ethnoecology, interviews, focus groups, household surveys, community science, participatory mapping...

Youjin B. Chung is Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (Division of Society and Environment).

Rural sociologist and human-environment geographer by training, her research lies at the intersection of the political economy of development, feminist and historical political ecology, critical agrarian studies, science and technology studies, critical animals studies, and African studies. She draws on ethnographic, archival, and participatory visual methods to examine the relationship...

Opportunities for North American Development Bank Investment in Air Quality Improvement Along the U.S.-Mexico Border (’02 M.A.)

Alex Dolginow is a Master’s degree candidate interested in understanding appropriate design and conditions for ‘environmental markets,’ such as trading of carbon, water, and conserved land.

Cora is a second-year master’s student focused on climate adaptation and water in the West. Her research explores decentralized water management in her hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a focus on the costs associated with residential water hauling and its implications for water justice and climate resilience.

Dawson is a Master’s student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. His interests lie at the intersection of data science and sustainable development, with a focus on climate adaptation, agriculture, and natural resource economics. He’s currently studying weatherization policies in Europe and the domestic political economy of climate finance in Latin America. Before joining ERG, Dawson worked on natural resources policy in Alaska’s state legislature. He grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, and holds a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.

Faraj is a master’s student in UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group (ERG) with an interest in engineered biomass, biofuels, and bioenergy systems that enable the removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Drawing on his chemical engineering background and experience in the oil and gas industry, he approaches decarbonization challenges through a combination of systems analysis and applied industry insight. His research focuses on techno-economic modeling, life-cycle assessment, and policy evaluation to advance carbon-negative fuels and carbon-removal pathways that support equitable and scalable...

Sarah Sarfaty Epstein is a first year M.S. student interested in landscape-scale climate resilience decision making in California’s agriculture sector, particularly at the agriculture-energy-water nexus. Currently, Sarah is part of an equitable agrivoltaics research team, as the Berkeley Food Institute’s Policy Assistant.

Sarah has held a variety of professional roles in the environmental and human services sectors, most recently as an Associate at Ross Strategic where she worked on various food system, rural development and energy resource projects.

Sarah is interested in connecting with...

Predicting the future of forests under global change: the critical role of the regeneration process (PhD ’22)

Adam is a PhD focused on ecosystem modeling and remote sensing. His research aims to improve the representation of ecological processes, particularly forest regeneration, in Earth System Models (ESMs). Adam is funded by NASA to use remote sensing to study post-fire forest regeneration in California and uses empirical insights from this work to improve vegetation models. During his masters Adam used field observations and GPS collar data to study Roosevelt elk movement and habitat...