Ecology / Environmental Science

Meg Mills-Novoa is an assistant professor with a joint appointment to the Division of Society and Environment in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and the Energy and Resources Group. Meg is the director of the Climate Futures Lab, a hub for social science research on the impact and equity of climate change responses. As a human-environment geographer, her research focuses on climate change adaptation and decarbonization. She uses a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, from spatial analysis and quantitative surveys to archival research and interviews. She...

Margaret S. Torn is co-head of the Climate and Carbon Sciences Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor in Energy and Resources at U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Torn is an ecologist and biogeochemist who studies the natural carbon cycle and anthropogenic influence on the carbon cycle through land use (including bio-energy crops and sequestration management) and climate change. This work uses field experiments, isotopic analysis (14C, 13C), laboratory analysis, and mathematical models. Dr. Torn studies climate change impacts on ecosystems and the services they provide to...

Lara Kueppers is a climate and ecosystem scientist whose research focuses on ecological responses and feedbacks to climate change. She uses field experiments and observations, as well as computational models to understand climate-ecosystem interactions in the Western U.S. and tropics. Professor Kueppers teaches courses on nature-based climate solutions and quantitative approaches to understanding environmental problems. She also has a Faculty Scientist appointment at Berkeley Lab.

Previously, Professor Kueppers was a Research Scientist in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Berkeley...

John Harte is a physicist turned ecologist. His research interests span ecological field research, the theory of complex systems, and policy analysis. Current interests include applying insights from information theory to the analysis of complex ecosystems and empirical investigation of climate-ecosystem feedback dynamics.

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...

Seeing Like a Sagebrush – Measuring and mapping spatial heterogeneity, self-similarity and local vegetation structure (’03 MS) Territorial Affairs: Turning Battlefields into Marketplaces in Postwar Laos (’11 PhD)

Climate Change Impacts on Community and Ecosystem Properties: Integrating Manipulations and Gradient Studies in Montane Meadows (’00 Ph.D.)

Hasmik Djoulakian (she/her) is a Master’s student in the Energy Resources Group. Her research interests involve applying frameworks of feminist political ecology, cultural geography, and environmental justice to examine the potential for food sovereignty in California and Armenia.

Towards Developing Agroforestry Systems for Smallholders: a Case Study from the Sarapiquí Canton, Costa Rica (MS ’99)