Environmental / Climate Equity

Weber is an environmental economist who studies questions in energy, equity, and environmental policy. A primary goal of her research is to understand the determinants and solutions to environmental inequality, with other work that studies emerging trends in energy markets.

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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...

Where the Sky is the Right Color: Scale and Air Pollution in the Big Bend Region (PhD ’10)

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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.

Nick’s primary research focus is on the impacts of climate change on human migration and displacement. Specific focus areas include droughts in Central America, hurricanes in the Caribbean and sea level rise and coastal retreat globally.

Lara is interested in the relationship between social inequalities and the environment, including how environmental and social stressors interact to impact health.

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.

The Use of Lead in Printed Circuit Board Assembly: A Look at Exposures, Monitoring and Hazard Communication (97 MS)

My principal interests are the development of sustainable urban systems that improve quality of life for people and work in harmony with the natural environment through the utilization of clean and renewable energy, the application of technology, and the design of circular economic systems.