Ecology / Environmental Science

Hikari Murayama

MS, PhD
Hikari Murayama is a PhD Candidate in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) at the University of California, Berkeley, where she uses remote sensing and machine learning to study the global carbon budget.

Leila Winn

MS
Leila Winn (she/her) is a master’s student pursuing a MS in ERG. Her research interest lie in urban ecology with a focus on urbanization and habitat.

Faraj Sungkar

MS
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.

Sarah Sarfaty Epstein

MS

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....

Alex Hall Rocha

MS
Alex Hall Rocha is a Master’s student at the Energy and Resources Group. Her interests include community-based participatory research and how it can be used to address cases of environmental injustice.

Cora Cliburn

MS
Cora is a second-year master’s student focused on climate adaptation and water in the West.

Adam Hanbury-Brown

MS, PhD
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).

David Hammond

MS

Achieving Grassroots Participation in Agricultural Development: Lessons from One Organization in Guatemala (’94 M.S.)

Jessica Joan Goddard

MS, PhD
Urban Water’s Hydra: Stormwater’s Problematization in LA (MA ’14) Measuring Drinking Water Affordability and Sustainability (PhD ’20) At ERG, Jess (PhD 2019) co-developed metrics for water affordability in the state’s first human right to water tracking tool with CalEPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Jess has also conducted research in ecological economics and sustainability science. Jess was a UC Berkeley Dissertation Year (2019) and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2012-2015). She holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering, an M.S. in ERG, and a B.A...

D. Asher Ghertner

MA, PhD

Shifting Environmental Trends: A Life-Cycle, Consumption-Based Approach to Environmental Indicators (’04 MA) Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi (’10 PhD)