Jessica Katz is a PhD candidate focused on ecological stewardship under deep uncertainty. Her dissertation combines methods from ecology, statistics, and the decision sciences to understand how the diverse forests of the Western U.S. will respond to restoration and fuel reduction treatments under a changing climate.
Jasmine is a MS/PhD student at UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, with a passion for supporting robust and equitable decision-making in climate and energy.
Bodie uses interdisciplinary approaches to investigate nature-based solutions to climate change. He currently studies how policy and innovative technology can enable carbon-beneficial forest management.
Anna Brockway is a PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. She holds master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Energy & Resources.
Ian works to provide decision-makers with quantitative, high-resolution projections of the socioeconomic impacts of climate change, focusing on damaging extreme events like tropical cyclones.
Economic Valuation of the Environmental Impacts of the Kayraktepe Dam/Hydroelectric Power Plant in Turkey: An Exercise Contingent Valuation and Benefit-Cost Analysis (’95 M.S.)
As a member of the Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative, Johan aims to improve our understanding of how forests are adapting to shifting wildfire activity in a rapidly changing climate. His current research efforts combine large, geographic field surveys of recent burns with FACE experiments across the western United States to assess forest vulnerability to ecosystem transitions under warming and rising atmospheric CO₂. A key focus of his work is investigating how soil microbial communities influence these post-fire dynamics.
Emilia is a PhD student at ERG. Her research focuses on grid planning to accelerate power system decarbonization by leveraging the existing system, such as reconductoring and surplus interconnection.
I'm interested in exploring the impacts and unintended consequences of climate policies across levels of government, with the goal of better understanding how to make informed policy decisions and incorporating community-led governance. I'd like to apply this knowledge to a variety of climate sectors, including vehicle miles traveled reduction and mitigation, short-lived climate pollutant reduction, plastic/waste reduction, and circular economies.
I finished sectioning the Tahoe Rim Trail last summer. It was a great excuse to go to the...
