Climate

Felix Yu

MS
I'm interested in the application of remote sensing to improve vegetation management, validate nature-based climate solutions, and managing and building out electrical infrastructure.

Liyang Wang

MS, PhD
Liyang is a PhD student in the Energy & Resources Group and a Senior Research Associate at Berkeley Lab. Her research interest is at the intersection of decision science, climate science, and infrastructure planning.

Rachel Ward

MS, PhD
Rachel is interested in the social, ecological, and geophysical dynamics of agro-forestry coffee and cacao systems in the tropics.

Simone Speizer

PhD
Simone Speizer is a PhD student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. Her research interests center on air pollution and climate impacts, and especially their intersections with health and equity.

Aaryaman “Sunny” Singhal

MS, PhD

Aaryaman “Sunny” Singhal earned a dual-degree in 2024 from the Energy and Resources Group and the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC-Berkeley. He is interested in water security in the Western United States as the climate changes (drought, sustainable agriculture, the water-energy nexus, etc.). In particular, Sunny wants to write policy that not only advances a more just future for the most marginalized people, but also builds political coalitions for stronger action in the future.

Sunny is intellectually curious and values diverse experiences. He studied liberal arts and...

Dakota Pekerti

MS
Dakota Pekerti (he/him) is a first-year Master’s student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley.

Clayton Munnings

MS, PhD
Clayton’s research focuses on design evaluations and performance assessments of carbon offsets, carbon prices, and clean electricity standards with a geographic emphasis on the United States and China.

Julia Longmate

MS, PhD
Julia’s research focuses on the performance and usability of climate model outputs at decision-relevant scales.

Cora Kingdon

MS, PhD
Cora Kingdon is a PhD candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley.

Ryan Jones

PhD
Ryan has spent the last decade developing modeling tools to explore technology pathways for deep decarbonization with special focus on electricity systems.