Ecology / Environmental Science

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.

Rachel Ward

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

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....

Dakota Pekerti

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

Kingsley Ofori

MS
I have a Bachelors in chemistry and a background in environmental and food quality research.

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.

Jessica Katz

MS, PhD
At ERG, Jessica is focusing on learning advanced methods to comprehensively evaluate the ecological, economic, and societal impacts of development pathways in and beyond the energy sector.

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.