Kimberly Holbrook
Kristen Holdsworth
Kristen has a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA and a Leaders in Sustainability Certification from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. As a graduate student, Kristen primarily focused on transportation policy and planning and worked on a project with LA County Metro to evaluate county-wide sustainability. At CCSC, Kristen assists in the Center’s communications and distribution of research to stakeholders, policymakers and other research centers. She also works for the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability and directs work with a Strategic Growth Council grant developing a LA County framework for climate action.
Jamie Guerra
Alex Hall
Alex Hall is the Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA and Faculty Director of UCLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge. His research focuses on reducing climate change uncertainty at both regional and global scales.
At the regional level, he has advanced the development of downscaling techniques to better understand climate change at scales most relevant to people and ecosystems. Alex and his team at the Center for Climate Science apply these methods to create neighborhood-scale projections of future climate. They have recently completed downscaling studies for the Los Angeles region and the Sierra Nevada, with ongoing projects investigating the future of extreme precipitation and wildfire risk in California.
Alex served as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report chapter on regional climate change and as a Contributing Author for its chapter on climate model evaluation. He was also the Coordinating Lead Author of the Los Angeles Region Report, part of California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment. His work has earned him several accolades, including the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award in 2016 and the AGU’s Future Horizons in Climate Science: Turco Lectureship in 2019.
Oliver Hankinson
Dr. Hankinson is a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Director of the Doctoral Program in Molecular Toxicology. He received his Ph.D. in genetics from Cambridge University, England, in 1972. He did postdoctoral research in mammalian cell genetics at Harvard University, the University of Colorado, and the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the UCLA faculty in 1979. He was Director of the Carcinogenesis program of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center from 1994 to 2003, and Vice-Chair for Research of the Department of Pathology from 1997 to 2003. In 2000 he was founding director of the Molecular Toxicology Ph.D. program.