IoES graduate students—becoming tomorrow's environmental leaders
Our graduate programs offer a diverse education that empowers specific, expert focus on today's complex problems. Meet our current students from the D. Env. and Ph.D. programs.
D. Env. Current Students
Jenny Aleman-Zometa
Designing urban nature parks for people and birdsDelaney Buskard
Passionate about driving the clean energy transitionKelly Clark
Improving water management through technical solutions in business and governmentKelli Fletcher
A passion for bridging the realms of healthcare and sustainable biotechnologyMason Gamble
Managing resources sustainably by bridging the gap between science, policy and economicsAntoine Kunsch
D.Env. Student on Residency
Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett
Exploring the potential of multi-satellite synergies to assess environmental impactPeggy Nguyen
Serving the public and environment by teaming up with policymakers, scientists, engineers and moreAlison Partie
Managing L’Oréal’s water, waste and climate efforts through market-based solutionsSaagar Patel
Irena Pavlovic
Lia Protopapadakis Flynn
Helping coastal habitats with adaptation to sea level riseRobert Reny
Improving water management in Southern California through excellent understanding of climate impacts and broad contextsMadeleine Siegel
Doctoral Candidate
Putting science into action to support people and the planetPh.D. Current Students
Naomi Adams
Investigating the cumulative impacts of lead exposure from aggregative pathwaysEmma Barnosky
Environmental decision making & theories of societal changeChedeya Brown
Investigating dual-use solar initiatives and renewable energy policy and implementation through an environmental justice lensGabriela Carr
Improving urbanized coastlines to be resilient marine habitatElijah Catalan
Harnessing eDNA to inform ocean justiceAngela Chen
Linking investor/firm-level and managerial/operations-level sustainability reporting, standards, and decision-making.Jared Coffelt
Assessing the socioeconomic drivers and outcomes of the implementation and use of sustainable infrastructureRobert Cudd, MPP
Research Analyst
Energy policy, urban planning, and the de-carbonization of thermal energyLorena De la Puente Burlando
Mining governance for the energy transition in the AndesMariana Fajardo-Arboleda
Inequality and environmental challengesSedonna Goeman-Shulsky
Working with tribal communities towards environmental justiceAneesa Gomez-Cervantes
Research interests involve water resilience in Southern California, sustainability in agricultural systems, and environmental justice.Narayan Gopinathan
Using technology and policy to advance deep decarbonizationPa-Shun Hawkins
Research interest are in the effects of climate-induced oceanic changes on marine microbial communities.Katherine Hernandez
Using movement ecology to inform restoration efforts & land managementJessica Heckman
Coastal resilience and equitable coastal decision makingDanielle Hoague
Improving public health through scientific knowledge and community exchangeWilliam Krantz
Graduate Student Researcher
Hannah Myint
Quantifying the effect of anthropogenic climate change on wildfires and assessing the resulting impact of air pollution on urban populationsChase Niesner
Multispecies anthropology, ecology, environmental justiceAriadne Reynolds
quantifying interactions between kelp and shellfish in aquaculture and exploring their potential for ecosystem restorationKaitlynn Sandstrom
Applying econometric data to the water-energy nexus, especially in a development contextRachel Sheinberg
Policy and Engineering for an Equitable Energy TransitionViraj Sawant
Sebastián Solarte-Caicedo
Graduate Student Researcher
Energy poverty and community empowerment in the Global South