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Current Ph.D. Students
Understanding the relationships between soil health and collective well being in urban environments
Environmental decision making & theories of societal change
Investigating dual-use solar initiatives and renewable energy policy and implementation through an environmental justice lens
Improving urbanized coastlines to be resilient marine habitat
Harnessing eDNA to inform ocean justice
Behavioral operations and decision-making in supply chain sustainability management
Assessing the socioeconomic drivers and outcomes of the implementation and use of sustainable infrastructure
Energy policy, urban planning, and the de-carbonization of thermal energy
Mining governance for the energy transition
Inequalities and environmental migration
Working with tribal communities towards environmental justice
Research interests involve water resilience in Southern California, sustainability in agricultural systems, and environmental justice.
Using technology and policy to advance deep decarbonization
Utilizing aDNA and eDNA to assess impact of human-induced changes on biodiversity
Using movement ecology and environmental narratives to understand human-wildlife coexistence
Investigating the intersection of extreme heat, marginalized communities, and desert environments
Quantifying the effect of anthropogenic climate change on wildfires and assessing the resulting impact of air pollution on urban populations
Interdisciplinary Methods for Integrating Sustainable Aquaculture into California Seafood Systems
Applying econometric data to the water-energy nexus, especially in a development context
Life-cycle Assessment & Data Analytics for Industrial Sustainability, Quantitative Sociology and Scientific Review for Air Pollution Regulations
Understanding the impediments to large scale adoption of distributed energy resources and how that has socioeconomic and environmental justice impacts to the clean energy transition
Policy and Engineering for an Equitable Energy Transition
Integrating social science and wildlife ecology to facilitate coexistence in shared landscapes
Energy poverty and community empowerment in the Global South
Evaluating and influencing corporate practice
