Current Ph.D. Students
Emma Barnosky
Environmental decision making & theories of societal change
Chedeya Brown
Investigating dual-use solar initiatives and renewable energy policy and implementation through an environmental justice lens
Gabriela Carr
Improving urbanized coastlines to be resilient marine habitat
Elijah Catalan
Harnessing eDNA to inform ocean justice
Angela Chen
Behavioral operations and decision-making in supply chain sustainability management
Jared Coffelt
Assessing the socioeconomic drivers and outcomes of the implementation and use of sustainable infrastructure
Robert Cudd
Energy policy, urban planning, and the de-carbonization of thermal energy
Lorena De la Puente Burlando
Mining governance for the energy transition
Mariana Fajardo-Arboleda
Inequalities and environmental migration
Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky
Working with tribal communities towards environmental justice
Aneesa 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 decarbonization
Pa-Shun Hawkins
Utilizing aDNA and eDNA to assess impact of human-induced changes on biodiversity
Katherine Hernandez
Using movement ecology and environmental narratives to understand human-wildlife coexistence
William Krantz
Marcos R. Magaña
Investigating the intersection of extreme heat, marginalized communities, and desert environments
Hannah Myint
Quantifying the effect of anthropogenic climate change on wildfires and assessing the resulting impact of air pollution on urban populations
Ariadne Reynolds
Interdisciplinary Methods for Integrating Sustainable Aquaculture into California Seafood Systems
Kaitlynn Sandstrom-Mistry
Applying econometric data to the water-energy nexus, especially in a development context
Viraj Sawant
Life-cycle Assessment & Data Analytics for Industrial Sustainability, Quantitative Sociology and Scientific Review for Air Pollution Regulations
Sid Shah
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
Rachel Sheinberg
Policy and Engineering for an Equitable Energy Transition
Wilson Sherman
Integrating social science and wildlife ecology to facilitate coexistence in shared landscapes
Sebastián Solarte-Caicedo
Energy poverty and community empowerment in the Global South