Current Ph.D. Students
Understanding the relationships between soil health and collective well being in urban environments
Geospatial science for environmental monitoring and compliance
Opportunistic use of infrastructure as marine habitat in the Santa Monica Bay
Assessing the socioeconomic drivers and outcomes of the implementation and use of sustainable infrastructure
Using environmental narratives and critical cartography to examine wildfire perception and community adaptation
Energy policy, urban planning, and the de-carbonization of thermal energy
Mining governance for the energy transition
Inequalities and environmental migration
Investigating the social, historical, and ecological forces shaping urban rivers and watersheds.
Working with tribal communities towards environmental justice
Research interests involve groundwater governance, water finance, and institutional design.
Using technology and policy to advance deep decarbonization
Terrestrial and marine microbial ecology
Using movement ecology and environmental narratives to understand human-wildlife coexistence
Investigating the intersection of extreme heat, marginalized communities, and desert environments
Post-fire recovery and community resilience
Develops systems-based approaches to urban design that integrate ecological processes and the needs of both human and non-human species.
Applying econometric data to the water-energy nexus, especially in a development context
Understanding the political economy surrounding extractive logics of the energy transition in rural America.
Integrating social science and wildlife ecology to facilitate coexistence in shared landscapes
Energy poverty and community empowerment in the Global South
