A new study from ERG’s Andy Jones and Julia Szinai at the Berkeley Lab considers how dwindling mountain snowpacks will implicate water management.
ERG’s Andy Jones and Julia Szinai: What a No-Snow Future Means for Water Management
ERG’s Chelsi Sparti on How Indigenous Practices Can Inform Wildfire Prevention
ERG graduate student Chelsi Sparti has published in Cal Matters about how knowledge of indigenous practices can inform wildfire prevention.
Dan Kammen to Advise USAID on Sustainable Energy Development
ERG’s Dan Kammen has been selected to serve as senior adviser for energy, climate and innovation for the U.S. Agency for International Development. (Photo by Elena Zhukova)
California Drought is Increasing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Report ERG Alumni at Pacific Institute
ERG alumni Peter Gleick (PhD ’86) and Julia Szinai (PhD ’21) of the Pacific Institute research group discussed in a recent article on The Hill how the findings of their … Continue Reading »
ERG’s Anthoff and Alum Errickson Promote Utilitarian Approach to Global Climate Policy
ERG Professor David Anthoff and Frank Errickson, PhD ’20, ERG, recently published in Nature Climate Change, proposing a practical way of measuring how different nations should reduce carbon emissions in order to maximize well being in the world. (Photo by Stuart Rankin)
ERG’s Brockway and Callaway Reveal Link Between California Grid Limits and Energy Poverty
A new research paper published in Nature Energy authored by Anna Brockway, an ERG PhD student and ERG professor Duncan Callaway highlights how existing social inequities are exacerbated by California’s grid limits. (Photo by Jeremy Bezanger)
Lara Kueppers Elected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences
ERG’s Lara Kueppers was among 3 Rausser College faculty elected Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences by a unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees. Academy Fellows are nominated by their peers and recognized for their exceptional contributions to the world of science.
New Climate Equity and Environmental Justice Cluster Brings Faculty Mills-Novoa to ERG
Meg Mills-Novoa has joined the Energy and Resources Group as part of a group of new faculty members recruited through Rausser College’s Climate Equity and Environmental Justice cluster initiative to further climate justice research.
ERG Alum Gonzalez to Serve as White House Climate Advisor
UC Berkeley scientist Patrick Gonzalez has been appointed by the White House as an assistant director for climate and biodiversity. Gonzalez will work to help execute the climate plans declared by President Biden, like the “30 by 30” conservation goal and net zero emissions by 2050.
(Photo by Al Golub)
Empowering Women in Rural India: Facebook Spotlights Gauthami Penakalapati
ERG PhD student Gauthami Penakalapati was spotlighted by the Facebook Fellowship program for her research, which draws upon gender and feminist theory with the goal of empowering women and young girls in rural India. Her work reveals how colonialism has historically shaped public health data, in turn contributing to a lack of gender equity.