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    Charisma Acey

    Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning

    charisma.acey@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Access to drinking water and sanitation, environmental justice, poverty reduction, food security, collaborative governance and participatory research methods

    Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

    Professor of Environmental Engineering

    lisaac@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Environmental microbiology and ecology, Biotransformation, Wastewater contaminants, Molecular & isotopic techniques, Microbial communities

    Maximilian Auffhammer

    Professor Agricultural & Resource Economics

    auffhammer@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas:  Forecasting Greenhouse Gas Emissions, impacts of air pollution on agriculture, Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Climate Change, and econometrics

    Dennis Baldocchi

    Professor of Biometeorology

    baldocchi@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: biometeorology, biosphere-atmosphere trace gas fluxes, ecosystem ecology, climate change

    Ellen Bruno

    Assistant Professor in Cooperative Extension Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

    ebruno@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Economics of water resources–water markets and adoption of water-saving technologies, agricultural and environmental economics.

    Stephanie Carlson

    Professor in Wildlife Biology

    smcarlson@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Fish ecology, river ecology, life-history diversity, salmon portfolios

    Maya Carrasquillo

    Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    mcarrasquillo@berkeley.edu 

    Research Areas: Urban water infrastructure, Green stormwater infrastructure, Food-energy-water nexus, Infrastructure justice, Decision-making and policy, Community science and engagement

    John M. Colford Jr.

    Professor of Epidemiology in School of Public Health

    jcolford@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Waterborne infectious diseases (domestic, developing country, and recreational water settings), Clinical trial design (individual and community-level)

    Paolo D’Odorico

    Professor of Natural Resources

    paolododo@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Hydrology, ecohydrology, water resources, Water and Society, environmental sciences, drylands, desertification

    Holly Doremus

    Professor of Environmental Regulation

    hdoremus@law.berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Environmental law, natural resource law, law and science, biodiversity conservation, public and private land management, property rights

    Iryna Dronova

    Assistant Professor Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

    idronova@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Wetlands; Wetland Restoration; Remote Sensing; GIS & Spatial Analysis

    Ashok Gadgil

    Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation

    ajgadgil@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Computational Fluid Dynamics of indoor air and pollutant transport, Simulation methods for complex non-linear systems, Energy efficiency in buildings, Biomass Cookstoves, Drinking water treatment, Development Engineering

    Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi

    Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

    cgerlein@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Ecohydrology, Remote sensing, Satellite experiments, Stable isotopes, Plant biology, Surface hydrology

    Manuela Girotto

    Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering 

    cgerlein@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Ecohydrology, Remote sensing, Satellite experiments, Stable isotopes, Plant biology, Surface hydrology

    Ted Grantham

    Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

    tgrantham@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Freshwater ecology, stream hydrology, climate risk assessment

    Kristina Hill 

    Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design

    kzhill@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Planning/Urban Design, Coastal Adaptation, Sea Level Rise and Groundwater, Biodiversity, Social Equity

    Andrew D Jones

    Assistant Adjunct Professor Energy and Resources Group and research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

    adjones@lbl.gov

    Research Areas: Hydrology and climate change; quantitative Earth system science; decision-relevant metrics for climate models; stakeholder engagement

    Michael Kiparsky

    Director of the Wheeler Water Institute, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment

    kiparsky@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Water resources policy and management; science-policy interface; translational research and synthesis

    G. Mathias Kondolf

    Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

    kiparsky@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Hydrology; environmental planning; river restoration; urban river management; river-basin scale sustainable sediment management; strategic planning for hydroelectric dams.

    Michael Mascarenhas

    Professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

    kiparsky@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Postcolonial theory and development studies, environmental justice and critical race theory, and science and technology studies

    Baoxia Mi

    Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering 

    mib@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Membrane separation, Desalination, Water purification, Wastewater reuse, Environmental applications of nanomaterials

    Kara Nelson

    Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering 

    karanelson@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Pathogen detection & removal (in water and sludge), Water reuse, Nutrient recovery, Drinking water and sanitation in low-resource regions, Wastewater-based surveillance

    Amy Pickering

    Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering 

    pickering@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Disease transmission, Water, Public health surveillance, Zoonotic infectious disease, Community-acquired antimicrobial resistance


    Alison E. Post

    Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Metropolitan Studies

    aepost@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Comparative Political, Economy, Environmental Policy Regulation, Urban Politics and Policy, Latin America, South Asia

    Isha Ray

    Professor at the Energy and Resources Group

    isharay@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Water & development, sanitation and development,gender, technology & society


    Justin V. Remais

    Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

    jvr@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Environmental dynamics of infectious diseases, Global environmental change and health, Methodological issues in the projection of infectious disease risks in response to environmental change, Optimizing infectious disease surveillance in low- and middle-income countries, Mathematical and statistical modeling of infectious disease transmission, Dynamics of waterborne and vector-borne infections in rapidly changing environments

    Vincent Resh

    Professor of Environmental Science Policy and Management 

    resh@berkeley.edu
    Research Areas: Aquatic Biology, Water Pollution, Modeling, Entomology


    Albert RuhĂ­

    Professor of Environmental Science Policy and Management 

    albert.ruhi@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Freshwater ecology, biodiversity conservation, community ecology, global change

    David Sedlak

    Director of Berkeley Water Center, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering 

    sedlak@ce.berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Transformation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, Water reuse & recycling, Urban water infrastructure, Engineered treatment wetlands


    Anna Serra-Llobet

    Lecturer for Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Researcher at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management

    annaserrallobet@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas: Residual Flood Risk, Floods After Fires, Nature-Based Solutions, Environmental Justice

    David Zilberman

    Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics

    zilber11@berkeley.edu

    Research Areas:  Economics, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, Resource Economics, Water


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