IoES graduate students—becoming tomorrow's environmental leaders
Our graduate programs offer a diverse education that empowers specific, expert focus on today's complex problems. Meet our current students from the D. Env. and Ph.D. programs.
Ph.D. Current 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
Danielle Hoague
Environmental justice organizing in South Central LA, Lead Exposure
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
Tyson Timmer
Evaluating and influencing corporate practiceD. Env. Current Students
Delaney Buskard
Passionate about driving the clean energy transition
Kelly Clark
Improving water management through technical solutions in business and government
Kelli Fletcher
Bridging the realms of healthcare and sustainable biotechnology
Peggy Nguyen
Serving the public and environment by teaming up with policymakers, scientists, engineers and more
Andrew Paden
Human dimensions of environmental problems.
Alison Partie
Managing L’Oréal’s water, waste and climate efforts through market-based solutions
Saagar Patel
Exploring the relationships between biomass burning, public health, and urban planning
Irena Pavlovic
Aelna Sakamoto
Studying ways to improve the ecosystem at the Salton Sea and create ecosystem modeling tools to aid in evaluation of alternative solutions
Madeleine Siegel
Putting science into action to support people and the planet
Juliana Tampus
At the technical forefront of global environmental sustainabilityPh.D. Alumni (recent)
Edith de Guzman
Heat mitigation and community resilience through urban forest stewardship
Chase Niesner
Multispecies anthropology, ecology, environmental justice
Noam Rosenthal
Using remote sensing and machine learning to study compounding impacts of wildfire smoke and heat in cities
Paul Stainier
Using econometric data analysis to learn about climate change's impacts on labor markets
Tanner Waters
Using environmental DNA for marine restoration and conservationD. Env. Alumni (recent)
Regina Adigwe
Integrated and sustainable solutions for water and sanitation challenges
Jenny Aleman-Zometa
Designing urban nature parks for people and birds
Maggie Isied
Making air healthier to breathe for disadvantaged communities through engagement and local scale analysis
Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett
Exploring the potential of multi-satellite synergies to assess environmental impact
Lia Protopapadakis Flynn
Helping coastal habitats with adaptation to sea level rise