Miguel Altieri (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Sustainable agricultural development; relationship between environmental conservation and agricultural development; development of low-impact agricultural technologies.

Christopher Ansell (Political Science)
Organization theory, political sociology, public administration, and Western Europe.

Edward Arens (Architecture)
Energy-conserving building design; innovative heating and cooling systems; climatic and microclimatic prediction for design purposes; the influence of physical environment on building occupants; building impacts on the natural environment.

David Auslander (Mechanical Engineering)
Automatic control systems; computer control of complex mechanical systems; building energy management; mechanical system simulation.

Dennis Baldocchi (Environmental Science, Policy and Management)
Experimental and theoretical studies on the physicl, biological and chemical control of trace gas exchange between vegetation and the atmosphere; study of carbon dioxide, water vapor and isoprene exchange above and below forest and crop canopies using the micrometeorological measurement methods and leaf to canopy scaling models; lines of inquiry have been along quantifying structural and functional complexity of vegetation and understanding how fluxes vary along a spectrum of time and space scales.

Steven Beissinger (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Behavioral, population and conservation biology; avian ecology, tropical ecology.

Eric Biber (Boalt School of Law)
Property, environmental law, natural resources and public lands law, conservation law and policy, land-use and urban planning law.

Charles Birdsall (Electrical Engineering)
Includes all kinds of plasma devices from plasma discharges, plasma processing of semiconductors, fluorescent lamps, plasma display panel, to complete fusion reactors.

Severin Borenstein (Businesss Administration)
Energy economics; government regulation of business.

Elizabeth Boyer (Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Impacts of human activities and land use on water quality; watershed management; eco-hydrology and biogeochemistry.

Gail Schiller Brager (Architecture)
Energy; conservation; climate-responsive building design; natural cooling and ventilation; wind-tunnel modelling; human thermal comfort; indoor air pollution; innovative task-conditioning systems.

Eric Brewer (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
Internet systems, developing regions, sensor networks and security.

Elton Cairns (Chemical Engineering)
Electrochemical energy conversion, batteries, fuel cells, electrocatalysis.

David Caron (Law)
Law and its relation to change; international environmental law and policy; ozone depletion; climate change; the history of international environmental law; ocean law and policy; whaling and fisheries.

Claudia Carr (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Third world rural development and natural resources; African drylands; human ecology, desertification, rural development; plant ecology.

Cathryn Carson (History)
History of science; history of nuclear waste management.

Jamie Cate (Molecular and Cell Biology)
Molecular basis for protein synthesis by the ribosome.

Robert B. Cervero (City & Regional Planning)
Land-use and transportation integration and interactions; transportation and urban management in the developing world; comparative international transportation planning and policy; urban planning and research methods.

Ignacio H. Chapela (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Valuation of biological resources; non-timber forest products; symbiosis; fungi; microbial ecology; industrial vs. governmental vs. civil management of biological resources.

Galen Cranz (Architecture)
Public space and public life, particularly new models for urban parks which integrate building, open space and infrastructure from a sustainable point of view; the body and the environment, especially innovative seating and it's alternatives; office of the future.

Kurt M. Cuffey (Geography & Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Glaciology; climate change; watersheds.

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Alain De Janvry (Agricultural and Resource Economics)

Elizabeth Deakin (City & Regional Planning)
Transportation; land use; energy; air quality; analysis methods; institutional issues; politics of planning.

William Dietrich (Earth & Planetary Science)
Hillslope and fluvial geomorphology including runoff processes, landsliding, sediment transport; mechanics and landscape evolution.

Tim Duane (City and Regional Planning)
Land use and natural resources law; landscape-scale conservation strategies and the relationship between public land and resource management efforts and private land conservation in western North America; growth management and rural land use planning; methods of incorporating environmental factors into infrastructure systems planning, and improving the economic efficiency of environmental law and regulation.

Brenda Eskenazi (Public Health)
Reproductive hazards of industrial exposures; reproductive epidemiology; reproductive effects of exogenous estrogens.

Peter Evans (Sociology)
Comparative political economy of national development in the Global South (a.k.a. "developing countries").

Roger Falcone (Physics)
Laser interaction with matter; atomic physics; energy and defense related science, technology and policy.

Daniel Farber (Law)
Environmental and constitutional law.

Mary Firestone (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Physiological ecology of soil microorganisms; emphasis on transformations of nitrogen, carbon and organic contaminants.

Anthony Fisher (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
Optimal control of greenhouse gas emissions; impact of climate change on agriculture.

Louise P. Fortmann (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Community control and management of natural resources; women's involvement in natural resource management; property relations; democratization of science; poverty.

Harrison Fraker, Jr. (Enviromental Design)

David Freedman (Statistics)
Foundations of statistics; representation theorems in probability; statistical methods in litigation.

Inez Fung (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Geophysical fluid dynamics and large-scale numerical modeling; biogeochemical cycles; remote sensing of earth systems; atmosphere-ocean interactions, and atmosphere-biosphere interactions.

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Wayne Getz (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Biomathematics and population dynamics with application to wildlife management; conservation biology; and epidemiology.

Allen H. Goldstein (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Biogeochemistry; global change; chemistry of the atmosphere on regional and global scales; biosphere-atmosphere exchange of radioactively and chemically active trace gasses; air pollution.

Robert Harley (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Air quality; assessment and control of gasoline and diesel engine emissions; sustainable transportation; photochemical modeling of urban/regional air quality.

Gillian Hart (Geography)
Development studies; agrarian change; regional studies; labor; gender.

Tyrone Hayes (Integrative Biology)
Synthesis of ecological/evolutionary, organismal/physiological, and biochemical/molecular studies with respect to animal behavior.

Arpad Horvath (Civil and Enviromental Engineering)
Life-cycle assesment, industrial ecology, environmental systems analysis.

James Hunt (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Lynn Huntsinger (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Ecology and management of grasslands and woodlands; pastoralist and indigenous management regimes and their interaction with landscape change; natural resource management and culture(s); Yurok forest; ranching.

Judith Innes (City and Regional Planning)
Collaborative policy making; water policy and management; public participation; theory of planning and policy making; environmental policy; governance.

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Kenneth Jowitt (Political Science)
Leninist regimes; social theory; international relations.

Robert Kagan (Political Science)
Implementation and enforcement of environmental law and policy; modes of regulation; corporate environmental management; comparative regulatory institutions.

William Kastenberg (Nuclear Engineering)
Risk assessment and risk management; nuclear reactor safety; technical and institutional issues related to nuclear materials management, high-level radioactive waste disposal and environmental restoration.

Ann Keller (Public Health)
The role of scientific expertise in environmental health policy; regulation of complex and emerging technologies; government-community interactions in pursuit of public health and safety.

Jim Kirchner (Earth and Planetary Science)
Watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry, geomorphology, evolutionary ecology, environmental data analysis and modeling.

G. Mathias Kondolf (Landscape Architecture)
Fluvial geomorphology applied to environmental river management; effect of damns; river restoration; aquatic and riparian habitat.

Claire Kremen (ESPM)
Mechanisms for slowing or preventing the loss of biodiversity; identify and conserve the species that provide important benefits to humans; environmental effects of species and modeling species distributions.

Todd LaPorte (Political Science)
Organization theory, technology and politics; decision-making dynamics of large, complex, technologically intensive organizations, and the problems of governance in a technological society.

Allan Lichtenberg (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
Energy economics; non-linear dynamics; plasmas.

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Thomas E. McKone (Public Health)
Environmental transport and transformation of pollutants, human exposure assessment, biouptake, bioconcentration, health risk assessment, environmental health policy and regulation.

Carolyn Merchant (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Environmental history; environmental philosophies and ethics; environmental movement; California environmental history; women and nature.

Craig Moritz (Integrative Biology)
Use of molecular data to study evolution and ecology; currently, the research is devoted to exploring ways of combining information from surveys of molecular variation with data on demography and current historical distributions in order to infer population processes in space and time.

Michael Nacht (Public Policy)
U.S. National Security Policy, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Laura Nader (Anthropology)
Energy in culture and society; anthropology of science and scientists.

William Nazaroff (Civil and Enviromental Engineering)
Aerosol physics; atmospheric chemistry; contaminant transport processes; environmental radiation; indoor air quality.

Kara Nelson (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Natural systems for water and wastewater treatment, detection and inactivation of pathogens in water and sludge.

Michael O'Hare (Public Policy)
Arts policy; environmental policy; public management; quantitative methods.

Katherine O'Neill (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Global and comparative enviromental politics.

Dara O'Rourke (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Industrial development in developing countries; cleaner manufacturing processes; pollution prevention; preventative environmental strategies/policies; political economy of development; environmental justice; corporate accountability.

Antoni Oppenheim(Mechanical Engineering)
Combustion with particular relevance to engines.

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Nancy Peluso (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Political ecology; tropical forestry; Southeast Asia.

Per Peterson (Nuclear Engineering)
Mechanisms of heat and mass transfer in multiphase, multipsecies systems; thermal hydraulics and safety of passive fission reactors; heat transport in inertial confinement fusion reactors; nuclear waste management.

Thomas (Zack) Powell (Integrative Biology)
Physical and biological processes in lakes, estuaries, and the ocean; mathematical and numeric models.

Mary Power (Integrative Biology)
Stream and river ecology; grazing; food webs.

David Roland-Holst (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
International trade; policy modeling; environment and natural resources; economic growth and development.

Jeffrey Romm (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Social justice in resource and environmental policy; river basin governance; urban-rural institutions.

Christine Rosen (Business Administration)
History of pollution regulation and control in the U.S.; environmental history; business history; urban history; business and public policy; environmental management.

Ananya Roy (City and Regional Planning)
Comparative Urban Studies; International Development with a focus on the Politics of Poverty; Critical Theory.

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Robert Sawyer (Mechanical Engineering)
Combustion chemistry; pollutant formation and control; motor vehicle emissions; regulatory policy.

AnnaLee Saxenian (School of Information, City and Regional Planning)
Regional development; immigration and technology transfer; information technology and developing economies.

Nathan Sayre (Geography)
Ranching and pastoralism, rangeland ecology and management; history of range science; endangered species; scale in ecology and geography; the state; Western environmental history, and urbanization/land use change.

Whendee Silver (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, plant-soil-atmosphere interactions, tropical ecology, soil science, disturbance ecology, restoration ecology, implications of global change for terrestrial ecosystems (to name a few...)

Ellen Simms (Integrative Biology)
Evolutionary implications of ecological interactions between plants and other organisms, including herbivores, pathogens, and mutualists.

Kirk R. Smith (Environmental Health Sciences)
Environmental implications of economic development; energy and environmental problems of developing countries; health damaging and climate-warming air pollution, indoors and outdoors, rural and urban; risk assessment in developing countries; environmental indicators/indices.

Margaret Taylor (Public Policy)
Climate change, engineering, environmental management, markets and policy, intellectual property.

David Teece (Business Administration)
Industrial organization and the economics of technological change; telecommunications; organization, structure, and performance of energy companies; OPEC behavior; energy policy; oil and gas pipelines; electricity pricing; privatization.

Kenneth Train (Economics)
Conservation; energy use in transportation; load shapes; weather normalization.

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Pravin Varaiya (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
Communications networks; transportation systems; electric power systems.

David Vogel (Business and Public Policy)
Comparative environmental regulation; trade policy and environmental protection.

Jasmina Vujic, Nuclear Engineering
Advanced deterministic and stochastic numerical methods in radiation transport: biomedical application of radiation: nuclear reactor core analysis and design: radiation shielding and dosimetry: parallel computing.

Michael Watts (Geography)
Agrarian transitions and human ecology, especially Africa (Sahel, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Senegal); comparative political economy of newly industrializing states; California agriculture (especially Northern California rice production); theory; rural development in South India.

Eicke R. Weber (Materials Science & Engineering)

Steven Weber (Political Science)
International relations, international political economy; political and social change in the new economy; the open source software process.

Oliver Williamson (Business, Economics & Law)
Economics of organization.

David Winickoff (Enviromental Science, Policy & Management)
The interaction of science, norms, and political structure in the governance of human health and the environment, with a particular focus on biotechnology and the law.

Catherine Wolfram (Business Administration)
Electricity restructuring in the U.S. and abroad, political economy of regulation, efficiency effects of electricity restructuring.

Brian D. Wright (Agriculture and Resource Economics)
Economics of agriculture and natural resources; research; intellectual property; biotechnology; genetic resources and biodiversity conservation; commodity markets; agricultural policy.

Paul K. Wright (Mechanical Engineering)
Intelligent manufacturing systems, robotics, materials processing, concurrent design methods, sensors.

David Zilberman (Agriculture and Resource Economics)
Agricultural and nutritional policy, economics of technological change, economics of natural resources and microeconomic theory.

John Zysman (Political Science)
International and comparative political economy; comparative national financial systems; industrial policy; international competition in industrial sectors; interconnection between civilian and military economy.

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William R. Ahern (California State Coastal Conservancy)
Natural resources management and analysis, expecially coastal wetlands and watersheds.

Susan L. Anderson (Bodega Marine Laboratory)
Genetic ecotoxicology; aquatic toxicology; ozone depletion; wetlands.

Sally Benson (LBNL)
Earth Sciences.

Samuel Berman (LBNL)
Impacts of lighting on human health and visual performance.

Carl Blumstein (UC Energy Institute)
Energy policy; electric utility regulation; energy conservation in buildings; energy conservation in industry.

Nancy Brown (LBNL)
chemical kinetics; atmospheric science emphasizing photo chemistry; modeling, model uncertainty; high performance computing; combustion; combustion modeling; emissions.

Robert Budnitz (LLNL)
Nuclear facility safety and security; radioactive waste management, safety and security; risk assessment, especially comparative among different energy systems.

John F. Busch, Jr. (LBNL)
Energy efficiency in buildings, appliance, equipment, and building efficiency standards; developing country energy programs and policy.

James Bushnell(Haas School of Business, UC Energy Institute)
Energy policy; environmental economics; regulation; industrial organization.

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Carla D'Antonio (UCSB)
Mechanisms through which land use, change, and disturbance drive changes in plant communities; effects of biological invasions on population and ecosystem processes; plant population dynamics and community ecology; causes and consequences of rarity in plant populations.

Holly Doremus (UC Davis)
Environmental law; property; natural resources law; law and science.

Marc Fischer
Atmospheric science; terresstrial ecology; biogeochemistry; carbon cycle; anthropogenic effects on Earth systems.

Ashok Gadgil (LBNL)
Developing countries; energy efficiency and policy; drinking water;buildng energy use; simulation and modeling; airflow and pollutant transport in buildings.

Karina Garbesi (Cal. State Hayward)
Renewable energy; technology, implementation, and policy; environmental and social impacts of energy use, the gobal environment, the urban environment, environmental justice, natural resource analysis, soils, and soil-atmosphere processes.

Peter Gleick (Pacific Institute)
Water resources; water and conflict; environment and security; climate change; climate impacts; sustainable water use; water conservation; water-use efficiency.

Brent Haddad (UCSC)
California water institutions; environmental policy; property rights; climate change.

Charles Hartman (LLNL)
Plasma physics studies; controlled thermonuclear fusion.

Richard Howarth (Dartmouth College)
Natural resource and environmental economics; social change and sustainable development; ecological resource management; energy systems and policy; economics of climate change.

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Edward Kahn (Analysis Group, San Francisco)
Electric utility finance.

Jonathan Koomey (LBNL)
Energy efficiency, costs of reducing carbon emissions; market imperfections; cost-benefit analysis; policy impact analysis; marketing and program design; history of technology; effects of policy choices on technological innovation; the effect of information technology on resource use.

Alan Lamont (LBNL)
Modeling and design of renewable energy systems, particularly using hydrogen; modeling the energy supply system in China; economic models based on multi-period market equilibrium.

C. Michael Lederer (UC Energy Institute)
Energy efficiency; nuclear power.

Mark D. Levine (LBNL)
Directorate \ LDDODE

Ronnie Lipschutz (UC Santa Cruz , Board of Politics)
Global political economy; global civil society; environmental politics, philosopy and history; national security policy; politics and the media; science, technology, society.

Jane C. S. Long
Adapatation and reinvention of the energy system in response to climate change.

Donald Lucas (LBNL)
Combustion emissions; particles; diagnostics.

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Chris Marnay
Electricity utility economics and operations, especially operation of competitive electricity markets, and dispersed energy resources.

Neo Martinez (PEaCE Lab)
Structural and functional aspects of biodiversity; food webs; biogeography; theoretical ecology; community and ecosystem ecology; the role of ideology in ecology; the role of science in society.

Jim McMahon (LBNL)
Energy efficiency; water efficiency; analyzing technical and economic impacts of efficiency increases from multiple perspectives (manufacturers, distribution channels, consumers, energy companies, governments, environment); water and energy performance standards; water and energy labels; marginal water and energy prices; variability and uncertainty analysis.

Alan Meier (LBNL)
Energy conservation in buildings; energy efficiency; buildings; energy test procedures; appliances; Japan. Gregory Morris (Future Resources Assoc.)
Biomass and renewable energy systems; energy project development; energy planning models and applications; energy system risk analysis; energy in LDCs.

Evan Mills (LBNL)
Implications of global climate change for the financial services sector; integrating energy management and risk management; energy end-use assessments and modeling; improved energy systems for developing economies; advanced internet tools for energy analysis and consumer information.

Anthony Nero (LBNL)
Conceptual frameworks for evaluating environmental risks; carcinogenic risks from environmental pollutants; behavior of and exposures to radon and other indoor pollutants.

William Pease (Public Health)
Environmental informatics; risk assessment; toxicology.

Margaret S. Race (SETI Institute)
Analysis of potential large scale environmental impacts associated with space exploration (NASA--Mars sample return mission planning); science policy regarding environmental issues; risk communication; improving science education and public outreach through K-12 curriculum and science museums.

William Riley
Interactions between the soil, biosphere, and atmosphere that impact carbon and nutrient cycling, hydrological flows, leaching and trace-gas fluxes important in climate change; environmental fluid mechanics and the interactions between fluid flows and biological processes that affect environmental quality; numerical modeling of coupled hydrological, biological, and atmospheric systems; use of carbon and oxygen isotopes in coupled hydrological and biological systems; and impacts of intensive agriculture; development and testing of mechanistic and probabilistic models of human exposures to environmental contaminants.

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Alan Sanstad (LBNL)

Jayant Sathaye (LBNL)
Climate change project-related issues in transportation; land-use change and forestry; energy demand and supply in the developing world; development of new methods and analytical tools for evaluation of project baselines; the role of carbon sinks in climate change mitigation; sustainable development and transport policy.

Lee Schipper (Embarq)
Energy demand and CO2 emissions; transportation; energy and development.

Margaret Torn (LBNL)
Climate change; land use; ecosystem goods and services; biogeochemistry; isotopes; carbone cycle; biodiversity; ecosystem process; conservation; democracy.

Edward Vine (LBNL)
Analysis and evaluation of energy models, plans, policies, and programs; monitoring, evaluation, reporting, verification and certification of climate change mitigation projects (energy efficiency and carbon sequestration) environmental issues as they relate to generation, transmission and distribution and use of electricity and natural gas; sustainable communities; sustainability in colleges and universities.

Alexandra von Meier (Sonoma State Univ.)
Nuclear materials management; electric power systems; technology and culture.

Steve Weissman (Law)
Renewble energy; energy efficiency; energy regulation; competitive electricity markets; environmental law.

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Paul Craig (Applied Science, Davis)
Energy conservation; nuclear waste management.

Nancy Erman (UC Davis)
Aquatic ecology; freshwater invertebrates; watershed management as it affects aquatic and riparian habitat.

Kenneth Fowler (Nuclear Engineering)
Plasma physics; fusion energy technology.

Roger Glassey (Industrial Engineering)
Mathematical modelling of energy/economic systems.

Orman Granger (Geography)
Climate; climatic change and society; heat and moisture climatology.

Lawrence Grossman (Nuclear Engineering)
Fission nuclear power: reactor technology, reactor safety, innovative design.

John P. Holdren (Energy and Resources Group)
Global environmental problems; comparative assessment of the environmental impacts of energy choices; fusion-reactor design to minimize radiological hazards; problems and prospects of arms control; the interactions of energy and resource issues with international security.

Jack M. Hollander (LBNL)
Research and development policy; energy/environment issues; technology innovation; efficient energy generation and end-use; atmospheric chemistry.

Alexander Horne (Civil and Enviromental Engineering)
Pure and applied limnology and oceanography; toxicity, biostimulation, nitrogen and carbon fixation in lakes, estuaries, rivers and oceans; pollution; management of lakes and reservoirs, wetland waste treatment systems.

Jean Lave (Education)
Ethnography and social theory.

John Letiche (Economics)
International trade; history of economic thought.

William Lidicker (Integrative Biology)
Population and landscape ecology; biodiversity; ecological aspects of energy use and conservation.

Povindar Mehta (Civil Engineering)
Ultilization of crop residues and industrial byproducts for making energy-saving building materials; durability of building materials.

T.N. Narasimhan (Material Science)
Hydrogeology; coupled processes; soil-plant-atmosphere interactions; groundwater contamination; management of land and water resources.

John Neilands (Molecular Biology)
Solar energy and biological approaches to energy conservation.

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Arthur Rosenfeld (Physics)
Efficient of energy; efficient buildings; demand response to real time electric prices; public interest energy research.

Joseph Sax (Law)

Orville Schell (Journalism)
China's evolving media and the market place.

Franz Schurmann (Sociology)
Changes in contemporary US society; changes in the US role in the world; development of world systems.

Otto Smith (Electrical Engineering)
High efficiency air-conditioners; economic planning for developing countries; computer optimization of large systems.; high efficiency of consumer products; induction motors, solar domestic hot water, solar space heating, electric automobiles; wind turbines and wind farms; solar-thermal-electric power plants.

Hilgard O'Reilly Sternberg (Geography)
Physico-biotic, cultural, and historical geography; the interface of human communities and their environments; dysfunctions that occur on that interface, specifically consequences of development policies in the neotropics (Brazil and Amazonia); climatic variability as opposed to climate changes in Amazonia during the Holocene; anthropogenic effects on climate and hydrology in Amazonia; environmental impact of energy production in developing countries of the tropics.

Richard Strohman (Molecular Biology)
Regulation of growth and development in experimental cell culture model systems.

Robert Twiss (Landscape Architecture)
Environmental assessments for regional planning; GIS; public land management and planning.

Sim Van der Ryn (Architecture)