Students
ERG's sixty plus graduate students are geographically and ethnically diverse. About half are in the two masters-degree programs and half in the PhD program. The students come from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds in engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities; the characteristics they have in common are an ability to cross disciplinary boundaries, an interest in the complex problems at the interface of technology and society, and the intellectual credentials to survive a highly competitive admissions process. Graduates of the program are employed across the United States and around the world in governmental and international agencies, legislative staff positions, national laboratories, public and private utilities, other energy and resource companies, consulting firms, public-interest organizations, and universities.
Alisar Aoun, MS/PhD*
Joshua Apte, MS
Energy Technologies: methods to quantify the potential of energy efficient devices. Transportation; air quality; environmental justice.
Carolina Balazs, MS 2006/PhD
Water & development in Latin America; CA based water management; sustainability; environmental justice.
Merrill Jones Barradale, MBA 2000 / PhD
Renewable energy financing; wind power.
Dipti Bhatnagar, MS
Water; common property resource management; conflicts over water and access to water; quantitative solutions for globabl environmental problems.
Sam Borgeson, MS*
Adam Brandt, MS 2005/PhD
Energy efficiency; energy use in transportation; advanced automobiles; land-use planning; public transport.
Zach Burt, MA
Common property management, water resource allocation; waste water treatment; rural development; urban-rural migration.
Douglas Bushey, MS 2005/ PhD
Science Advising in International Agreements; science-law interation; science and technology studies (STS).
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Christian Casillas, MS/PhD
Innovations in energy and energy policy research; power generation; transmission and distribution.
Zoe Chafe, MS/PhD*
Deborah Cheng, MA
Water supply and quality in developing countries; urban sustainability; resource consumption and management.
Lara Cushing, MA/PhD*
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Naim Darghouth, MS 2006/ PhD
Biofuels in sub-Saharan Africa; energy policy and markets; sustainable development; life-cycle emissions of biofuels; food security.
Michael B. Dwyer, MS 2003/ PhD
Political ecology and development studies in Southeast Asia, focusing on the use of mapping in new agribusiness investment and the creation of rural infrastructure in northern Lao PDR.
Jeremy Eddy, MS/PhD
Environmental justice, development and deployment of clean energy technologies, ecological monitoing and conservation; public policy and education.
William (Jamil) Farbes, MS*
Solar, wind and fuel cell technologies; appropriate energy mix strategies; biofuels and biorefineries; energy and carbon economics; individual consumption; technology's role in mitigating water scarcity.
Kevin Fingerman, MS 2007/PhD
Ecological and social impacts of increased biofuel production; agroecology; water-use efficiency in agriculture; focus on India.
Matthias Fripp, MS/PhD
Renewable energy; climate change; resource cycles; photovoltaics; systemic aspects of consumption.
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Merrian Fuller, MA*
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D. Asher Ghertner MA 2004/PhD
Development studies, India, environmental justice, political ecology.
Mary Gifford, MS/PhD*
Anand Gopal, PhD
Renewable and sustainable energy and fuel cells.
Eric Hallstein, MS 1997/ PhD
Understanding the influence of environmental, social and health-related information on consumers' product choices; micro-economics with a focus on empirical industrial organization, consumer behavior and applied econometrics.
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Barbara Haya, MS 2002/ PhD
Equity within international efforts to mitigate climate change, the
Clean Development Mechanism, international finance institutions, power sector
restructuring in South East Asia.
Ian Hoffman, MS
Energy security; distributed energy systems; linkages between mobile and stationary energy sources.
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Stacy Jackson, MA/PhD
Adoption rate of renewable energy; solar/photovoltaic technologies; alternative transportation fuels: greenhouse gases/climate change.
Josiah Johnston, MS
Advancing "open source" methodologies in sustainable development, LED off-grid home lights, community development, job creation; technology design; energy efficiency; renewable energy; computer modeling, climate change mitigation.
Andrew Jones, MS
The social and ecological impacts of biofuels including food security, energy security, climate, and land use issues; climate policy, market-based policy, transportation, agroecology, biogeochemistry, and mathematical models.
Fredrich Kahrl, MS 2007/ PhD
Energy/water infrastructure in developing countries amidst rapid urbanization.
Margareta Kalka, PhD*
Joseph Kantner, MS/PhD
Democratization/decentralization of the energy grid; local, comprehensible-scale; renewable energy; solar; hydrogen; thermal depolymerization processing.
Kamal Kapadia, MA 2003/ PhD
Renewable energy and development; multilateral aid programs in energy finance and development; energy planning.
Amber Kerr, PhD
Renewable energy; sustainable development; climate change; ecology and biogeochemistry; agroforestry.
Michael Kiparsky, MS 2004/PhD
Climate adaptation in water resources management; risk and decision making in water resources; governance and management of complex systems; science/policy interface.
Charles Kirubi, MS
Renewable energy; biomass; energy & sustainable livelihoods in rural Africa; climate change.
Laura Koteen, PhD
Conservation biology; global climate change science and policy; biological invasion; North-South policy interactions.
Catherine Kunkel, PhD*
Danette Lambert, MA/PhD
Environmental justice; scientific understanding of environmental problems; the study of social and behavioral issues.
Micah Lang, MA 2006/PhD
Water, watershed management, cultural connections to natural resource use; development and natural resource policy in rural areas; Africa; South America.
Derek Lemoine, MS 2007/PhD
GIS; energy networks; renewables; land use; energy markets; novel policy responses to climate change; option value; uncertainty, policy, and economics.
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Nadia Madden, MS/PhD
Water Resources and international development with a focus on India. Sustainable development; safe water for the 1.2 billion who go without.
Andrew McAllister, MS 1992/ PhD (on leave)
Rural integrated energy planning in developing countries; renewable
energy systems and applications; decentralization; technology transfer;
industrial processes.
Andrew Mills
Renewable energy technologies; distributed generation; rural development; water rights and policy.
Anita Milman, MA 2004/ PhD
Water along the US-Mexico border, water and development and indicators of sustainability.
Jonathan Mingle, MS
Renewable energy; rural development and decentralized power generation; energy efficient construction; interface between vernacular architecture; cultural contexts and appropriate and renewable energy technologies; passive heating and cooling strategies; water and sanitation in developing world.
Bessma Mourad, MA/PhD*
Freshwater resources; development; water pollution; environmental health; women's health; environmental justice; Middle East; politicization of water.
Ashley Murray, PhD
Water and sanitation in developing countries with a particular focus on China and other parts of Asia; sustainability indicators and the convergence of enviromental with social and cultural sustainability.
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Zachary Norwood, PhD*
Tracey Osborne, PhD
Carbon forestry activities; carbon markets; Mexico; agrarian political economy; development studies; political ecology.
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Carla Peterman, PhD
Energy policy; renewable energy technology; innovation strategy; enviromental history; technology adoption.
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Richard Plevin, MS, 2006/PhD
Climate change and renewable energy, particularly biofuels; organic agriculture and mitigating environmental harm from bioenergy crop production; whole-systems thinking; modeling.
Deepak Rajagopal, PhD
Biomass and bio-diesel for power generation and rural development in India; distributed generation, cogeneration; energy policy.
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Malini Ranganathan, MS 2005 / PhD
Energy and resource efficiency; Urban sustainability; Governance, reforms, and equity; Politics of development and international aid; Climate change and energy policy in developing countries.
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Fermin Reygadas, MS/PhD
Rural energy; water purification systems; cookstoves; energy policy in developing countries; migration; renewable energy; appropriate technologies; Latin America.
Sarah Richmond, MS
Water resources management and policy, especially river restoration and climate change impacts/adaption in California.
Alejandra Rueda, MA*
Imran Sheikh, MS*
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Emma Shephardson, MS
Climate change; food distribution; sustainability; social and corporate change via non-profit or government organizations.
Suzie Shin, MS
Energy infrastructure in developing countries, North Korea.
Anne Short, MS 2005/ PhD
Environmental governance; rural land use change; water quality; land management and conservation planning; science and policy.
Jelena Simjanovic, MA*
Adam Smith, PhD
Spatial patterns of species diversity; incentivization of conservation at the international level; teaching.
Anna Sommer, MA*
Zachary Subin, MS
Air pollution; sustainable electricity generation and transportation; energy policies.
Daniella Svehla, MS
Plant community ecology, ecosystem degradation or biodiversity loss.
Niels Tomijima, MA
Implementing environmental reforms or technologies; energy sources for developing countries and energy policy; climate effects on society and development.
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Adriana Valencia, MS 2004/ PhD
Transnational issues such as global warming; use and spread of alternative clean technologies to make wise use of natural resources and to conserve non-renewable ones such as oil; preservation of fresh water; reduction and management of waste; environmental policy.
Sintana Vergara, MS 2007/PhD
Solid waste management, in US and developing countries; waste conversion technologies; life cycle analysis; drinking water treatment technologies and application in the developing world; adoption of Point of Use water treatment technologies; biodiversity; industrial ecology.
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Cyrus Wadia, MA/PhD
Nanocomposite photovoltaics; investigating the resource economics of new material systems for photovoltaics; novel PV device fabrication using aequeous chemistry of nanoparticles
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, MS 2007/ PhD
Energy markets; energy and development;energy policy; energy and water nexus.
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Nina Zheng, MA
Renewable energy and energy efficiency policymaking and implementation; energy and economic development in china; technology transfer and adoption in developing countries; global climate change.
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