Assistant professor Benjamin Blonder and graduate student Courtenay Ray co-authored a recent study in the journal Ecological Applications.
Two ESPM faculty members named California Academy of Sciences Fellows
Stephanie Carlson and Damian Elias are recognized for their notable contributions to the natural sciences.
New faculty to focus on climate change and environmental justice
New scholars in ESPM are among a campus-wide cluster hire, in order to bolster research addressing climate equity and climate impacts on communities of color, marginalized, and underrepresented groups.
Department welcomes incoming faculty
The ESPM department welcomes four new faculty members, with research specializations ranging from urban ecology to climate change adaptation and Indigenous environmental studies.
ESPM faculty discuss cluster hires
Meg Mills-Novoa, Elizabeth Hoover, and Peter Nelson are featured in an article on campus-wide cluster hires in climate equity, Native American and Indigenous Peoples, and more.
Patterns of income and urbanization linked to mammal biodiversity
Assistant professor Christopher Schell co-authored a new study on urban ecology in the journal Global Change Biology.
How much wildfire smoke is infiltrating our homes?
Scientists used crowdsourced data to find out how well Californians are able to stay safe on smoky days.
Patrick Gonzalez to advise White House on climate change and biodiversity
Associate adjunct professor Patrick Gonzalez joins the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Oil palm plantations reshape human hunting
Recent graduate alum Dave Kurz co-authored a study on shifting Indigenous practices now published in the journal People and Nature.
Drought and climate change shift tree disease in Sierra Nevada
Researchers at Berkeley and UC Davis explain how infectious plant diseases move in a study out today in Nature Communications.
National Science Foundation awards $10 million to alliance of Native American institutions
Researchers at Berkeley and the University of Arizona will focus primarily on bolstering Indigenous participation in STEM education.
Indonesia: Spectacles of Small-scale Gold Mining
In a photo series exhibited on the UC Berkeley Library website, professor Nancy Lee Peluso documents her ethnographic fieldwork.
How wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
A new study, co-authored by ESPM and Berkeley Forests researchers, was featured in Berkeley News .
Margiana Petersen-Rockney receives Lawrence Busch Student Research Award
Granted by the Rural Sociological Society, the award supports student research in food and agriculture.
Kathryn De Master recognized for instruction by Rural Sociological Society
The Society’s Excellence in Instruction Award recognizes outstanding rural-oriented teaching at the graduate or undergraduate level.
NSF awards $2 million to the FLUXNET Coordination Project
Assistant professor Trevor Keenan will lead the FLUXNET coordination project, a global network-of-networks measuring exchanges of CO2 and water between ecosystems and the atmosphere.
ESPM Fall 2021 Course Spotlight
A Daily Californian piece features 3 ESPM courses attracting attention: "Remote Sensing of the Environment,” taught by Manuela Girotto, “Thinking with Animals,” taught by Sunaura Taylor, and "Chemistry of Soils," taught by Laura Nielsen Lammers.
Patrick Gonzalez to deliver scientific plenary at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting
An adjunct professor in ESPM, Gonzalez will speak on "Ecological integrity and solutions under anthropogenic climate change" on Tuesday, August 3.
Bogs, Bugs & Borgs
Professor Jill Banfield and her team are studying the microorganisms that live in rice paddy soils, with the aim of understanding how they contribute to greenhouse gas emissions—and how to intervene.
Berkeley joins Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition
All public and Tribal land management agencies in stewardship of giant sequoias will work together to protect the iconic trees from threats of climate change and catastrophic wildfire.
