Highlighting some of the ESPM students, faculty, and alums affiliated with the esteemed Society.
Rosalie Fanshel recognized with leadership in graduate diversity award
Fanshel, a 2025 ESPM PhD graduate, received the Graduate Division's Cynthia Ladd-Viti Award for integrating justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion within their teaching, mentoring, advising, and research.
Linking landscape conservation and wildlife viewing in protected areas
A new study from the Stone Center researchers and collaborators finds that national park visitors would donate to support conservation efforts.
New insights about birds in San Francisco’s community gardens
ESPM assistant professor Alejandra Echeverri co-authored a recent study that explored trends in bird sightings at community gardens in low- and high-income neighborhoods.
Irrigation boosts groundwater resilience in northern Italy
Despite a decline in the groundwater stores of northern Italy’s Po Plain, a new study led by ESPM researchers found that irrigation practices make aquifers more resilient to drought.
Four seniors named winners of the 2025 Babcock Prize in Environmental Science
Endowed as a tribute to longtime soil chemistry professor Kenneth Babcock, the prize recognizes high-achieving ESPM undergraduates.
Report details the widespread impacts of dust on California
ESPM professor Paolo D’Odorico and postdoctoral scientist Tobia Rinaldo co-authored a new report that shows that dust emissions in California are now greater than at any other period in history.
Four ESPM students receive funding from the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship
Michelle Katuna, Dara Noonan, McKalee Steen, and Royale Williams are receiving grants from the Center to support their conservation research.
LA’s communities of color bear a disproportionate burden of air pollution
A recent study led by ESPM researchers found that disadvantaged communities in Los Angeles experience significantly higher concentrations and emissions of hazardous air pollutants than non-disadvantaged communities.
How to Decipher a Forest
Professor Emerit Nancy Peluso has spent her career analyzing entanglements between human and natural worlds.
How ecosystems contribute to Colombia’s energy and water sectors
A new study demonstrates how natural capital accounting approaches can be used to value the economic benefits of ecosystems in Colombia’s Upper Sinú Basin.
A World of Climate Data
Professors Dennis Baldocchi and Trevor Keenan are helping lead a collaborative network of scientists measuring the breathing of the biosphere around the globe.
What we really need in the fight against extinction
ESPM faculty members Justin Brashares and Douglas McCauley write in TIME about how “de-extinction efforts” distract from the accelerating decline and extinction of nature.
Study Finds Opportunities to Increase Financial Security for Farmers and Insurance Companies
Professor Timothy Bowles and collaborators including researchers at the UC Berkeley Schmidt Center for Data Science and the Environment have released a paper and an open source tool that models the likely future of the US corn industry, in which growers and insurance companies face increasing economic uncertainty.
Yarrow Syskine receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Syskine, who researches how to improve the social-ecological resilience of California’s dryland forests under climate change, is one of three graduate students in the College to receive the competitive fellowships.
Youjin Chung honored with AAG book award
The ESPM and ERG assistant professor’s latest book, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape, was honored by the American Association for Geographers.
Electric trains are quieter, more reliable—and healthier—than diesel
A study co-authored by UC Berkeley professors Allen Goldstein and Joshua Apte, '13 Energy and Resources, found that electrifying the Caltrain commuter line reduced riders’ exposure to carcinogenic black carbon by an average of 89%.
Applications cycle open for new National Geographic Society Initiative on American Keystones
Researchers, conservation practitioners, Tribal leaders, and others leading conservation efforts focused on keystone species in the United States and territories are encouraged to apply by May 23rd.
Gradfest is May 7
Join us for a symposium event featuring research talks from graduating students from the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management!
A single dry winter decimated CA's salmon and trout populations
A new study led by Professor Stephanie Carlson found that severely dry conditions during the winter of 2013-2014 helped wipe out the salmonid populations of individual tributaries and even entire watersheds.