Graduate Student

Catalina Riveros-Gómez

Graduate Student

Catalina Riveros-Gómez is a PhD student in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley whose research examines environmental justice, critical agrarian questions, political ecology, and biodiversity and biocultural conservation in Latin America. Her research focuses on Colombia’s northwestern Amazon, where she works with campesino communities to examine how agrarian, legal, political, and ecological dynamics shape forests and forest governance. Drawing on environmental justice, feminist political ecology, biodiversity and biocultural conservation, her work...

Daniela Rodriguez-Chavez

Graduate Student

Daniela Rodriguez-Chavez is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow & Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Berkeley in both the de Valpine and Boettiger labs. Interested in using mathematics and statistics to better understand public health concerns, her dissertation is focused on understanding the spatiotemporal relationships between dengue and zika using dynamical systems and statistical models.

Admittance Semester/Year and Program

PhD, Fall 2023

Education

B.A. in Mathematics, 2023, Cornell University...

Valle Rogers

Graduate Student

I’m an entomologist studying biological control with a focus on parasitic Hymenoptera.

Admittance and Program

Fall 2022, PhD in Entomology

Education

BS, Molecular Environmental Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2015

Research Lab

Daane Lab, Roderick Lab

Selected Publications

Moran, P. J., Rogers, D. V., Bitume, E. V., Portman, S. L. & Goolsby, J. A....

Kieren Rudge

Graduate Student

I am a political ecologist centering climate justice across islands and oceans. My research examines military-led adaptation through a comparative case study in two locations with distinct relationships to the U.S. empire: the unincorporated island territory of Guåhan (Guam) and San Diego County, California.

Admittance Semester/Year and Program

Fall 2022, PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, & Management (Society & Environment)

Education

BS, Environmental Science, Johns Hopkins...