Jenny Rempel

Jenny Rempel

Education
MA, Energy & Resources, UC Berkeley
BS, Earth Systems, Stanford University
Research Interests

Environmental justice, water access, water governance, geospatial analysis, political ecology, community-engaged scholarship

Research Description

I use mixed methods approaches to improve our understanding of the patterns and drivers of inequitable water access in efforts to provide organizers, advocates, and policymakers with the information needed to strengthen community-based solutions to longstanding water injustices. In recent research, I have used geospatial modeling and archival analysis to examine how land ownership patterns affect groundwater access and well drilling behavior, and I have characterized violations of the human right to water in rural and incarcerated communities. With the Water Equity Science Shop, I am creating tools to make drinking water data more accessible to policymakers and to community members reliant on domestic groundwater wells in California.

Selected Publications

Belfer, E. and Rempel, J. (2020). “Surfacing Overlying Rights: Assessing Transitions in Overlying Rights to California’s Groundwater Basins.” Master’s Thesis. Energy & Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley.

Honors and Awards
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center Graduate Research Fellowship
NSF Data Science for Society and the Environment (DS421) Fellowship
Recent Teaching
Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment (Fall 2021)