Press Room

The Rausser College of Natural Resources includes UC Berkeley faculty, Cooperative Extension specialists, graduate students, and undergraduates working in a variety of research areas related to:

  • Agriculture and agricultural economics
  • Energy technologies and policy
  • Environmental and climate-change science, policy, and ecology
  • Fire science, safety, and policy
  • Food safety, food supply, food additives
  • Insects and wildlife biology
  • Natural Resources: science, ecology, and conservation of water, soil, and energy.
  • Obesity, childhood obesity, nutrition
  • Plant and microbial biology, genetically modified organisms
  • Sustainable energy, farming systems, natural resource management, etc.

Contact details

For help locating Rausser College faculty experts or for other press inquiries, contact:

Julie Gipple
Communications Director
ON LEAVE AS OF NOVEMBER 2025
julie_gipple@berkeley.edu

Mathew Burciaga
Communications Specialist
mburciaga@berkeley.edu
(510) 664-5122

News

January 28, 2026

Comstock's Magazine
After SMUD Pulls Out, Is the Coyote Creek Solar Project a Climate Win or a Loss?

Features Dennis Baldocchi, Proffesor Emerit in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

January 27, 2026

San Francisco Standard
Alcatraz coyote gets ‘much fatter’ on prison island diet

Features Christopher Schell, Associate Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Agriculture, natural resources sectors support California’s rank as world’s fourth-largest economy

Features Alexandra Hill, Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics.

Forbes
What’s The 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic Torch Relay? Everything You Need To Know

Features Matteo Garbelotto, professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

January 26, 2026

NBC Bay Area
UC Berkeley professor to carry Olympic torch before Milan Cortina Games

Features Matteo Garbelotto, professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

Daily Cal
UC Berkeley professor and service dog to carry Winter Olympics torch in Italy

Features Matteo Garbelotto, professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

January 22, 2026

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Cooperative Extension area director to emphasize water, land, labor issues in SoCal

Featurs alum, Chandra Richards, PhD '16 Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

January 18, 2026

Wyoming PBS
Wyoming's Invisible Walls: Saving the Last Great American Migration

Featurs Kristin Barker, research director for the Beyond Yellowstone Living Lab, in the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship.

January 9, 2026

Mongabay
AI-centered conservation efforts can only be ethical if Indigenous people help lead them

Features McKalee Steen, graduate student in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and Magali de Bruyn, research software engineer in the Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment.

January 7, 2026

NPR
Sick young ants send out a 'kill me' scent to prevent deadly epidemics

Features Neil Tsutsui, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

December 24, 2025

The Washington Post
How Trump’s attacks on ‘climate alarmism’ have already transformed U.S. science

Features Patrick Gonzalez (PhD '93 Energy and Resources), associate adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

December 20, 2025

The Los Angeles Times
Social media users in the Central Valley are freaking out about unusual fog, and what might be in it

Features Dennis Baldocchi, a professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

December 17, 2025

The New York Times
California’s ‘Twilight Zone’ of Endless Fog Is Finally Clearing

Features Dennis Baldocchi, a professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

December 15, 2025

Contra Costa Youth Journalism
New study reveals the fatal impacts of climate change on East Bay trees

Features Matteo Garbelotto, a professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

December 1, 2025

Los Angeles Times
California utilities try AI to combat costly wildfire liabilities

Features Duncan Callaway, Professor in The Energy and Resources Group.

November 26, 2025

Newsweek
Map Shows US States Warned of Sea Level Rise in 2050, 2100

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and alum Lara Cushing, PhD '15 Energy and Resources Group.

November 25, 2025

Cayman Compass
Uber has cut road deaths in US; could it do the same in Cayman?

Featurs Michael Anderson, Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Bay Journal
Report: Climate change imperils toxic sites across Chesapeake Bay region

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and alum Lara Cushing, PhD '15 Energy and Resources Group.

C&EN News
These archaea built a distinct genetic code to put pyrrolysine in proteins

Features Jill Banfield, Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.

November 20, 2025

The Guardian
Thousands of toxic sites across US face risk of coastal flooding

Features Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor in Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and alum Lara Cushing, PhD '15 Energy and Resources Group