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
Patrick Gonzalez, an associate adjunct professor of environmental science, policy, and management, 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.
2021-2022 S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowship awardees
The annual fellowship supports advanced postdoctoral research in natural resources economics and political economy.
Drought and climate change shift tree disease in Sierra Nevada
In a study out today in Nature Communications, researchers at Berkeley and UC Davis explain the movement of infectious plant diseases.
New report details "first-of-its-kind" nutrition policy at Berkeley
Mary Lesser, a Nutritional Science & Toxicology researcher and lecturer, co-authored a report on the campus-wide program in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
National Science Foundation awards $10 million to alliance of Native American institutions
With the funding, researchers at Berkeley and the University of Arizona aim to increase Indigenous participation in STEM education.
Why Sunflowers Face East
In a new study, scientists in the Blackman Lab have helped explain how sunlight orientation is connected to plant reproduction and pollination.
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.
Rausser College athletes compete in 2020 Olympics
This summer, seven Rausser students and alumni joined the global competition in Tokyo.
Student Spotlight: Sierra Margolis
Margolis, a fourth-year student majoring in Conservation and Resource Studies, studies the intersection of conservation and tech as a Fung Fellow.
How wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
Researchers in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Berkeley Forests were featured in a Berkeley News article.
The Transformation of Africa’s Energy Sector
New research, co-authored by professor of energy and resources Dan Kammen, identifies actions to increase affordable, clean electrification across the continent.
Kathryn De Master recognized for instruction by Rural Sociological Society
The Excellence in Instruction Award recognizes De Master for outstanding rural-oriented teaching at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
A machine learning breakthrough uses satellite images to improve lives
Rausser College alumni are part of a team that devised a system that could make analyzing satellite data accessible and affordable for researchers and governments worldwide.
Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity connected to child developmental disorders
Cooperative Extension specialist Susana Matias co-authored a study published today in the journal Obesity.
NSF awards $2 million to the FLUXNET Coordination Project
ESPM 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.
A novel computing method for studying utility-scale renewable power systems
Energy and Resources Group researchers Duncan Callaway and José Daniel Lara share their open-source modeling approach in a new publication in IEEE Electrification.
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.
Evolutionary arms race
In a study published in the journal Science, members of the Seed lab unlock genetic mechanisms behind cholera and its viruses.