Amir is an Associate Prof. in UCI's Dept. of Civil & Envtl. Engineering with a joint appointment in Earth System Science. His research combines remote sensing techniques and physically-based and statistical approaches in order to develop more reliable models of large-scale hydrologic systems.
Susi earned her PhD in APplied Geosciences at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany in 2016. She now works as part of the Big Pixel Initiative at UCSD on urban heat islands and their connections to energy and water systems.
Jack is a Professor in UCI's Depts. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a joint appointment in Civil & Envtl. Engineering. His research includes dynamic modeling of fundamental processes that govern energy conversion devices such as fuel cellsas well as analyses of integrated energy systems.
Jen is an Associate Prof. in UCSD's School of Global Policy & Strategy and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her research focuses on achieving global food security and mitigating climate change.
Steve is an Associate Prof. in UCI's Dept. of Earth System Science with a joint appointment in Civil & Envtl. Engineering. He researches energy and agricultural systems, the impacts of pollution and environmental change, international trade, and “lock-in” of environmental problems.
Robert is a second year PhD student at UCI who received his B.S. in Earth System Science at UC Irvine in 2016. His research interests include the infrastructural inertia of CO2 emissions and the adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Jesus is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis. His current research focuses on the welfare and productivity effects of climate change in the agriculture of developing countries and possible adaptation strategies in the short and long run.
Chaopeng earned his PhD from the Dept. of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University in 2017 under the supervision of Profs. Qiang Zhang and Kebin He. Chaopeng is now researching the combined effects of air pollution and warming on California perennial crops and the drivers of global land use emissions.
Morgan earned her PhD from the Energy Resources Group at UC Berkeley in 2016. Her research focuses on hydrology and water resources; land use and climate change impacts to human health and the environment; human-environmental system dynamics; and environmental data science
Michael earned his PhD in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI. His research focuses on assessing the air quality impacts of transportation services as they exist now and may evolve in the future.
Jesus is a PhD candidate in Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Irvine. His research concerns the food security consequences of agricultural drought, including how impacts are transferred via trade.
Fran is an Assistant Prof. in the Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy at UCD. Her research research seeks to improve our understanding of the economic and social impacts of climate change and to better understand our ability to adapt to those impacts.
Nathan is an Assistant Prof. in the Dept. of Earth System Science. He researches the interactions among climate, water resources, and agricultural management to promote global food security and more sustainable agricultural landscapes.
Yue earned her PhD from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in 2017 under supervision of Prof. Denise Mauzerall. Yue is now researching the interaction of global food-energy-water systems, including the flexibility of water uses and vulnerability to changing snowmelt.
Scott is the HORIBA Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Environmental Engineering at UCI. His research on energy systems, gas turbine combustion technology, fuel cells and fuel cell systems, microgrid/smart grid technology, and fueling infrastructure for alternative vehicles.
Brian earned his PhD in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI. His research focuses on assessing the operation and environmental performance of energy systems as they may evolve in the future.
Dan earned her PhD from the Dept. of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University in 2017 under the supervision of Profs. Qiang Zhang and Kebin He. Dan is now researching "committed" CO2 emissions and geophyscial constraints on energy systems dominated by variable renewable sources.
Peng earned his PhD in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University in 2017. His research examines land-use change and agriculture using models and satellite data, evaluating the effects on global climate, biogeochemical cycles, and ecosystem goods and services.