Bren School faculty lead interdisciplinary research on pressing environmental challenges, including climate change, water resources, conservation, and ocean health. Their work spans science, policy, and data-driven solutions, collaborating with global institutions and advising governments, businesses, and nonprofits. As experts in fields such as environmental law, economics, sustainability, and justice, they integrate cutting-edge research into their teaching, shaping the future of environmental leadership.
Subject Matter Expertise Directory:
Bren Faculty
Environmental Politics
Environmental Institutions and Governance
Hydrology, Terrestrial Ecology, Coupled Natural-Human Systems
Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, Disability Justice, Disaster Vulnerability
Resource Economics
Marine Data Science
Energy Systems, Economics, and Policies
Global change ecology, forest disturbance, climate change
Environmental Data Science
Industrial Ecology
Marine Ecology, Conservation Planning
Environmental Economics, Land System Science
Environmental Microbiology
Hydrology, Water Resources, Groundwater
Fate and Transport, Watershed Management, Remediation, Pollution Prevention
Conservation Biology, Population Ecology, Ecological Modeling
Agricultural Ecology, Land Use, Landscape Ecology
Applied Marine and Fisheries Biology
Global Change Ecology, Disease Ecology, Environmental and Human Health
Energy System Analysis, Climate Change Mitigation, Sustainable Manufacturing, Data Centers & ICT
Environmental Economics
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecology
Environmental Communication, Oceanography, Geochemistry, Science Policy
Resource Economics, Land Use Economics
Corporate Environmental Management
Environmental Law
Climate Modeling, Drought, Oceanography, Climate Dynamics
Ecohydrology and Ecoinformatics
Ecology, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning
Affiliated Faculty & Researchers
Faculty in Environmental Studies and History Departments
Professor, Department of Economics
Professor, Department of Earth Science
Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Dehlsen Chair, Department of Environmental Studies
Water Resources Engineering, Groundwater Science and Policy
Rupe Chair, Department of Communication
Professor, Department of Geography
Professor, Department of Political Science
Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics
Sustainable Land Use, Climate Change Mitigation, Renewable Energy Planning, Land Systems Science
Adjunct Faculty
Marine Conservation
Climate Change, Conservation Planning
Wildfire Dynamics
Water Policy
Fisheries Science and Management
International Environmental Law and Policy
Teaching Faculty & Lecturers
Ecohydrology, Earth observation techniques (remote sensing and GIS), and process-based modeling
Environmental Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Environmental Data Science
Fisheries, marine conservation, climate change
Environmental and Administrative Law
Research data management, scientific reproducibility, digital preservation, digital libraries, and data science and literacy
Applied statistics, data science, biodiversity, environmental DNA, invasive species
Intentional Media, environmental media campaign design, impact media, ocean stories
Strategic Environmental Communication & Media
Environmental Social Science
Network models of natural resource governance, sustainable fisheries, sea level rise adaptation, and the science of science communication.
President and CEO of the National Park Foundation
Corporate water stewardship, integrated water management, California water policy, and global water governance
Energy and climate, engineering, and industrial decarbonization
The Faculty Experience: How Bren Professors Work
Get to know Bren faculty and their interdisciplinary research projects, from coral reefs in Mo'orea to climate change and loss of biodiversity.