Faculty Research

Bren School research has a significant global impact on the most critical environmental challenges of our day, including climate change, ecology and conservation, water resources, and ocean health.

Bren School faculty members conduct research in a variety of disciplines, and across disciplines, to solve environmental problems. At Bren, our research is highly collaborative, both within the UCSB research community and with researchers at other institutions and organizations across the world.

Our faculty members play leading roles in advising government agencies, corporations, and nonprofit organizations about science, management, and policy questions. They provide intellectual leadership about the direction of environmental technology, science, and policy, and bring a comprehensive understanding of these issues to their teaching and research.

Bren School faculty and lecturers are subject matter experts in many areas that span the biological and earth sciences, data science, law, politics, and more under the umbrella of environmental science and environmental management. They are knowledgeable experts on topics such as climate change, ocean health, sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, wildfires and drought, water management, environmental justice, conservation and ecology, pollution, agricultural practices, corporate sustainability, data science, environmental policy and politics, environmental economics, and environmental law.

Subject Matter Expertise Directory:

Bren Faculty

Environmental politics, political science, legislatures

Environmental policy in developing countries

Land use and climate change, hydrology and agriculture

Environmental justice, climate justice, health equity, social vulnerability to hazards and disasters.

Economics of environmental regulation, natural resource management

Energy systems, economics, and policies

Global change ecology, forest disturbance, climate change

Industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, pollution prevention 

Marine ecology, conservation science, climate change, aquaculture and fisheries

Environmental economics, deforestation and policy, natural resource economics

Microbial ecology, microbiology and pollution, coastal ecology

Hydrology, water resources management, groundwater

Pollution prevention, pollution remediation, watershed management

Conservation biology, population ecology, ecological modeling

Agricultural ecology, land use, landscape ecology

Fisheries management, ocean ecology, coral reef restoration

Global change ecology, disease ecology, environmental and human health

Energy systems analysis, climate change mitigation, sustainable manufacturing, data centers and ICT

Environmental economics, resource economics

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecology

Resource economics, land use economics, environmental policy

Corporate environmental management

Environmental law and policy, drinking water

Climate modeling, oceanography, climate dynamics

Industrial ecology, climate change mitigation, life cycle assessment

Ecohydrology, ecoinformatics

Ecology, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning

Affiliated Faculty & Researchers

Environmental economics, climatic risks

Environmental geomorphology

Environmental economics, health and labor economics

Climate science

Aquatic biology, ecology, limnology

Environmental statistics, geophysical models

Environmental politics, comparative politics, public opinion

Environmental economics, climate change, political economics

Environmental justice, race and ethnic studies, social change

Environmental communication, public campaigns, social change, new media

Environmental politics, American politics, public opinion and voting behavior

Energy and environmental politics, American politics, public policy

Large carnivore ecology, environmental justice, science communications

Adjunct Faculty

Climate change, conservation planning

Wildfire dynamics

Water policy, energy and climate policy, water resources

Fisheries science, fisheries management

Environmental law and policy

Teaching Faculty & Lecturers

Eco-entrepreneurship