PhD Alumni
Click the student's dissertation title to see their defense video, if available. Note that many videos may be password-protected by the student.
| Student Name | Dissertation Video | YEAR | Advisors | Linked In |
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| Nikit Abhyankar | Essays on Modeling Energy Future of India: Natural Gas, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency | 2012 | John Weyant (MS&E) Larry Goulder (Econ) | |
| Garrett Adler | Social Order and Social Protection: Mechanisms and Moderators in Climate-Related Violent Conflict | 2022 | Marshall Burke (SDSS) Kenneth Schultz (Poli Sci) | |
| Christa Anderson | Land Use Policy for Forest Management: Impacts on Forest Outcomes | 2018 | Chris Field (Bio) Eric Lambin (ESS) | |
| Ronan Arthur | Epidemics and Adaptive Behavior as a Coupled Human-Natural System: Trust and Response to the 2014-15 Ebola Epidemic in Liberia | 2018 | Jamie Jones (ESS) Marcus Feldman (Bio) | |
| Whitney Bagge | The landscape epidemiology of zoonotic diseases: rodent-borne bartonella and livestock anthrax | 2017 | James Jones (ESS) Stephen Luby (Med) | |
| Austin Becker | Building seaport resilience for climate change adaptation: Problem identification, impacts assessment, and stakeholder strategies | 2013 | Pam Matson (ESS) Martin Fischer (CEE) | |
| Elinor Benami | Shaping the Producer's Problem: The Role of Land-use Zoning and Certification in the Sustainability of Brazilian Oil Palm and Coffee | 2018 | Eric Lambin (ESS) Marshall Burke (ESS) | |
| Rebecca Benner (Goldman) | Novel Institutional Approaches for Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | 2008 | Gretchen Daily (Bio) Barton Thompson (Law) | |
| Nicole Buckley Biggs | Engaging Agricultural Landowners in Climate and Conservation: California Case Studies | 2022 | Eric Lambin (ESS) Lynn huntsinger (UC Berkley) | |
| Laura Bloomfield | At the Edge of Zoonotic Spillover: Land Use, Human-Primate Contact and Social Networks in Western Uganda | 2018 | Jamie Jones (ESS) Eric Lambin (ESS) | |
| Hilary Schaffer Boudet | Contentious Politics in Liquefied Natural Gas Facility Siting | 2010 | Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Douglas McAdam (Sociology) | |
| Erica Bower | Outcomes and Governance of Community-wide Planned Relocation in a Changing Climate: Risk Reduction, Sustainable Livelihoods and Justice | 2024 | Chris Field (Bio) Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (ESS) | |
| Greg Bratman | The impacts of nature experience on mood, emotion regulation, and cognitive function | 2015 | Gretchen Daily (Bio) Debra Satz (Phil) | |
| Kate Brauman | Hydrologic Ecosystem Services: Managing Land Cover to Enhance Water Resources | 2010 | Gretchen Daily (Bio) David Freyberg (CEE) | |
| Cassandra Brooks | Policies for managing the global commons: The case of marine protected areas in Antarctica | 2016 | Larry Crowder (Hopkins) Lisa Curran (Anthro) | |
| Nina Brooks | Global Health and the Environment: Studies on air pollution and reproductive health policies | 2020 | Stephen Luby (Med) Grant Miller (Med) | |
| Rachel Carlson | Climate Resilience in the Coastal Zone: Coral Survival and Regrowth in the Hawaiian Archipelago | 2022 | Greg Asner (Arizona State) Larry Crowder (Oceans) | |
| Marissa Childs | Environmental change and human health: vector-borne disease transmission and wildfire smoke pollution | 2022 | Marshall Burke (ESS) Erin Mordecai (Bio)
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| Marilyn Cornelius | Designing Behavioral Solutions to Reduce Residential Energy Use | 2012 | Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Tom Robinson (Med) | |
| Amanda Cravens | Evaluating software in environmental conflict resolution: The role of MarineMap in coastal planning and decision making in California | 2014 | Richard White (History) Meg Caldwell (Oceans) | |
| Danny Cullenward | Essays in Energy Economics and Climate Policy | 2013 | John Weyant (MS&E) Jonathan Koomey (CEE) | |
| Joann De Zegher | Toward sustainable sourcing in global supply chains | 2017 | Chris Field (Bio) Dan Iancu (GSB) | |
| Rachel Engstrand | The Human & Environmental Dynamics of Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining inThe Peruvian Amazon | 2021 | Greg Asner (Arizona State University) Kabir Peay (Bio) | |
| Caroline Ferguson | Lessons from Palau on Managing Fisheries for Equity and Sustainability | 2021 | Fiorenza Micheli (Bio) William Durham (Anthro) | |
| Jenna Forsyth | Root Causes of Lead Exposure in Rural Bangladesh | 2019 | Stephen Luby (Med) Nicole Ardoin (Edu) | |
| Jason Funk | Carbon farming in New Zealand: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Indigenous Reforestation as a Land-use System | 2009 | Chris Field (Bio) Pam Matson (ESS) | |
| Rachael Garrett | Interactions between global supply chains, land use, and governance: the case of soybean production in South America | 2013 | Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Eric Lambin (ESS) | |
| Joanne Gaskell | The Palm Oil Revolution in Asia | 2012 | Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Walter Falcon (FSI) | |
| Andy Gerhart | An environmental and social history of the Chilean salmon farming industry, 1976-2009 | 2015 | Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Richard White (History) | |
| Joshua Goldstein | Paying for Conservation in Human-Dominated Landscapes | 2007 | Gretchen Daily (Bio) Rosamond Naylor (ESS) | |
| David Gonzalez | Upstream Oil Production, Ambient Air Quality, and Preterm Birth in California | 2021 | Gary Shaw (Med) Marshall Burke (ESS) | |
| Rachelle Gould | The Forest Has a Story: Reforestation and Cultural Ecosystem Services in Kona, Hawaiˈi | 2013 | Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Gretchen Daily (Bio) | |
| Kristen Green | Respect the Land: Pathways to Resource Stewardship and Resiliency in a Changing Arctic | 2021 | Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Larry Crowder (Hopkins) | |
| Gus Greenstein | Bureaucracy Matters: Organizational Structure and Performance in Brazil's Pretected Areas Agency | 2023 | Francis Fuyuyama (FSI) Leonard Ortolano (CEE) | |
| Emily Grubert | Improving life cycle assessment as a decision support tool using empirical data for multicriteria prioritization | 2017 | Mark Algee-Hewitt (English) Adam Brandt (ERE) | |
| Mark Hayes | Flexible LNG Supply, Gas Storage and Price Formation in a Global Gas Market | 2006 | David Victor James Sweeney (MS&E) | |
| Robert Heilmayr | Chile's forest transition: Foreshadowing global timber markets and governance | 2015 | Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Chris Field (Bio) | |
| Michael Harris | Household sanitation services in Sub-Saharan Africa: coverage targets, child health outcomes, and a benefit-cost analysis | 2019 | Barton Thompson (Law) Eran Bendavid (Med) | |
| Miyuki Hino | Managing Flood Risk in a Changing Climate | 2019 | Chris Field (Bio) Marshall Burke (ESS) | |
| Randall Holmes | Strategies for Managing Naturally Occurring Contaminants in Groundwater Basins of the Central Valley, California | 2023 | Scott Fendorf (ESS) Richard Luthy (CE) | |
| Kristen Honey | Aligning Complex, Adaptive Systems Theory and Data-Limited Assessment Strategies for Improved Fisheries Management | 2013 | Stephen Monismith (CEE) Fiorenza Micheli (Bio) | |
| Michael Hooper | The Dynamics of Displacement: A Study of Slum Dweller Mobilization Around Urban Evictions in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 2010 | Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Jeremy Weinstein (Poli Sci) | |
| Andrew Hume | Oceanic Influence and Sustainable Development of Large Ocean States | 2022 | Rob Dunbar (ESS) James Leape (Center for Ocean Solutions) | |
| Holmes Hummel | Interpreting global energy and emission scenarios: Methods for understanding and communicating policy insights | 2006 | John Weyant (MS&E) Stephen Schneider | |
| Hajin Kim | Markets, Morality, and the Environment | 2020 | Buzz Thompson (Law) Dale Miller (GSB) | |
| Dane Klinger | Navigating emerging challenges in marine aquaculture: Toxins, temperature, and new species | 2014 | Fiorenza Micheli (Bio) Rosamond Naylor (ESS) | |
| Anna Lee | Learning to be a Human Alongside the More-than-Human World: Navigating Information, Morality, and Sense of Self in a Social and Environmental Context | 2022 | Mark Algee-Hewitt (English) Nicole Ardoin (ESS) | |
| Adam Leising | Peer Effects within Homeowner Adoption of Solar-PV Panels: A Case-Control Study of Three Northern California Cities | 2014 | Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Jim Sweeney (MS&E) | |
| Staci Lewis | Linking socio-political transformations to environmental change: A mixed methods approach to assessing adaptive watershed governance in the Republic of Palau | 2019 | Rob Dunbar (ESS) Meg Caldwell (Oceans) | |
| Noa Lincoln | Agroecology of the Kona Field System | 2014 | Peter Vitousek (Bio) Nicole Ardoin (Edu) | |
| Heather Lukacs | Sustaining the benefits of stream restoration by watershed groups in Appalachia | 2014 | Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Walter Powell (GSE) | |
| Andrea Lund | Human-environment dynamics in the eco-epidemiology of schistosomiasis | 2020 | Giulio deLeo (Bio) Jason Andrews (Med) | |
| Justin Mankin | Climate certainty, uncertainty, and human water availability in a warming world | 2015 | Noah Diffenbaugh (ESS) Stephen Stedman (FSI) | |
| Michael Mastrandrea | "Dangerous" Climate Change: Probabilistic Integrated Assessment, Ecosystem Impacts, and Abrupt Climatic Change | 2004 | Stephen Schneider Rob Dunbar (ESS) | |
| Casey Maue | Climate, Agriculture, and Economic Development: Theories and Methods for Agricultural Productivity Analysis | 2021 | Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Charles Kolstad (SIEPR) | |
| KC McKanna | The Impact of Identity, Situation, and Action Framing on Environmental Behavior | 2022 | Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (ESS) Dale Miller (GSB) | |
| Adam Millard-Ball | Why Do Cities Care About Climate Change? Essays on Carbon Offsets and Climate Action Plans | 2011 | Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Stephen Schneider | |
| Rebecca Miller | Wildfire Resilience Policies in California | 2021 | Chris Field (Bio) Bruce Cain (Poli Sci) | |
| Frances Moore | Empirical Constraints on the Rate and Effectiveness of Private Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture | 2015 | David Lobell (ESS) Lawrence Goulder (Econ) | |
| Josheena Naggea | People and the Sea in the Mascarenes: Social-ecological Impacts of Disaster | 2022 | Larry Crowder (Hopkins) Krish Seetah (Antro) | |
| Kimberly Nicholas | Global change in local places: Climate change and the future of The Wine Industry in Sonoma and Napa, California | 2008 | Chris Field (Bio) William Durham (Anthro) | |
| Rebecca Niemiec | The Multi-Scalar Drivers of Resident Invasive Species Control Action in Hawai'i | 2018 | Nicole Ardoin (Educ) Greg Asner (Carnegie) | |
| Lauren Oakes | Forests in a changing climate: social and ecological responses to yellow-cedar decline in the Alexander Archipelago, Alaska | 2015 | Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Eric Lambin (ESS) | |
| Katrina ole-MoiYoi | Fishing for Answers: Can Aquaculture Transform Food Security in Rural Kenya? | 2017 | Meg Caldwell (Oceans) Rosamind Naylor (ESS) | |
| Kirsten Oleson | Sustainability of comprehensive wealth - A practical and normative assessment | 2007 | Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Debra Satz (Phil) | |
| Chikara Onda | Climate, jobs, and inequity: Models of worker mobility and distribution under carbon pricing | 2020 | Charles Kolstad (SIEPR) John Weyant (MS&E) | |
| Michael Ovadia | Humanizing Markets: The Emergence of Community in the Sharing Economy | 2016 | Baba Shiv (GSB) Leonard Ortolano (CEE) | |
| Andrew Perlstein | Sustainable Urban Development in China: Challenges for the Planning Profession | 2012 | Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Karen Ching-Yee Seto | |
| Amy Pickering | Water access, hand hygiene, and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa | 2011 | Jenna Davis (CEE) Alexandria Boehm (CEE) | |
| Rodrigo Pizarro | The Global Diffusion of Conservation Policy: an Institutional Analysis | 2012 | Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Richard Scott (Sociology) | |
| Narasimha Rao | Distributional Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation in India: National and Global Implications | 2011 | Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Debra Zatz (Phil) | |
| Nathan Ratledge | The Economic Impacts of Energy and Climate Technology in the Global South | 2022 | Marshall Burke (SDSS) Stefan Reichelstein (GSB) | |
| Sudatta Ray | Rural Electrification Expansion and its Role in Shaping Agriculture and Food Security in India | 2021 | Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Sally Benson (ERE) | |
| Dan Reineman | The human dimensions of wave resource management in California | 2015 | Meg Caldwell (Oceans) Nicole Ardoin (Educ) | |
| Elizabeth Richards | Over-Allocation and the Doctrine of Prior Appropriation: Water Rights Settlement Agreements in New Mexico | 2008 | Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Jim Sweeney (MS&E) | |
| Francisca Santana | Together in Changing Places: The Role of Social and Affective Dimensions in Conservation and Adaptation Behavior | 2022 | Nicole Ardoin (ESS) Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (ESS) | |
| Bianca Silva Santos | Adaptive management of marine biodiversity at the science-policy-society nexus | 2024 | Larry Crowder (Oceans) Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (ESS) | |
| Nik Sawe | The Neuroeconomics of Environmental Decision-Making: Individual Differences and Behavior | 2015 | Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Brian Knutson (Psych) | |
| Caroline Scruggs | Minimizing Unregulated Hazardous Chemicals in Consumer Products: Challenges, Strategies, and Motivations of Proactive Companies | 2012 | Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Richard Luthy (CEE) | |
| William Scott | Climate Policy Interactions: Examining trade-offs from climate policy overlap in California | 2024 | Lawrence Goulder (Econ) John Weyant (MS&E) | |
| Samantha Sekar | Misrepresented: Understanding the gap between US public opinion and policy on climate change | 2020 | Peter Vitousek (Bio) David Lobell (ESS) | |
| Allison Sherris | Environmental Contaminants and Health in Early Life: Studies on Air Pollution and Drinking Water Quality | 2021 | Stephen Luby (Med) Scott Fendorf (ESS) | |
| Geoff Shester | Sustainability In Small-Scale Fisheries: An Analysis Of Ecosystem Impacts, Fishing Behavior, and Spatial Management Using Participatory Research Methods | 2008 | Fiorenza Micheli (Bio) Lawrence Goulder (Econ) | |
| Lin Shi | Supply Chain Sustainability in the Information and Communication Technologies Industry | 2021 | Adam Brandt (ERE) Dan Iancu (GSB) | |
| Kaitlin Shilling | Climate Change and Conflict: Identifying the Mechanisms | 2012 | Walter Falcon (FSI) Rosamond Naylor (ESS) | |
| Ranjitha Shivaram | Turbulence during transition: Understanding how energy systems can adapt to natural and man-made stressors during the clean energy transition | 2024 | Inês Azevedo (ESS) Rishee Jain (CEE) | |
| A.R Siders | Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change | 2017 | Martin Fischer (CEE) Meg Caldwell (Oceans) | |
| Gemma Smith | Designing Diplomacy: Collaborative Governance in International River Basin | 2023 | Bruce Cain (Poli Sci) David Freyberg (CEE) | |
| Carolyn Snyder | Key uncertainties in the risks of future climate change: Insights from a probabilistic analysis of climate change over the past million years | 2010 | Chris Field (Bio) Stephen Schneider | |
| Veena Srinivasan | An integrated framework for analysis of water supply strategies in a developing world city: Chennai, India | 2008 | Steven Gorelick (ESS) Lawrence Goulder (Econ) | |
| Charlotte Stanton | Experiments in Environment and Development | 2015 | Gretchen Daily (Bio) Eric Lambin (ESS)
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| Andy Stocks | Uncertainty analysis and regression models for marine human impact mapping | 2017 | Meg Caldwell (Oceans) Fiorenza Micheli (Bio) | |
| Aiga Stokenberga | Choosing a Home in a Complex Physical and Social Ecosystem: How networks shape residential location choices and livelihood strategies in Bogota, Columbia | 2016 | Daniel McFarland (Edu) James Sweeney (MS&E) | |
| Aaron Strong | Knowledge to Action in the Anthropocene: Understanding and Managing Biogeochemical Cycles Under Anthropogenic Global Change | 2016 | Kevin Arrigo (ESS) Meg Caldwell (Oceans) | |
| Briana Swette | Changing Land and People Across the High Divide: A Land Use Transition Analysis of the Rural American West | 2022 | Eric Lambin (ESS) Michelle Anderson (Law) | |
| Shannon Switzer Swanson | Learning with Fishing Families: How Worldviews and Lived Experience Shape Fisher Livelihoods and Marine Conservation | 2022 | Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Larry Crowder (Hopkins) | |
| Tannis Thorlakson | Sustainable Sourcing in Agricultural Supply Chains: An Analysis Across Scales | 2018 | Eric Lambin (ESS) Rosamond Naylor (ESS) | |
| Nicola Ulibarri | Collaborating for People and Nature: Assessing the Impacts of Collaborative Governance in Federal Hydropower Licensing | 2015 | Lisa Curran (Anthro) Leonard Ortolano (CEE) | |
| Jose Urteaga | Examining Factors that Affect Community Participation in Sea Turtle Governance: Lessons Learned from Eastern Pacific Hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) Conservation in El Salvador and Nicaragua | 2022 | Nicole Ardoin (SDSS) Larry Crowder (Oceans) | |
| Mehana Blaich Vaughan | Holoholo i ke kai o Hiala'a. Collaborative Community Care and Management of Coastal Resources: Creating State Law Based on Customary Community Rules To Manage a Near Shore Fishery in Hawai'i | 2012 | Peter Vitousek (Bio) Buzz Thompson (Law) | |
| Jennifer Wang | Putting Individuals in Context: Interdisciplinary and Behavioral Science Approaches for Understanding Environmental and Human Health Decisions | 2018 | Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Dale Miller (GSB) | |
| Justin Warren | A Policy Comparison of Bacterial Pollution at Two Swimming Beaches in Southern California Using a Joint Physical-Behavioral-Economic Simulation Analysis | 2009 | Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Oliver Fringer (CEE) | |
| Philip Womble | Water rights markets in the 21st century: Transaction costs and optimal environmental water portfolios in Colorado, USA | 2020 | Buzz Thompson (Law) Steve Gorelick (ESS) | |
| Leehi Yona | What (and Who) Counts? The Science, Law, and Policy of Greenhouse Gas Accounting | 2024 | Colleen Honigsberg (Law) Rob Jackson (ESS) | |
| Xuehua Zhang | Enforcing Environmental Regulations in Hubei Province, China: Agencies, Courts, Citizens | 2008 | Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Buzz Thompson (Law) | |
| Valentina Zuin | Improving Water Services for Unconnected Urban Households in Sub-Saharan Africa: Preferences and Options in Maputo, Mozambique | 2014 | Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Jenna Davis (CEE) |