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2400 Bren Hall
Telephone: (805) 893-7611
Website: 
www.bren.ucsb.edu
Dean: Steven D. Gaines 

Overview

UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management offers interdisciplinary graduate programs in environmental problem solving. The Bren School offers two professional degree programs, Master of Environmental Science and Management (MESM), and Master of Environmental Data Science (MEDS), as well as the research-oriented Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management.

The Bren School faculty comprises natural and social scientists, as well as experts in business, law, data science, and policy. Because environmental problems are by their nature multi-disciplinary, the programs place unique emphasis on collaboration and working across and between diverse fields to deliver action-oriented solutions.

Whether Bren students are working toward a MESM, MEDS, or Ph.D. degree, they are trained in a variety of disciplines, while developing technical and analytical skills essential to real-world application.

Faculty

Sarah Anderson, PhD, Stanford University, Professor
Specialization: environmental politics and public policy,American politics, legislatures, political parties, and statistical methods

Mark Buntaine, PhD, Duke University, Professor
Specialization: international relations and environmental policy

Kelly Caylor, PhD, University of Virginia, Professor
Specialization: ecology and hydrology of drylands, distributed environmental sensing & sensor development, sub-Saharan agriculture, coupled social-environmental systems
Joint Appointment: Geography

Jayajit Chakraborty, PhD, University of Iowa, Professor
Specialization: Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, Disability Justice, Disaster Vulnerability

Christopher Costello, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor
Specialization: environmental and resource economics

Max Czapanskiy, PhD, Stanford, Assistant Teaching Professor
Specialization: Marine Data Science
Joint Appointment: Creative Studies

Ranjit Deshmukh, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor
Specialization: Energy Systems, Economics, and Policies
Joint Appointment: Environmental Studies

Joan Dudney, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor
Specialization: Global change ecology, forest disturbance, climate change
Joint Appointment: Environmental Studies

Carmen Galaz-Garcia, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, Assistant Teaching Professor
Specialization: Environmental Data Science

Roland Geyer, PhD, University of Surry, Professor
Specialization: industrial ecology and management science, green supply-chain management, life-cycle assessment

Ben Halpern, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor
Specialization: marine ecology, conservation planning

Robert Heilmayr, PhD, Stanford University, Associate Professor
Specialization: environmental economics, ecological economics, land systems science
Joint Appointment: Environmental Studies

Patricia Holden, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor
Specialization: pathogens in the environment, microbial ecology of pollutant degradation, soil microbiology

Scott Jasechko, PhD, University of New Mexico, Professor
Specialization: water resources, hydrology, groundwater, sustainability

Arturo Keller, PhD, Stanford University, Professor
Specialization: water quality management and modeling, fate and transport of pollutants, groundwater protection and remediation, contaminant treatment technologies, watershed management, environmental implications and applications of nanotechnology

Bruce Kendall, PhD, University of Arizona, Professor
Specialization: quantitative ecology; conservation biology; nonlinear dynamics; stochastic modeling; population ecology; spatial processes

Ashley Larsen, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Associate Professor
Specialization: agricultural and landscape ecology

Hunter Lenihan, PhD, University of North Carolina, Professor
Specialization: marine ecological research, including impact assessment; resource restoration and the development of environmental management strategies; community, conservation, and restoration ecology; fisheries oceanography, polar and deep-sea biology, adaptive management of marine resources

Andy Macdonald, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor
Specialization: Global Change Ecology, Disease Ecology, Environmental and Human Health

Eric Masanet, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor
Specialization: sustainable manufacturing, energy systems analysis, industrial ecology

Kyle Meng, PhD, Columbia University, Associate Professor
Specialization: economics, climate change
Joint Appointment: Economics

Ruth Oliver, PhD, Columbia University, Assistant Professor
Specialization: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecology

Alexandra Phillips, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, Assistant Teaching Professor
Specialization: Environmental Communication, Oceanography, Geochemistry, Science Policy

Andrew Plantinga, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor
Specialization: natural resource economics and policy

Matthew Potoski, PhD, University of Indiana, Professor
Specialization: corporate environmental management, political science

James Salzman, JD cum laude, Harvard University, Professor
Specialization: environmental law

Samantha Stevenson-Karl, PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder, Associate Professor
Specialization: climate modeling, drought, oceanography, climate dynamics

Naomi Tague, PhD, University of Toronto, Professor
Specialization: hydrology, linkages between climate, ecology, and hydrology

David Tilman, PhD, University of Michigan, Professor
Specialization: ecology, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning

Emeriti Faculty

Frank Davis, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Jeffrey Dozier, PhD, University of Michigan

Thomas Dunne, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

James Frew, PhD, UC Santa Barbara

Charles Kolstad, PhD, Stanford University
Specialization: environmental economics
Joint Appointment: Economics

Gary Libecap, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Joint Appointment: Economics

John Melack, PhD, Duke University
Joint Appointment: Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology

Oran Young, PhD, Yale University
Specialization: environmental institutions, governance for sustainable development

Affiliated Faculty

Peter Alagona, PhD

Kathy Baylis, PhD

Olivier Deschenes, PhD

Ranjit Deshmukh, PhD

Steve Gaines, PhD

Sally Macintyre, PhD

Paasha Mahdavi, PhD

Cesar Martinez Alvarez

Wendy Meiring, PhD

Matto Mildenberger, PhD

Antony Millner

David Pellow, PhD

Debra Perrone, PhD

Ronald E. Rice, PhD

Dar Roberts, PhD

Grace Wu

Peter Alagona, PhD


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