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 (environmental politics and public policy,American politics, legislatures, political parties, and statistical methods)

Mark Buntaine, PhD, Duke University, Professor (international relations and environmental policy)

Tamma Carleton, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor (environmental economics, climate change, remote sensing)

Kelly Caylor, PhD, University of Virginia, Professor (ecology and hydrology of drylands, distributed environmental sensing & sensor development, sub-Saharan agriculture, coupled social-environmental systems) Joint appointment with: GEOG

Christopher Costello, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (environmental and resource economics)

Ranjit Deshmukh, Assistant Professor  Joint appointment with: ENVST

Joan Dudney, Assistant Professor  Joint appointment with: ENVST

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

Ben Halpern, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor (marine ecology, conservation planning)

Robert Heilmayr, PhD, Stanford University, Assistant Professor (environmental economics, ecological economics, land systems science) Joint appointment with: ENVST

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

Kelsey Jack, PhD, Harvard University, Associate Professor (Environmental and Development Economics) Joint appointment with: ECON

Scott Jasechko, PhD, University of New Mexico, Associate Professor (water resources, hydrology, groundwater, sustainability)

Arturo Keller, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (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 (quantitative ecology; conservation biology; nonlinear dynamics; stochastic modeling; population ecology; spatial processes)

Ashley Larsen, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Associate Professor (agricultural and landscape ecology)

Hunter Lenihan, PhD, University of North Carolina, Professor (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 manage)

Andy Macdonald, Assistant Professor  

Eric Masanet, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (sustainable manufacturing, energy systems analysis, industrial ecology)

Kyle Meng, PhD, Columbia University, Associate Professor (economics, climate change) Joint appointment with: ECON

Ruth Oliver, Assistant Professor  

Andrew Plantinga, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (natural resource economics and policy)

Matthew Potoski, PhD, University of Indiana, Professor (corporate environmental management, political science)

James Salzman, JD cum laude, Harvard University, Professor (environmental law)

Samantha Stevenson-Michener, PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder, Associate Professor (climate modeling, drought, oceanography, climate dynamics)

Sangwon Suh, PhD, Leiden University, Professor (corporate environmental management, industrial ecology, life cycle assessment)

Naomi Tague, PhD, University of Toronto, Professor (hydrology, linkages between climate, ecology, and hydrology)

David Tilman, PhD, University of Michigan, Professor (ecology, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning)

Emily Cotter, MBA, University of Southern California, Continuing Lecturer (environmental/social innovation and entrepreneurship)

Lisa Leombruni, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Lecturer (environmental communication, informal STEM learning, writing, environmental justice)

Emeriti Faculty

Frank Davis, PhD, Johns Hopkins University  

Jeff Dozier, PhD, University of Michigan  

Tom Dunne, PhD, Johns Hopkins University  

James Frew, PhD, UC Santa Barbara  

Charlie Kolstad, PhD, Stanford University (environmental economics) Joint appointment with: ECON

Gary Libecap, PhD, University of Pennsylvania  Joint appointment with: ECON

John Melack, PhD, Duke University  Joint appointment with: EEMB

Oran Young, PhD, Yale University (environmental institutions, governance for sustainable development)

Affiliated Faculty

Kathy Baylis, PhD  

Olivier Deschenes, PhD  

Ranjit Deshmukh  

Steve Gaines, PhD  

David Lea, PhD  

Sally MacIntyre, PhD  

Paasha Mahdavi, PhD  

Wendy Meiring, PhD  

Matto Mildenberger, PhD  

Antony Millner  

David Pellow, PhD  

Ronald E. Rice, PhD  

Dar Roberts, PhD