People

BIE People

Faces of the BIEEvents

Inez Fung
Co-Director, BIE
Professor
Department of Earth & Planetary Science

Enviromental Science and Policy Management
Research Interests
Climate and biogeochemical cycles.  Geophysical fluid dynamics.  Large scale numerical modeling.   Remote sensing of earth systems.   Atmosphere-ocean interactions, and atmosphere-biosphere interactions
Daniel M. Kammen
Co-director, BIE
Professor
Energy and Resources Group
Goldman School of Public Policy
Director
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)

Research Interests
Renewable energy and development; R&D policy; climate change; decarbonization and dramatic reductions in resource consumption; energy-health and energy-food linkages; energy and gender; national and multinational energy policy; rural development; risk assessment. Particular geographic interests in Africa, Central America/Mexico, E and SE Asia.

Daniel McGrath
Executive Director

Research interests
Applied econometric analysis of urban economic issues related to the environment; Social value of government investment in ecosystem restoration.

Christopher M. Jones
Staff Research Associate

Research Interests
Environmental footprinting: modeling household and community-level environmental impacts; lifecycle assessment; rural and urban development; climate change; sustainable forestry

Kathy Sprowles
Environmental Resources Intern

Sally Maki
Graduate Student Researcher