Our Environment at Berkeley: Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management

A Science study co-authored by Kathryn De Master and Adrian Lu, PhD '20 ESPM, showed that diversified farming practices maintain soil health and on-farm biodiversity while also increasing crop yi...

https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/04/win-win-people-and-environment

ESPM's 2024 Graduate Research Symposium is happening on Wednesday, May 1st starting at 12:00pm! Join us in 575 McCone Hall on campus or tune into the livestream on our YouTube channel. 

https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/04/espm-graduate-research-symposium-gradfest-2024

The Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity recognizes UC Berkeley faculty who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to advancing DEIBJ efforts.

https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/04/espm-s-damian-elias-receives-uc-berkeley-s-top-equity-award

Professors Sunaura Taylor, Youjin Chung, and Michael Mascarenhas discussed their latest books with Rachel Morello-Frosch during a seminar earlier this semester.

https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/04/spring-2024-espm-faculty-book-panel

Professors Allen Goldstein and Rodrigo Almeida were recognized by UC Berkeley’s Graduate Assembly and Graduate Division for their outstanding faculty mentorship.

https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/04/allen-goldstein-and-rodrigo-almeida-recognized-mentorship-awards

The pioneering environmental scientist and former senior lecturer passed away on March 1. He was 94

https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/04/memoriam-carroll-b-williams-jr

In a new PNAS opinion, ESPM professors Dennis Baldocchi and Trevor Keenan join leading experts in recommending ways to strengthen the scientific foundation for Nature-based Climate Solutions.

https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/04/strengthening-nature-based-climate-solutions-federal-level

A two-day event in February convened Tribal leaders, Indigenous culture bearers, academics, and public land management agencies to focus on pathways to substantive, long-term co-stewardship agree...

https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/04/fostering-indigenous-co-stewardship-public-lands

A collaborative research project led by Cooperative Extension professor Ted Grantham will develop new planning tools for sustainable, inclusive, and equitable water distribution for the state’s...

https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/03/plans-water-equity-warming-world

A new PNAS study led by ESPM's Albert Ruhi and Kyle Leathers suggests that drought may reshape California's mountain waterways—and the ecosystems that depend on them—by the end of the century...

https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/03/insects-algae-and-our-changing-climate