Contributors
Meet BERC's amazing blog contributors! You can follow their work here or through the BERC Newsletter. If you would like to write for the BERC blog and newsletter, please email us at blog@berc.berkeley.edu
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Elizabeth Chan UC Berkeley, 2012 Environmental Economics & Policy; Minor: Chinese Language China Focus - Wind Columnist Combining her interests in China and the environment, Liz has been interning for the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy for the past year and is absolutely fascinated with China-US interactions in the energy space. This semester, she's ecstatic about writing for the China Focus column, and looking forward to learning from her research and her fellow BERCies. |
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Inga Chen UC Berkeley, 2012 Environmental Economics and Policy; Technology, Energy and Society Cleantech Financing Columnist Inga will be joining Jefferies&Company as a technology investment banking analyst in July of 2012. Previously, she has interned with Renewable Analytics, an equity research firm focusing on solar PV and LED/semiconductors. Due to her passions for cleantech and social media, Inga keeps two blogs, teaches urban elementary school students about renewable energy, and has helped organize multiple conferences in the Bay Area including the Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference, the Berkeley Energy Symposium, and the Haas Asia Business Conference. Inga hopes to start her own cleantech company one day. Besides cleantech, Inga enjoys photography, playing squash, and skiing. Twitter: @ingachen LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ingachen Blog: macroenergyfinance.com |
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Patrick Donnelley-Shores UC Berkeley, 2012 College of Natural Resources, Class of 2013 Conservation & Resource Studies and Political Economy Renewable Energy Columnist Prior to coming to Berkeley, Patrick spent a number of years in the California desert, working for the Bureau of Land Management. Interests in land use policy have carried over into his academic life, as he's done extensive research on state and federal policy governing utility-scale renewable energy development. He's also interested in policies which promote distributed generation, such as rooftop solar. Summers and weekends, he leads young people on backpacking trips and doing trail work with the National Outdoor Leadership School and the Student Conservation Association. |
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Natalie Goldberg UC Berkeley Environmental Economics and Policy Health & the Environment Columnist Natalie is currently working as a research assistant in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department studying the effects of economic shocks on consumer food choice based on nutrition. She is excited to learn more about healthcare, policy, environmental issues, and economics! |
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Lakshana Huddar UC Berkeley Ph.D., UC Berkeley, expected 2016 Nuclear Engineering M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London Lakshana is pursuing a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on Next Generation Nuclear Plants, specifically fluoride-salt cooled high temperature reactors. She believes that these modern designs in nuclear reactors can help prevent accidents such as the recent one at Fukushima. Through her blog posts, she hopes to show that nuclear power is thrilling, reliable, challenging and clean. |
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Marie Mayer Ph.D., UC Berkeley, expected 2012 M.S., UC Berkeley, 2010 B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007 Materials Science and Engineering "Cleantech Tech" Columnist Marie is working toward her Ph.D. from the University of California with the Solar Energy Materials Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research interests include band gap engineering of materials for use in solar applications, electrochemistry for sustainable fuel production, transparent conducting oxides and novel materials characterization to improve device performance. She loves translating science to stories and asking questions; the broader the scale, the more interesting the problem!
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Jenny Tang Ph.D. UC Berkeley, expected May 2013 College of Natural Resources, Environmental Science As a third year environmental science major, Jenny is trying to balance her penchant to observe how energy systems affect societal lifestyles, her curiosity of the mechanisms behind energy structres, and the economics that influence people's decisions Having lived in Spain and China, she enjoys seeing the differences between different cultures and how they apply to business, policy, and economics. She is currently helps out with research on urban shade tree mortality. |
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Jeffrey Ja Wong
UC Berkeley, College of Natural Resources, 2013 Environmental Sciences and Environmental Economics and Policy
China Focus - Editor and Carbon Columnist
So, a little bit about myself? Well, I am a third-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco. A Bay Area native, I love to eat good food and I know I've been spoiled rotten living in this area. Want to know a killer Shanghai dumpling restaurant in SF? Just leave me an email at jeffrey.ja.wong@gmail.com. Or send me a message if you are interested in contributing/being a part of China Focus!
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Taylor Zhou UC Berkeley Environmental Science; Minor: Energy and Resource Group China Focus - Green Buildings Columnist Favorite Law: Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law Favorite quote: Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so. |
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