top of page

TAMMA CARLETON

I am an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of California, Berkeley. My research combines economics with datasets and methodologies from remote sensing, data science, and climate science to quantify how environmental change and economic development shape one another. My current work focuses on climate change, water scarcity, air pollution, and the use of remote sensing for global-scale environmental and socioeconomic monitoring. I am an active member of the Climate Impact Lab, an interdisciplinary team conducting an empirically-grounded global assessment of climate change impacts, the Director of the Climate & Energy Program at the  Environmental Markets Lab, a research affiliate at CEGA, a Beijer Young Scholar, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Environmental Health Matters Initiative Standing Committee. I joined Berkeley after a faculty position at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at University of California, Santa Barbara and  a postdoc at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. I hold a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, MSc.'s in Environmental Change and Management as well as Economics for Development from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Economics from Lewis & Clark College.

Fields of Interest: Climate change, water resource management, remote sensing, agriculture, mental health

bottom of page