Graduate Student Researchers
Cora Kammeyer is a Master’s student specializing in Economics and Politics of the Environment, with a focus on water in the western United States. As a Sustainable Water Markets fellow, Cora is interested in how innovative market approaches can be used to incentivize ecologically sound water management. Cora holds a Bachelor’s in Environmental Studies from UCSB, and is an accredited LEED Green Associate. Cora spent two years consulting for WaterSmart Software, where she learned about utilizing behavioral science to motivate urban water conservation. In addition to being a student, Cora also works for UCSB Facilities Management as their LEED Programs Manager.
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Andrew Hall is a Master’s student specializing in Water Resources Management and Economics and Politics of the Environment with aspirations to help promote sustainable water management through local, integrated and adaptive solutions that can be applied across the West and abroad. Andrew holds a Bachelor’s in Environmental Science from Colorado College where he researched water management and governance in Monterey, CA. Currently, he is a research assistant to Gary Libecap examining water rights, environmental markets and the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
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Justin Kroes is a Master’s student specializing in Pollution Prevention and Remediation. He holds a Bachelor’s in Environmental Studies from UCSB, and has most recently worked as a Teaching Assistant for the department. As an undergraduate, he was involved with faculty research on sustainable agriculture, and he wrote his senior thesis on the intersection of environmental philosophy and Latter-Day Saint theology. His current focus of study emphasizes data analysis, modeling, and informatics, with an end goal of expanding the use of data as an organizational tool for informing positive environmental solutions. |
Leslie Regan is a Master of Environmental Science and Management Candidate (June 2017), specializing in Water Resource Management. Leslie’s background is in Colorado Water Law, working as a paralegal for a leading water rights law firm in Aspen, CO for 5+ years. Leslie received her Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she focused on hydrology and environmental education. In addition to being a student, Leslie is also a teaching assistant for UCSB’s Environmental Studies Program. |
Jayme Ohlhaver comes to the Bren School with five years of experience in conservation. For the past three years, he has worked for the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) where he helped select and administer projects that remedy harm to natural resources caused by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Prior to working at NFWF, Jayme gained valuable experience in federal natural resource policy as an intern for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He also spent a year as an AmeriCorps volunteer for the National Park Service, providing environmental-planning support for projects throughout Michigan; as well as worked for Yellowstone National Park in their natural resources division. As a Sustainable Water Markets Fellow, Jayme is studying innovative ways to make more financial resources available to water conservation and restoration in the American West. Jayme holds a BA in architectural studies and a minor in conservation biology from UCLA.
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ADVISORS
Jim Salzman is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the Bren School and the UCLA Law School. In more than eight books and eighty articles and book chapters, his broad-ranging scholarship has addressed topics spanning drinking water, trade and environment conflicts, policy instrument design, and the legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services. A 2012 study by Phillips and Yoo ranked him as the fifth most cited environmental law professor. A dedicated classroom teacher, Salzman was twice selected as Professor of the Year by students at Duke, where he held chairs in the Law School and the Nicholas School of the Environment. He helped develop the environmental law curriculum at the Bren School and has taught the popular core course in that subject for over a decade. He frequently appears as a media commentator and has lectured on environmental policy on every continent except Antarctica. Active in government policy debates, he serves on both the National Drinking Water Advisory Council (reporting to the EPA) and the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee (reporting to the EPA and USTR). He has served as a visiting law professor at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale as well as at universities in Australia, China, Israel, Italy, Portugal, and Sweden. His most recent book, Drinking Water: A History, was praised as a “Recommended Read” by Scientific American and is in its third printing.
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Andrew Ayres: As a Sustainable Water Markets Fellow at the Bren School, Andrew will focus on the use of economic analysis and instruments to manage freshwater resources sustainably. Topics of particular interest include auctions for water and water-related services, utility water pricing, the establishment and dynamics of water markets, and the economics of aquatic habitat restoration, including rivers and floodplains. One goal, given the strong understanding of the science-policy interface he gained while working with scientists and policy makers, is to improve the degree to which scientific knowledge and insights from environmental economics are integrated into environmental decision-making.
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