People

Paul Moorcroft

paul_moorcroft@harvard.edu

Chair/Head Tutor

Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

Research Interests: Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; ecology of animal movement.

Hailey Akey '27

hakey@college.harvard.edu

Winthrop House | She/Her

ESPP Interests: My interests in ESPP stem from environmental justice and equitable & accessible climate solutions! Right now, I'm very interested in environmental health and the way climate change will change the way we relate to healthcare systems, but I...

Stephen Ansolabehere

sda@gov.harvard.edu

Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government

Stephen Ansolabehere is the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is an expert in public opinion and elections, and has published extensively on elections, mass media, and representation, political economy, and public opinion...

George Baker

gbaker@hbs.edu

Visiting Lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy

Research Interests: The design of incentives for organizations and public policy; Renewable energy and electric grid integration

Mary Berlik Rice

Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Respiratory Health | Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

mbrice@hsph.harvard.edu

Research interests: how air pollution and climate affect respiratory health, especially in vulnerable populations, and testing solutions (policies, home interventions) to protect respiratory health from harmful environmental exposures.

Michael Bido '27

michaelbido@college.harvard.edu

Leverett House | He/Him

ESPP Interests: My goal as an ESPP concentrator is to be exposed to new ways of thinking concerning the environment, with the broad goal of discovering effective and equitable solutions for climate mitigation. Right now, I am most interested in exploring...

Jeannine Cavendar-Bares

jcavender@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

I am interested in the physiological and evolutionary dimensions of plant ecology that influence community assembly and ecosystem function. A current focus is a collaborative effort to determine protocols and best practices for NextGen spectral...

Andrew Davies

andrew_davies@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Research Interests: Our research examines how animals interact with the environment and each other to affect ecosystem processes at landscape scales. We draw on the fields of community and ecosystem ecology, animal behavior, and remote sensing to explore...

Richard T.T. Forman

rforman@gsd.harvard.edu

Professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in the Field of Landscape Ecology, Emeritus Affiliate

Research Interests: Landscape ecology, road ecology, urban ecology, conservation & land-use planning, and broadly, meshing science and spatial pattern so nature and people both thrive.

Christopher Golden

Bruce A. Beal, Robert L. Beal and Alexander S. Beal Associate Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health

Research Interests: Two primary portfolios of research: 1) creating systems of climate-smart public health through data science approaches to climate and environmental monitoring and disease surveillance; and 2) evaluating the connections among climate...

Benjamin Heilbronn '27

bheilbronn@college.harvard.edu

Eliot House

ESPP Interests: I am interested in a broad range of ESPP topics, from policy design and corporate sustainability to environmental law. I am a double concentrator in ESPP and Economics, though I’ve considered many concentrations such as Statistics and...

Erica Ho '27

ericaho@college.harvard.edu

Dunster House | She/Her

ESPP interests: As a double concentrator in ESPP and Economics, I’m especially interested in the economics of the clean energy transition, with a focus on energy generation and infrastructure. I’m involved in HUCEG, where I directed the Nuclear Energy...