Rachel Ragnhild Carlson

Education:

B.A., English, Rice University; M.S., Civil Engineering​, Rice University; M.S., International Politics, Trinity College Dublin; Ph.D., Environment and Resources, Stanford University

Dissertation:

Coral refugia in the coastal zone: habitat conditions and governance strategies to increase coral resilience in the Hawaiian Archipelago

Thesis Advisor:

Greg Asner, Director, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, and Larry Crowder, Professor of Biology, Stanford University

Research Topic:

Freshwater impacts on ecosystem vulnerability to ocean acidification along the U.S. West Coast

Mentor:

Tessa Hill, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley