CoolClimate Network People

Daniel M. Kammen
RAEL Director

Dr. Kammen's research interests include: the science, engineering, management, and dissemination of renewable energy systems; health and environmental impacts of energy generation and use; rural resource management, including issues of gender and...

Betsy Phillips
Outreach Coordinator

Betsy is the Program Coordinator for the CoolCalifornia Challenge within the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

Betsy was born and raised in Oakhurst, CA, a small town approximately 20...

Christopher Jones
Lead Researcher, CCN

Chris Jones is the lead coordinating researcher at the CoolClimate Network, a research program of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He also currently serves as co-chair of the Behavior,...

Mia Yamauchi
Web Development Coordinator

Mia Yamauchi oversees the development of web-based tools produced by the CoolClimate Network at the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the Program Manager for the 2012...

Gang He
Graduate Student Researcher

Gang He is a Graduate Student Researcher at UC Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory and a Ph.D. student in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on China’s energy and climate...

Joe Kantenbacher
Graduate Student Researcher

Joe is a Graduate Student Researcher at the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory and a Ph.D. student in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. His research concerns habits and the influence of norms and...

Josiah Johnston
Graduate Student Researcher

Josiah is a MS/PhD research student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. His broad interest is promoting peaceful communities through sustainable development and appropriate technologies.

Rebekah Shirley
Graduate Student Researcher

Rebekah Shirley is a Graduate Student in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley and a student researcher with the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory. She comes with a BSc in Environmental Science from...

Robert Miehe
Visiting Scholar & Research Associate

Robert's current research interests include: Carbon footprint accounting for German
households, effectiveness of political carbon reduction options, analyzing behavior change through various policies.

In his free time, Robert enjoys...

Jason Khoe
Web Developer

Jason is currently a sophomore at U.C. Berkeley pursuing his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

He is the lead web developer for the CoolCalifornia Challenge project, the largest statewide environmental...

Kamini Iyer
Undergraduate Researcher

Kamini Iyer is an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley majoring in Environmental Science. project lead for Open Geo Mapping on the CoolClimate Team. Her interests include climate change education through a variety of media as well as the human...

Kamyar Kaviani
Web Developer

Kamyar Kaviani majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He loves programming and designing cool websites. His research interests include medical applications of signal processing, machine learning, and control such...

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