I am a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. I am also an affiliate of Stanford University's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE), where I was previously a postdoctoral researcher. Starting in July 2012, I will be an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Policy at UCSD's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS). This past year, I had the good fortune of being named a National Geographic 2011 Emerging Explorer; it's an honor to be part of the NatGeo family.

I am a physicist by training (now I call myself an environmental scientist) whose research focuses on simultaneously achieving global food security and mitigating climate change. I design, implement, and evaluate technologies for poverty alleviation and agricultural adaptation, and I study the links between energy poverty and food and nutrition security, the mechanisms by which energy services can help alleviate poverty, the environmental impacts of food production and consumption, and climate impacts on agriculture. Much of my current research focuses on the developing world.

This web site serves as an archive of my own research and teaching materials and a forum for posting the occasional newsworthy tidbit. The papers and articles I post or discuss here are by no means comprehensive; this site simply provides a nice way for me to share interesting literature with my research group and anyone else who might be interested. I welcome your comments.