Bio: Emma started her PhD in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at Stanford University in Fall 2022. She is motivated by the question: how can we optimize natural resource management for both environment + health outcomes in the context of global change (climate change + land use change)? Specifically, she is interested in (1) empirically quantifying outcomes related to the management of water and forest resources, such as pollution and vectorborne disease, and (2) predicting the spatial distribution of risk by incorporating climate, land use, and human behavior variables, (3) evaluating potential policy or interventions that aim to co-optimize for health and environment. She is currently a NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Stanford EDGE Fellow.
Prior to starting her PhD, she worked as a Research Analyst for three years at the Global Policy Lab, where she was part of a project that aimed to identify land-based sources of nonpoint source water pollution in national-scale river systems.
Outside of work, you will likely find her jogging around town, hiking the nearest trail, or running a bespoke trivia night (co-founder of aeroTRIV).
Fields of Interest: applied econometrics, disease ecology, natural resource management, planetary health, global change
