Bio: Nick is a PhD student in the Energy & Resources Group (ERG) at UC Berkeley assessing the impacts of climate hazards and adaptation policy making. He earned a B.S. in Hydrology and a minor in Environmental Policy from UC Davis in 2013, and his M.S. from ERG in 2019. He has worked on watershed modeling and climate assessment projects in collaboration with regional policymakers for river basins in California, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador.
His doctoral research is focused on evaluating projected drought patterns across the Central American Dry Corridor and their socioeconomic impacts. He has also conducted research on ecological remote sensing, hurricane impacts in Puerto Rico, climate change and human displacement in the US, sea level rise, and environmental justice legislation in California related to hazardous waste and air pollution. He is currently a member of the Global Policy Lab's coastal climate impacts research group, as well as a member of the Integrated Multisector, Multiscale Modeling (IM3) team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Fields of Interest: Climate impacts, climate modeling, droughts, watershed modeling, Latin America, food security, migration & displacement, environmental justice, adaptation policy making
