Lara Kueppers

Biography

Lara Kueppers is an Associate Professor in the interdisciplinary Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is an expert in ecological responses and feedbacks to climate change and uses field experiments and observations, as well as computational modeling approaches in her work. Her current research emphasizes forest regeneration processes as central to climate resilience and dynamic simulation of the interactions between ecosystem management, wildfire, and vegetation dynamics in the Western U.S. She also strives to inform the evolving needs of policy makers and natural resource managers as climate change and its impacts accelerate. Professor Kueppers teaches courses on nature-based climate solutions and quantitative approaches to understanding environmental systems.