Water Dialogue

Jennifer Burney

University of California, San Diego
School of Public Policy & Strategy
Profile: www.jaburney.net

Biography

Jennifer Burney is an environmental scientist and holds the Marshall Saunders Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Global Climate Policy and Research at the School of Global Policy & Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on the relationships between climate and food security - measuring air pollutant emissions and concentrations, quantifying the effects of climate and air pollution on land use and food systems, understanding how food production and consumption contribute to climate change, and designing and evaluating technologies and strategies for adaptation and mitigation among the world's farmers. She earned a Ph.D. in physics in 2007, completed postdoctoral fellowships in both food security and climate science, was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2011, and joined the UC San Diego faculty in 2012.

Selected Relevant Publications

1. Fine-scale spatiotemporal variation in subsidence across California's San Joaquin Valley explained by groundwater demand. M.C. Levy, W. Neely, A. A. Borsa, J. Burney. Environmental Research Letters (2020).
2. Characterization of groundwater recharge and flow in California's San Joaquin Valley from InSAR-observed surface deformation. W. Neely, A. Borsa, J. Burney, M. Levy, F. Silverii, M. Sneed. Water Resources Research (2021).