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Tamma Carleton

Assistant Professor

Tamma uses large geospatial datasets to answer questions at the intersection of environmental change and economic development.

Tamma is an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Tamma was a faculty member at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. Her research combines economics with datasets and methodologies from remote sensing, data science, and climate science to quantify how environmental change and economic development shape one another. Her current work focuses on climate change, water scarcity, and the use of remote sensing for global-scale environmental and socioeconomic monitoring.