Tamma Carleton

Tamma Carleton is an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of California, Berkeley. 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 work focuses on climate change, water scarcity, and mental and physical health. She is a member of the Climate Impact Lab, a research affiliate at the Environmental Markets Lab, a faculty advisor and affiliate at CEGA, a Beijer Young Scholar, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Environmental Health Matters Initiative Standing Committee. She holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, MSc.'s in Environmental Change and Management as well as Economics for Development from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Economics from Lewis & Clark College.