Ian is a Nation­al Defense Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Grad­u­ate Fel­low in the Ener­gy and Resources Group and a mem­ber of the inau­gur­al “Envi­ron­ment and Soci­ety: Data Sci­ence for the 21^st Cen­tu­ry” Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion Research Trainee­ship (NRT) cohort. His research inter­ests lie at the inter­sec­tion of ener­gy sys­tems, cli­mate change adap­ta­tion, and glob­al health. He is a mem­ber of the Next Gen­er­a­tion Ecosys­tem Exper­i­ments Arc­tic team, inves­ti­gat­ing bio­geo­chem­i­cal fac­tors gov­ern­ing ener­gy flux­es in arc­tic tun­dra envi­ron­ments from the plant scale to the mod­el grid-cell scale. He is also inter­est­ed in devel­op­ing bet­ter tools for char­ac­ter­iz­ing sea­son­al snow­pack vari­a­tion, in order to improve fore­casts of stream­flow, water avail­abil­i­ty, and hydropow­er pro­duc­tion. Ian serves as project man­ag­er for Tiny House in My Back­yard, a stu­dent project to design and build mobile, afford­able, and sus­tain­able net-zero ener­gy hous­ing on the Berke­ley Glob­al Cam­pus. Pri­or to arriv­ing at UC Berke­ley, he received his BA from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty in Applied Math­e­mat­ics and spent three years mod­el­ing trends in glob­al injury rates at the Insti­tute for Health Met­rics and Eval­u­a­tion. Out­side of acad­e­mia, Ian is a mem­ber of the Tahoe Back­coun­try Ski Patrol, and he writes about moun­tain adven­tures and envi­ron­men­tal issues on his blog at TheIn​er​tia​.com.