Team
"Bridging High-Tech Remote Sensing with Ground-Level Climate Action"
PI
Dimitrios Zekkos
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Brief Bio: Dimitrios Zekkos is a Professor at UC Berkeley. He has been working on landfill resiliency and sustainability issues for the last 25 yrs. He serves as the PI of this project.
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Co-PI
Ken Alex
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Brief Bio: Ken spent eight years as a Senior Policy Advisor to Governor Jerry Brown, the Director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, and the Chair of the Strategic Growth Council, focusing on climate, environment, and land use issues. He serves as the Co-PI of this project.
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Co-PI
Riley Duren
Affiliation: Carbon Mapper
Brief Bio: Riley Duren is the CEO of Carbon Mapper and a leading climate scientist dedicated to making methane emissions visible and actionable. He leverages advanced remote sensing technology to bridge the gap between scientific data and climate policy. He serves as the Co-PI of this project.
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Senior Personnel
Amanda Harmon
Affiliation: GTI Energy
Brief Bio: Amanda Harmon is the Director of Zero Emissions Systems at GTI Energy and serves as the Executive Director of Veritas, a leading initiative focused on establishing a standardized, measurement-informed framework for methane emissions intensity.
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Seth Shonkoff
Affiliation: PSE Healthy Energy
Brief Bio: Seth B.C. Shonkoff is the Executive Director of PSE Healthy Energy, an energy science and policy research institute. He also holds research affiliations at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Barbara Haya
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Brief Bio: Barbara Haya is the Director of the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project at the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. She is a leading expert on the effectiveness and integrity of carbon offset programs.
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Leading researcher and QA Manager
Youngseok Jo
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Brief Bio: Youngseok Jo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley. He focuses on developing next-generation sensing solutions to detect and quantify methane emissions from municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. His research integrates autonomous terrestrial robots, aerial systems (UAVs), and innovative flux chambers to create "Smart Landfills”. He serves as the QA manager of this project.
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