Carmen Tubbesing
Air Pollution Specialist at California Air Resources Board
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolCarmen Tubbesing is an air pollution specialist and forest-fire scientist with a decade of experience studying extreme wildfires and post-fire forest recovery in California. Her PhD work at UC Berkeley combined field experiments, long-term measurements, and SORTIE simulation modeling to quantify how management approaches like strategically placed area treatments (SPLATs) can increase resilience and accelerate recovery after severe fires. She has translated that academic expertise into applied policy work at the California Air Resources Board and collaborates on bioenergy assessments of dead biomass from large-scale tree mortality. A data-forward field scientist trained in NSF’s DS421 program, Carmen emphasizes reproducible open-source workflows and science communication, winning fellowships that bridge research and land management. Her background ranges from leading field crews to postdoctoral research, giving her a practical edge in designing experiments that inform both modeling and on-the-ground decision-making. Based in Berkeley, she focuses on carbon accounting for natural and working lands while exploring how decades-long recovery trajectories unfold without intervention.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at University of California, BerkeleyBS, Human Biology - Ecosystems, Evolution and Environment, BS, Human Biology - Ecosystems, Evolution and Environment at Brown University
SpanishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
carmentubbesing/drought_tree_carbon
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:98 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
carmentubbesing/RxFire
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
Explore prescribed fire data sources, compile them, and see how they compare with VIIRS detects
Contributions:6 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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