Member Since 2017
Robert Fofrich
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Los Angeles
Dr. Robert Alexander Fofrich Navarro is an earth system scientist and a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and was previously a postdoctoral associate in the Climate Impact Lab and the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University.
Robert’s research focuses on global environmental change and human society.
Professional Experience
University of California Los Angeles
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
2023 - Present
Rutgers University New Brunswick
Postdoctoral Associate
2022 - 2022
University of California Irvine
Graduate Student Researcher
2016 - 2022
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Researcher
2015 - 2016
Center for Environmental Biology - UC Irvine
Undergraduate Researcher
2014 - 2015
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Education
University of California Irvine
Doctorate
2022
University of California Irvine
Masters
2019
University of California Irvine
Bachelors
2016
West Los Angeles College
Associate
2014
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Publications
Committed Emissions of the U.S. Power Sector, 2000–2018
Annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the U.S. power sector decreased 24% from 2000 to 2018, while carbon intensity (CO2 per unit of electrici...
September 03, 2020
Future CO2 emissions and electricity generation from proposed coal-fired power plants in India
With its growing population, industrializing economy, and large coal reserves, India represents a critical unknown in global projections of future ...
April 25, 2017
AGU Abstracts
Ecological and Climate Mitigation Tradeoffs from Cultivating Energy Crops in Tropical Regions
CLIMATE INTERVENTION, MITIGATION, ADAPTATION, AND RESTORATION SOLUTIONS: INTERDISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF SAFETY AND EFFICACY POSTER
global environmental change | 12 december 2023
Robert Fofrich, Alcen Chiu, Elsa Ordway
Many climate pathways aiming to limit mean global temperatures to 2°C rely on biogenic negative emission solutions to achieve large rapid reducti...
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Evaluating the MISR Plume Height Project dataset: A comparison of MISR-derived landscape fire plume heights with remote sensing lidar data
THE ROLE OF FIRE IN THE EARTH SYSTEM: UNDERSTANDING DRIVERS, FEEDBACKS, AND INTERACTIONS WITH THE LAND, ATMOSPHERE, AND SOCIETY II POSTER
biogeosciences | 14 december 2021
Mika Tosca, James R. Campbell, Robert Fofrich, Mat...
Each year, landscape fires across the globe emit over 2 Pg of carbon and nearly 40 Tg of total particulate matter (smoke) into the atmosphere (van der...
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Agricultural migration to avoid future climate change
AGRICULTURAL ADAPTATION AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY: TRENDS, NEEDS, BARRIERS, AND OPPORTUNITIES I
global environmental change | 08 december 2020
Robert Fofrich, Lindsey Sloat, Nathan Mueller, Ste...
Agricultural expansion is one of the largest drivers of land-use change and a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Over the next century, climate...
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