
TAMMA CARLETON
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
Faculty Head of Research, Climate Impact Lab
Research Associate, Environmental Markets Lab
Faculty Advisor, Center for Effective Global Action
Economic Advisory Council, Environmental Defense Fund
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
Beijer Young Scholar and Rhodes Scholar
I joined Berkeley after a faculty position at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and a postdoc at University of Chicago. I completed my PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley, where I was an EPA STAR Fellow and a Doctoral Fellow in the Global Policy Lab. I have masters degrees from the University of Oxford.
I am an environmental and resource economist, using large geospatial datasets to answer questions at the intersection of environmental change and economic development. I study climate, water, air pollution, and remote sensing.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Molitor, C. et al.
Remote Sensing (2026)
Carlson, C. et al.
Nature Climate Change (2025)
Betti, L. et al.
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2026)
Hultgren, A., T. Carleton, et al.
Nature (2025)











