Jennifer Burney

Jennifer Burney

Jennifer Burney, Phd

  • Professor, Earth System Science
  • Professor, Environmental Social Sciences
  • Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Biography

Jennifer Burney is deputy director of the Center on Food Security & the Environment at Stanford University and member of the National Geographic Explorers family. Burney is a physicist by training whose research focuses on simultaneously achieving global food security and mitigating climate change. Her research interests center on the creation, implementation, and rigorous evaluation of technologies that impact human health and welfare. Jen earned her PhD in physics from Stanford. 

publications

Working Papers
November 2025

Climate Resilient School Meals

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Climate Resilient School Meals
Journal Articles
July 2021

Cleaner air has contributed one-fifth of US maize and soybean yield gains since 1999

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Cleaner air has contributed one-fifth of US maize and soybean yield gains since 1999
Working Papers
June 2020

The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the US

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The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the US

In The News

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Jennifer Burney named National Geographic Explorer of the Week

Jennifer Burney named National Geographic Explorer of the Week