Jennifer Burney

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Jennifer Burney

  • Affiliated scholar

Biography

Jennifer Burney is a research affiliate at UC San Diego’s Policy Design and Evaluation Laboratory, an Affiliated scholar at 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 current 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

Journal Articles
July 2021

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

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Journal Articles
January 2020

The downstream air pollution impacts of the transition from coal to natural gas in the United States

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August 2018

Estimating global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions

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Jennifer Burney named National Geographic Explorer of the Week

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FSE's Jennifer Burney named 2011 National Geographic Emerging Explorer

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Food's Footprint: Agriculture and Climate Change

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