Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
PhD Student
Energy and Resources Group
310 Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
gwongpar@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-1640
Energy and Resources Group
310 Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
gwongpar@berkeley.edu
(510) 642-1640
Research Interests
My PhD research attempts to develop regulatory approaches for geologic sequestration that addresses
the concerns of the directly-affected public -- people who live on top of geologic formations wherein
CO2 has been injected -- in the US.
Geologic sequestration is part of a larger climate change mitigation technology called carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) -- a technology where CO2 emissions are captured from stationary sources of emissions i.e. coal-fired power plants and injected into geologic formations. In many policy circles, CCS is the answer to an important policy question: "How can the US continue to use coal and other fossil fuels, while, at the same time, reduce CO2-related emissions?"
My work will provide approaches for including the directly-affected publics' concerns into geologic sequestration regulation. It is not my intent to steer regulations in a particular direction, but rather to provide information for those who do make decisions. My goal is to ensure that whatever regulations are developed is sensitive to the needs of the directly-affected public, whatever those may be. So that if CCS is deployed on a large-scale to mitigate climate change, distributional and intergenerational inequities (or the subjective perceptions thereof) is minimized to the its fullest extent possible.
Geologic sequestration is part of a larger climate change mitigation technology called carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) -- a technology where CO2 emissions are captured from stationary sources of emissions i.e. coal-fired power plants and injected into geologic formations. In many policy circles, CCS is the answer to an important policy question: "How can the US continue to use coal and other fossil fuels, while, at the same time, reduce CO2-related emissions?"
My work will provide approaches for including the directly-affected publics' concerns into geologic sequestration regulation. It is not my intent to steer regulations in a particular direction, but rather to provide information for those who do make decisions. My goal is to ensure that whatever regulations are developed is sensitive to the needs of the directly-affected public, whatever those may be. So that if CCS is deployed on a large-scale to mitigate climate change, distributional and intergenerational inequities (or the subjective perceptions thereof) is minimized to the its fullest extent possible.
Biography
Before coming to ERG, I worked as a staff research associate with the Energy Efficiency Standards
Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. There I worked developing efficiency standards
for furnaces and boilers. In addition, I worked with the United States Postal Service to
develop an energy consumption database that tracked gas and electricity consumption for
retrofitted offices and facilities in the Pacific area.
I continue to provide advisory support to the Energy Efficiency Standards Group
on a new efficiency standards rulemaking for heating products that include direct
heating equipment, pool heaters, and hearth products.
Education
PhD(2011), Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
MA(2007), Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
BA(2003), Psychology, UC Berkeley
MA(2007), Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
BA(2003), Psychology, UC Berkeley