Gabrielle is a PhD candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.  Her work focuses on crafting regulations for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) - a technological solution to climate change where CO2 emissions are captured from stationary sources and injected permanently deep underground.  Specifically, she is interested in finding ways to develop regulations that promote long-term stewardship and public engagement.  To this end, Gabrielle spent this summer at Resources for the Future investigating potential liability frameworks to foster long-term stewardship of geologic sequestration repositories.

Gabrielle also works as a staff research associate with the Energy Efficiency Standards Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  There she works on developing efficiency standards for a variety of residential appliances such as furnaces and boilers.  At the lab, she also 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.  Gabrielle is now working on a new energy efficiency standards rulemaking for heating products that include direct heating equipment, pool heaters, and hearth products.