Member Since 2010
Becca R. Hernandez
Professional Experience
University of California Davis
Assistant Professor
University of California Davis
Assistant Professor
Education
Doctorate
2014
Honors & Awards
Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
Received December 2020
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Publications
Tradeoffs and Synergies Across Global Climate Change Adaptations in the Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus

Food‐energy‐water (FEW) systems are increasingly vulnerable to natural hazards and climate change risks, yet humans depend on these sys...

April 13, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Do Floating Photovoltaics Leach Metals into their Hosting Aquatic Environments?
SOURCES, FATE, AND TRANSPORT OF METALS, METALLOIDS, AND RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IN SURFACE WATERS II POSTER
hydrology | 09 december 2024
Moreen Akomea-Ampeh, Eliot A. Atekwana, Alexander ...
We constructed a knowledge base to understand interactions that may exist between floating photovoltaics (FPVs) and their host waters to inform future...
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Investigating Soil C and Soil Surface Properties in an Ecovoltaic Context: Does Restoration Impact Critical Factors for Soil Health and Vegetation Establishment?
DUAL-USE AGRIVOLTAICS FOR CLIMATE-RESILIENT LANDSCAPES AND FOOD-ENERGY-WATER SECURITY I POSTER
global environmental change | 09 december 2024
Noah Z. Krasner, Yudi Li, Dahlia Friis, Joaquin Be...
With utility-scale solar energy development expanding at a rapid rate and threatening significant land use and land-cover change, environmental stewa...
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Land sparing technologies reduce land demand of renewable energy to meet net-zero targets
NET ZERO EMISSIONS ENERGY SYSTEMS: GEOPHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS, CONSEQUENCES, AND OPPORTUNITIES II ORAL
global environmental change | 15 december 2023
Grace C. Wu, Ryan Jones, Emily Leslie, Joseph Farg...
Recent legislation has enabled significant progress toward meeting the US national goal of a net-zero economy by 2050. However, the expanded spatial f...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2023
Member
Global Environmental Change Fellows Committee
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