Bernie Bastien-Olvera
My research focus lies at the intersection of climate policy and natural sciences.
I’m also a science communicator building networks to face the climate crisis.
Science
Climate change impacts on natural systems and implications to human well-being
Communication
Blogs, video-making, podcasts and festivals!
Current Projects
I am currently participating in some amazing projects!
I am an institutional Postdoctoral Fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in UC San Diego. I work with Kate Ricke and Octavio Aburto on representing climate-driven changes in the oceans and marine ecosystems into climate policy models.
My work explores how climate change will impact the ecosystems that provide tangible and intangible benefits to people. By modeling these coupled human-natural systems and statistically analyzing empirical data, I explore mitigation and adaptation pathways that protect the diverse and unique nature contributions to society.
Interviews and articles highlighting my research
As the visible effects of climate change become more obvious, next to come will be the cost to economies around the world, says Bernie Bastien-Olvera @Capi_Planeta who worked on a research showing we've massively underestimated those costs. pic.twitter.com/fOWqDxfRzA
— Michael Holmes (@holmescnn) August 22, 2022
Do shifts in temperature have enduring economic impacts? A “clever” trick identifying climate trends gets us one step closer to addressing this long-standing question in climate economics.
by Jenessa Duncombe September 2, 2022
Accounting for the Unique and Long-Term Impacts of Climate Change
by Kat Kerlin September 28, 2020
Models typically used to analyse climate–economy interactions have paradoxically ignored much of nature’s value. A new study explicitly addresses this issue and reveals feedback loops between nature and the climate system that make climate change more costly.
by Matthew Agarwala & Diane Coyle
Communication
I am passionate about science communication, and I dedicate a huge part of my time to it. I am co-founder of Estudios Planeteando, a production house that creates multi-media socio-environmental storytelling projects.
Writing
Es un error común pensar que la naturaleza está afuera, un lugar exterior al que se puede ir de día de campo para luego regresar a casa, cuando en los hechos nunca nos separamos de ella, estamos permanentemente inmersos en ella. Desde hace miles de años los cazadores y recolectores, así como los primeros agricultores, transformaron lentamente el paisaje e iniciaron de esta manera el proceso de co-construcción humana y no humana de los procesos del sistema Tierra.
La pandemia por covid-19 no llegó sola, la constante destrucción del medio ambiente que por décadas hemos impulsado fue en gran medida la responsable; ¿qué acciones debemos tomar para evitar otra crisis sanitaria?
El cambio climático está afectando las nubes de datos que almacenan la información de millones de personas hoy en día. Nada se salva. ¿Hasta qué punto la economía mundial podrá resistir?
Podcasts
CliMitologia: debunking climate change myth along with climate scientists. Host and scriptwriter.
Planeteando de Película: Conversations about the socio-environmental problems as pictured in movies. Host and creator.
Current Projects
“Bioguardianes” is a documentary series that explores Mexican biodiversity through the legends that shape our culture. Aired in Mexican public TV in July 2022. Watch here.
I participated as a scriptwriter, researcher and host.
“Voces de la Tierra” is a guided walk tour that brings to life socio-environmental aspects of the urban landscape with climate justice lenses. This project was awarded by the Big Ideas consent from UC Berkeley.
We just released a Climate Justice mini-series of videos written, hosted and edited by UC Davis undergrad students.
We were awarded by the UC Davis Green Initiative Fund. I was a mentor in this project.