Barbara Bamberger

Barbara Bamberger is the lead staff on the U.S. Forest and Urban Forest Protocols and is a core staff of the Cap-and-Trade program at the California Air Resources Board. She has been with ARB since the inception of the Climate Change Branch in 2008. Prior to ARB, Barbara served as staff scientist and manager for AECOM-EDAW implementing studies on the sociocultural impacts of oil and gas development on Alaska Native communities and on federal-local technical dialogue.

She was Program Associate for the Yale Program on Forest Certification at Yale University’s School of Forestry and completed her Master’s thesis while at Woods Hole Research Center, where she studied indigenous parks and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. From 1991 to 1997, Barbara represented the City of Chula Vista as lead staff on the first EPA-funded team of cities developing municipal climate action plans. These efforts became the basis for climate planning at the municipal level across the United States.