Director, Wheeler Water Institute, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
Email: kiparsky@berkeley.edu
Tel: (510) 643-6044
Michael Kiparsky is the founding Director of the Wheeler Water Institute within the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Under his leadership, the Institute has grown into a widely recognized voice on a range of California water issues. Dr. Kiparsky has worked on technical and policy aspects of water resources management for 15 years, and his primary interest lies at their intersection. He has published scholarly articles and technical reports on a range of topics including governance and policy of complex water systems, climate change impacts and adaptation, water innovation, and science for decision-making. He is regularly interviewed by media outlets, and his quotes and op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, Nature, The Guardian, CNBC, and many others. Through his engagement activities, his work is regularly used by state and local decision-makers. He was previously on the faculty at the University of Idaho, and has experience in consulting, non-profit, and agency settings. Dr. Kiparsky earned an A.B. in Biology from Brown University and a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, where he was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Udall Scholar, a CALFED Science Scholar, and the first ACWA Steve Hall Water Law & Policy Scholar.