Madi­son K. Hof­fack­er is a full-time Sus­tain­able Ener­gy Research Spe­cial­ist joint­ly with the Ener­gy and Resources Group at UC Berke­ley and the Cen­ter for Con­ser­va­tion Biol­o­gy at UC River­side. Madi­son grad­u­at­ed from Chap­man Uni­ver­si­ty with a degree in Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence and Pol­i­cy, and pre­vi­ous­ly worked for the Depart­ment of Glob­al Ecol­o­gy at the Carnegie Insti­tu­tion for Sci­ence (Stan­ford, California).

Pub­li­ca­tions:

Her­nan­dez RR, Hof­fack­er MK, Field CB (2015) Effi­cient use of land to meet sus­tain­able ener­gy needs. Nature Cli­mate Change, doi:10.1038/NCLIMATE2556 [PDF]                                                                                                                                                                Fea­tured in: The Wash­ing­ton Post, ECN​mag​.com, Grist​.org, Com​put​er​World​.com, and Green​Tech​Me​dia​.com

Her­nan­dez RR, Hof­fack­er MK, Field CB (2014) The Land-Use Effi­cien­cy of Big Solar. Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy, doi: 10.1021/es4043726. [PDF]

Funk JL, Hof­fack­er MK, and Matzek V (2014) Sum­mer irri­ga­tion, graz­ing and seed addi­tion dif­fer­en­tial­ly influ­ence com­mu­ni­ty com­po­si­tion in an invad­ed ser­pen­tine grass­land.  [PDF]