Helena Holmberg

Research Analyst

Helena Holmberg is a Research Analyst at WestWater Research, based in Sacramento, California. She specializes in providing research and economic support to evaluate local water markets, water rights values, and water supply risks.

Helena joined WestWater after completing a summer internship in 2023, where she monitored emerging groundwater policies in California’s Central Valley. This work helped assess how regions with volatile water supplies are adapting to anticipated future groundwater scarcity. As a senior at the University of California, Davis, she completed her thesis on the long-term impacts of groundwater management on agriculture in Riverside County, CA.

Helena holds a B.S. in Managerial Economics with a focus on natural resource and environmental economics from the University of California, Davis.