Jane Alissa Flegal and Eric Robert Dougherty were married Oct. 12 at Colony 29, an events space in Palm Springs, Calif. Mary H. Russo, an aunt of the bride, solemnized the marriage, having been designated a deputy commissioner of marriages in Riverside County.

The bride and groom each received a doctoral degree in environmental science, policy and management from the University of California, Berkeley. They met in 2013, on the first night of a camping trip in Point Reyes National Seashore that was part of their orientation for the doctoral program.

Dr. Flegal, 32, is the environmental program officer, overseeing grant-making on climate change, at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust in New York. She is also a member of the adjunct faculty at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, which is in Tempe, Ariz. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College.

She is the daughter of Michelle A. Flegal of Pompano Beach, Fla., and H. Scott Flegal of Nashua, N.H. The bride’s father is a lawyer in private practice in Nashua. Her mother retired as a director for federal business sales, in Pompano Beach at OSI Systems, a manufacturer of specialized electronic systems and components.