2019 PhD Student Symposium

The Bren PhD Student Symposium is held annually to highlight the diverse, cutting-edge research being conducted by Bren School PhD students. The students will present posters, short (3-minute) talks and longer (12-minute) talks describing their work. The event is open to the entire UCSB and Santa Barbara communities and is free to attend.

Schedule

• 12:00: Arrival and Registration    
• 12:30: Welcoming Remarks, Erin Winslow, Chair, PhD Symposium Committee
• 12:35: Highlights of Bren School PhD Research, Professor Christina (Naomi) Tague
• 12:40: Ty Brandt, Snowfall’s Footprints
• 12:55: Violaine Desgens-Martin, Fate and Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Wastewater Treatment Plants
• 1:00: Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas in the World’s Largest Tuna Fishery
• 1:15: Phoebe Racine, Big Mussel: Will They Eat Us Out of the Water?
• 1:20: Patrick Hunnicutt, The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment and Framework
• 1:35: Jiajia Zheng, Strategies to Reduce the Global Carbon Footprint of Plastics
• 1:40: Jessica Couture, Environmental Benefits of Novel Nonhuman Food Inputs to Salmon Feeds
• 1:55: Refreshment Break    
• 2:30: Julia Lawson and Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Status, Trends, and Drivers of Caribbean FAD Fisheries
• 2:45: Yang Qiu, Economic Feasibility of Recycling Rare Earth Oxides from End-of-Life Lighting Technologies
• 2:50: Erin Winslow, Bringing Life Back to a Disturbed Ecosystem
• 3:05: Nicol Parker, Chemical Risk: We All Need Somebody to Lean On
• 3:10: Alice Lépissier, Assessing the Causal Impact of Carbon Pricing Using Synthetic Control Methods: An Impact Analysis of the UK’s Climate Change Programme
• 3:25: Casey O’Hara, Mapping Status and Conservation of Global At-Risk Marine Biodiversity
• 3:30: Sean Denny, In the Wake of the Brown Bear: Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Terrestrial Omnivore
• 3:45: Reception and Poster Session in the Michael J. Connell Memorial Courtyard
   

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