2022 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 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.
Watch a recording of all the talks here
Schedule
- 1:00 pm: Words of welcome from PhD Symposium Committee Chair Patrick Hunnicutt and Bren School Dean Steve Gaines
- 1:10 pm: Nākoa Farrant, Assessing vegetation recovery on abandoned agricultural land in Hawai‘i
- 1:25 pm: Anna S Boser, Saving California's water
- 1:30 pm: Cali Pfleger, Using isotopic fingerprints to investigate changes in the Pacific Walker Circulation over the last millennium
- 1:45 pm: Chen Xing, Anthropogenic aerosol triggered multi-decadal North Pacific Ocean variability responses in CESM Large Ensemble Project
- 1:50 pm: Sean Denny, How do changes to food supply affect hunting rates across the global tropics?
- 2:05 pm: Yifan (Flora) He, Social and environmental impacts of land use restrictions in Indigenous lands in Brazil
- 2:10 pm: Elliott Finn, This land is our land: County responses to losing autonomy over public land use
- 2:25 pm: Break
- 2:45 pm: Gabriela Alberola, The political economy of climate adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 2:50 pm: Ignacia Rivera, Designing behavioral experiments to better understand cooperation in natural resource use
- 3:05 pm: Renae Marshall, Advancing bipartisan decarbonization policies: Lessons from state-level successes and failures
- 3:10 pm: Alberto Garcia, Impacts of Chilean payments for native reforestation
- 2:25 pm: Patrick Hunnicutt, United Nations Peacekeeping and natural resource concessions in post-war Liberia
- 3:40 pm: Fatiq Nadeem, The political economy of crop fires in South Asia
- 3:55 pm: Flavio Ariza Malagutti, Combating household air pollution with clean energy sources
- 4:00 pm: Closing remarks
Reception and Awards Ceremony to follow in the Bren Hall Michael J. Connell Courtyard
Download the PhD Symposium program here
Thank you to our 2022 PhD Symposium Supporter:
And thank you to the Bren School's Corporate and Institutional Partners:
AEP Channel Counties Chapter, Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, California Homebuilding Foundation, Catena Foundation, Deckers Outdoor Corporation, Eli Lilly, Grove Planting Company, Irvine Ranch Conservancy, Kingfisher Foundation, Latham & Watkins, Lean Green Way, March Limited of Bermuda, Moulton Nigel Water District, O’Melveny & Myers, Professional Environmental Managers Association (PEMA), Protect Our Winters, Rhodium Group, Rincon Consultants, Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation, Scoot Science, Tetiaroa Society, The Nature Conservancy, Toad & Co., Walton Family Foundation