2023 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 Co-Chair Gabriela Alberola and Bren School Dean Steve Gaines
- 1:10pm: Nathaniel Grimes, Index Insurance Induced Behavior Change in Fishers
- 1:25pm: Risa Lewis, Policy Impacts of a Satisficing Model of Private Carbon Emissions Reduction
- 1:30pm: Nākoa Farrant, Evaluating Drivers of Alternative Revegetation Pathways Following Agricultural Disturbance
- 1:45pm: Phoebe Racine, Pandemic Shifts in Diversity of California Seafood Consumption
- 2:00pm: Gabriela Alberola, Vulnerability and Politics: What Drives the Subnational Allocation of Climate Adaptation Funding in Latin America and the Caribbean?
- 2:05pm: Leonardo Manir Feitosa, Interaction Between Prices and Life Histories Can Drive Species Extinct in Open Access Fishing
- 2:20pm: Kaili Brande, Bark Traits and Expected Conferred Resistance to Fire-induced Mortality in Three California Oak Species
- 2:35pm: Break
- 3:05pm: Sandy Sum, The Equity Implications of Irrigation Cutbacks in California
- 3:20pm: Haozhe Yang, Decarbonizing China’s Electricity Sector Brings Significant Health Benefits but may Widen Regional Disparities in Employment
- 3:35pm: Jacob Gellman, Non-Market Damages of Wildfire Smoke: Evidence from Administrative Recreation Data
- 3:50pm: Jaxon Stuhr, Supply Chain Modeling with Sectoral Efficiency Potentials for the U.S. Manufacturing Sector
- 3:55pm: Liliana Sierra Castillo, The Implications of the “Blue Transitions” in Small-scale Fishery Communities in Baja California Sur, Mexico
- 4:10pm: Louis Graup, Riperia
- 4:15 pm: Closing remarks
Reception and Awards Ceremony to follow in the Bren Hall Michael J. Connell Courtyard
Download the PhD Symposium Program to find out more
Thank you to our 2023 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, Deckers Outdoor Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, Latham & Watkins, O’Melveny & Myers, Professional Environmental Managers Association (PEMA), Resources Legacy Fund, Rhodium Group, Rincon Consultants, Southern California Edison, The Nature Conservancy, Toad & Co.