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Bren Seminar

Clean Cars, Dirty Margins: Portfolio Responses to Electric Vehicle Subsidies

Teevrat Garg, Associate Professor of Economics, UCSD

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Bren Seminar

Deploying Science in Post-Disaster Decision Making: Lessons from the 2025 Los Angeles Fires

Megan Mullin, Faculty Director, Luskin Center for Innovation; Professor of Public Policy, UCLA

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Headshot of Katherine Siegel

Bren Seminar

Wildfires, Climate Change, and Transformation in Anthropocene Forests

Katherine Siegel, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder

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Bren Seminar

On Stepping Up And Being Bold: Defending Science and Making Progress in the Current Climate

Gretchen T. Goldman, President and CEO, Union of Concerned Scientists

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Student Presentations

2026 Master's Impact Project Presentations

Join us live online or on campus for the 2025 MESM impact project presentations, Friday, April 17.

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Bren Seminar

Science for Food System Transformation: Examples from Regenerative Foodscapes

Stephen Wood, Senior Scientist for Agriculture and Food Systems, The Nature Conservancy

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Bren Seminar

How Degraded Corners of Campus Can Become Keystones to Climate Adaptation and Coastal Resilience

Lisa Stratton, Director of Ecosystem Management, UCSB Cheadle Center for Biological Diversity

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Bren Seminar

Measuring Deterrence: Ranger Patrols Reduce Poaching in Uganda

Lily Xu, Assistant Professor, Columbia University

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PhD Defense

From Pixels to Policy: Field-Scale Remote Sensing for Agricultural Water Management from Sub-Saharan Africa to California

PhD Dissertation Defense, Anna Boser

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Bren Seminar

Pollution and Learning

Patrick Behrer, Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank

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Student Presentations

2026 PhD Student Symposium

Learn about the diverse, cutting-edge research being conducted by Bren School PhD students

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Bren Seminar

Beyond Borders and Silos: Rethinking How Energy Policies Shape Water and Society

Newsha Ajami, Chief Strategy and Development Officer for Research, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley Lab

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Headshot of Mukta Kelkar

PhD Defense

Ecological and Social Considerations of Marine Protected Areas under Climate Change

PhD Dissertation Defense, Mukta Kelkar

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Bren Seminar

Unlocking the Sea Change: How Unlikely Allies Rewrote the Rules of the Ocean

Amanda Leland, Executive Director, Environmental Defense Fund; and James Workman, Award-Winning Author

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Bren Seminar

Climbing the Energy Ladder: How Energy Resources Hinder, Facilitate, and Fuel Economic Growth

Derek Lemoine, Professor of Economics, University of Arizona

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Bren Seminar

Data By the People, For the People: Building Community-Centered Environmental Research in an Era of Scientific Uncertainty

Brittany Janis, Executive Director, Open Environmental Data Project