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Commencement

2025 Bren Commencement Celebration

Save the date to celebrate our graduates on June 13, 2025!

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PhD Defense

Conservation in Context: How Ecosystem Resilience, Habitat Structure, and Recovery Potential Shape Marine Protected Area Management and Performance

PhD Dissertation Defense, Cori Lopazanski

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Student Presentations

2025 MEDS Capstone Project Presentations

Join us live online or on campus for the 2025 MEDS capstone project presentations, Friday, May 30

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PhD Defense

Fire Ecology and the Effects of Prescribed Fire in California Foothill Oak Woodlands

PhD Dissertation Defense, Kaili Brande

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PhD Defense

Governing Natural Resources in South America: Distributive Politics and Unequal Consequences

PhD Dissertation Defense, Yifan (Flora) He

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PhD Defense

Essays on Development Economics: The Anticipation of Cash Transfers and Policy Levers for Clean Energy Use

PhD Dissertation Defense, Flavio Malagutti

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Bren Seminar

One Million High-Resolution Aerial Photographs Capture Africa’s 20th-Century Transformation

Hannah Druckenmiller, Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology

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PhD Defense

The Economics of Inequality in Hydrological Systems

PhD Dissertation Defense, Sandy Sum

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Poster with text Reimagining Landscapes through Community Resilience

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2025 Environmental Justice Symposium

The Bren School Environmental Justice Club presents its 7th annual symposium: Reimagining Landscapes through Community Resilience

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Bren Seminar

Bridging the Gap Between Social Science and Sustainability Modeling

Michael Davidson, Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, UC San Diego

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Bren Seminar

Climate Change Detection and Attribution Using Tree Rings

Julie Edwards, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bren School

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Bren Seminar

NCEAS and the Future of Environmental Data Science

Ben Halpern, Professor, Bren School; Executive Director, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)

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Student Presentations

2025 Master's Project Presentations

Join us live online or on campus for the 2025 MESM project presentations, Friday, April 25.

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Headshot of Liliana Sierra Castillo

PhD Defense

The Blue Economy for Whom and by Whom? Exploring the Narratives, Realities, and Impacts on Small-Scale Fishing Communities Using Interdisciplinary Approaches

PhD Dissertation Defense, Liliana Sierra Castillo

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Bren Seminar

Social, Local, and Landscape Drivers of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Urban Agroecosystems

Stacy Philpott, Professor, Environmental Studies Dept., Faculty Director, Center for Agroecology, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Bren Seminar

Fusing Remote Sensing and Modeling to Advance Hydrologic Prediction in Snow Dominated Headwater Catchments

McKenzie Skiles, Associate Professor, University of Utah