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Event Category

Date

Location

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Headshot of Deepak Rajagopal

Bren Seminar

Life Cycle Assessment in an Environmental and Innovation Policy Context

Deepak Rajagopal, Associate Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA

| 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Headshot of David Lobell

Bren Seminar

Crop Analytics: Can Data Take Agriculture to the Next Level?

David Lobell, Professor, Stanford University

| 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Headshot of Patrick Callery

Bren Seminar

The Problem(s) with Corporate Climate Commitments

Patrick Callery, Assistant Professor, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University

| 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Headshot of Alice Lepissier

PhD Defense

A Methodological Toolkit to Understand Complex Policy Problems: Applications to Climate Change and Illicit Finance

PhD Dissertation Defense, Alice Lépissier

| 12:00pm PDT

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Headshot of Flora Lu

Bren Seminar

Indigenous Peoples and Conservation in the Amazon: Interdisciplinary and Longitudinal Insights

Flora Lu, Professor, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

| 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Lagoon surrounded by greenery reflecting sky with puffy clouds

Workshop

UCSB Conference on Social Science & Climate Change Solutions

Presentations on research that focuses on recognizing the barriers to equitable climate change solutions, and how to overcome them.

| 2:45pm - 5:15pm PDT

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Headshot of Shahzeen Attari

Bren Seminar

Fusing Facts and Feelings to Motivate Action on Climate Change

Shahzeen Attari, Associate Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

| 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Headshot of Joshua Fisher

Bren Seminar

The Fate of the Terrestrial Biosphere

Joshua B. Fisher, Presidential Fellow in Ecosystem Science, Chapman University

| 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Gavin McDonald

Bren Seminar

Addressing Forced Labor in Fisheries Using Satellite Data and Machine Learning

Gavin McDonald, Senior Project Researcher, Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab), UCSB

| 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Headshot of Jade Sainz

PhD Defense

Incorporating Climate Variability and Change into Marine Spatial Planning for Aquaculture in the Southern California Bight

PhD Dissertation Defense, Jade Sainz

| 9:00 am PDT

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Graduates in cap and gown seen from behind at commencement

Commencement

2021 Bren Commencement Celebration

Join us online to celebrate our graduates on June 11, 2021!

| 9:00am to 11:00am PDT

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People on beach at sunset making a video

Student Presentations

Bren Communication Capstone Final Presentations

Join us live for 8 environmental communication capstone presentations from the MESM Class of 2021, from short films to outreach campaigns

| 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT

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PhD Defense

Social Efficiency of Natural Resource Management

PhD Dissertation Defense, Sam Collie

| 9:30 am PDT

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Headshot of Jiajia Zheng

PhD Defense

Assessment of Decarbonizing Rapidly-Growing Technological Systems with a Life-Cycle Perspective

PhD Dissertation Defense, Jiajia Zheng

| 12:00pm PDT

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Headshot of Jessica Couture

PhD Defense

Sustainable Aquaculture for a Resource Limited Future

PhD Dissertation Defense, Jessica L. Couture

| 8:00am PDT

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Morgan Grove wears an orange coat and stands next to a bare tree

Bren Seminar

Rebuilding Communities with an Urban Wood and Land Restoration Economy

Join us Monday, May 24, for a seminar on urban forestry with Dr. Morgan Grove, Team Leader, USDA Forest Service; Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment

| 11:00am to 12:00pm PDT