Past Events | UC Santa Barbara Bren - Bren School of Environment

PhD Defense

Evaluating the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Environmental Policies for Global and Local Air Pollutants

PhD Dissertation Defense, Vincent Thivierge

Jun 5, 2023 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Student Presentations

2023 MEDS Capstone Project Presentations

Join us live online or on campus for the 2023 MEDS capstone project presentations, Friday, June 2

Jun 2, 2023 | 1:00pm PST

Bren Seminar

Role of Iron Chemistry in the ‘Closer to Zero’ Initiative

Adeyemi Adeleye, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine

May 22, 2023 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

5th Annual Environmental Justice Symposium

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2023 Environmental Justice Symposium

The 5th Annual Environmental Justice Symposium, presented by the Bren School Environmental Justice Club, May 18 & 19, 2023.

May 19, 2023 | May 18, 4:00-6:00pm; May 19, 2:00-4:00pm Pacific Time

PhD Defense

Evaluating Impacts of Forests and Forest Policy: Methods and Applications using Satellite Data

PhD Dissertation Defense, Albert Garcia

May 17, 2023 | 1:00pm PST

Bren Seminar

Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation

Teevrat Garg, Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

May 15, 2023 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Violaine Desgens-Martin outside in front of a rock face

PhD Defense

Assessing Ecological Risks of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Central and Southern California Aquatic Environments using Modeling

PhD Dissertation Defense, Violaine Desgens-Martin

May 2, 2023 | 2:00 pm PT

Bren Seminar

Stormwater on the Margins: How Communities Navigate Exclusionary Stormwater Management

Rachel Scarlett, Postdoctoral Fellow, Keller Science Action Center, The Field Museum; Smith Conservation Research Fellow

May 1, 2023 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Student Presentations

2023 Master's Project Presentations

Join us live online or on-campus for the 2023 MESM master's group project presentations, Friday, April 28.

Apr 28, 2023 | 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm PT

Erin Winslow sits in a boat in front of green mountains

PhD Defense

Post-disturbance Dynamics of Branching Corals and Their Predators

PhD Dissertation Defense, Erin Winslow

Apr 25, 2023 | 9:00 am PT

Solomon Hsaing stands in front of a whiteboard

Bren Seminar

A Large Undocumented Mortality Burden Caused by the Tropical Cyclone Climate of the United States

Solomon Hsiang, Thomas and Alison Schneider Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Apr 17, 2023 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

Surface Water Scarcity and Adaptation in the Long Run

Nick Hagerty, Assistant Professor, Montana State University

Apr 3, 2023 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

Why Have Humans Lost Control of Wildfire in the Western United States?

Park Williams, Associate Professor, UCLA

Mar 13, 2023 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

A Feminist Political Ecology of Commodity Fishing in Palau

Caroline Ferguson, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Social Ocean Lab, University of Maine

Mar 6, 2023 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Collage of PhD students at previous symposiums

Student Presentations

2023 PhD Student Symposium

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

Mar 3, 2023 | 1:00pm PST

Bren Seminar

Integrated Watershed Management and Agroforestry to Address Food Security and Environmental Degradation in the Angereb Watershed, the Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia

Badege Bishaw, Courtesy Faculty, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University

Feb 27, 2023 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT