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

Bren Seminar

Life Cycle Assessment in an Environmental and Innovation Policy Context

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

Nov 8, 2021 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

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

David Lobell, Professor, Stanford University

Nov 1, 2021 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

The Problem(s) with Corporate Climate Commitments

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

Oct 25, 2021 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

PhD Defense

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

PhD Dissertation Defense, Alice Lépissier

Oct 20, 2021 | 12:00pm PDT

Bren Seminar

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

Flora Lu, Professor, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Oct 18, 2021 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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.

Oct 11, 2021 | 2:45pm - 5:15pm PDT

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

Oct 11, 2021 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

The Fate of the Terrestrial Biosphere

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

Oct 4, 2021 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

Addressing Forced Labor in Fisheries Using Satellite Data and Machine Learning

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

Sep 27, 2021 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

PhD Defense

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

PhD Dissertation Defense, Jade Sainz

Sep 8, 2021 | 9:00 am PDT

Commencement

2021 Bren Commencement Celebration

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

Jun 11, 2021 | 9:00am to 11:00am PDT

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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

Jun 4, 2021 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT

PhD Defense

Social Efficiency of Natural Resource Management

PhD Dissertation Defense, Sam Collie

Jun 2, 2021 | 9:30 am PDT

PhD Defense

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

PhD Dissertation Defense, Jiajia Zheng

Jun 1, 2021 | 12:00pm PDT

PhD Defense

Sustainable Aquaculture for a Resource Limited Future

PhD Dissertation Defense, Jessica L. Couture

May 28, 2021 | 8:00am PDT

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

May 24, 2021 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PDT