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

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Community Event

Space Enabled Earth Justice: Using Space Technology to Improve Life

Join us for a special event featuring Dr. Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled Research Group at MIT, on Friday, April 22 at 7:30pm, UCSB Campbell Hall.

Apr 22 2022 | 7:30pm PT

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Student Presentations

2022 Master's Project Presentations

Join us live online or on-campus for the 2022 MESM master's group project presentations, Friday, April 22.

Apr 22 2022 | 1:00 - 5:25pm Pacific Time

Bren Seminar

PFAS Research to Support Source Identification and Site Remediation

Marc Mills, Environmental Engineer, US EPA

Apr 18 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

Wildfire Smoke Impacts on Public Health in a Changing Climate

Rosana Aguilera, Staff Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD

Apr 11 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

Overcoming Barriers to Sustainable Coastal Governance in Mexico

Eréndira Aceves Bueno, Assistant Professor, School of Marine & Environmental Affairs, University of Washington

Apr 4 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Bren Seminar

Do Economists Know the Cost of Everything and the Value of Nothing?

Rashid Sumaila, Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia

Mar 28 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

Understanding the Drivers and Consequences of Personal Adaptation to Environmental Extremes

Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University

Mar 7 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

Deforestation in Response to Agricultural Shocks

Kathy Baylis, Professor, Department of Geography, UCSB

Feb 28 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Student Presentations

2022 PhD Student Symposium

Friday, February 25 @ 1pm PT. Learn about the diverse, cutting-edge research being conducted by Bren School PhD students

Feb 25 2022 | 1:00pm PST

PhD Defense

N treatment in stormwater biofilters: Relationships between sequestered pollutants, environmental conditions, and N cycling soil bacteria

PhD Dissertation Defense, Marina Feraud

Feb 24 2022 | 3:00 pm PST

Bren Seminar

Response of Endangered San Joaquin Kit Foxes to Solar Farms

Brian Boroski, Vice President, Principal, H. T. Harvey & Associates

Feb 14 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

Analysis and Mapping of Spatial Movement in Relation to the Environment

Somayeh Dodge, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, UCSB

Feb 7 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Bren Seminar

Digging through the Toolbox: Promoting Forest Persistence via Established Practices

Sarah Bisbing, Assistant Professor, Whittell Forest & Wildlife Area Director, University of Nevada, Reno

Jan 31 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

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Bren Seminar

Towards a Mechanistic Science of Global Change: From Cells to Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

Joey Bernhardt, Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

Jan 24 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Bren Seminar

Vulnerability to Floods: Who’s Exposed and Who Recovers?

Eric Tate, Associate Professor, Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, University of Iowa

Jan 10 2022 | 11:00am to 12:00pm PT

Community Event

Data Science Summit at UCSB

Join data scientists from across disciplines for the UCSB Data Science Summit on December 3, 2021

Dec 3 2021 | 9:00am - 5:00pm Pacific Time