Spring quarter always brings a different level of activity to E-IPER, and this year was no different! Students and alumni worked hard with their courses and ongoing virtual research, while planning scholarly in-person activities for the summer and into next year. Graduating students prepared for Commencement and life after E-IPER. It was a race to summer, and we made it!
In this issue:
- Commencement
- Faculty Spotlight: Fiorenza Micheli
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Dissertation Defense: Rebecca Miller, David Gonzalez, Sudatta Ray, Allison Sherris, Casey Maue
- New Collaboration Grants
- Joint Master's Research Assistantship
- 20th Anniversary Events: Alumni in Sustainable Business
- E-IPER Connections: Paint Night, Book Club
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Student and Alumni News, including Awards & Honors, Publications & Presentations
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Due to continuing COVID-19 protocols and guidelines, the University and the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences departments and programs arranged for in-person and virtual gatherings, respectively, during Commencement weekend (Friday, June 11th - Sunday, June 13th). E-IPER marked this momentous occasion for our 2020-2021 graduates with a virtual celebration on Friday, June 11th at 1pm via YouTube Premiere.
In partnership with Cyperus Media LLC, E-IPER compiled a pre-recorded celebration with remarks from our Faculty Director, Nicole Ardoin, and four E-IPER alumni who graduated in the early aughts of E-IPER. Mike Mastrandrea (PhD ’04), Holmes Hummel (PhD ’06), Dave Mount (MS-MBA ’08) and Emma Wendt (MS-MBA ’09) shared remarks about their experience in E-IPER and how it has impacted them and their work, and the hopes they have for our graduates, their communities, and the future ahead. In addition to the virtual celebration, a Kudoboard was put together for family, friends, faculty, staff and the greater E-IPER community to post congratulatory messages to our graduates.
Congratulations Class of 2020-2021! We are so proud of you and can't wait to hear all the amazing things you'll do and accomplish.
PhD 2020-2021 Graduates:
Nina Brooks, Rachel Engstrand, Caroline Ferguson, David Gonzalez, Casey Maue, Rebecca Miller, Chikara Onda, Sudatta Ray, Allison Sherris, and Lin Shi
Joint/Dual MS 2020-2021 Graduates:
David Aitoro, Paul-Miki Akpablie, Alexandra Boboc, Arnab Chatterjee, Sawyer Clark, Cam Clevidence, Meg Downey, Ian Field, Emily Gittins, Maya Granit, John Hare-Grogg, Joseph Ingrao, Daniel Irvin, Philipp Krinner, Alex Li, Mondee Lu, Kyle Mills, Carla Pacini, Fabioloa Quinzaños Rodrigez, William Ross, Eitan Rovero-Shein, Alvaro Stolowicz, Sami Tellatin, Nicholas Wallace, Eileen Waris, and Amanda Zerbe
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E-IPER Faculty Spotlight:
Fiorenza Micheli
David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science,
Co-Director of Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions,
Co-Director of Hopkins Marine Station
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Professor Fiorenza “Fio” Micheli wears many hats. She is the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, the Co-director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions, and the Co-director of the Hopkins Marine Station. Fio is an active affiliated faculty member of E-IPER and has advised many E-IPER students during her two decades at Stanford. Her research focuses on the processes and interactions shaping coastal marine communities and incorporating this understanding into marine management and conservation. This year, she served as the Chair of the E-IPER Admission Committee. During a recent conversation with 1st-year E-IPER Ph.D. student Safari Fang, Fio reflected on her upbringing, her research, the E-IPER admission process and her leadership vision, as well as offering some advice for women in science.
Growing up in Italy, Fio spent a lot of time by the sea. Her family went to an island every summer and she spent hours in the tide pools and on fishing boats. Her passion and curiosity about marine life drive her desire to conserve the ocean and promote solutions to ocean challenges. Reflecting on how her upbringing influenced her career, Fio says, “My happiest memories growing up are being on an island, on boats, and in the water. Now I do this full time, so I feel very lucky.”
Fio’s research in marine science has evolved over the years from behavioral ecology to interdisciplinary approaches and social-ecological systems. She sees that natural systems and human systems are integrated and there are important feedbacks and linkages. She emphasizes ocean solutions; in recent years, Fio researched marine protected areas, spatial planning in small-scale fisheries, blue carbon ecosystems, and nature-based solutions to climate change. She is excited about providing solutions to the challenges that the ocean and people are facing.
A long-time advisor to E-IPER students, Fio chaired the E-IPER Ph.D. admissions committee this year. The admissions committee consisted of diverse E-IPER affiliated faculty that represent a broad set of disciplines. This year, E-IPER received a large number of applications, twice as many as other years. Along with the Associate Chair of Diversity and Inclusion, Professor Rodolfo Dirzo, and the Associate Director of Operations and Student Affairs, Ann Marie Pettigrew, the committee applied a specific rubric for evaluation, including interdisciplinarity, research experience, and diverse life experience. Overall, chairing the committee was a very positive experience for Fio, and she was extremely pleased with the outcome. “Overseeing admissions was amazing and it enforced my confidence in the efficacy and fairness of the selection process,” she reflected.
Asked about areas of improvement in the admissions process, Fio said that the fraction of underrepresented minority applicants is still fairly low. The E-IPER community needs to "proactively, deliberately, and actively reach out to recruit a greater number of underrepresented minority applicants.” We need to “disseminate the knowledge about E-IPER and enable potential prospective candidates in a diverse set of contexts to apply to the program and be successful in the program.” She recommends that in the future E-IPER work with minority-serving institutions and organizations upfront in the admissions process.
As the new co-director at the Hopkins Marine Station, Fio’s vision is to bring Hopkins fully into Stanford as its portal of the ocean and continue to leverage and expand its assets. That means co-developing curricula with colleagues on the main campus, facilitating research collaborations, and increasing connectivity through transportation and accommodation. To leverage Stanford’s incredible assets in ocean science and solutions, the ocean community formed an initiative called One Ocean. One Ocean supports interdisciplinary ocean science and solution in which Hopkins and Center for Ocean Solutions are key pillars. Reflecting on her leadership philosophy, Fio says: “My values are on collaborative work, partnerships, thinking about the future—what is important and what is needed for a healthy, sustainable, equitable ocean.”
Women are underrepresented in science and leadership positions in the US and around the world, and Fio offers her advice: “Believe in yourself and do what matters to you. Throw yourself into things and try things out, especially earlier on in your career. Be open, do lots of different things, and learn from these experiences. You know how some people tell you ‘Learn how to say no’? I would say ‘learn how to say yes’.” She is encouraged to see a growing community of early-career professionals with a larger representation of women than before. That's still not the case in leadership positions, and she believes that needs to change. She believes in the power of E-IPER students and is excited about what they are going to do next.
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PhD Dissertation Defense:
Rebecca Miller, David Gonzalez,
Sudatta Ray, Allison Sherris, Casey Maue
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On May 3, Rebecca Miller successfully defended her dissertation, "Wildfire Resilience Policies in California."
Rebecca researches historic and current wildfire protection and prevention policies in California. She examines how communities and federal, state, and local governments prepare for, respond to, and recover from wildfires, with a primary focus on recent wildfires across California.
Rebecca will be the inaugural postdoctoral scholar with the West on Fire Project at the Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West starting in August.
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On June 2, David Gonzalez successfully defended his dissertation, "Upstream Oil Production, Ambient Air Quality, and Preterm Birth in California."
David studies how pollution from extractive industries affects reproductive health and contributes to health disparities. He applies interdisciplinary methods from epidemiology, econometrics, and environmental science, and conducts field work and population-level studies in California and Peru.
David will be starting a postdoc this summer at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
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On July 21, Sudatta Ray successfully defended her dissertation, "Rural Electrification Expansion and its Role in Shaping Agriculture and Food Security in India."
Sudatta studies the impact of rural electrification across the global south. In her dissertation, she studied different electrification strategies which enable (or in some cases restrict) groundwater pumping for irrigation - one of the largest sources of electricity consumption in India. By tracing the evolution of rural electrification policies, she studied how through groundwater pumping, electrification shapes Indian agriculture and food security.
Sudatta has over four years of professional experience working the Indian government and think-tanks on issues of climate change governance and energy policy. She will be joining the environmental studies department at Yale-NUS College in Singapore as an Assistant Professor in January 2022.
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On July 22, Allison Sherris successfully defended her dissertation, "Environmental Contaminants and Health in Early Life: Studies on Air Pollution and Drinking Water Quality."
Allie studies links between exposure to environmental contaminants and health outcomes in early life. Her dissertation explores links between drinking water contamination in California's Central Valley and adverse birth outcomes. Another area of research investigates the impact of ambient particulate matter pollution on child respiratory health in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Broadly, she hopes to use data science and interdisciplinary, community-engaged methods to understand the cumulative impact of chemical contaminants on communities and public health.
Allie will be joining Scott Fendorf's lab as a postdoc in the fall and then transitioning to the University of Washington in January 2022.
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On July 23, Casey Maue successfully defended his dissertation, "Climate, Agriculture, and Economic Development: Theories and Methods for Agricultural Productivity Analysis."
Casey studies how to alleviate poverty and increase food security by promoting agricultural development, and how these development efforts are affected by climate and climate change.
Casey will be joining the Paris School of Economics (PSE) in Paris as a Postdoctoral Scholar in September. His position is also joint with the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) within the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
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New Collaboration Grants
The awardees of this year's Collaboration Grants have been announced!!
The E-IPER Collaboration Grants encourage E-IPER PhD and Joint MS students to work together to address significant environmental issues in ways that cannot be as effectively addressed through individual efforts. Successful projects couple the research rigor of the doctoral student with the implementation skills of the joint master's student. Students receive $10,000 for the project costs, as well as a stipend for the PhD students and one quarter of graduate tuition for the MS students.
Four innovative projects received awards through the 2021 Collaboration Grant. Those projects and the recipients are listed below. Congratulations to all!
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"Improving Biofuel Emissions Accounting in California"
Team: Leehi Yona (PhD) and Catherine Rocchi (MS-JD)
Advisors: Rob Jackson (ESS) and Buzz Thompson (Law)
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"Market Analysis of Insurance Mechanisms to Finance Coral Reef Conservation: Building a Model Case in Hawai`i to Protect Coastal Communities Through Private Sector Tourism Industry Partnership"
Team: Rachel Carlson (PhD) and Joanna Klitze (MS-MBA)
Advisors: Gretchen Daily (Bio/NatCap) and Amit Seru (GSB)
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"Scaling Environmental DNA Adoption Through Community Science
to Unlock Novel Use-Cases"
Team: Meghan Shea (PhD) and Morrison Mast (MS-MBA)
Advisors: Ali Boehm (CEE) and Charles Ewald (GSB)
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"Shining the Light on Blackouts: Analysis of Equity Implications of
Power Outages in the Face of Climate Change"
Team: Ranjitha Shivaram (PhD) and Ada Statler (MS-JD)
Advisors: Inês Azevedo (ERE) and Debbie Sivas (Law)
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E-IPER Master’s Research Assistantships
E-IPER kicked of Spring 2021 with an exciting and new opportunity for E-IPER MS students to work as research assistants (RA's) on faculty mentored, individualized environment, energy, and sustainability research. Through this offering, E-IPER aimed to encourage and accelerate collaboration among faculty scholars, their labs, and the MS students as emerging practitioners.
Based in a faculty member's research area, this new initiative leveraged the practice-oriented lens of three E-IPER MS students and augmented their course-based learning with research experiences.
Opportunities for Policy Change to Address Climate Change
Ian Field (MS-MBA ‘21) was selected to work with Professor Jon Krosnick for the project Opportunities for Policy Change to Address Climate Change. Bringing together E-IPER coursework and professional experience in politics and policy making, Ian helped analyze and update policy questions to survey American public opinion about climate change and possible solutions. His research raised potential polling questions about policy solutions including infrastructure investments, energy subsidies, clean/low carbon fuel standards, carbon capture and storage, and other ways to limit global warming. This work will be included in an upcoming survey of American public opinion scheduled for later this summer.
“Doing research with Professor Krosnick is a wonderful culmination of my E-IPER degree,” Ian said. “I’m grateful to work with this incredible team to make a difference on climate change policy.”
Ian worked with Professor Krosnick, the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and (by courtesy) Psychology and lab director for Stanford’s Political Psychology Research Group (PPRG), and Dr. Bo MacInnis, an environmental economist who co-leads with Professor Krosnick PPRG’s research on climate change. Since 1995, this research project, American Public Opinion on Global Warming, has conducted national surveys of American adults.
Before Stanford, Ian worked as chief of staff to a senior member of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce. In his project with Professor Krosnick, he analyzed past survey questions and current climate policy solutions, then proposed new survey questions to capture public opinion. Field looked for ways survey data can help inform and motivate policy makers. In addition, he helped build a tool to help survey designers evaluate future policy questions.
Decommissioning Internal Combustion Engines:
The Impact of Exporting Used Vehicles Overseas
In order to reach California's Zero-Emission Vehicle targets set by Governor Newsom, an increasing number of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles will likely be decommissioned, in favor of emission-free alternatives, such as battery or hydrogen vehicles. Hannah Sieber (MS-MBA '21) worked with the Decommissioning Internal Combustion Engines Vehicle (DIVE) Research Lab, led by Dr. Margot Gerritsen. The lab has several projects underway, all focused on equitably decommissioning ICE vehicles, as electrification becomes imminent.
Hannah's research focused on analyzing the used-car market, and particularly the impact of exporting used vehicles overseas. The zero-emissions targets and decarbonization goals set by the federal and state governments mean it’s likely that an increasing number of cars will be decommissioned, and more cars will be exported overseas, where the minimal, and sometimes non-existent, emissions standards give way to a longer vehicle life and elevated emissions. From 2015 to 2018 the U.S. exported a total of 2.6M used light-duty vehicles, for over $24B worth of value; the top two trading partners being the UAE and Nigeria (Source: UNEP). Many of these importing countries are experiencing an increase in demand for cars, fueled by their economic growth and a rising middle class.
The effect of ICE vehicles on air pollution and health has been well documented globally and in these recipient countries. A 2005 study in Lagos, Nigeria confirmed the transport is the major cause of air pollution in Lagos. Hannah's research aimed to shed some light on the questions: What are the unintended consequences of decommissioning our ICE vehicles? Will the U.S.
path towards electrification cause other countries to remain addicted to fossil fuels for longer? As a larger number of affordable used cars enter the global market, what will happen to air quality in these fast-growing cities?
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Source: UNEP, based on data collected from the 146 countries analyzed as of July 2020 |
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Energy Utilities, Customer Trust, and Climate Decisions
As “wildfire season” strikes California with increasing severity, there is growing attention being paid to how electric utilities handle these risks—from dangerous powerlines to preventative shutoffs and potential energy supply shortages overlapping with ideal wildfire conditions. But from incentives for energy efficiency to rooftop solar, many of California’s key climate policies rely on utility companies to implement programming with individual households. Ada Statler (MS-JD ’22) worked with E-IPER PhD Student KC McKanna (PhD 6th) and Professor Gabrielle Wong-Parodi to review how these dynamics interact, and whether utilities’ handling of wildfire risk might influence people’s willingness to engage in utility-run climate programs.
Ada’s research reviewed literature from a number of disciplines to shed light on this question, including literature on the expressive power of law, procedural trust and justice, and political economy. For the quantitative part of the study, she also worked to identify data sources on the utility power shutoffs.
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E-IPER 20th Anniversary: Celebrating Our Alumni
E-IPER Careers: Alumni in Sustainable Business
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In continuation of E-IPER’s 20th anniversary celebration and alumni panel series, we hosted a Spring panel focused on sustainable businesses the evening of Thursday, May 20, 2021. Moderated by one of our early Faculty Directors, Gretchen C. Daily, Co-founder of the Natural Capital Project, our community audience was guided through a conversation and Q&A with panelists, Brian Shillinglaw (MS-JD ’08), Emily Steinberg (MS-MBA ’14), Christian Okoye (MS-MBA ’15), and Jen Wang (PhD ’18). Conversation surrounded panelists' trajectories since graduating from their respective programs and how their interests have evolved since they left Stanford. Panelists reflected on their time at Stanford and E-IPER, recalled influential and transformative experiences, and shared the exciting work that is happening within their current industry. Panelists also discussed their work within a global context.
Many thanks to Gretchen, our panelists, Brian, Emily, Christian, and Jen, and our community for joining us for an evening of enlightening conversation! We look forward to more events like this in the future, as we continue to celebrate 20 years of E-IPER!
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E-IPER Paint Night
To celebrate the start of spring, Wellness Liaisons Will Scott and Erica Bower hosted an E-IPER Paint Night that took place on Wednesday April 21. The event was a chance to connect with friends across cohorts and degree programs, and embrace our inner artists - although talent was not required! Both PhD and Masters students joined in and shared an evening of acrylic painting and conversation.
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Left to right, top to bottom: Will Scott, Erica Bower, Meghan Shea, Kiran Chawla, Safari Fang and partner,
Alison Ong, Randall Holmes and partner, Saskia Comess, Amelie Vavrovsky
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This spring, E-IPER PhD and MS students gathered to read and discuss Under the Sky We Make: How to be Human in a Warming World by none other than E-IPER alum Dr. Kimberly Nicholas. Conversations were wide-ranging, spanning from individual lifestyle to macro-scale political approaches to tackling our collective climate crisis. The more personal aspects of the book resonated strongly, especially Dr. Nicholas' words of wisdom on navigating decisions around air travel for scientific conferences, minimizing the footprint of bank accounts and sustaining relationships with loved ones from a distance. The book's comprehensive scope, hopeful tone, and deeply human focus were appreciated by all.
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Left to right, top to bottom: Meghan Shea, Erica Bower, Will Scott,
Alison Ong, Leehi Yona, Anna Lee, Bianca Santos
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Caroline E. Ferguson (PhD 4th) is thrilled to be back in Palau, which has never had a case of COVID-19 and whose adult population is over 90% vaccinated! She is co-teaching a class for Palauan high school students, "Decolonizing Environmental Social Science Research," with Palauan partners. The students recently completed the fieldwork portion of their class, which involved traveling across the country to film interviews with elders on traditional fishing and farming practices. They also studied the changes brought on by colonization and capitalism, and pathways forward for sustainable resource management rooted in Indigenous knowledge. The students are currently learning to analyze interview data and edit short films, which will be used for educational purposes in Palau and beyond!
Josheena Naggea (PhD 4th) took a four-week course on "Ocean Governance in Africa" with IOI South Africa in February 2021. It helped broaden her perspectives on the wider African context on issues such as marine protected areas, Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ), various levels of stakeholder engagement, blue justice, and oil spill responses in the region.
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Josheena was a guest on the podcast 21st Century Mermaid. The podcast focused on topics ranging from sea turtle hatchlings to the social and ecological benefits of caring for our seas. |
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Bianca Santos (PhD 2nd) was selected to be a graduate teaching mentor for 2021-22. |
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Austin Becker (PhD '13) has been appointed Chair of the Department of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. He continues his research program focused on coastal infrastructure, resilience, and consequences of natural hazards, with funding through the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. Some of his current work on consequence thresholds modeling for emergency response and long-term planning can be viewed at www.richamp.org.
Rachael Garrett (PhD '13) has been asked to serve on several additional academic advisory boards and expert panels for international efforts related to food supply chain sustainability:
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United Nations Forum on Sustainable Standards with Robert Heilmayr (PhD '15)
- Transparency for Sustainable Economies Initiative at the Stockholm Environment Institute with Robert Heilmayr (PhD '15)
- United Nations Science Panel for the Amazon
- Scientific Expert Panel on the Future of Food Switzerland
Rebecca Miller (PhD '21) would like to share that she has completed the Wonderfest Science Envoy program designed to educate PhD students in science communication.
Joel Minor (MS-JD '14) started a new job as the Environmental Justice Program Manager for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). The environmental justice program is an entirely new agency within CDPHE--Colorado has never had an agency solely dedicated to environmental justice before. I'll be hiring a small staff over the next couple months to start implementing several environmental justice statutes that were recently adopted by the Colorado legislature.
Lauren E. Oakes' (PhD '15) role has changed at the Wildlife Conservation Society. She is now a Conservation Scientist on the Forests and Climate Change in the Global Conservation Program. She works on implementation of nature-based solutions in forest ecosystems around the world and best practices in adaptation. She was lead author on an article, "Rapid assessment to facilitate climate-informed conservation and nature-based solutions," recently published in Conservation Science and Practice.
Jen Wang (PhD '18) was promoted to lead the Product team at thredUP. Within this role she will lead product teams across a number of domains and is responsible for user retention and inventory strategy for the core thredUP marketplace.
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Cassandra Brooks (PhD '16) has been awarded the AESS Early Career Award. This Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments and promising future potential for teaching, research, policy, or activism in any field of environmental science and studies.
Kiran Chawla (PhD 2nd) and Meghan Shea (PhD 2nd) have receive a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF)
Ian Field (MS-MBA '21) and Amanda Zerbe (MS-JD '21) have received the 2021 Community Impact Award from the Stanford Alumni Association (SAA) for campus contributions. This award recognizes graduate students who have enhanced the Stanford community through their exemplary leadership, creation of an event or program, or other unique campus contribution.
David Gonzalez (PhD '21), Josheena Naggea (PhD 4th), Rebecca Miller (PhD '21), Meghan Shea (PhD 2nd), and Leehi Yona (PhD 3rd) -- have each received the Certificate for Outstanding Mentoring from the the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.
David Gonzalez (PhD '21) has been recognized with a few awards:
- Academic Achievement Award from the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and El Centro Chicano y Latino
- Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, for teaching the grad student-initiated "Shades of Green: Redesigning the Environmental Justice Movements" and for advocating to institutionalize the course
Kristen Green (PhD 5th), Caroline Ferguson (PhD 4th), and Meghan Shea (PhD 2nd) received an Ethics Small Grant on the ethics of authorship that we will explore in a 4-week virtual series in Fall 2021.
Kirsten Oleson (PhD '07) has been awarded a Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship.
Francisca Santana (PhD 5th) has been awarded the Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship for 2021-2022.
Bianca Santos (PhD 2nd) and David Gonzalez (PhD '21) have been awarded the Stanford Earth Special Service Award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for their outstanding individual long-term contribution to DEI.
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Publications & Presentations |
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Nina Brooks (PhD '20) published a paper with Stanford collaborators on "Scalable deep learning to identify brick kilns and aid regulatory capacity" in PNAS. Nina was also interviewed on the BBC podcast Digital Planet about the research!
Rachel also gave a talk titled "Resilience at habitat edges: Mapping coral refugia at the land-sea interface" at the International Coral Reef Symposium ( ICRS).
Caroline E. Ferguson (PhD, 4th) published an open access article in Frontiers in Marine Science, "A rising tide does not lift all boats: Intersectional analysis reveals inequitable impacts of the seafood trade in fishing communities". The article examines the inequitable impact of the luxury sea cucumber trade in communities in Palau, finding that the trade primarily benefited Palauan men and led to resource degradation that disproportionately affects Palauan and Filipina women who rely on the resource for their livelihoods. But the story doesn't end there: Palau quickly banned the trade, asserting Indigenous values and resource autonomy (a powerful decision Ferguson examines in a forthcoming article), and Ferguson is working with local conservationists and fisherwomen to farm local sea cucumbers for restoration. To date, they have planted over 40,000 juveniles in depleted areas and have trained local youth and fishers in monitoring to track progress.
Kristen Green (PhD 5th) presented a talk on “Climate change stressors and social-ecological factors mediating access to subsistence resources in Arctic Alaska” at the virtual Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference.
David Gonzalez (PhD '21) facilitated a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) titled "Transforming the future of epidemiologic practice through justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI): Practical considerations and lessons learned".
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In January, Rebecca Miller (PhD '21) and Josheena Naggea (PhD 4th) co-organized a panel with speakers Ranjitha Shivaram (PhD 3rd) and Caroline Ferguson (PhD 4th),for the National Council for Science and the Environment ( NCSE) conference and presented “The Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Social-Ecological Systems”. An all E-IPER panel! |
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Rebecca would also like to share the following presentations:
“Best Practices for Non-Profit Organizations in Wildfire Response and Recovery,” at the Western Political Science Association.
“Trends in California Wildfire-Related Legislation,” an invited talk on June 15 to the Santa Clara County FIreSafe Council and previously spoke about wildfire legislation to Fire Safe San Mateo County.
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Josheena Naggea (PhD 4th) has a few publications and presentations to share:
Recent Publications:
"Inequity in unregistered women’s fisheries in Mauritius following an oil spill," as part of a social impact assessment study on the oil spill in Mauritius, published in the SPC Women in Fisheries bulletin for International Women's Day.
Recent Presentations:
"Impacts of COVID-19 and an Oil Spill on Coastal Communities in the Republic of Mauritius" at the Ocean Visions Summit.
And a couple of speaker invitations:
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Josheena was invited by the Commonwealth Secretariat to represent the Commonwealth Youth Voice at the high level meeting for the Commonwealth Blue Charter World Ocean Day held on June 8, 2021. Here is an article summarizing the event. Josheena's key message was centered around the critical need for blue justice and inclusion of the youth as active solution-seekers as governments worldwide are aiming to focus on blue growth to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Invited to be part of an expert panel on "Equitable and Just Conservation Science and Resource Management" for an event run through the Bio Future Bio Futures Fellowship program from Stanford’s Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub, held on April 22nd, 2021. The group typically meets to discuss topics related to ethics in shaping “biological futures” (across biological topics ranging from synthetic biology to genetic engineering to conservation biology and resource management). During the expert panel, the discussion focused on ethics and environmental justice in both environmental decisions making (even more specifically in wildlife and biodiversity contexts) and scientific endeavors which aim to inform such decision making.
And a guest speaker, along with Shannon Switzer Swanson (PhD 6th), as part of a panel of CBR scholars, for a course on community-based research (CBR) and participatory-action research, led by Joanne Tien and Diana Gabriela Mercado-Garcia to discuss their respective CBR projects.
Alison Ong (PhD 1st) published a whitepaper "The cost of building decarbonization policy proposals for California natural gas ratepayers: Identifying cost-effective paths to a zero carbon building fleet" with E-IPER alum Mike Mastrandrea (PhD '04) and Michael Wara and also presented the paper at the Woods Institute Climate and Policy Program webinar series.
Bianca Santos (PhD 2nd) has a new published article with Larry Crowder lab members, "Promoting equity in scientific recommendations for high-seas conservation," in One Earth.
Ranjitha Shivaram (PhD 3rd) published a paper titled "Context-aware Urban Energy Analytics (CUE-A): A framework to model relationships between building energy use and spatial proximity of urban systems" in Sustainable Cities and Society.
Andy Stock (PhD '17) co-authored a comment titled "Supporting interdisciplinary careers for sustainability" in Nature Sustainability.
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Aiga Stokenberga (PhD '16) co-authored the book Unlocking the Lower Skies: The Costs and Benefits of Deploying Drones across Use Cases in East Africa published in the World Bank's International Development in Focus book series. |
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Contributors to this issue include:
Gabriela Magana, Ann Marie Pettigrew, Maile Kuida, Ai Tran, Safari Fang
Ian Field, Hannah Sieber, Ada Statler, Erica Bower
Edited by:
The E-IPER Staff
Thank you for continuing to support E-IPER!
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