Summer-Autumn 2021 Newsletter |
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The pandemic has not stopped the E-IPER community from learning, engaging, and producing great research in environment and resources. Students and alumni are hard at work with in-person and hybrid courses and research, and taking moments of pause for fun and community building. We are excited to share their updates!
Wishing you and yours a great Holiday season and a Happy New Year!
In this issue:
- E-IPER Retreat
- Welcome New Staff: Mele Wheaton
- Dissertation Defense: Caroline Ferguson, Lin Shi, Kristen Green
- Joint and Dual MS Student-Faculty Lunches
- PhD and MS Collaboration Grants
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20th Anniversary Events: Alumni in Policy and Joint and Dual MS Autumn Capstone Symposium
- E-IPER Connections: Pizza Party, Tea, Wellness activities, Dinner, Holiday Party, and Book Club
- Student and Alumni News, including Awards & Honors, Publications & Presentations
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E-IPER Annual Student Retreat |
After a year-long hiatus due to COVID-19, E-IPER hosted a modified October retreat at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in Woodside, CA. E-IPER PhD and Joint and Dual MS students enjoyed a full and sunny day connecting together over a variety of planned activities led by E-IPER Staff and E-IPER’s Social Committee. E-IPER’s Faculty Director, Nicole Ardoin, along with Associate Director of Operations and Student Affairs, Ann Marie Pettigrew, kicked off the day-long retreat with a “State of E-IPER” presentation, with remarks from E-IPER Lecturer, Nik Sawe, and an exciting introduction from E-IPER's newly appointed Associate Director of Program Strategy, Mele Wheaton. The day progressed with Social Committee-led ice breaker activities, Jasper Ridge facilitated hikes (one of which was led by Professor Rodolfo Dirzo), PhD and MS breakout sessions and Collaboration Grant connections. The retreat ended with a prize-motivated Bingo game and happy hour. Our Social Committee also hosted an after-hours bonfire social at Lake Lagunita where s’mores and mingling continued into the night.
Seeing new and familiar students connect after a year of limited social contact felt like a momentous occasion and launched what E-IPER hopes will be a year focused on community building.
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Mele Wheaton joined the E-IPER team as Associate Director of Program Strategy in November 2021. As the Associate Director of Program Strategy, Mele will oversee overall program strategy, develop new initiatives, liaise with our Executive and Admissions Committees, and provide guidance on curriculum development and instruction.
For the past ten years, Dr. Mele Wheaton has been an interdisciplinary scholar in the Ardoin Social Ecology Lab in the Graduate School of Education and Woods Institute for the Environment. Her research interests include environmental behavior, social learning, and equity and inclusion in conservation education. Mele has managed numerous research projects on a range of topics including exploring the various pathways to environmental literacy, connecting research and practice in land management, and environmental behavior change in nature-based tourism programs. This past year, Mele led a seed grant initiative to lay the foundation for a social science/sustainability incubator focused on interdisciplinary scholarship and practice. In addition to research, she has been a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education and E-IPER. Throughout her time at Stanford, Mele has mentored graduate and undergraduate students. She has served as an advisor on the Haas Center for Public Service’s Partnerships for Climate Justice in the Bay Area, directed professional development for educators, and organized workshops with the d.school, using design-thinking approaches to creatively tackle sustainability challenges. Mele has extensive experience in evaluation and assessment, conducting workshops for nonprofit organizations and foundations as well as consulting for the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program.
Prior to her work as a research scholar, Mele was a field biologist and taught in a variety of outdoor education settings. She is a former fellow of both the NSF-funded Center for Informal Learning and Schools and the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation for Environmental Leadership. Mele has a BA in Biology and Environmental Studies, MA in Education, and PhD in Science Education.
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PhD Dissertation Defense:
Caroline Ferguson, Lin Shi, Kristen Green
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On August 12, Caroline E. Ferguson successfully defended her dissertation, "Learning from Pacific Communities to Build Equitable, Just, and Resilient Fisheries."
Caroline worked with community partners in Palau to investigate the multi-faceted nature of seafood in fishing communities, as a source of food, income, and cultural heritage. She worked closely with rural fisherwomen to monitor, manage, and restore invertebrate fisheries and developed a curriculum in "Decolonizing Environmental Social Science" for Palauan youth to continue and build on this work.
Caroline recently joined the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara as a Postdoctoral Scholar, where she is examining questions of compliance with and participation in customary and statutory fisheries management in the Pacific through an intersectional gender lens. After completing her postdoc, she hopes to continue a career in academia with an applied and community-engaged focus.
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On August 25, Lin Shi successfully defended her dissertation, "Supply Chain Sustainability in the Information and Communication Technology Industry."
Lin studied approaches to evaluating, communicating, and mitigating the life cycle environmental impacts of ICT products, focusing specifically on supply chains.
Lin has joined Amazon Lab 126 as a Sustainability Scientist and is one of the founding members of the Amazon Devices Sustainability Science and Engineering team.
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On November 19, Kristen Green successfully defended her dissertation, "Respect the Land: Pathways to Resource Stewardship and Resiliency in a Changing Arctic."
Kristen studies sustainable marine resource planning for Alaskan communities. Kristen seeks to understand how communities that are highly dependent on coastal resources will adapt and maintain resiliency in the face of climate change.
Kristen accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Oregon State University with Dr. Ana K. Spalding. Her fellowship will focus on the effects of ocean acidification on shellfish farmers and their adaptation strategies.
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Joint MS Student-Faculty Lunches |
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Several years ago, the E-IPER Joint & Dual MS program started Student-Faculty lunches to support faculty advising relationships with our current student population. These small, quarterly lunches are designed to be student driven conversations, whereby the students do advanced research and come prepared to talk with the faculty scholar E-IPER invites. Discussions often focus on the scholar(s)’s work, but also center on students' interests, projects of mutual interests, courses, and more!
With the return to campus, this Autumn quarter we had the pleasure of hosting two separate lunches with Professors Mike Lepech and Inês Azevedo. Lunch discussions surrounded research initiatives and even a brainstorm on curriculum ideas for the New School of focused on climate and sustainability. It was a great opportunity for our students to meet and connect with key E-IPER affiliated faculty. We look forward to hosting more lunches as the year progresses!
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Collaboration Grant
Scaling Environmental DNA Adoption Through Community Science
to Unlock Novel Use-Cases
By: Meghan Shea and Morrison Mast
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How can we collect more biodiversity data at scale? It’s a question that plagues scientists and policymakers alike, as we are changing ecosystems across the globe faster than we can possibly study them—and it’s also a question that inspired us (Meghan Shea, 3rd Year PhD & Morrison Mast, MS-MBA ‘21), to apply for an EIPER collaboration grant together. We are particularly excited about environmental DNA (eDNA)--the little bits of genetic material that organisms leave behind in ecosystems--as a cheaper and easier way of collecting biodiversity data, and we are inspired by existing initiatives that have mobilized the public to help collect those samples, a form of citizen or community science. But, we recognized that there are many barriers to these projects, and we wanted to explore how community science endeavors using eDNA could be better supported.
Over the past 6 months together with an amazing research collaborator Zander Opperman (Stanford freshman), we have been conducting interviews with eDNA practitioners all around the globe, with a focus on learning from folks who have experience running community science projects using eDNA. Plus, we’ve also connected with investors, private companies, and NGOs that are thinking about how to use this technology in novel ways. Through these interviews, we have been able to build a birds-eye-view of current and emerging applications of the technology, as well as what we believe is the first comprehensive “directory” of people and organizations using environmental DNA as a tool for community science. We have also been able to systematically identify the successes and challenges of community science projects using eDNA.
After months of Zoom interviews with technical experts, investors, and entrepreneurs focused on this “magical” new genomics technology, we pulled on our rubber boots and walked out onto a rocky, kelp-covered area that, but for these brief 4 hours every few weeks, is covered by the Pacific Ocean. The two of us had in our backpacks a set of eDNA sampling kits from a commercial outlet, Jonah Ventures, that would allow us to practice that magic and accomplish in a few minutes what only 10 years ago would have taken an entire platoon of expert taxonomists to achieve—a flash biodiversity survey of California’s coastal tide pools. We were joined by a team of volunteers who participate in the California Academy of Science’s BioBlitz program, eager to help us test the kits and report on their experience—results which will be coded and incorporated into our study results. After a 6-8 week wait for the results (an exercise in user-empathy, as we’ve learned that this delay is a major challenge for engaging community scientists), we will gather our volunteers to communicate what species are identified in all of the samples they collected and learn more about how their expectations match up to what we learn from the data. These will be taken in with the results of our expert interviews to paint a picture of the role that community science may play in scaling the use of this technology.
Over the next several months, we’ll be finishing up and coding out interviews (so if anyone reading this knows anyone using, researching, or investing in genomics technologies for biodiversity monitoring we should speak to before we wrap up our interviews, please reach out to us!), wrapping up the volunteer data collection process, and communicating our takeaways back to our interview participants, most of whom have expressed keen interest not only in the findings, but in meeting other practitioners using eDNA in a community science context. So at the end of the project, we are hoping to bring together as many of our interviewees as possible to share our results and allow a time and space for our participants to meet and learn from one another--plus we’ll be working on a manuscript with our findings too!
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Left to right: Meghan Shea, Charles Ewald (Lecturer in Management, Stanford GSB), Morrison Mast, Zander Opperman |
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Meghan Shea and Morrison Mast collecting eDNA |
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Innovating Coral Reef Conservation Financing: Coastal Business Willingness to Pay for Reef Parametric Insurance in Hawai`i
By: Rachel Carlson and Joanna Klitzke
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Coral reefs protect over 100 million coastal residents by buffering 97% of wave energy on the coasts. Yet coral reefs are in decline, eroding the vast ecosystem value that reefs provide from tourism, fishing, biodiversity and coastal infrastructure protection. Recently, the Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Quintana Roo piloted a novel financing mechanism to direct funds toward coral reef recovery and repair: insurance for natural infrastructure. Inspired by this work, Rachel Carlson (PhD, 5th) and Joanna Klitzke (MS-MBA '21) began collaborating in April to explore the feasibility of building a similar model in Hawaiʻi where Rachel conducts research on coral resilience to climate change.
Rachel and Joanna researched questions of where, and why, coastal businesses are likely to help finance coral reef restoration in Hawaiʻi. They investigated the “willingness to pay” of coastal reef beneficiaries like dive operators, hotels, and other businesses to participate in coral reef insurance. To do so, Rachel and Joanna traveled to coastal hotels, dive shops and retail stores across Oahu and Hawai’i to capture data on business characteristics, respondents’ environmental values, and stated and revealed willingness to pay for coral reef insurance. Their initial results show a shared sense of environmental stewardship across the sample and high interest in contributing, particularly among smaller, local businesses -- a positive signal the tourism sector could sufficiently fund a parametric reef insurance policy.
Joanna presented the early findings of this research at E-IPER Capstone Winter Symposium in December 2021.
Right now, Rachel and Joanna are upscaling their study to additional businesses across Hawaiʻi, and using early results to design recommendations for how to best partner with the tourism sector to mobilize funding for reef insurance in Hawaii for a final stakeholder workshop. They hope to accelerate reef insurance as a powerful model to preserve reef’s ecosystem value and strengthen the climate resilience of coastal communities.
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Rachel Carlson and Joanna Klitzke visit coastal businesses in Maui, Hawaiʻi |
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E-IPER 20th Anniversary: Celebrating Our Alumni
E-IPER Careers: Alumni in Policy
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In continuation of E-IPER’s 20th anniversary celebration, E-IPER hosted a virtual Autumn panel focused on policy the morning of Thursday October 14, 2021. Joined near and far by our E-IPER Alumni scholars and practitioners panelists, Veena Srinivasan (PhD ‘08), Kimi Narita (MS-JD ‘11), Andrew Perlstein (PhD ‘12), and Heather Lukacs (PhD ‘14), engaged in a lively environmental governance and policy discussion. The panel focused on their respective work within government agencies and non-profits. They also lent helpful advice on how current students can engage in their work and research leading up to life outside of Stanford. The panel was moderated by Carolyn Snyder (PhD ‘10), Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Many thanks to Carolyn, our panelists, Vena, Kimi, Andrew, and Heather, and our community for joining us for a morning of enlightening conversation! We look forward continuing to celebrate 20 years of E-IPER!
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Joint and Dual MS Autumn Capstone Symposium |
During the course of the ten-week quarter, the Autumn Capstone cohort, comprised of twelve MS-MBA students and one MS-JD student, utilized their environment and resources backed knowledge, and deployed their research methodology and professional school skills to explore, understand, and interpret a variety of urgent and significant issues facing our environmental crisis. In their culminating experience of the quarter (and for some Joint and Dual MS program), the Autumn 2021 Capstone cohort delivered ten presentations on projects that explored understanding and addressing grid resilience, business and civil society innovations, and decarbonization approaches. The projects presented offered innovative and refreshing perspectives that serve as timely reminders of the work that is currently done in these spaces, and trajectories for moving forward.
The Autumn Capstone Symposium was a remote/virtual experience via Zoom Webinar, offering an opportunity for the E-IPER community to join from near and far. With the support of the ENVRES 290 teaching team (Nik Sawe, John Weyant and KC McKanna), E-IPER staff, and Cyperus Media staff, the Symposium was also made available to the wider E-IPER and Stanford Earth community.
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With the exciting return to campus this Autumn, the E-IPER student Leadership team collaborated to host a variety of community-building events. There was no shortage of activities! Below we highlight a few of the many festivities offered by our students and staff. |
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E-IPER Welcome Pizza Party
E-IPER hosted its first event to welcome the PhD, MS, and affiliated faculty to the new academic year. Attendees enjoyed Blue Line pizza and beautiful views from the Y2E2 3rd Floor Terrace.
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Weekly E-IPER Tea
The tradition continues! E-IPER students come together each week for collaborative conversation and coffee/tea. This quarter's Tea exercised new talents, as our students' showcased and shared their delicious baking skills.
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E-IPER Wellness Activities |
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E-IPER students enjoy weekly E-IPER workout gatherings at EVGR Yoga Studio. |
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Wellness is always a priority at E-IPER, and we’ve been taking advantage of being back in person and the California sunshine this quarter, hiking some of the many trails around the Bay! Some of our PhD and MS students, and E-IPER’s favorite pup Fitz, spent a Saturday in November hiking to the top of Mission Peak, rising 2,516 feet above the southeastern portion of the Bay near Fremont. From the top, we could see from Gilroy to San Francisco, and even spotted Hoover Tower and the rest of the Stanford Campus across the water on the beautifully clear and sunny day. It was a great chance to get outside, prioritize wellness, and take in some of the amazing sights the Bay Area has to offer! |
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PhD and MS Dinner at Alpine |
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Inspired by the E-IPER retreat, PhD and MS students gathered for an all-student happy hour/dinner at Alpine Inn. It was a great opportunity for students to continue the retreat discussion for possible collaborations! |
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Farewell 2021! PhD and MS students bring their holiday spirit and enjoy an end-of-quarter gathering full of festive sweets and treats (we're still dreaming about Sprinkles chocolate candy cane cake!). The E-IPER suite turned into a holiday crafting center, with stations for ornament and sugar cookie decorating, as well as card making.
🎄COLLABORATION CHRISTMAS TREE🎄: Opportunity post E-IPER retreat, to continue getting to know each other across programs and an opportunity to find a Collaboration Grant Partner. Each of your ideas will be written on an ornament and visually displayed in the E-IPER Suite.
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Flowers calls this America's dirty secret. In this powerful book she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West.
Flowers's book is the inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative. It shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not only those of poor minorities.
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Gus Greenstein (PhD 4th) and Gemma Smith (PhD 4th) designed and co-taught a new course, "International Environmental Governance", in Autumn Quarter 2021. The course was cross-listed in the Masters in International Policy Program and E-IPER. Students engaged in a number of activities such as a living case study of the UNFCCC COP26 process, mock international negotiations, and guest speakers from institutions such as Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry, Brazil's Federal Agency for Protected Forest Areas, and the UNFCCC.
Sergio Sanchez Lopez (PhD 1st), Karli Moore (PhD 1st), Bianca Santos (PhD 3rd), Will Scott (PhD 3rd), Jayson Toweh (PhD 1st) are serving as 2021-2022 DEI liaisons with Stanford Earth’s DEI office.
E-IPER liaisons will work closely with other Stanford Earth DEI liaisons, the DEI office, and your local program/department student services officer to help build community and advance conversations about inclusion in your department and program. In this role, DEI liaisons will represent their department/program, help plan one DEI event, serve as a Stanford Earth ambassador to Stanford community centers, and help share relevant resources and reporting structures to their local units.
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Kate Brauman (PhD '10) has a new job! As of November 1, Kate finished her AAAS Science Technology Policy Fellowship and moved to the University of Alabama, where she's helping start up a new Global Water Security Center as the new Associate Director for Analysis and Communications. She is thrilled to be part of this new team working to translate water science for the security community. Kate also recently worked with a team to evaluate how folks making decisions about investing in watersheds are actually using hydrologic information and thus how researchers producing hydrologic information can make their findings more useful and used.
Savannah Fletcher (MS-JD '18) on October 5, Savannah was elected to the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly as the youngest member of the Assembly. Savannah began service on November 1 and has already begun taking action to make their government operations more environmentally sustainable utilizing a lot of the knowledge and tools she gained from E-IPER.
David Gonzalez (PhD '21) was interviewed by PBS NewsHour Weekend about his work on neighborhood oil production and community health.
Andrea Lund (PhD '20) The Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) research network supported Andrea's registration for short courses in genomic epidemiology and pathogen evolution at the Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling of Infectious Disease (SISMID) at the University of Washington, which was held in July 2021.
In January, Andrea will be part of the teaching faculty for the Citizen Science program at Bard College, an intensive science literacy course for first-year undergraduates. Andrea will teach in the public health strand of the course, which is focused on water quality and environmental health.
Greer Mackebee (MS-JD '15) started a new job as Senior Director, Commercial Transactions at BrightNight Power. BrightNight is a renewable power company that works with utility, commercial, and industrial customers across the U.S. and Asia-Pacific to design, develop, and operate large-scale, hybrid renewable power projects optimized to better manage the intermittent nature of renewable energy.
Rebecca Miller (PhD '21) started a postdoc in August with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West with the institute's West on Fire initiative.
Chikara Onda (PhD '20) has started at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Policy as a Fellow, working on the U.S. Climate Strategy.
Emily Steinberg (MS-MBA '14) joined her Sunlight Financial colleagues at the New York Stock Exchange for the closing bell in celebration of the company going public. Sunlight Financial is a leading residential solar lender, financing more than 150,000 solar installations (more than 1 GW) to-date. Emily has also been promoted to Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships for Sunlight Financial.
Emily also joined the Board of Trustees for the New York State chapter of the Nature Conservancy.
Tannis Thorlakson (PhD '18) now leads Driscoll’s global climate change strategy. In this new role, Tannis will be driving Driscoll’s carbon reduction plan and developing their climate adaptation strategy.
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Nina Brooks (PhD '20) recently won an early career grant from the NASA Land-cover/Land-use Change program to spend 3 years researching dynamic interactions between extreme heat, land-cover change and maternal reproductive and child health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.
Marissa Childs (PhD 6th), Safari Fang (PhD 2nd), Bianca Santos (PhD 3rd), Jayson Toweh (PhD 1st) received the Graduate Public Service Fellowship.
The fellowship “supports Stanford graduate students who want to explore and prepare for professorial or other careers in which they will engage in scholar-activism, community-based research, or public scholarship”.
Rachael Garrett (PhD '13) recent paper “Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies” in Global Environmental Change, won the International Geneva Award from the Swiss Network for International Studies for best paper in International Studies that has high relevance to International Organizations.
David Gonzalez (PhD '21) received the Ethnic and Community Center Academic Achievement Award, sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE).The award is given to grad students who have greatly impacted their respective communities.
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Josheena has also been appointed as a national steering committee member of the UNDP-GEF Small Grants Programme in Mauritius.
Two E-IPER-affiliated teams were selected to win the XPRIZE grant.
Greg Zegas (MS-MBA '22) and fellow Stanford student teammates Lillian Childress (MBA '22), Richard Randall (PhD 2nd) and Anca Timofte (MBA '22) were one of 23 global teams selected to win a grant in the $5M Carbon Removal Student Competition, part of the $100 Million XPRIZE for Carbon Removal competition supported by the Musk Foundation. The award will fund prototyping and participation in the 4-year XPRIZE competition. Release and winner info page.
John Foye (MS-MBA '22) and his teammate, Aakash Ahamed (PhD Geophysics), have publicly launched Working Trees with a mission to deploy trees where the interest of farmers and the climate overlap. They recently were selected as part of the same XPRIZE competition as Greg and team, and also have been awarded a TomKat Innovation Grant. This funding will help support building their product and launching their pilot -- trees go in the ground in February!
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Publications & Presentations |
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Hilary Boudet (PhD '10) has a few publications to share:
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"Getting closer," in Nature Energy.
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"From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather," in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.
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"Public preferences for five electricity grid decarbonization policies in California," in Review of Policy Research.
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"When the lights go out: Californians' experience with wildfire-related public safety power shutoffs increases intention to adopt solar and storage," in Energy Research & Social Science.
Hilary also published a blog post in The Washington Post on "This year’s extreme fires and floods may change what Americans think about climate change, our research finds."
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Marilyn Cornelius (PhD '13) has three new book publications to share:
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The 24th book is called Eternity Risen, which is an illustrated volume of poetry about trauma and healing, co-authored with incarcerated individuals. This is the same team as our previous book, Awakening the Sacred Order of Divine Poets. A major theme in this book is feminine energy, and how it can nurture life, bringing balance to the planet, climate, and human relationships. |
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The 26th book is a volume of poetry about nature, and biomimetic approaches to embracing diversity and mindfulness, against the backdrop of racism and microaggressions. This book is called Namkeen, which means "salty" in Hindi. This saltiness describes the majesty of the ocean and the tears of those who suffer racial discrimination.
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Amanda Cravens (PhD '14) and colleagues published a collection of articles focused on understanding and responding to the challenges of stewarding ecological systems in a time of intensifying global change. Published in the BioScience Special Section on Ecological Transformation, a new special section in BioScience on the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework. The Special Section was developed by over three dozen authors from several federal agencies and beyond, under the leadership of National Park Service ecologist Dr. Gregor Schuurman and US Geological Survey social scientist Dr. Amanda Cravens. |
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Rachael Garrett (PhD '13) has a few presentations and a publication to share:
Presentations:
- Presented at the UN Forum on Sustainability Standards on “Pan-Tropical Insights on the Contextual Effectiveness and Equity of Forest-Focused Supply Chain Policies" in November 2021 in Florence, Italy.
- Keynote talk at Franklin University Switzerland Retooling Knowledge event, on “Four Decades of Interdisciplinary and Intersectoral Collaboration to Achieve a Sustainable Forest Transition in the Brazilian Amazon: What have We Learned?" September 2021 in Lugano, Switzerland.
Publication:
Kristen Green (PhD '21) published a paper titled "Climate change stressors and social-ecological factors mediating access to subsistence resources in Arctic Alaska" in Ecology and Society.
Lauren Oakes (PhD '15) had a couple new publications come out:
- "Flexible and comprehensive criteria for evaluating climate change adaptation success for biodiversity and natural resource conservation" in Environmental Science & Policy.
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"Rapid assessment to facilitate climate‐informed conservation and nature‐based solutions" in Conservation Science and Practice.
Andrew Hume (PhD 5th) published a paper "Towards an ocean-based large ocean states country classification" in Marine Policy.
Andrea Lund (PhD '20) and colleagues, published two articles:
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"Exposure, hazard, and vulnerability all contribute to Schistosoma haematobium re-infection in northern Senegal” in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (lead author).
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“Schistosome infection in Senegal is associated with different spatial extents of risk and ecological drivers for Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni” (co-author), in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. For this work, Andrea was profiled in a #WomenBehindTheWork series by Herminthology on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Andrea also had two presentations at the 2021 "American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene" annual meeting, held virtually in November:
- “Behavioral Responses to a Seasonal Environment Reduce Frequency but Increase Extent of Water Contact in a Schistosomiasis-Endemic Region of West Africa”
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“Environmental Contamination with Schistosoma Japonicum Eggs from Agricultural Practices and Sanitation Infrastructure in Sichuan, China"
Justin Mankin (PhD '15) led the drafting of NOAA’s assessment of the current western drought which received a good deal of media coverage. As part of the assessment, he wrote two op-eds, both of which appeared in The Washington Post:
- "The American West’s drought isn’t a disaster. It’s our new, permanently arid normal"
- "Fueled by climate change, costly Southwest drought isn’t going away"
Other publications:
- "Record Low North American monsoon rainfall in 2020 reignites drought over the American Southwestern" in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
- "Rise in Northeast US extreme precipitation caused by Atlantic variability and climate change" in Weather & Climate Extremes.
- "Uncertainties, limits, and benefits of climate change mitigation for soil moisture drought in Southwestern North America" in Earth’s Future.
Rebecca Miller (PhD '20) has the following presentation to share:
"The Politics of Wildfire Mitigation Policies" at the 4th Annual National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop in October.
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"Past, Present, and Future of Prescribed Burns in California" as part of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Evening Lecture Series.
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Josheena Naggea (PhD 5th) would like to share the following:
Publications:
- "Rare coral and reef fish species status, possible extinctions, and associated environmental perceptions in Mauritius" in Conservation Science and Practice.
- "Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: Use OECMs" in Nature
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" Social Impact Assessment of the Compounded Impacts of COVID-19 and the Wakashio Oil Spill" in Dynamia.
Blog articles:
- “Mentoring women and youth matters for conservation in Mauritius” The Commonwealth Blog. Author Metolo Foyet. October 26, 2021.
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"Understanding the impact of multiple stressors: how COVID-19 and the Wakashio oil spill affected coastal community resilience in Mauritius" in Charles Telfair Centre.
- “Women gleaners in Mauritius: How COVID-19 and an oil spill amplified gender inequalities in fisheries” in Oceanbites. Author Cindy Lebrasse. October 22, 2021.
Invited Presentations:
- Training workshop on “Coral Reefs Research in Mauritius” organized by the University of Mauritius and Wildlife Conservation Society.
- "Understanding Environmental Perceptions to Better Manage Coastal Ecosystems in Mauritius" Oral Presentation. Virtual.
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Invited Panelist at The Youth Climate and Sustainability Summit in preparation for the UNFCCC COP-26 in Glasgow to discuss the topic "The Ocean Crisis is a Climate Crisis" (21st October 2021).
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Gemma Smith (PhD 4th) published a new article, "Private citizens, stakeholder groups, or governments? Perceived legitimacy and participation in water collaborative governance" in Policy Studies Journal.
Shannon Switzer Swanson (PhD 6th) co-authored an article with Nicole M. Ardoin, "Communities behind the lens: A review and critical analysis of Visual Participatory Methods in biodiversity conservation" in Science Direct.
Nicola Ulibarri (PhD '15) has a few publications to share:
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"Environmental Impact Bonds: a common framework and looking ahead," in Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability.
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"Equity in human adaptation-related responses: A systematic global review," One Earth. (along with AR Siders '18)
- "Coalitions in climate mitigation policy re-design processes: The case of the regional greenhouse gas initiative," in Environmental Science & Policy. (with Aaron Strong '16)
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"A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change," in Nature Climate Change, 1-12. (along with AR Siders '18)
- "A global assessment of policy tools to support climate adaptation" in Climate Policy (along with AR Siders '18)
Nicola was also invited to serve as an author on the Fifth National Climate Assessment (Adaptation & Resilience chapter), as were several other EIPER alumni.
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Contributors to this issue include:
Gabriela Magana, Maile Kuida, Mele Wheaton, Ann Marie Pettigrew, Ai Tran, Morrison Mast, Meghan Shea, Joanna Klitzke, and Rachel Carlson
Edited by:
The E-IPER Staff
Thank you for continuing to support E-IPER!
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