Students and alumni have continued to work hard this summer and autumn but they've still managed to make time to come together for fun and community building. We are so excited to share their updates!

Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year!

In this issue:

• E-IPER Retreat
• Welcome New Staff: Clark Campagna, Anna Lee
• Dissertation Defense: Francisca Santana, Garrett Adler, Anna Lee, Jose Urteaga, Nathan Ratledge, Andrew Hume, Rachel Carlson
• PhD Alumni Spotlight: Rebecca Niemiec
• Welcome New PhD Cohort
• Collaboration Grants
• Events: Joint and Dual MS Capstone Symposium, Cross-Grad School Climate Dinner
• Student Connections: Welcome Pizza Party, E-IPER Tea, Joint MS Student-Faculty Lunch, Wellness Welcome Bonfire, PhD Alumni Visit, Holiday Party
• Student and Alumni News, including Awards & Honors, Publications & Presentations

Clark Campagna joined our team this summer as the newest Student Services Officer supporting our Joint and Dual MS Students. Clark comes to us from USF where he supported students in the Master of Arts in Professional Communication and Master of Science in Energy Systems Management. Clark understands professional student needs as well as interdisciplinary education and is excited to join the E-IPER team in support of our students while also supporting our larger student leadership initiatives.

Dr. Anna Lee has joined the E-IPER team as our new lecturer in September.

Many of you already know Anna, and we are excited to have her as part of our team. Anna is instructing in both the PhD and MS programs. She is a recent E-IPER graduate with experience developing and teaching courses in E-IPER as well as Earth Systems. In addition to having taught the second year E-IPER PhD Writing Seminar for four years, she has been a writing tutor with the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking. She was one of E-IPER's first Wellness Liaisons in 2018 and has since taken on co-coordination of the SE3 Wellness Liaisons program. During her graduate studies, Anna’s research focused on how people develop ideas about what it means to be a human alongside the more-than-human world, drawing from environmental education and social psychology. Much of her work has been in collaboration with local community partners. Outside of the classroom, Anna loves trail running, hiking, camping, nature journaling, and leading hikes as a docent with the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, and she is always happy to scheme about outdoor adventures.

Members of Kika's Oral Examination Committee:

• Nicole M. Ardoin (Co-Advisor), Faculty Director, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
• Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (Co-Advisor), Assistant Professor, Earth System Science, Center Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
• Larry B. Crowder, Edward Ricketts Provostial Professor of Marine Ecology and Conservation, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
• William H. Durham, Bing Professor in Human Biology and the Department of Anthropology (Emeritus, Active)
• CHAIR: Michelle W. Anderson, Professor of Law, Senior Fellow, Wood Institute for the Environment

Members of Garrett’s Oral Examination Committee:

• Marshall Burke (Co-Advisor), Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
• Kenneth Schultz (Co-Advisor), Professor of Political Science
• Jeremy Weinstein, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
• Katharine Mach, Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami
• CHAIR: Charles Kolstad, Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Precourt Institute for Energy, Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics

Members of Anna’s Oral Examination Committee:

• Mark Algee-Hewitt (Co-Advisor), Assistant Professor of English
• Nicole Ardoin (Co-Advisor), Faculty Director, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
• Christopher Gardner, Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine, Med/Stanford Prevention Research Center
• Dilafruz Williams, Professor Emerita, Leadership for Sustainability Education, Portland State University
• CHAIR: Scott Fendorf, Huffington Professor in Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Members of Jose's Oral Examination Committee:

• Nicole M. Ardoin (Co-Advisor), Faculty Director, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Associate Professor in the Doerr School of Sustainability, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
• Larry B. Crowder (Co-Advisor), Edward Ricketts Provostial Professor, Professor of Oceans, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Professor, by courtesy, Biology
• Rodolfo Dirzo, Associate Dean, Doerr School of Sustainability, Bing Professor in Environmental Science, Departments of Biology and Earth System Science, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
• William H. Durham, Bing Professor in Human Biology and the Department of Anthropology (Emeritus, Active)
• CHAIR: James Leape, William and Eva Price Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Co-Director, Center for Ocean Solutions

Members of Nathan's Oral Examination Committee:

• Marshall Burke (Co-Advisor), Associate Professor at the Doerr School of Sustainability, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, at the Woods Institute for the Environment, at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and Professor, by courtesy, Earth System Science
• Stefan J. Reichelstein (Co-Advisor), William R. Timken Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Emeritus
• Ken Caldeira, Senior Staff Scientist, Global Ecology, Carnegie Institute for Science, Emeritus and Senior Scientist at Breakthrough Energy
• Chris Field, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth System Science, of Biology and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and at the Woods Institute for the Environment
• CHAIR: Adam Brandt, Associate Professor, Energy Resources Engineering, Senior Fellow Precourt Institute for Energy

Members of Andrew's Oral Examination Committee:

• Rob Dunbar (Co-Advisor), W.M. Keck Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, Professor of Oceans, of Earth System Science, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
• James Leape (Co-Advisor), William and Eva Price Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Co-Director, Center for Ocean Solutions
• Fiorenza Micheli, David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, Chair of the Oceans Department, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Biology
• Kirsten Oleson, Professor of Ecological Economics, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• CHAIR: Krish Seetah, Associate Professor at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Departments of Oceans & Division of Environmental Behavioral Science, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Members of Rachel’s Oral Examination Committee:

• Greg Asner (Co-Advisor), Director, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Professor, School of Ocean Futures, Arizona State University
• Larry B. Crowder (Co-Advisor), Edward Ricketts Provostial Professor, Professor of Oceans, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Professor, by courtesy, Biology
• Gretchen Daily, Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Faculty Director, Natural Capital Project, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
• Fiorenza Micheli, David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, Chair of the Oceans Department, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Biology
• CHAIR: James Leape, William and Eva Price Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Co-Director, Center for Ocean Solutions

Missed a dissertation defense?

You can now view recordings of them on our E-IPER website and You Tube channel! (Note, certain videos are private/unavailable at the request of the presenter. If you have any questions please contact E-IPER staff.)

E-IPER Website - PhD Alumni

E-IPER Youtube Channel

PhD Alumni Spotlight:

Rebecca Niemiec

Rebecca (Becky) Niemiec, E-IPER 2013 alumna, is currently the manager of the Bureau of Animal Protection (BAP) program within the Colorado Department of Agriculture. The Bureau is focused on conducting outreach and education and administering and enforcing the provisions of the Animal Protection Act to prevent the neglect, mistreatment and abuse of animals in Colorado. The BAP oversees and trains approximately 100 commissioned volunteer animal protection agents, administers a stakeholder task force to obtain feedback from diverse perspectives on animal protection issues, conducts outreach and education, and works with local animal protection and law enforcement officials to advance cooperation in the investigation of potential animal mistreatment, neglect or abandonment.

The BAP has both civil remedies and limited criminal authority to enforce Colorado’s cruelty to animals statues. The BAP program operates on a complaint-basis: staff and agents respond when called upon, whether by a local sheriff’s department, veterinarian, or concerned neighbor, in order to enforce the law.

Niemiec began this role in March, 2022 and one of the first actions she took was developing a three year strategic plan for the Bureau. In her new role as BAP manager, she builds on the expertise in stakeholder engagement, outreach and education, and human-animal and human-environment relations she gained through E-IPER. She is also applying the training she received in behavioral science and conservation psychology at E-IPER to develop outreach programs and new initiatives aimed at addressing the root causes of animal abuse in close coordination with the livestock community, local law enforcement, animal welfare advocates, and veterinarians across the state.

Prior to this role, Niemiec was an Assistant Professor in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University where she directed the Conservation Action through Behavioral Science Lab and co-directed the Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence. Her research has focused on the relationships between humans and animals as well as enhancing community engagement in environmental stewardship.

Becky shared: ‘I am grateful for my time as a PhD student in E-IPER as it provided me with skills and experience in tackling challenging environmental problems by applying and integrating diverse methods and theories. My advice to those that are still pursuing the degree is to not get tied down by a particular discipline or methodological approach, especially in your first year or two, but rather to explore the numerous ways to approach a problem and which might be most effective at making change. This is a unique opportunity provided by the E-IPER program that prepared me not only for research and teaching but also for work building a government program.’

New E-IPER PhD Students

Eeshan Chaturvedi

With core interests in climate governance, Eeshan is interested in exploring effective ways of managing the global commons. Specifically, he is interested in exploring how international governance of earth systems can be made effective. This would include an analysis of supra-national, national and subnational policies, laws and governance systems and how the current environmental regime has affected these. Through varied sets of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, his research aims at establishing gaps in the current governance system and recommend changes that could better the legal, policy and diplomatic structures of climate governance.

First-Year Advisors: Bruce Cain, Buzz Thompson

Sarah Fendrich

Sarah is interested in investigating how people make decisions in co-evolving social, environmental, and economic contexts, with the goal of designing tools to support more collaborative and adaptive decision-making. Specifically, she aims to promote the implementation of more sustainable, health-promoting, and equitable practices within food systems.

First-Year Advisors: Sarah Fletcher, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi

Ayako Kawano

Ayako is interested in quantifying the causal impact of exposure to ambient air pollution on adverse birth outcomes in low-income countries where it is difficult to monitor the air quality across the country through ground-based monitoring stations. She aims to use data science techniques such as running deep learning algorithms on satellite imagery data as well as methods for epidemiology, causal inference, and geospatial analysis to generate strategic knowledge and evidence-based policy recommendations for solving maternal and child health problems caused by air pollution in low-income countries.

First-Year Advisors: Marshall Burke, Stephen Luby

Emma Krasovich Southworth

Emma is interested in quantifying the causal relationship between large-scale, anthropogenic changes to the environment and human health outcomes, particularly in indigenous and other vulnerable communities. She aims to use tools from machine learning, econometrics, and epidemiology to evaluate and inform environmental policy and public health interventions. She is a NSF Graduate Research Fellow and a Stanford EDGE Fellow.

First-Year Advisors: Jade Benjamin-Chung, Marshall Burke

Catherine Lee Hing

Catherine is interested in exploring the interconnectedness and overlap of shared resources of Caribbean states and how individual states' policies and treaties affects marine systems, species distributions, and ecosystems services. She aims to use environmental niche modeling as well as global emissions scenarios to make informed evidence recommendations for policy, marine spatial planning and management. She is a Stanford EDGE Fellow and Dean's Graduate Scholar. 

First-Year Advisors: Larry Crowder, Jan Martinez

Hannah Melville-Rea

Hannah aims to develop policy-relevant research that prevents climate disasters from impacting vulnerable communities. In particular, she is interested in modeling community exposure to hazards such as coastal flooding and urban heat to motivate government action on disaster risk reduction. Prior to Stanford, she worked in climate policy research and advocacy in Australia, Japan and the UAE.

First-Year Advisors: Jenny Suckale, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi

Leona Neftaliem

Leona is interested in exploring local carbon budgets and air quality along rural-urban population gradients and economic gradients, developing new, comprehensive lenses into biogeochemistry using a socio-ecological framework. Additionally, she aims to understand community perceptions of/responses to climate change to identify emission risk tolerance and consequences of climate burdens. She is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Stanford EDGE fellow, and a Dean's Graduate Scholar.

First-Year Advisors: Chris Field, Rob Jackson

Siddharth Sachdeva

Siddharth is interested in building finance and remote sensing tools to scale agroecological approaches for adaptation to climate change. In particular, Siddharth is interested in studying how new data streams and economic frameworks such as carbon finance can empower smallholder farmers transitioning to agroforestry and aquaculture, particularly in Asia.

First-Year Advisors: Gretchen Daily, David Lobell

Katie Wu

Katie is interested in characterizing and quantifying the impact of human-nature interactions on mental and physical well-being. Specifically, she will apply data science and machine learning techniques to measure and track how changes in food and energy access and infrastructure development impact human and planetary health over time. She aims to develop adaptive decision support tools to identify and implement optimal development opportunities, policies, and strategies prioritizing resource access, equity, human health, and nature.

First-Year Advisors: Gretchen Daily, Abby King

Collaboration Grants

The 2022 - 2023 five collaboration grant student teams have been busy! Here’s an overview of their current work. 

Karli Moore (PhD) and Claire Yerman (MS-JD)



Claire and Karli are working to assess the feasibility of agrivoltaics for implementation on Tribal lands. Claire is leading the regulatory and policy review while Karli is developing a geographic model for suitability. They are scheduled to present preliminary findings at the Intertribal Agriculture Council's annual conference in December 2022. 

Ryan O’Connor (PhD) and Emily Rogers (MS-MBA)

Emily and Ryan have been exploring the intersections of decision-science and participatory ocean governance. Through an extensive systematic literature review exploring how community participation contributes to the science of marine governance, the research team has gathered interesting initial findings and are excited to explore them in a place-based context through field surveys and interviews in the Hawaiian archipelago in the coming quarters.

Bianca Santos (PhD) and Sabrina Devereaux (MS-JD)

This past summer Bianca and Sabrina co-authored a publication on the diverse benefits of supporting a new intergovernmental treaty on marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. Since then, Bianca and Sabrina have continued to collaborate and are working on an additional project assessing policy gaps and opportunities for managing migratory marine species under climate change.

Celina Scott-Buechler (PhD), Royce Gene (MS-MBA), and Greg Zegas (MS-MBA)

Celina, Royce, and Greg ran a national survey with an innovative format (called a "conjoint analysis") to understand community preferences for direct air capture implementation, including its energy sources, community engagement and benefits, and workforce development, finding that the funding source and labor benefits are the most important indicators of support for DAC. Alongside the survey, they’ve completed interviews and Community Listening Sessions with environmental justice groups to access deeper insight into perceptions of carbon dioxide removal and perspectives on the ways direct air capture projects should engage with communities. Their policy deep dive has revealed one major indicator for the growth of the CDR industry: legislation targeting carbon management is ramping up exponentially and appears to have strong bipartisan support. Of the 85 relevant pieces of federal legislation introduced since 2000, more than 94% were from the Trump and Biden administrations combined.

Leehi Yona (PhD) and Alana Reynolds (MS-JD)

Leehi and Alana aim to explore the ways in which Section 231 of the U.S. Clean Air Act can be used to account for and regulate aviation greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States. Drawing on multiple sources of data, including legal document analysis and semi-structured interviews, they plan to explore this issue, with the goal of discussing areas of disagreement and developing recommendations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other private stakeholders currently involved in the regulatory process. They are currently in the process of awaiting IRB approval for the research interview process. 

Next collaboration grant submission is due January 31st. See here for the Request for Proposal. 

Autumn Joint and Dual MS Capstone Symposium

The Autumn Capstone cohort, comprised of 8 MS-MBA students, 1 MS-JD student, and 1 MS-MIP student, combined their knowledge in environment and resources with their 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 Joint and Dual MS program), the Autumn 2022 Capstone cohort presented on a variety of projects exploring a wide range of topics including nitrogen fertilizers, filling gaps in carbon accounting systems, and food justice frameworks and opportunities . The projects offered innovative and refreshing perspectives to pressing sustainability challenges.

The students were supported throughout the quarter by the excellent teaching team compromised of Anna Lee, John Weyant and Randall Holmes. After two years of virtual presentations due to COVID19, we were excited to have Capstone in-person. Audience members were also welcome to join by Zoom. Recordings of each presentation will be available on the E-IPER website.

Cross-Grad School Climate Dinner

This fall, E-IPER and the GSB Business & Environment Club co-hosted a cross-school small group dinner series to bring together climate graduate students from across Stanford. Over 50 grad students from SLS, GSB, Doerr School, MS&E, Education School (and more!) attended, including many current and prospective E-IPER students. It was a great evening to get to meet new people in a small group setting with each dinner group having different themes. Attendees were able to dive deeper into key climate topics – from industrial decarbonization and frontier technologies to climate education and the just transition. We heard positive feedback from participants -- including one guest who said, "I felt that time flew by and I would have loved to spend more time chatting with people on my table!” We are looking forward to hosting more events to bring students from across schools together. This event was part of the inaugural GSB Sustainability Week, hosted by the GSB Business & Environment and Energy Clubs.

Welcome Pizza Party

E-IPER hosted its annual community pizza party event during the first week of Autumn quarter. The event welcomed back E-IPER PhD and MS students as well as affiliated faculty and staff for the new academic year. Attendees enjoyed Blue Line pizza and beautiful views from the Y2E2 3rd Floor Terrace.

E-IPER Tea

E-IPER Weekly Tea continues on Tuesdays on the patio outside the suite. This event allows a chance to connect with friends, relax, vent, and enjoy some tasty treats. Each week a different volunteer whips up a culinary creation to share with the group.

Joint MS Student-Faculty Lunch

E-IPER has the pleasure of continuing to host Joint & Dual MS Student-Faculty Lunches to support faculty advising relationships with our current student population. These small, quarterly lunches are designed to be student driven conversations. 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 a lunch with Prof. David Lobell. Lunch discussions surrounded Prof. Lobell’s popular course, “Feeding Nine Billion," and innovations in the food industry. Students also spoke briefly about past internships in the food and agriculture industry. 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!

Wellness Welcome Bonfire

Ryan O’Connor (PhD, 2nd) and Alison Ong (PhD, 3rd), Wellness Liaisons, organized a Wellness Welcome Bonfire at the Lake Lagunita Fire Pits in September to introduce new PhD students to E-IPER Wellness, welcome welcome them into our community, and celebrate the summer and the start of a new academic year. Some of our senior students also joined the festivities to welcome their new colleagues to E-IPER!

PhD Alumni Visits

We are thrilled to have welcomed back five PhD alumni during fall quarter. Alumni visited with both current MS and PhD students during coffee hours, lunches, and one-on-one meetings. Our visiting alumni included Kaitlin Shilling (PhD, ‘12), Lauren Oakes (PhD, ‘15), Christa Anderson (PhD, ‘18), A.R. Siders (PhD, ‘18), and David Gonzalez (PhD, ‘21)

Kaitlin is Arup's Global Services lead for Resilience and Adaptation and Australasia's Regional Lead for Social Impact. Lauren works as a Conservation Scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society's Climate Adaptation Program. Christa works at WWF as Director of Climate Science and Carbon Metrics, Climate Change. Siders is a director of the Gerard J. Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub at the University of Delaware. David is a Ford Foundation and President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. 

E-IPER Holiday Party

Farewell 2022! 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 ). The E-IPER suite transformed into a holiday crafting center, with stations for ornament and sugar cookie decorating, as well as card making.

🎄COLLABORATION CHRISTMAS TREE🎄: This is an opportunity to continue getting to know each other across programs as well as a chance to find a Collaboration Grant Partner. Each idea will be written on an ornament and visually displayed in the E-IPER Suite.

On September 29, the new Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability formally launched with more than 600 guests and speakers urging action on climate change and other sustainability challenges. E-IPER student Anela Arifi (PhD, 3rd) was an invited speaker sharing her journey to pursuing a PhD in E-IPER with personal stories from home in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“I needed to become an engineer who not only understands the technology but also understands energy policies and prioritizes deeply engaging with frontline communities,” Anela said. “Stanford was one of the very few institutions in the world that allowed me to pursue exactly this: An interdisciplinary PhD on producing bioenergy within the context of complex social-environmental systems and existing inequalities.”

In her speech, Anela also detailed the significant steps that the new school needs to take in order to truly fulfill its commitments to sustainability and the environmental justice field. Anela’s speech was preceded by Dean Majumdar’s and President Tessier-Lavigne’s remarks and followed by John Doerr’s comments.

Saskia Comess (PhD, 3rd) was selected as part of the Stanford Data Science Scholars Program (2022-24 cohort).

Cat Lee Hing (PhD, 1^st) and Fridah Nyakundi (PhD, 2^nd) were selected to be the E-IPER DEI Liaisons for the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. 

Sergio Sanchez Lopez (PhD, 2nd) has been selected as a Graduate Scholar-in-Residence at Stanford’s Centro Chicana(o) y Latina(o).

Marilyn Cornelius (PhD, ‘13) began a new service stream as a food entrepreneur, in addition to her coaching, facilitation, consulting, and teaching work. This new service includes TreatBox, which is a variety pack of plant-based, gluten-free, and refined sugar free treats designed for anyone suffering from lifestyle diseases or with a dairy or gluten sensitivity. TreatBox is available for special occasions, allowing people to enjoy sweets without harming their health. TreatBox was launched in August, in tandem with Alchemus Prime's catering service, Flourishing Foods, which offers low oil, low salt, refined sugar-free, plant-based, and gluten-free foods and desserts.

Caroline Ling (MS-MBA, ‘22) graduated from E-IPER MBA & MS Environment joint degree in June this year. Her coursework was focusing on circular economy and sustainable design. Post-graduation, Caroline moved across the country to NYC and started a job at McKinsey Sustainability as an ESG Insights Associate. In her new role, she helps global clients set their Environmental, Social, and Governance strategies, and build data-driven solutions to scale the materialistic impact of sustainability. Caroline is hoping to expand the impact of circular economy through her role and client work.

Rebecca Miller (PhD, ‘21) has a new job! Rebecca finished her postdoc with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. She joined the Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations as part of their Climate Security & Resilience Program as a member of the 50th class of the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship. Rebecca will be working on how wildfires and smoke may impact our diplomatic staff and facilities overseas.

Adam Millard-Ball (PhD, ’11) recently joined UCLA, where he is now a professor of urban planning and acting director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. He previously taught in the Environmental Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz.

Johannes Olejnik (MS-MBA, ‘19) joined Lithos Carbon as Head of Growth. Lithos is applying volcanic rock on farms, simultaneously capturing and storing carbon as well as increasing yield for farmers.

Michael Moshe Ovadia (PhD, ’17, MBA, ’10) launched an executive coaching practice to support enviromentally and socially conscious leaders in building paradigm-shifting organizations. Dr. Ovadia is honored to offer all E-IPER and Stanford alumni a free coaching session and discounts on coaching programs. More at www.mosheovadia.com.

Aiga Stokenberga (PhD, ‘16) organized a World Bank side event as part of the C40 World Mayors Summit, held on October 19-21 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, titled "Leveraging Big Data To Improve Urban Mobility Planning In The Post-COVID Era: Recent Applications In Latin American Cities", in which Aiga presented recent analytical work on the impacts of the pandemic on urban mobility patterns and the policy implications going forward. Here is the World Bank Twitter feed on the event.

Frances Moore (PhD, ‘15) is currently on leave from UC Davis and the Department of Environmental Science to work as a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, focusing on climate policy. Here is the press release from UC Davis describing the appointment.

Francisca (Kika) Santana (PhD, ‘22) has started a postdoctoral position at the University of Michigan School of Environment and Sustainability focusing on community adaptation to wildfire in the American West. She has also accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences that will begin in the fall of 2023.

Erica Bower (PhD, 4th) has been awarded the Ethics Graduate Student Fellowship from the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. The fellowship creates a supportive community in which fellows will examine ethical questions specific to their research, and that more broadly relate to their roles as scholars and as citizens.

Cassandra Brooks (PhD, ‘16) has received two new grants:

1. 2022-2023. National Science Foundation. Planning: Formulating and Sustaining a System-Level Understanding of a Large Marine Ecosystem in the Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area to Better Conserve and Guide Policy. (Co-PI: $99,999)
2. 2023-2025. National Science Foundation. Collaborative Research: ORCC: Understanding Organismal Behavioral Responses to Climate Change to Forecast Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Albatrosses Populations.

Safari Fang (PhD, 3rd) has been awarded the (RAISE) Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement Doctoral Fellowship. The fellowship supports doctoral students who are motivated to make positive contributions to their communities and the world through their research and scholarship.

John Foye (MS-MBA) was selected as one of 4 final Stanford Impact Fellows (SIF) to support launching Working Trees. The fellowship provides funding along with advising support to Fellows who want to start a high-impact for-profit or nonprofit venture to address a pressing social or environmental need.

Emily Gittins (MS-MBA, '21) and Amelie Vavrosky (MS-MBA) have been honored on the Forbes "30 Under 30" list. The list, which the business magazine publishes annually to “honor young innovators on the edge of making it big,” is chosen from a list of 12,000 original nominees, which is narrowed down to an ultimate 600 recipients among twenty categories. Read more in the Stanford Daily: https://stanforddaily.com/2022/12/08/sixty-two-stanford-affiliates-honored-on-2023-forbes-30-under-30-list/

Emily Gittins (Retail and E-Commerce) cofounded Archive which works with retailers to set up and operate resale sites where customers can list their pre-owned items for sale. (MBA ’21)

Amelie Vavrosky (Social Impact) founded Normally, a legal tech company devoted to streamlining processes including visa and immigration applications. (CodeX Fellow at Stanford Law School, International Policy M.S. ’22)

First year PhD students Emma Krasovich Southworth, Catherine Lee Hing, and Leona Neftaliem received the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Doctoral Fellowship. The fellowship aims to recruit and retain outstanding doctoral students who will contribute to the diversity of their academic fields and degree programs.

E-IPER Joint MS/MBA students Gus Marquez, Katherine Playfair and Meghan Wood were awarded the Impact Design Immersion Fellowship (IDIF). The fellowship is designed to support students to operate “in the field,” with access to target users and networks, to develop an understanding of a social or environmental issue.

Josheena Naggea (PhD, '22) received a Distinguished Alumni Award  at Monash University in November 2022.

She had completed a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Management, with an Honors Degree in Tropical Biology from Monash University in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Josheena is currently an André Hoffmann Ocean Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow Postdoctoral Fellow with the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and World Economic Forum.

Sergio Sanchez Lopez (PhD, 2nd) has been awarded the Goldman Graduate Fellowship from the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

Bianca Santos (PhD, 4th) has been awarded the 2022 Jasper Ridge Environmental Education Scholar Award.

Gemma Smith (PhD, 5th) has been awarded the G.J. Lieberman fellowship for 2022-23.

Leehi Yona (PhD, 5th) has won the California Bar Association’s Environmental Law Student Essay Competition for her article on “Poor Greenhouse Gas Accounting Exacerbates Environmental Injustices: A Stockton, California Case Study.”

Our alumni have been busy publishing!

Books

On October 15, Marilyn Cornelius (PhD, ‘13) published her 16th poetry volume, Life's Changing Waves: Love, Empowerment, and Loss, which explores love in various forms: romantic love, self-love for empowerment, and grief as love. Her fourth journal, Self-Love is my Superpower, was released on the same day, and it contains powerful quotes from Marilyn and her self-love course's recently graduated student cohort, describing their journeys.

Journal Articles

Cassandra Brooks (PhD, ‘16) co-authored a couple of new publications:

C. M. Brooks, D.G. Ainley, J. Jacquet, S.L. Chown, L.R. Pertierra, E. Francis, A. Rogers, V. Chavez-Molina*, L. Teh, U.R. Sumaila. 2022. Protect global values of the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Science, 378: 477-479. The paper was covered widely in Time Magazine. October 2022, Daily Maverick. October 2022, Eurasia Review. October 2022, CU Boulder today. October 2022, A scientist sign-on letter was also put together.

R.R. Reisinger, C.M. Brooks, B. Raymond, J.J. Freer, C. Cotté, J.C. Xavier, P.N. Trathan, H. Bornemann, J-B Charrassin, D.P. Costa, B. Danis, L. Hückstädt, I.D. Jonsen, M-A. Lea, L. Torres, S. Wotherspoon, A.S. Friedlaender, Y. Ropert-Coudert, M. Hindell. 2022. Predator-derived bioregions in the Southern Ocean: Characteristics, drivers and representation in Marine Protected Areas. Biological Conservation, 272: 109630.

Saskia Comess (PhD, 3rd) has a new publication:

Saskia Comess, Howard H Chang, Joshua L Warren, A Bayesian framework for incorporating exposure uncertainty into health analyses with application to air pollution and stillbirth, in Biostatistics, 2022.

Gus Greenstein (PhD, 5th) recently published an article on “The influence on alternative development finance on the World Bank's safeguards regimen” in Global Environmental Politics.

Andrea Lund (PhD, ‘20) co-authored two new publications:

Lund AJ, Wade KJ, Nikolakis ZL, Ivey KN, Perry BW, Pike HNC, Paull SH, Castoe TA, Pollock DP, Carlton EJ 2022. Integrating genomic and epidemiologic data to accelerate progress towards schistosomiasis elimination. eLife, 11:e78320.

Hopkins SR, Lafferty KD, Wood CL, Olson SH, Buck JC, Childs M, De Leo GA, Fiorella KJ, Fornberg J, Garchitorena A, Howard ME, Jones IJ, Kuris AM, Kwong LH, LeBoa C, Leon AE, Lund AJ, MacDonald AJ, Metz DCG, Nova N, Peel AJ, Remais JV, Stewart Merrill TE, Wilson M, Bonds MH, Dobson AP, Lopez-Carr D, Mandle L, Sokolow SH. Diversity and evidence gaps among potential win-win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control. Lancet Planetary Health, 6(8): E694-E805.

Rebecca Miller (PhD, ‘20) co-authored a few publications:

Miller, Rebecca K., Franz Richter, Maria Theodori, and Michael J. Gollner. Professional wildfire mitigation competency: a potential policy gap. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 31, no. 7 (2022): 651-657.

Miller, Rebecca K. Residents reducing wildfire risks: Findings from the NFPA Firewise Sites of Excellent Pilot, 2019-2020. National Fire Protection Association. (2022).

Miller, Rebecca K., Lin Shi, David A. Wulf, and Katharine J. Mach. Trends in wildfire-related bills in California, 2001–2020. Environmental Research: Climate. 1, no. 2 (2022): 025006.

Frances Moore (PhD, ‘15) has several recent co-authored publications:

Kevin Rennert, Frank Errickson, Brian C. Prest, Lisa Rennels, Richard G. Newell, William Pizer, Cora Kingdon, Jordan Wingenroth, Roger Cooke, Bryan Parthum, David Smith, Kevin Cromar, Delavane Diaz, Frances C. Moore, Ulrich K. Müller, Richard J. Plevin, Adrian E. Raftery, Hana Ševčíková, Hannah Sheets, James H. Stock, Tammy Tan, Mark Watson, Tony E. Wong & David Anthoff. Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2. Nature, 610,687–692 (2022)

Frances C. Moore, Arianna Stokes, Marc N. Conte, and Xiaoli Dong. Noah’s ark in a warming world: Climate change, biodiversity loss, and public adaptation costs in the United States. University of Chicago Press.

Bernardo A. Bastien-Olvera and Frances C. Moore. Climate impacts on natural capital: Consequences for the social cost of carbon. Annual Reviews.

B A Bastien-Olvera, F Granella, and F C Moore. Persistent effect of temperature on GDP identified from lower frequency temperature variability. IOP.

Lauren Oakes (PhD, ‘15) co-authored a study just published on “Tackling the science usability gap in a warming world: Co-producing useable climate information for natural resource management” in Environmental Management. The North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center published a highlight about this on their front page.

Nathan Ratledge (PhD, '22) published “Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South” in Nature Climate Change.

Bianca Santos (PhD, 4th) and Sabrina Devereaux (MS-MBA) co-lead a paper with colleagues on “The diverse benefits of biodiversity conservation in global ocean areas beyond national jurisdiction” in Frontier.

Lin Shi (PhD, ‘21) and colleagues published a paper at the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) on “A methodology for correlating annualized replacement rate (ARR) reduction to sustainability benefits”, Amazon Science, 2022.

Nicola Ulibarri (PhD, ‘15) published a few articles:

Ulibarri, N., Figueroa, O. P., & Grant, A. (2022). Barriers and opportunities to incorporating environmental justice in the National Environmental Policy act. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 97, 106880.

Sanders, Brett F., et al. Large and inequitable flood risks in Los Angeles, California. Nature Sustainability, (2022): 1-11.

Leehi Yona (PhD, 5th) and colleagues published a research paper on “Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable - build interoperable systems” in Nature.

News Articles and Reports

Cassandra Brooks (PhD, ‘16) received the following news coverage:

Nature. Impact report: how biodiversity coverage shapes lives and policies. August 2022.

Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine. Scientist who ‘always undercut’ herself now wins high praise, awards. Oct 22. Cassandra received the Ronne Award on October 15 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. 

Marissa Childs (PhD, ‘22) was featured in the New York Times for her research on “Wildfire Smoke Is Erasing Progress on Clean Air”.

Catherine Lee Hing (PhD, 1st) published a brief research report article with colleagues on “Management responses in Belize and Honduras, as stony coral tissue loss disease expands its prevalence in the Mesoamerican reef” in Frontiers.

Presentations

Anela Arifi (PhD, 3rd) was selected out of 17 excellent speakers from the Stanford Energy Student Lectures summer series, as a 2022 Stanford Energy Distinguished Student Lecturer. As part of the Energy Seminar Series, Anela gave a talk on October 24, 2022 on “The Bioenergy Opportunity in California.”

Josheena Naggea (PhD, '22) attended COP27 in Egypt as the first UNFCCC Ocean-Climate Solidarity Grant recipient, an initiative of the Nature Zone Pavillion, co-convened by Nature4Climate (N4C), the Global Commons Alliance, and the UNFCCC Climate Champions. She was nominated by the Commonwealth Blue Charter and participated on several panels on the topics of blue carbon, small-scale fisheries, island resilience, and enhancing support for early career professionals. She also moderated an intergenerational dialogue, along with the Commonwealth Secretary-General Rt Hon Patricia Scotland, on the potential to amplify youth voices in sustainable ocean and energy solutions. During the event, the #YouthLeadSDG14 Action Challenge was launched by the Secretary General.

From left to right: Dr Whitney Johnston (Oceans Sustainability Director, Salesforce), Warren Evans (Climate Envoy, Asian Development Bank), Josheena Naggea (Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions/ World Economic Forum), Secretary-General Rt Hon Patricia Scotland (The Commonwealth Secretariat), H.E. Aminath Shauna (Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, Maldives), Kakembo Galabuzi Brian (2020 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year from Uganda) at an Intergenerational Dialogue event for Sustainable Oceans and Energy at COP27.

Sergio Sanchez Lopez (PhD, 2nd) and Siddharth Sachdeva (PhD, 1st) were invited as panelists to the Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue in Seoul, South Korea. The event was hosted by the Ban Ki-moon Foundation For a Better Future, the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, and the Natural Capital Project.

E-IPER-affiliated professors Gretchen Daily, Nicole Ardoin, and Scott Fendorf also attended the summit. They gave keynote talks, provided welcoming and closing remarks, and moderated policy panels.

Gemma Smith (PhD, 5th) presented at the Transatlantic Dialogue Public Administration Conference (TAD16) in Denmark this summer.

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