Spring welcomed celebrations and new adventures for E-IPER. Here at Stanford, it was a full quarter with 5 PhD dissertation defenses, several MS events, and countless hours of dedicated work and connection-building from our students, staff, and faculty. Near and far, our alumni have also been hard at work creating significant impact in the world and continuing to strengthen their communities. We wish you all a wonderful summer!

In this issue:

• Director's Desk
• Commencement
• Alumni Visits & Reflections
• Welcome: Tara Arenas (Assistant Director of Student Services), New MS Cohort
• PhD & MS Collaboration Grants
• Events: PhD Dissertation Defenses, Joint & Dual MS Winter Capstone Symposium
• Student Connections: E-IPER Tea, March Madness, Hangouts
• Student & Alumni News, Awards & Honors, Publications & Presentations

Dear E-IPER community,

With Commencement now behind us, spring has passed in the blink of an eye. As you will read, E-IPER activities haven’t slowed down one bit! Our students, faculty, and alumni have been hard at work engaging nationally and globally with research and sustainability initiatives, as well as continuing to develop meaningful connections within our community, on and off campus. 

As we come to the end of the academic year, I want to send my heartfelt congratulations to everyone - especially our graduating PhD and MS students. These E-IPER community members are off to advance worldwide sustainability efforts, create lasting good in their communities, and thrive as human beings. Having had the privilege of attending several dissertation defense receptions this quarter and seeing the inspirational impact our graduates have left upon E-IPER and their colleagues, I have no doubt in each of your bright futures. Best wishes as you embark on a new chapter, and we hope that you’ll keep in touch! 

For everyone in our beloved E-IPER community, may this summer be one of rest and relaxation, as well as learning and growth. 

With warm regards,

Krish Seetah

Commencement

On Sunday, June 16, 2024, we celebrated our graduating MS and PhD students - only the second graduating class from the new Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability! Graduating students from the Class of 2024 were invited to celebrate with faculty, friends, and family.

Joint & Dual MS 2023-2024 Graduates

Autumn Quarter

Oren Fliegelman (MS-MBA), Isabelle Frances Kerr (MS-MBA), Katherine Playfair (MS-MBA), Daniel Sandoval Quintero (MS-MBA), Julia Sekula (MS-MBA), Maria Verbaite (MS-MBA), Cory Waltrip (MS-MBA), Meghan Wood (MS-MBA), Hyunsol Yun (MS-MBA)

Winter Quarter

Sankalp Banerjee (MS-MBA), Edgar Alonso Bendezu Medina (MS-MBA), Patrick Dowling (MS-MBA), Cristobal Maturana Almarza (MS-MBA), Matthew Ricotta (MS-MBA), Bryce Wilberding (MS-MBA)

Spring Quarter

Nina Chen (MS-MBA), Ben Clark (MS-JD), Kelsey Dunn (MS-JD), Ian Faucher (MS-JD), Daniel Huf (MS-MBA), Jason Kim (MS-MBA), Alexander Kleiner (MS-MBA), Chubing Li (MS-MIP), Joyce Lin (MS-MIP), Ragav Manimaran (MS-MBA), Katie Mansur (MS-JD), Stephen Read (MS-JD), Tal Sarig (MS-MBA), Oceane Wu (MS-MBA), Yutong Zhu (MS-MBA)

PhD 2023-2024 Graduates

Erica Bower

“Planned Relocation of Communities in a Changing Climate: Assessing Risk, Livelihoods & Justice to Inform Governance”

Bianca Silva Santos

“Adaptive Management of Marine Biodiversity at the Science-Policy-Society Nexus”

William Scott

“Climate Policy Interactions: Examining Trade-offs from Climate Policy Overlap in California”

Ranjitha Shivaram

“Turbulence during transition: Understanding how energy systems can adapt to natural and man-made stressors during the clean energy transition”

Leehi Yona

“What (and Who) Counts? The Science, Law, and Policy of Greenhouse Gas Accounting” 

Congratulations, Class of 2024! We are so proud of you and can’t wait to see all the amazing things you’ll accomplish.

Getting ready before the ceremony begins!

Our MS-JD and PhD graduates chatting after the ceremony!

Alumni Visits & Reflections

We were thrilled to continue building connections between E-IPER alumni and current students via alumni visits. This spring quarter, current MS and PhD students had the opportunity to meet with alumni A.R. Siders (PhD, '18) and Kevin Hettrich (MS-MBA, ‘11) over lunch and one-on-one meetings.

In May, A.R. Siders (PhD, ‘18) returned to Stanford - this time, to be on the other side of the defense committee table just six years after her own defense! Siders also held an open office hours and lunch session to mentor current students and share about her time in E-IPER. She reflected on her experience, with the following advice for current and past E-IPER students.

"I defended my dissertation six years ago. This May, I had the slightly surreal experience of returning to EIPER as a committee member for Erica Bower’s defense (PhD, 2024). She presented in the same room I had, met with her committee in the same conference room (even had one of the same committee members as I did), and celebrated by drinking from the same Cup of Interdisciplinarity. For the closed-door session, I purposefully sat in a different chair from the one where I had defended to lessen the sense of déjà vu and imposter syndrome.

Earlier that day, I sat outside Coupa Cafe with current E-IPER students and heard about their fascinating research. Many of their discussions – how interdisciplinary scholars define themselves in a disciplinary academy, what fields of inquiry mean, how to find and achieve work-life balance or whether it’s a myth – were comfortingly similar to ones my cohort had contemplated at those same tables. 

I study adaptation to climate change, so I more often focus on what has changed and will change than on what remains the same. And yet, the visit was a good reminder that some things endure by changing. Just as that legendary family hammer with new head, bindings, and handle, is still the old family hammer, E-IPER has new faces, new projects, a new coffee machine, and new red-bound dissertations on the bookshelf, yet the essentials remain. As a student, I would have said the core of E-IPER was its structure or interdisciplinary nature, but perhaps the core really always was more about the people and the community they built. 

I spent the majority of my time in E-IPER post-quals not just off campus but out of town, out of state, or out of country. And yet, despite my worst efforts, E-IPER built enduring connections in my life. I still meet weekly with three E-IPER alums to talk research. I’m writing this note from a workshop I was invited to by a cohort-mate. I routinely collaborate on projects and grants with others. Serving on Erica’s committee, I realized how much of the advice I pass on is culled directly from my advisors, who are now grand-advisors to a new generation of interdisciplinarians. From within E-IPER, such connections seemed commonplace, but having worked at other institutions and now directing an interdisciplinary PhD program, I think the cross-disciplinary, cross-cohort, cross-country community E-IPER builds, and the enduring nature of those ties are truly remarkable.

So, to all of you who have or will drink from the Cup of Interdisciplinarity, to those who graduated before that ancient tradition began, and to those whose mentorship and support make E-IPER possible, thank you for making E-IPER such an amazing program to have been in, to be from, and to continue to be part of."

Kevin presenting at the Graduate School of Business.

Current E-IPER MS students enjoying lunch with Kevin after his talk.

Welcome New Staff:

Tara Arenas

We are excited to share that we have hired a new Assistant Director of Student Services, who started with our team on May 13th.

Tara Arenas is delighted to return to Stanford in her new position with E-IPER. Tara brings years of academic administration, advising and teaching experience to the role, having served as the Student Services Manager in the Geophysics Department (2006-2014). Recently she has been developing and launching first generation college access programs at College of Marin, as well as teaching and counseling adult student newcomers who are pursuing their dreams to attain a college degree. 

“My academic career has been dedicated to uplifting, supporting, and advocating for students, faculty and staff. Being a part of E-IPER means that I get to be a part of a team who cares about our world and strives each day to make an impact.”

During her spare time, Tara can be found trail running, mountain biking, and shuttling her 11-year-old daughter to water polo and soccer practices. Her family also enjoys volunteering in Central America where her husband trains local fire departments through Firefighters Without Borders, while Tara supports rural public schools through her community-based organization, Tobias Vega Project.

Welcome New MS Cohort

We are thrilled to welcome our new Joint and Dual MS students to E-IPER! The 46 new students make up the biggest cohort in the history of the program, bringing talent from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford Law School, Master’s in International Policy program, Material Science Engineering, and the Graduate School of Education. We are delighted to have these students join the E-IPER community and look forward to getting to know each and every one. We cannot wait to see what this cohort will accomplish, both in the program and beyond. Once more, welcome to E-IPER!

The awardees of this year's Collaboration Grants have been announced!

The E-IPER Collaboration Grants provide an opportunity for E-IPER PhD and Joint and Dual MS students to leverage their unique skill sets to collaboratively address significant environmental challenges. Successful projects couple the research rigor of the doctoral student with the professional skills of the joint or dual master's student. 

Four innovative projects received awards through the 2024 Collaboration Grant. These projects attend to a broad range of important issues related to environment and resources including climate-induced migration, flood resilience, clean energy financing and methane removal. Congratulations to all!

“Unstuck: Understanding the Drivers, Obstacles, and Systems Behind Climate-Induced Migration”

Team: Rwaida Gharib (PhD, 1st year) and Kelsey Freeman (MIP-MS)

Advisors: Janet Martinez (SLS) and Jeremy Weinstein (Political Science)

“Co-producing a Risk Communication Intervention to Promote Flood Resilience in San Bruno, CA”

Team: Hannah Melville-Rea (PhD, 2nd year) and Michelle Ng (PhD-MS)

Advisors: Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (Earth System Science) and Nilam Ram (Communication)

“The Inflation Reduction Act in Action: An Exploration of Clean Energy Financing and Community Equity”

Team: Claire Petersen (PhD, 1st year), Joby Bernstein (MBA-MS) and Felipe Galvis-Delgado (MIP-MS)

Advisors: Omer Karaduman (GSB), Michael Bennon (FSI) and Jeff Brown (E-IPER/EFI-Foundation)

“Public Perceptions of and Equity Considerations for Methane Removal: A Public Survey and Stakeholder Interview Analysis”

Team: Celina Scott-Buechler (PhD, 3rd year) and Ainee Athar (MBA-MS)

Advisors: Erica Plambeck (GSB) and Rob Jackson (Earth System Science)

For E-IPER’s first dissertation defense of 2024, Leehi Yona (PhD, 6th year) successfully defended her dissertation, “What (and Who) Counts? The Science, Law, and Policy of Greenhouse Gas Accounting.” Leehi’s moving dissertation was dedicated to her grandmother, who “had deep knowledge of the Earth [and] could make anything grow.”

Leehi’s dissertation examined “unaccounted-for” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are both measurable and caused by human activity but are excluded from institutional inventories. As inadequate GHG accounting practices impact the success of global climate mitigation, Leehi’s work explores how GHG emissions science does (or does not) get incorporated into law and policy, with implications for environmental justice. 

Leehi presenting during the public portion of her dissertation defense.

As her friends fill up her Cup of Interdisciplinarity, Leehi looks on with mild consternation and wonder!

On May 15, Erica Bower (PhD, 5th year) successfully defended her defense, “Planned Relocation of Communities in a Changing Climate: Assessing Risk, Livelihoods & Justice to Inform Governance.”

Erica’s work centers on planned relocation due to climate change, where communities are permanently moved to new sites away from their ancestral homes. Her dissertation explored how planned relocation “success” depends on the interaction between risk reduction in exposure to sea level rise, changes in relocated communities’ livelihoods, and justice considerations.

Erica's public defense.

Raising a glass to the new Dr. Bower!

Erica's reception, kindly catered by cohort-mate Meghan Shea (PhD, 5th).

On June 4, Ranjitha Shivaram (PhD, 6th year) was our next E-IPER PhD student to successfully defend her dissertation, “Turbulence During Transition: Understanding How Energy Systems Can Adapt to Natural and Man-made Stressors During the Clean Energy Transition”.

Ranjitha’s work focuses on understanding stressors that might impact the pace and inclusive nature of the clean energy transition, such as weather-driven power outages or the sudden shift to remote work. Her dissertation relied on data analysis and modeling to explore how a variety of stressors influence relevant sectors of the energy systems, paying particular attention to disproportionate impacts on vulnerable sections of society.

Ranjitha with her committee members, including co-lead advisors Inês Azevedo and Rishee Jain.

Ranjitha poses with one of her biggest (and most adorable) cheerleaders - her daughter!

Following the success of his E-IPER peers, on June 5, William Scott (PhD, 5th year) successfully defended his dissertation, “Climate Policy Interactions: Examining Trade-offs from Climate Policy Overlap in California.”

Will’s research focuses on how alternative approaches to decarbonization manage trade-offs across environmental, economic, and social objectives.  In his dissertation he examined interactions between overlapping climate policies in California in terms of their impact on emissions, cost effectiveness, innovation, and distributional equity.

Will presenting his dissertation before his committee members.

The E-IPER community gathered to celebrate at Will's reception!

To wrap up this year’s E-IPER defenses, on June 13, Bianca Silva Santos (PhD, 5th year) successfully defended her dissertation, “Adaptive Management of Marine Biodiversity at the Science-Policy-Society Nexus.”

Bianca’s work focuses on integrating science, policy and society in the management of marine species in the Pacific. Utilizing both natural and social science tools, her research applies interdisciplinary methods from the fields of marine science, ocean governance and policy, and environmental decision-making.

Bianca celebrates with several members of her committee at her reception!

After her presentation, Bianca answered questions from the audience.

Bianca with her in-person Cup of Interdisciplinarity crew!

Missed a dissertation defense?

You can now view recordings of them on our E-IPER website and YouTube channel! Please note that 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

During the 10-week quarter, the Spring Capstone cohort synthesized their knowledge in environment and resources with their professional school skill sets to understand and interpret a variety of significant environmental challenges. This quarter's cohort comprised three JD-MS students, seven MBA-MS students, and three MIP-MS students.

In their culminating experience of the quarter (and of the Joint and Dual MS program), the Spring Capstone cohort delivered presentations on projects that explored topics such as scalable heat pump training, methane mitigation in the oil & gas industries, and more. The projects offered innovative perspectives on the work that is currently occurring in these spaces and proposed creative solutions for moving forward. E-IPER faculty affiliate, Professor Jim Sweeney, and E-IPER lecturer, Anna Lee (PhD, '22), instructed the course and supported students during their intensive capstone journey. Thank you as well to Eeshan Chaturvedi (PhD, 2nd year) for assisting the course as a TA.

The presentation recordings are available on the E-IPER website. 

E-IPER Tea

Each Friday this spring, we continued our tradition of E-IPER tea! This event allows a chance to connect with friends, relax, and enjoy some tasty treats. This quarter, we enjoyed a great rotation of baked goods, celebrated lots of spring E-IPER birthdays, had many in-depth discussions about Taylor Swift’s new album, and cheered on the latest newly minted Doctors of Environment and Resources!

Section contributed by Ryan O’Connor, Leona Neftaliem, and Matt Benjamin.

March Madness Bracket & Watch Party

To celebrate March Madness, Jayson Toweh (PhD, 3rd year) organized an E-IPER March Madness bracket and Happy Hour watch party. Congratulations to bracket winners Karli Moore (PhD, 3rd year), Ryan O’Connor (PhD, 3rd year), and Felipe Galvis-Delgado (MIP-MS), each of whom received a prize from the Stanford Bookstore!

N.O.B.E.L. Theories Night

In May, our E-IPER community loved attending N.O.B.E.L. Theories Night to support Student Services Officer Mike Diaz and other Stanford comedians who presented their N.O.B.E.L. - "not official but entertainingly ludicrous" - ideas. N.O.B.E.L Night was hosted at Denning House and celebrated the fun of an interdisciplinary symposium of silly!

Hangouts!

As we approach the summer solstice, we’ve been enjoying time in the sunshine! Our first-year PhD cohort recently had a lovely hangout session at Treehouse.

Interested in hosting a student or alumni event in your city?



E-IPER staff are always happy to partner with you to plan an event. Please contact Tara Arenas (tarenas@stanford.edu) or Mike Diaz (mikediaz@stanford.edu) for more details.

Image credit: Christine Baker

In April 2024, Hannah Melville-Rea (PhD, 2nd year) shared her experiences with American home insurance and flood resilience at Stanford Impact Lab (SIL)’s Testing Ground Live! Social Science on Stage, held in the Cantor Arts Center. The storytelling event brought together six speakers for an evening of personal stories about problem-solving for society. Read more at the Stanford Report!

Having worked as the sole student representative on the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Advisory Council since August 2023, Anela Arifi (PhD, 3rd year) has established the first-ever campus-wide student council focused on sustainability. The new Sustainability Student Advisory Council will meet quarterly to discuss how students can continue to become more involved in sustainability efforts.

TIME named Jenna Forsyth (PhD, ‘19) to the inaugural 2024 TIME100 Health List, a new annual list of 100 individuals who most influenced global health this year. The full list of and related tributes appeared in the May 13, 2024 issue of TIME and at time.com/time100health.

Austin Becker (PhD, ‘13) was promoted to full professor in the Department of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island, where he serves as department chair and director of URI's new Graduate Certificate in Coastal Resilience program. Congratulations, Professor Becker!

The Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions published a spotlight article on Josheena Naggea (PhD, ‘22), who spoke about her experiences growing up in Mauritius and her work studying climate change’s impacts on coastal communities.

Tannis Thorlakson (PhD, ‘18) started a new role as Program Director at Cascade Climate, an early-stage non-profit focused on field building for open system climate interventions. She'll be focused on enhanced rock weathering, working to bring together academics, policy makers, and startups to better understand and enable the permanent carbon removal technology.

Emily Grubert (PhD, ‘17) and A.R. Siders (PhD, ‘18) met in Rome as part of the Notre Dame Keogh School of Global Affairs workshop on democracy, development, and peace studies.

Emily Grubert (left) and A.R. Siders (right) in Rome.

Ainee Athar (MS-MBA), Hannah Murdoch (MS-MBA), and Amanda Studebaker (MS-MBA) were selected to the inaugural class of OpenMinds NextGen Leaders. OpenMinds is driving near-term progress on the dual climate and energy challenge. It is a non-partisan 501c3 powered by a network of 100+ volunteer experts across industries, nonprofits, academia, and philanthropy. The 30 students (including four other graduate students from Stanford) will spend a year immersed in education, development, and impact projects with leading energy companies. Congratulations!

Ainee, Hannah, and Amanda with other members of the OpenMinds NextGen Leaders inaugural class.

Anaïs Voşki (PhD, 3rd year) received the Carol Saunders Award from the American Psychological Association's (APA) Div. 34 - the Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology. This award supports the awardee's participation in a conference in conservation psychology. Anaïs will use the award to present at and co-chair her accepted conference session on 'Sustainable Dietary Interventions for Human and Planetary Health' at the APA 2024 Convention in Seattle. Congratulations, Anaïs!

Sankalp Banerjee (MBA-MS, ‘24) and Meghan Wood (MBA-MS, ‘24) were awarded the 2024 Stanford Impact Founder (SIF) Fellowship in the Ecopreneurship track. This highly competitive fellowship is awarded to graduating students starting their own high-impact social and environmental ventures. Anna Vladymyrska (MIP-MS, ‘24) was awarded the 2024 Stanford Impact Founder (SIF) Prize in the Ecopreneurship track. The SIF Prize is awarded in recognition of Anna’s venture and leadership potential. Congratulations to Sankalp, Meghan, and Anna!

Katie Wu (PhD, 2nd year), Leona Neftaliem (PhD, 2nd year), Emma Krasovich Southworth (PhD, 2nd year), and Ayako Kawano (PhD, 2nd year) were recognized with the Stanford Alumni Association’s 2024 Community Impact Award. Through this award, the Stanford Alumni Association recognizes outstanding graduate students that have fostered a sense of belonging and inspired enthusiasm among fellow graduate students, enhancing the Stanford community through their exemplary leadership of a student organization, creation of an event or program, or other unique campus contribution. Congratulations to Katie, Leona, Emma, and Ayako!

Meghan Shea (PhD, 5th year) was awarded the Rafe Sagarin Award for Innovative Ecology. The Rafe Sagarin Fund for Innovative Ecology was founded to honor and carry on the work of an insightful scientist, creative free spirit, and engaged human being. Every year, the Fund presents one or two awards for early career ecologists to support projects that carry on the spirit of Rafe's research. Congratulations, Meghan!

Our alumni have been busy publishing and presenting!

Books

Marilyn Cornelius (PhD, ‘13) is proud to present the publication of her new book, Belonging: A Mini Memoir on Displaced Indigeneity and Allegiance to Ma Earth. This book contains reflections on racism, indigeneity, and how to cultivate belonging to our home, planet Earth. It also posits a new way of thinking about our relationship with the Earth, one that is all-inclusive.

Journal Articles

Kirat Singh (PhD, 4th year) is happy to announce the publication of his study titled “Air pollution mortality from India's coal power plants: unit-level estimates for targeted policy” in Environmental Research.

Kirat shared, “Fine particulate matter pollution has enormous public health consequences in India, with pollution from coal-based electricity estimated to account for anywhere between 50,000-100,000 deaths per year. In our study, we aimed to understand the role of individual power plants - are emissions from some resulting in disproportionately higher mortality than others? We found very high variation, with some power plants associated with 200x more mortality than others per unit of energy produced. These power plants represent valuable opportunities for cutting emissions.”

Image credit: Idrees Mohammed/EPA.

Ryan O’Connor (PhD, 3rd year) published a new paper in Marine Policy’s May 2024 issue, entitled “Power and participation: A systematic review of marine protected area engagement through participatory science methods.”

Along with co-authors Dr. Natalie Herbert and Dr. Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Francisca “Kika” Santana (PhD, ‘22) recently published a journal article in the Journal of Risk Research entitled "Descriptive social norms, social support, and behavioral response to climate-related and co-occurring health hazards."

Amanda Cravens (PhD, ‘14) is excited to share two recent publications, both lead-authored by mentees. The first guide, published in the USGS Scientific Investigations Report, called “So you want to build a decision-support tool? Assessing successes, barriers, and lessons learned for tool design and development”synthesizes learning about designing and evaluating decision support tools that first started in her E-IPER dissertation. The second article is entitled “Becoming an actionable scientist: Challenges, competency, and the development of expertise” and published in Environmental Management.

Along with co-author and advisor Dr. Larry Crowder, Bianca Santos (PhD, 5th year) published “Beyond boundaries: governance considerations for climate-driven habitat shifts of highly migratory marine species across jurisdictions” in Nature Partner Journal Ocean Sustainability in April 2024.

In April 2024, Celina Scott-Buechler (PhD, 3rd year) published an article called “Communities conditionally support deployment of direct air capture for carbon dioxide removal in the United States” in Communications Earth & Environment.

In Environmental DNA, Meghan Shea (PhD, 5th year) published her paper titled “Environmental DNA metabarcoding differentiates between micro-habitats within the rocky intertidal,” which draws upon her work at Hopkins Marine Station.

Anaïs Voşki (PhD, 3rd year) is first author on a published conference abstract in The Lancet, titled “Eco-emotions as the planetary boundaries: framing human emotional and planetary health in the global environmental crisis.” Anaïs is also second author on another recent journal article in Environmental Education Research, called “Underwater virtual reality for marine education and ocean literacy: technological and psychological potentials.”

News Articles and Other Media

A.R. Siders (PhD '18) hosted a climate change themed video game design competition for US college students, as part of the NSF-KADF Oceans Decade Champions initiative. In just two weeks, teams from six universities created eight video games that address themes of climate change, ocean sustainability, and women leaders. Over one hundred students globally joined webinars on environmental game design and heard from professionals creating social impact games. You can read more and play the games HERE!

Based on his published journal article in Environmental Research, Kirat Singh (PhD, 4th year) was interviewed in The Guardian, which reported on his team’s work studying the impact of power plants on air quality in India.

In April 2024, Nik Sawe (PhD, ‘16) was a guest speaker on From Our Neurons to Yours, Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute podcast. Give the episode - “Why Our Brains are Bad at Climate Change” - a listen!

Nik Sawe also published several news articles as part of his work as a Policy Analyst (Industry focus), at Energy Innovation, a non-partisan energy and climate policy thinktank. The first - titled “Right To Repair: Making Products Last Longer Saves Money And The Climate” - was published by Forbes in March. The second of Nik’s articles, called "Hydrogen Could Clean Up Iron, Steel, And Chemicals – If It’s Truly Clean,” was co-written with Daniel Esposito and also published by Forbes. With a team of co-authors, Nik also published “Clean Industry in China: A Techno-Economic Comparison of Electrified Heat Technologies, Barriers, and Policy Options" as part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report.

Presentations

In April 2024, Anaïs Voski (PhD, 3rd year) gave an oral presentation at the Planetary Health Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her talk was titled “Eco-emotions & the Planetary Boundaries: A Scoping Review.”

Enjoy delicious, easy-to-make creations from the Planet Saving Meals Cookbook, which debuted at the Planetary Health Meeting!

In March 2024, Meghan Shea (PhD, 5th year) presented “Bridging Encounters and Environmental DNA: Challenges and Possibilities in Engaging the Public in New Forms of Biodiversity Monitoring” at Harvard University’s Unfiguring Conference.

E-IPER alumni Kristen Green, Caroline Ferguson Irlanda, and Francisca “Kika” Santana reunited at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting.

The American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, held in Honolulu in April, was full of presentations by E-IPER alumni! Dr. Francisca “Kika” Santana (PhD, ‘22) gave a talk based on work from her post-doc, entitled "Understanding individual-level impacts and responses to compounding wildfire hazards in Northern CA, U.S.A." In another session, Francisca’s co-author and fellow E-IPER alumna, Dr. Caroline Ferguson Irlanda (PhD, ‘21), presented their paper entitled "Five practices for ethical and effective community-based survey co-development in conservation social science," which drew on their experiences and lessons learned during their PhD dissertation work. E-IPER alumna Dr. Josheena Naggea (PhD, ‘22) is also co-author on this paper.

Also attending AAG in April, Kristen Green (PhD, ‘22) and Shannon Switzer Swanson (PhD, ‘22) hosted a workshop, “Using Visual Participatory Methods to Decolonize Your Conservation Research.” Kristen also presented another talk entitled “Pathways to (Climate) Adaptation for Shellfish Aquaculture on the US West Coast.”

Ayako Kawano (PhD, 2nd year) presented a lightning talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s conference, called “Pollution and Health: Generating Evidence and Catalyzing Action to Advance Human and Planetary Health.” Ayako’s talk was “Improved daily PM2.5 estimates in India reveal inequalities in recent enhancement of air quality”. Based on the same research, Ayako also presented a poster at the 2024 Stanford Data Science Conference.

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