The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Presents

The 2nd Annual
Bren School PhD Student Symposium

Nine students present on research
that is the focus of their doctoral studies

Tal Ben-Horin: understanding how climate impacts the distribution of marine intertidal organisms.

Laura Grant: the economics of public goods provision and nonprofit charities, with a primary focus on the environmental sector.

Shannon Hannah: the impacts of metal oxide nanoparticles on marine infaunal invertebrates.

Darren Hardy: collective authorship of geographic information and its effects on information behaviors.

Sara Hughes: urban governance, specifically the organizational and institutional influences on urban water use and delivery patterns.

Catherine Shields: impacts of urbanization and climate change on catchment-scale hydrology and vegetation function.

Oliver Soong: spatial variation in the population dynamics of cottonwoods and willows on winter rain-fed rivers in the Central Valley of California and how such spatial variation is driven by the coupled biophysical environment.

Lorena Vieli: agricultural landscapes from an ecological perspective, particularly focused on landscape ecology and ecological modeling.

Jono Wilson: fisheries ecology, particularly collaborative fisheries management and the application of novel decision-making tools.

See the complete symposium schedule

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