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3:40 PDT / 6:40 EDT
Event opens. Participants are welcome to start signing on and chat among themselves until formal start time.
4:00 PDT / 7:00 EDT
Welcome by ERGAN President, Rashmi Sahai (MS ‘12)
4:05 PDT / 7:05 EDT
Keynote by Omar Masera (MS ‘90, PhD ‘95), Professor at the Institute for Ecosystems and Sustainability Research at the National University of Mexico
4:35 PDT / 7:35 EDT
Discussion session with ERG Professor Isha Ray and Meena Palaniappan (MS ‘00) on how communities most impacted by environmental challenges can lead the way to climate resilience, and a discussion of some limits of community based initiatives.
Discussion session with ERG Professor David Anthoff and Frank Errickson (MS ‘16, PhD ‘20) on climate change economics, atmospheric science, IAMs, and the exciting advances in the computational and statistical methods used to research these topics.
5:15 PDT / 8:15 EDT
Discussion session with ERG Professor Duncan Callaway and Carla Peterman (PhD ‘16) on wildfire, adaptation, and electricity infrastructure
Conversation with ERG Professors Lara Kueppers and John Harte across two generations of ecological research on climate change and thoughts on the road forward
5:55 PDT / 8:55 EDT
Overview of ERG’s diversity and inclusion efforts by Chris Hyun (MA ‘15, PhD ’20) and Salma Elmallah (current PhD student)
6:05 PDT / 9:05 EDT
Closing and happy hour kick-off by ERGAN Events Chair, Jessie Knapstein (MS ‘17)
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