Summer-Autumn 2020 Newsletter

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Director's Desk 
 
 
Dear E-IPER community,
 
As you may have heard, the Oxford English Dictionary was thwarted in its task
of choosing a 2020 "word of the year." Instead, Oxford Languages editors describe "Words of an Unprecedented Year," choosing many, including portmanteaus, pandemic-dominated terminology, and phrases reflecting tumultuous social, economic, and living conditions: Blursday, doomscrolling, flatten the curve, allyship, remote learning, and--perhaps particularly appropriate for us--infodemic. 
 
I empathize with those editors: When I began drafting this note back in August, I intended to focus on Perspective. By mid-fall, my emphasis was going to be on Resilience. And by now, I have proceeded to Gratitude. I am positive that, within the next month, at least one more word will move to the fore as the seemingly all-important descriptor of these tumultuous times. 
 
At this stage, eight months into our "new" COVID-19 normal, nothing about the days or weeks feels normal or predictable, although we have continually gained new perspective. Through spring, summer, and fall, we have navigated, and re-negotiated, how to work from makeshift desks and kitchen counters; resolved numerous technological challenges; trialed strategies to combat Zoom fatigue; and become creative with virtual and distance work-arounds for our research, analysis, and writing. In the process, we've passed through up-and-down-and-up-again stages of sheltering-in-place, struggling to maintain our critical focus on sustainability, climate, energy, and other essential aspects of our important, forward-looking work. In this way, I am continually inspired by the resilience we show, day after day. Moreover, we have remained a community that shows up for each other, providing support and encouragement through Zoom, phone calls, emails, letters, virtual teas, online conferences, and much more. For this, I have an overwhelming sense of gratitude.
 
As you will read, the E-IPER community has not slowed in activity one bit. Undeterred by changing conditions, our students and staff have transformed events into virtual settings, experimenting with a range of ways to connect. Recognizing the numerous challenges inherent in the plethora of unique situations and needs, our staff, students, and faculty have worked to offer a variety of course formats, meeting groups, and on- and offline resources and supports. They have made these, and more, available to help ensure that our community remains connected, strong, and thriving, even through complicated, isolating days.
 
Please don't hesitate to let us know how we can best keep you connected with E-IPER's important work. We are motivated by knowing that our rich, diverse ecosystem of students, faculty, alumni, staff, and supporters continues to engage meaningfully in the world well beyond our screens. We are grateful for the many perspectives that you bring, the resilience you demonstrate, and the many ways in which you are impacting the world.
 
 
With appreciation and best wishes,
 
Nicole
 
As you may know, we are celebrating our 20th anniversary this year in E-IPER.  Please check out our celebratory website page to read a letter from Dean Stephan Graham and take a look at the events schedule.
 
 

Commencement 2020 Commencement 
     
 
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences did not gather for our traditional Commencement or the diploma ceremony scheduled for Sunday, June 14, 2020. Even though these in-person graduation celebrations were cancelled, we marked the special occasion virtually.
 
The School of Earth put together beautiful slideshows for the Earth Diploma Ceremonies for each department and program, including remarks from the seven department chairs/faculty directors. Dean Stephan Graham also gave graduation remarks to celebrate and send off our graduates into the next exciting stages of life. In addition to the School's celebration, E-IPER, in partnership with its Social Committee, put together a festive Kuddoboard for our graduates. The community sent their best wishes and congratulations for our graduates' accomplishments.
  
While these activities cannot replace the experience of walking through commencement and the diploma ceremony, we hope that in the future we can celebrate our 2020 graduates (listed by program below) in person. 
 
Congratulations Class of 2020! We are so proud of you and can't wait to hear all the amazing things you'll do and accomplish. 
 
PhD 2020 Graduates:
Nina Brooks, Andrea Lund, Hajin Kim, Chikara Onda, Samantha Sekar, Philip Womble 
 
Joint/Dual MS 2020 Graduates:
George Amirdzhanyan, Alexandra Boboc, Mike Caron, Eyal Donath Zafir, Meg Downey, Adrien Duroc-Danner, Daniel Freeman, Emily Gittins, Jennifer Goldman, Maya Granit, Michael Golz, Jayce Hafner, Ida Hempel, Caroline Jo, Mondee Lu, Thomas Miller, Julia Osterman, Fabiola Quinzanos-Rodriguez, Rachel Reed, Eitan Rovero-Shein, Max Sapozhnikov, Alvaro Stolowicz, Sami Tellatin, Allan Van Vliet, Eileen Waris, Graham Wookey, Madhu Yalamarthi
 

Wellness Liaison Spotlight:
Erica Bower and Will Scott  
Wellness     
 
Grad school is challenging enough without the myriad of additional stressors that 2020 has thrown our way. As E-IPER's Wellness Liaisons, we recognize that making space to foster healthy habits and relationships is more important than ever right now. We are striving to foster connection, communication, and creativity around wellness in E-IPER through promoting activities that we value to maintain well-being, such as reading with the E-IPER Book Club, getting outside and moving with the E-IPER Activity Club, engaging our creative side with E-IPER Arts Night, and finding time to meditate on the free Headspace app (thanks SE3!). Learn more about our graduate student wellness programs and peer liaisons here.

Erica Bower (PhD 2nd)

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Program: E-IPER
Research area: Human Migration & Climate Adaptation
Your answers to a few (doesn't have to be all!) of the following:
-- Something that brings you joy: Trail runs at golden hour, audio books, my neighbor's prolific fig tree
-- Something you love to give: Food is my favorite love language :)
-- Something that makes you feel most like yourself: Whole-hearted belly laughter with dear friends, spending time in community
-- Favorite self-care practices: Time disconnected from technology, yoga, meditation
Will Scott (PhD 2nd) 
 
Pronouns: He/him/his
Program: E-IPER
Research area: Climate Change Policy and Economics
Your answers to a few (doesn't have to be all!) of the following:
-- Something that brings you joy: Being surrounded by nature
-- Something you love to give: Shared experiences
-- Something that makes you feel competent:
Making my bed in the morning
-- Something that you're proud of: Being at Stanford!
-- Favorite self-care practice: Ending the work day with a head-clearing run
 

New E-IPER Staff
 Newstaff   
 
Nik Sawe joined the E-IPER team in a new Lecturer role in July 2020. Nik teaches in both MS and PhD programs, and provides supplementary advising for PhD and MS students. Nik joins us in a part-time capacity as he maintains a robust research portfolio with collaborators across many parts of campus.

Nik is an E-IPER alumnus, having received his PhD  in 2016. In addition to his role in E-IPER, he is currently a Research Associate in the Graduate School of Education, a Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a National Geographic Explorer. His research focuses on exploring environmental behaviors, particularly conservation philanthropy, residential energy use, and transportation decisions through a combination of neuroimaging, behavioral experiments, and surveys. Nik's past and present courses span environmental decision-making, risk perception, the psychology of science communication, and environmental governance.
 
   
PhD Dissertation Defenses:
Philip Womble, Chikara Onda, and Nina Brooks
  Defense  
    
On July 23, Philip Womble (PhD 6th) successfully defended his dissertation, "Water Rights Markets in the 21st Century: Transaction costs and optimal environmental water portfolios in Colorado, USA."
 
Philip studies legal and water-supply planning strategies that use water markets to help communities and ecosystems adapt to drought and climate change.
 
 
 
On September 4, Chikara Onda (PhD 5th) successfully defended his dissertation, "Climate, Jobs, and Inequity: Models of worker mobility and distribution under carbon pricing."

Chikara studies the distributional impacts of climate and energy policies. His current research builds a climate policy model linked to a micro-econometrically estimated labor choice model to simulate the impact of carbon pricing on labor and how this impact might differ across income groups. This model can be used to consider different policy designs, with an eye toward mitigating any negative impacts on low-income households.
 
 
On November 18, Nina Brooks (PhD 5th)  
successfully defended her dissertation, "Global Health and the Environment: Studies on air pollution and reproductive health policies."
 
Nina studies the social and environmental determinants of population health. Her current research identifies regulatory failures of the brick manufacturing industry in Bangladesh and identifies the health and environmental consequences. Her  work also examines the impact of expanding and restricting abortion access on fertility and labor market outcomes for women.  

EventsEvents
 
Stanford Earth Alumni Award Ceremony 
and Seminar Event: 
Innovating our Food Systems    
 
  
On October 16, Stanford Earth celebrated two alumni award recipients during their annual Alumni Award Ceremony. One of the alumni award recipients was E-IPER's very own, Nick Halla, who graduated from the Joint MS program with an MBA in 2011. Nick was awarded the Early-to-Mid Career Alumni Award for his entrepreneurship and innovation in starting Impossible Foods. Nick was the company's first employee and now serves as the Senior Vice President for International, growing the company's global presence.
 
Following the excitement of the Stanford Earth Alumni Award Ceremony, the School, in collaboration with E-IPER, hosted a virtual seminar event, Innovating our Food Systems, on October 20. This seminar event also kicked-off E-IPER's 20th year! Nicole Ardoin welcomed community guests, which included 80+ alumni, faculty, staff, and students. Anjana Richards introduced Nick. Nick led the community through his story growing up, his time in the E-IPER Joint MS-MBA program, his fateful connection and collaboration with Professor Pat Brown, and his subsequent journey starting and growing Impossible Foods. The seminar closed with a Q&A session lead by E-IPER's Joint MS Alumni Liaison, Ian Field (MS-MBA '21).
 
Congratulations, Nick! We are incredibly proud of you and can't wait to learn how food systems will grow and evolve with your leadership.
 
To our community members, thank you for joining us for one or both events this Fall. To view the Innovating our Food Systems seminar, please navigate to this link: https://youtu.be/dDh5sH4-6N4 
  
 

Joint MS Capstone Symposium


During the course of the 10-week quarter, the Autumn 2020 Capstone cohort, comprised of 15 MS-MBA and MS-JD students, deployed their research methodology skills, along with their professional school skills and knowledge to explore, understand, and interpret a variety of urgent and significant issues facing the environmental world today. In their culminating experience of the quarter (and Joint MS program), the Autumn 2020 Capstone cohort delivered 11 presentations on projects that explored understanding and addressing climate impacts in energy, housing developments, resource conservation, circular fashion, wildfire risks, and natural resource and supply chains. The projects presented offered innovative and refreshing perspectives that serve as timely reminders of the work that can -- and will -- be done in this space. 
 
The Autumn Capstone Symposium was a remote/virtual experience via Zoom and Vimeo Livestream, as COVID-19 physical distancing guidelines continue through the Autumn quarter. With the support of the ENVRES 290 teaching team (Nik Sawe, John Weyant and Nic Buckley Biggs), E-IPER staff, and Cyperus Media (Justin Warren, PhD '09), the Symposium was a technological success, given the continued circumstances!
 
Videos of all presentations are available on the E-IPER website.

E-IPER Connections Connections
 
Student Connections  
   
 
The E-IPER Student Leadership Committee has been working hard to provide everyone in our community with an opportunity to engage with one another while also having fun through these events (see below) and those that follow in future quarters. Read on for a summary of the recent events led by our students.

In addition, there will be a virtual holiday game night coming up on December 18, where students come together to meet and greet fellow E-IPERs, while learning about one another's research interests as they play a few games from a holiday word challenge, a research guessing game, and best Zoom background and holiday costume! In January, there will be a Collaboration Speed "Dating" event where students will get randomly shuffled and matched up to do quick research interest introductions. Hopefully, there will be lots of intellectual sparks flying and we will see some great collaboration ideas come up as the deadline for the E-IPER Collaboration Grant approaches.


E-IPER Creative Fundraiser - June 2020 
 
This summer, E-IPER students came together for a creative fundraiser to support our local food bank, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. Students created projects inspired by their research or personal interests, and every project submitted unlocked a donation to Second Harvest, which provides food to over a quarter of a million people in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties every month.
 
Students shared their work in a virtual showcase get-together in June. If you missed it, you can still check out the artwork, recipes, and even a film soundtrack in this online exhibit.

Thank you to everyone who participated and helped to support our local community!
  

Painting by Gemma Smith
Origami by Rebecca Miller












Quilling by Rachel Engstand



Drawing by Bianca Santos










 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Summer E-IPER Lunch Series 

Given the stay-at-home orders this summer and special circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, E-IPER extended the lunch series to the summer session for the first time. E-IPER alumna Fran Moore (PhD '15) and current student Ranjitha Shivaram (PhD 2nd) collaborated on the organization of this summer lunch talk series, bringing together research presentations and panel discussions from current students and alumni for the first time as well.  
 
Two sessions of the summer series were panel discussions that were put together by alumni Carolyn Snyder (PhD '10) and Amanda Cravens (PhD '14). In July, we had not one, but two, alumni speak to E-IPER students about careers post-EIPER. The first alumni panel was Carolyn Snyder, who was the moderator, and we heard from Joanne Gaskell (PhD '12), Kristen Honey (PhD '12), and Andrew Perlstein (PhD '12). The second alumni panel focused on Research Agenda Development; featured with Amanda Cravens were Nicola Ulibarri (PhD '15) and A.R. Siders (PhD '18). 
 
 
E-IPER Fall Welcome Back to the 2020-21 Academic Year Event
 
E-IPER hosted a virtual Welcome Back Kick-Off event on Friday September 18, called What's Cooking. The event brought together E-IPER PhD and Joint MS students, along with the E-IPER team. The goal of this event was purely social -- an opportunity for the E-IPER community to gather and check-in after an isolating summer. Due to the pandemic, E-IPER staff are working remotely and the student community is spread out, not only across the Bay Area, but are currently living all over the world! Due to this fact, the event was held at 10am PST in order to capture community members outside of the United States. Everyone was asked to submit a recipe (could be breakfast, lunch, or dinner as everyone was gathering from different time zones) before the event with the goal of creating an E-IPER cookbook by the end of the academic year. 
 
More than 35 members of our community came together for a welcome from faculty director Nicole Ardoin, and then were broken out into smaller groups for more intimate conversation. Groups were led by facilitators made up of the 2020-21 student leadership. Questions included, "What recipe did you share and why?" "If you could learn one new professional or personal skill, what would it be?" and "What was the best piece of advice you've ever been given?" 
 
E-IPER student leadership and the staff team have a solid line-up of events scheduled for this academic year. We hope that you will consider joining us for as many as possible.


Murder Mystery

E-IPER PhD and MS students enjoyed a virtual Murder Mystery party in October, This One Last Time, a modern-day spin on the movie "Clue." A group of people are blackmailed and invited to a mansion by a mysterious person named "R.I.P." All of the characters are quirky and unique and, of course, a murder mystery ensues upon their arrival. Every participant played a suspect and a detective, and played their part to elude detection and to sniff out other's deceits!

Left to right, top to bottom: Daniel Irvin, Erica Bower, Will Scott, Nik Buckley Biggs, Hallie Lucas, David Gonzalez, Meghan Shea, Bianca Santos, Rachel Engstrand, Kiran Chawla, Host (The Murder Mystery Co), Monil Singhal

David Gonzalez guessed the murderer correctly and won! Other awards were given out, including Best Actress (Meghan), Best Actor (Will), and Best Dressed (Rachel).


Fall Seed Planting
 
Even when tired of only Zoom-based gatherings, students enjoyed connecting with their E-IPER MS and PhD compatriots for an ongoing Fall Seed Planting event! Students received packets of seeds to plant at home and gathered to chat about their trials and successes at gaining a green thumb in quarantine, and also shared photos and recipes of what to make with the produce!

 
Book Club

Left to right, top to bottom: Sarah Johnson, Erica Bower, Will Scott, Meghan Shea, Nic Buckley Biggs, Anna Lee
The E-IPER book club meets once per quarter and is a fun and informal way for "E-IPERnauts" to connect across cohorts and programs. In Fall Quarter 2020, the group met to discuss "In Search of the Canary Tree," written by E-IPER alum, Lauren Oakes (PhD '15). On October 18, students from MSc and PhD programs met virtually over coffee or yellow-cedar inspired mocktails to reflect on this inspiring book. Discussions ranged from the value of hope in cultivating personal (and societal) resilience, the role of knowledge production in addressing climate change, and the importance of recognizing nonlinear "behind the scenes" journeys that lead to polished research outputs. It was a heartwarming conversation, and a great opportunity to learn about the impressive work -- both academic and narrative -- of an E-IPER Alum!

"In Search of the Canary Tree"
The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world. Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment. Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, "In Search of the Canary Tree" is a case for hope in a warming world.


E-IPER Tea

E-IPER weekly tea continued virtually this quarter -- but we have jazzed it up with exciting guest star appearances from E-IPER alums Jen Wang (PhD '19), Joann de Zegher (PhD '17), Nik Sawe (PhD '15), and Jenna Forsyth (PhD '18). This has been a great opportunity for current E-IPER PhD and MS students to catch up with friends while also learning about the experiences and career paths that various alums have traveled in both industry and academia.

Student News StudentNews

Kiran Chawla (PhD 2nd) was selected to be a graduate fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society for the 2020-21 academic year.
 
   
Gemma Smith (PhD 2nd) has joined the 9th World Water Forum as an advisory member to their transboundary cooperation working group. 
 
Shannon Switzer Swanson (PhD 6th) is quoted in the article, "Aquarium fish, hold the cyanide," in Hakai Magazinewhich also features four of her images.
 
 
Alumni News AlumniNews
 
Kate Brauman (PhD '10) now an academic and water policy analyst, was featured for her career journey in the Stanford Earth School Highlights.
   
Kate Brauman prepares for a TV interview in the 
BBC studio in Paris following her testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. 
 
Starting this fall, Kate will be taking a leave from her academic career at the University of Minnesota to take a AAAS Science Technology Policy Fellowship at the Department of Defense, working on climate and water resilience. 
 
Cassandra Brooks (PhD '17) was featured in The Age of Nature documentary series, "Episode 03: Changing," that aired on October 28. The Age of Nature is a new documentary series produced in partnership with PBS and narrated by Uma Thurman. It explores the complex, interdependent connection between people and nature, and underscores that how we live with nature now will determine our future.
 
Rachael Garrett (PhD '13) has been appointed to the United Nations Science Panel for the Amazon. The Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA), an ambitious cooperative project to bring together the existing scientific research on the Amazon biome, has been launched with the support of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Rachael is part of Working Group 5: Living and Working in the Amazon.
 
Rachael also has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. The project, 
"FORESTPOLICY: Identifying the conditions under which forest-focused supply chain policies lead to improved conservation and livelihoods: a pan-tropical analysis," seeks to understand the conditions under which policies for managing supply chains by food companies can lead to improved forest conservation and livelihoods in the tropics. To address these circumstances, Garrett's group will conduct replicated assessments of such policies in Brazil, Indonesia, and West Africa. The resulting analysis will provide urgently needed policy recommendations to companies and policymakers for how to better conserve tropical forests, while at the same time protecting climate stability, biodiversity, and food production.  
 
Kevin Hettrich (MS-MBA '12)
QuantumScape -- the solid-state, lithium metal battery company, spun out of Stanford by co-founders Jagdeep Singh, Dr. Tim Holme, and Professor Fritz Prinz, celebrated their listing on the NYSE on December 3. Kevin Hettrich, an early employee, joined QuantumScape in 2012 following his E-IPER graduation, has held roles in product management, finance, and operations.  Kevin currently serves as CFO and leads business operations for the company.  The ~$700M raised by QuantumScape through the business combination with Kensington Capital is expected to fully fund QuantumScape's business plan through commercialization. QuantumScape and Volkswagen have previously announced a joint venture to enable industrial-level production of solid-state batteries for use in VW's vehicles. 
 
Here is some of the press they received upon the announcement in September, and a Youtube video to virtually ringing the NYSE Opening Bell (Kevin, and later, his 2.5-year-old son, Lucas, are in the right column, middle box).    
 
In response to COVID, Noa Lincoln (PhD '14) and colleagues have been developing virtual farm tours for elementary students, an addition to the series of educational videos done from several small grants about traditional foods and farms associated with the Hawai'i 'Ulu Producers Cooperative. The farm tours include both a 360º interactive farm tour, drone video fly through the farms, and a 3-5 minute vignette of the farm and farmers. Their specific farm (Mala Kalu'ulu Cooperative) focuses on restoring the traditional agroforestry system; what an agroforestry system is and why they are beneficial is spotlighted in their four-minute farm video. More videos can be found on their YouTube Channel.      
 
Becky Niemiec (PhD '18) was featured in the New York Times for her remarks on "Election 2020: The Wolf Vote" in Colorado. Read the full article here.
 
Tim Singer (MS-MD '18) has a piece in the American Academy of Pediatrics Voices blog on "Why I Turn Out the Lights in the Hospital." 
 
Tannis Thorlakson (PhD '18) was recently promoted to Senior Manager, Environment at the global berry company Driscoll's. In this role, Tannis leads the development and implementation of Driscoll's environmental strategy across the United States and Canada.
 

Awards & Honors awardsANDhonors
    
Nina Brooks (PhD 5th) and Casey Maue (PhD 6th) were awarded a graduate student fellowship this Fall from the Stanford King Center on Global Development.
 
Kiran Chawla (PhD 2nd) and teammates from the Stanford Energy Resources Engineering department (Tapas Peshin, Madalsa Singh, Sindhu Sreedhara, Fola Ayoola) have been awarded $3,000 cash prize for winning first place in the
United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE) case competition that took place virtually in August.
 
Shannon Switzer Swanson (PhD 6th) has been selected as the Mary Louise Remy Endowed P.E.O. International Scholar for 2020-21. Endowed awards are given to 16 of the 100 P.E.O Scholars selected each year by the foundation. See page 30 of the P.E.O magazine announcing Shannon's award. 
 
Publications & Presentations publicationsANDpresentations

Marilyn Cornelius (PhD '13) launched two poetry books on July 4, reaching a milestone of 20 books authored or co-authored and published through her company, Alchemus Prime, since it was founded in 2015.
 
 
  
  
  
Heaven is a New Earth: The Nature of Harmony delves into the relationship between humanity and nature, highlighting the need for compassion, love for diversity, and harmony with the Earth.  
 
 
 
 
 
High Priestess: Divine Feminine Rising contains poems about the need to balance inner feminine and masculine energies, and how this can harmonize individuals, relationships, and humanity as a whole. 
 
 
Marilyn is currently collaborating on the final two books in her leadership series, as well as another poetry volume.
 
 
Noa Lincoln (PhD '14) has released his second book through UH Press entitled
 
Noa also would like to share the following paper publications:
 
"Ecomimicry in Indigenous resource management: optimizing ecosystem services to achieve resource abundance, with examples from Hawai'i," in 
 
"Cultivation potential projections of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) under climate change scenarios using an empirically validated suitability model calibrated in Hawai'i," in PLoS One.
 
"Agroforestry form and ecological adaptation in ancient Hawai'i: Extent of the pākukui swidden system of Hāmākua, Hawai'i Island," in 
 
"The response of breadfruit nutrition to local climate and soil: A review," in 
 
"Tempo and Trajectory of the Built Landscape on Ta'u Island, Manu'a Group, American Samoa: Integrating extensive radiocarbon dating with joint posterior modeling," in
 Radiocarbon.
 
Rebecca Miller
 (PhD 3rd) published a paper on "Prescribed Burns in California: A Historical Case Study of the Integration of Scientific Research and Policy," in Fire. 
 
Kim Nicholas (PhD '09) and colleagues have published a study in OneEarth, "Billions in Misspent EU Agricultural Subsidies Could Support the Sustainable Development Goals," showing that nearly €27 billion per year in agricultural subsidies from the Common Agricultural Policy in the European Union is misspent, serving to increase income inequality, reward the farming regions with the most climate pollution and least biodiversity, and divert rural development funding to cities. In order for direct public spending to benefit the public good, they argue farm income support should be needs-based, and environmental payments should be results-based. A summary of their findings, "EU subsidies benefit big farms while underfunding greener and poorer plots - new research," is published in The Conversation.
 
Lauren Oakes (PhD '15) published an article on "How to plant the forests of the future" in Anthropocene Magazine. It ran in the special edition called "Relocation," about renovations related to climate change.
 
Marcela Ochoa (MS-MBA '16) published a paper, "Low-impact land use pathways to deep decarbonization of electricity," in Environmental Research Letters
 
Nik Sawe (PhD '15) published a paper in Frontiers in Communication on "Using Data Sonification to Overcome Science Literacy, Numeracy, Visualization Barriers in Science Communication."
 
Ranjitha Shivaram (PhD 2nd) published an article on "How clean energy jobs can power an equitable COVID-19 recovery" in Brookings.
 
Gemma Smith (PhD 2nd) has a new article, "Trade-offs across the water-energy-food nexus: A triple bottom line  sustainability assessment of desalination for agriculture in the San Quintin Valley, Mexico," in the journal Environmental Science & Policy. The article was written in collaboration with researchers from the Woods Institute, Bill Lane Center, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Mexico), and Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (Mexico). 
 
Shannon Switzer Swanson (PhD 6th) presented "Communities Behind the Lens: A review of visual participatory methods in biodiversity conservation," as part of the Community-Based Conservation, Ecosystem Services and Economics Session during the North American Congress for Conservation Biology (NACCB) virtual conference on July 27-31, 2020. 
 
Nicola Ulibarri (PhD '15) has published the following papers:
 
"Barriers and Opportunities for Beneficial Reuse of Sediment to Support Coastal Resilience," in Ocean & Coastal Management
 
"How does collaborative governance evolve? Insights from a medium-n case comparison," in Policy and Society
 
"Comparing Complexity in Watershed Governance: The Case of California," in Water. 
 
Contributors to this issue include:
Gabriela Magana, Maile Yee, Ann Marie Pettigrew, Nic Buckley Biggs,
Rachel Engstrand, Erica Bower, Bianca Santos, Ranjitha Shivaram 
 
 
Edited by:
The E-IPER Staff
 
 
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