2015 Gradfest Program

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9:00     Breakfast and Registration

9:30     Opening remarks by Dean Keith Gilless

9:40     Finishing talk by Rebecca Sandidge – Ant diets in Indonesian savanna landscapes. Introduction by Neil Tsutsui.

10:00   Finishing talk by Daniel Lavelle – Oil, Land and Food: Food Sovereignty and Agrarian Reform in Venezuela. Introduction by Claudia Carr.

10:20   Finishing talk by Joshua Dimon – Capital and Catches: Environmental Governance and Coastal Livelihoods in the Emergent Gas Fields of Mozambique. Introduction by Claudia Carr.

10:40   Finishing talk by Thomas Poorten – Genomic approaches to confront disease-caused amphibian declines. Introduction by Erica Bree Rosenblum.

11:00   A Conversation with Mark Bittman – An extended Q&A with Mark Bittman, award-winning food journalist and NY Times columnist

12:00   Lunch on the terrace

1:00     Remarks by the Graduate Diversity Council (GDC) – Engaging and Cultivating Diversity of Scholars and Scholarship in ESPM

1:20     Finishing talk by Hannah Doll – Utilizing novel diversity estimators to quantify multiple dimensions of microbial biodiversity across domains. Introduction by Matthew Potts.

1:40     Finishing talk by Jimmy Tran – Market-based policy instruments for advancing clean energy access in the Global South. Introduction by Dara O’Rourke.

2:00     Finishing talk by Erik Oerter – Weather from a stone: 120,000 years of North American climate history revealed by soil carbonate. Introduction by Ronald Amundson.

2:20     Finishing talk by Manisha Anantharaman – Re-Cycling Class: The environmental politics of Bangalore’s new middle classes. Introduction by Alastair Iles.

2:40     Finishing talk by Margot Higgins – From Copper to Conservation: Prospecting for New Imaginaries in Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve. Introduction by Carolyn Finney.

3:00     Break

3:20     Finishing talk by Karen Andrade – Of microbes and humans: the road to the UC Berkeley Science Shop. Introduction by Alastair Iles.

3:40     Finishing talk by Lauren Hallett – Causes and consequences of “grass” versus “forb” years in California rangelands. Introduction by Loralee Larios.

4:00     Finishing talk by Esther Conrad – Building capacity for integrated water management: collaborative governance in California’s Integrated Regional Water Management process. Introduction by Jeffrey Romm.

4:20     Finishing talk by Katie Fiorella – Declining Fish Catch and Human Health Around Lake Victoria, Kenya. Introduction by Justin Brashares.

4:40     Finishing talk by Alasdair Cohen – Health and environmental impacts of household water treatment in rural China. Introduction by Jeffrey Romm.

5:00     ESPM Awards Ceremony

5:30     Cocktail hour on the terrace

6:30     Music & dancing

10:00   Festivities come to a close