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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.
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