9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:30 Opening remarks
9:40 Finishing talk by Sara Knox – Impacts of land-use change and ecological restoration on greenhouse gas fluxes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, CA. Introduction by Dennis Baldocchi.
10:00 Finishing talk by Stella Cousins – Consequences of chronic air pollution in California forests.
Introduction by John Battles.
10:20 Finishing talk by Gavin McNicol – What’s in a wetland’s breath? Composition and controls of greenhouse gas emissions from a restored wetland in the Sacramento Delta. Introduction by Whendee Silver.
10:40 Finishing talk by Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes – Blurring boundaries of informality through precise mapping in Rio de Janeiro. Introduction by Rachel Morello-Frosch.
11:00 Keynote Address by Susana Crespo, Agriculture Industry Manager, ESRI – Pencils to Pixels: Lessons Learned from Blending Tradition and Tech for Agriculture.
12:00 Lunch in Atrium
The ESPM Graduate Research Symposium is an annual event in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management that celebrates and showcases graduate student research. This year’s day-long symposium will be held on May 3, 2012 at the David Brower Center, located at 2150 Allston Way in Berkeley. The day’s events include finishing talks from graduating ESPM PhD students, a keynote presentation from food sovereignty activist Malik Yakini, round-table discussions lead by the Graduate Diversity Council, a UC Berkeley Extension Specialist round-table discussion, the ESPM graduate student awards ceremony, and an evening reception with music from the Nepantler@s. 1:00 Finishing talk by Hekia Bodwitch – Property is not sovereignty: indigenous rights and market-environmentalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand’s fisheries. Introduction by Nancy Peluso.
We hope to see you there!
Thank you to our sponsors: The UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly, the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources, and the Berkeley Center for Diversified Farming Systems.
1:20 Finishing talk by Esther Kim – From Environmental Justice to Green Gentrification: The Politics of Place and Restoration of Post-Industrial Landscapes in Los Angeles. Introduction by Jeff Romm.
1:40 Finishing talk by Anne Murray – Plant derived small molecules, the effects of Persicaria odorata essential oil on tyrosinase. Introduction by Tina Mendez.
2:00 Finishing talk by Kari Finstad – Geochemical processes and distribution of microbial communities in the hyperarid region of the Atacama Desert. Introduction by Ron Amundson.
2:20 Afternoon Break
2:40 Panel Discussion – Career Paths of Recent ESPM Graduates
- Claire Gupta ‘12 – Assistant Public Policy Specialist in Cooperative Extension, UC Davis
- Erica Spotswood ’11 – Applied Ecologist, San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI)
- Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes ‘16 – finishing Ph.D. student, upcoming NIH post-doctoral fellow, and starting in Fall 2017, Assistant Professor of Urban Geography and Environmental Justice at Pomona College
- Melissa Eitzel Solera ’14 – NSF SEES Postdoctoral Fellow, Science and Justice Research Center, UC Santa Cruz and The Muonde Trust, Zimbabwe
3:30 ESPM Awards Ceremony
4:00 Social event begins
6:00 Festivities come to a close