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GPL turns 4! /May 8, 2018 by Solomon Hsiang

We celebrated our fourth year of research and office basketball with some Chinese food!

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Huang to Waymo

Lau to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Englander to UCSB Postdoc and World Bank

Aerial History Project Receives Bank of Sweden Grant

Hultgren to UChicago Postdoc

Bolliger to Rhodium Group

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Hsiang Awarded 2020 Carnegie Fellowship

Proctor wins AAEA Dissertation Award

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Carleton awarded AAEA Dissertation Award

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Proctor to Harvard Post Doc

Julia Longmate GPL

Longmate to UC Berkeley PhD Program

Sum to UCSB Bren PhD Program

Bell awarded Rutherford Foundation Fellowship

Data viz collaboration with NYT on extreme heat

Data viz collaboration with NYT on extreme heat

Publication: measuring effects of geoengineering on agriculture using volcanoes

Publication: measuring effects of geoengineering on agriculture using volcanoes

WSJ economics column on mortality costs of climate change

WSJ economics column on mortality costs of climate change

NPR Marketplace feature on Social Cost of carbon research

NPR Marketplace feature on Social Cost of carbon research

Carleton to Chicago & UCSB

Carleton to Chicago & UCSB

Englander Awarded Sea Grant

Englander Awarded Sea Grant

Kadish founds data science start up

Kadish founds data science start up

2023
- Sep 18, 2023 MOSAIKS announced winner of the SDG Digital GameChangers Award
2021
- Jun 30, 2021 sébastien, Xio Hui, Shikhar, Sol, and Josh Coauthor Scientific Reports Paper on COVID-19 and Mobility
- Jun 28, 2021 Welcome to new Postdoc Sherrie
- Jun 17, 2021 Summer Lab Meetup 2021!
- May 15, 2021 Huang to Waymo
- May 15, 2021 Lau to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- May 15, 2021 Englander to UCSB Postdoc and World Bank
- Mar 19, 2021 Proctor Publishes Atmospheric Opacity Paper in Nature Food
- Feb 26, 2021 Hsiang Coauthors Nature Perspectives Article
- Jan 21, 2021 GPL COVID-19 paper listed as one of Altmetric's top 100 articles of 2020
- Jan 15, 2021 Kelton Presents Working Paper at AMS
- Jan 4, 2021 Welcome new GPL Fellows!
2020
- Dec 18, 2020 Celebrating The End of Fall Semester!
- Dec 17, 2020 Bolliger Coauthors AGU Paper
- Dec 15, 2020 Quantitative Sustainable Dev. Project Contributes to UNDP Report
- Nov 29, 2020 Aerial History Project Receives Bank of Sweden Grant
- Nov 12, 2020 Hsiang Presents at SF Fed
- Aug 31, 2020 Welcome new GSRs!
- Aug 27, 2020 Hultgren to UChicago Postdoc
- Aug 27, 2020 Bolliger to Rhodium Group
- Aug 10, 2020 Doctoral Fellow Applications Now Open
- Aug 4, 2020 Bloomberg Covers NBER Mortality Paper
- Aug 3, 2020 Welcome Visiting Student Researcher Kelton!
- Jul 15, 2020 Hsiang Awarded GSA President's Medal
- Jun 29, 2020 First Street Foundation Publishes GPL Flood Data
- May 12, 2020 Hsiang Awarded 2020 Carnegie Fellowship
- May 5, 2020 Proctor wins AAEA Dissertation Award
- Feb 21, 2020 Englander presents at Columbia Sustainable Development Seminar
- Feb 4, 2020 UC Berkeley Climate Economics Workshop 2020
2019
- Dec 10, 2019 GPL celebrates another semester!
- Oct 30, 2019 Tidal flooding, hurricane risk grow along New Jersey coast, new study finds
- Oct 21, 2019 International boundaries keep out unauthorized fishing if the price is right, new study finds
- Sep 30, 2019 Climate Impact Lab teams up with Nike on "Move to Zero" campaign
- May 17, 2019 Carleton awarded AAEA Dissertation Award
- Apr 30, 2019 Proctor to Harvard Post Doc
- Apr 30, 2019 Longmate to UC Berkeley PhD Program
- Apr 30, 2019 Sum to UCSB Bren PhD Program
2018
- Nov 1, 2018 Bell awarded Rutherford Foundation Fellowship
- Aug 30, 2018 Data viz collaboration with NYT on extreme heat
- Aug 10, 2018 Publication: measuring effects of geoengineering on agriculture using volcanoes
- Aug 1, 2018 WSJ economics column on mortality costs of climate change
- Jul 23, 2018 Publication: Warming increases suicides in the USA and Mexico
- Jul 18, 2018 NPR Marketplace feature on Social Cost of carbon research
- Jul 1, 2018 Carleton to Chicago & UCSB
- Jun 20, 2018 Englander Awarded Sea Grant
- Jun 6, 2018 First GPL mini conference
- Jun 1, 2018 Kadish founds data science start up
- May 30, 2018 Hsiang speaks at Climate One
- May 14, 2018 Mayer to Minnesota Phd program
- May 8, 2018 GPL turns 4!
- Apr 20, 2018 Publication: letter on Ivory trade policy in Science
- Mar 29, 2018 Comment in Nature: Climate and conflict research can support policy decision-making
- Feb 1, 2018 USA Climate Damages listed as one of Altmetric's top 100 articles of 2017
- Jan 19, 2018 Hsiang speaks at National Academy of Science
- Jan 8, 2018 Publication: Effect of Temperature on Math performance and learning
2017
- Nov 20, 2017 Paper: Pricing climate
- Nov 9, 2017 Hsiang Keynote at World Congress of Science Journalists
- Oct 2, 2017 Paper: The Distribution of Environmental Damages
- Sep 29, 2017 Op-Ed in the New York Times: Economic consequences of Hurricane Maria
- Jul 31, 2017 Publication: Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India
- Jun 29, 2017 Publication: Climate Damage in the United States
- Jun 26, 2017 Carleton named 30 under 30 by Pacific Standard
- Jun 22, 2017 Climate Impact Lab Interactive Maps Launch + NYT Feature
- Jun 19, 2017 Rising to LSE
- Jun 19, 2017 Bell to Landcare Research
- Jun 19, 2017 González to PUC Chile
- Jan 9, 2017 Obama cites GPL climate economics research
- Jan 2, 2017 Paper: Understanding farmer crop choice in response to climate change
- Jan 1, 2017 Paper: Non-linear network behavior of protesters during escalating social movements
2016
- Nov 5, 2016 Kavli Fellows meet at National Academy of Sciences
- Oct 19, 2016 Discussing the future of energy at MIT
- Oct 1, 2016 Op-Ed in the Guardian: Would a legal ivory trade save elephants?
- Sep 8, 2016 Publication: Social and economic impacts of climate
- Sep 1, 2016 Documentary movie on climate as a cause of conflict
- Aug 19, 2016 Berkeley Opportunity Lab web launch
- Aug 16, 2016 Hsiang at MIT's EmTech
- Aug 15, 2016 Paper: Attendance distorts standardized test scores
- Jul 3, 2016 How far has policy research come in 3000 years?
- Jun 25, 2016 Kadish awarded land use grant
- Jun 22, 2016 NYT Editorial Board cites GPL research on ivory regulation
- Jun 14, 2016 Paper: Effects of legalization on black markets
- Jun 10, 2016 Publication: Potentially extreme migration and population concentration in the tropics
- Jun 7, 2016 Publication: Conflict in a changing climate
- Jun 6, 2016 Kadish awarded urban economics grant
- Jun 2, 2016 CBO cites two GPL publications in national hurricane report
- Jun 1, 2016 DS421 summer interns join lab
- May 24, 2016 Video: Empirical climate damages at the National Academy of Science
- May 5, 2016 Climate Impact Lab web launch
- Apr 14, 2016 Publication: Climate Econometrics
- Mar 1, 2016 Carleton awarded EPA STAR Fellowship
- Feb 22, 2016 Baylis to Stanford and UBC
- Feb 1, 2016 Temperature-growth findings listed as one of Altmetric's top 100 articles of 2015
2015
- Dec 17, 2015 Op-Ed in the LA Times: What do we actually know about conflict and climate
- Nov 22, 2015 Letter in Wall Street Journal
- Sep 21, 2015 Op-Ed in the Guardian
- Sep 8, 2015 Publication: Drug Trafficking Organizations and Local Economic Activity in Mexico
- Sep 1, 2015 Proctor awarded machine learning grant
- Aug 24, 2015 Successful team visit to NZ Maori Trust
- Aug 14, 2015 First Summer Workshop in Climate Economics
- Aug 4, 2015 Book published on economic risk of climate change
- Jul 1, 2015 González et al. awarded development grant
- May 20, 2015 Obama cites climate-conflict research
- Apr 6, 2015 NSF awards Berkeley Data Science Research Traineeship
- Mar 19, 2015 Op-Ed in Reuters
- Feb 19, 2015 Keynote at Strata + Hadoop
- Feb 3, 2015 GPL Research shapes 2016 US Federal budget
2014
- Dec 15, 2014 Typhoon research awarded Chart Of The Year
- Jun 24, 2014 Report on the Economic Risks of Climate Change
- Apr 30, 2014 Keynote address at RMS Exceedence
- Jan 15, 2014 Climate-conflict findings listed as one of Discover's top 100 Science stories in 2013
2013
- Dec 11, 2013 Science for Solutions Award
- Aug 30, 2013 Op-Ed in New York Times Sunday Review