education
Congratulations to Jonathan Proctor, who has been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association for 2020!
His dissertation, The Value of Light: Crop Response to Optical Scattering and Generalizable Earth Observation, examines the spectral distribution, directionality, and quantity of sunlight in association with human activity, lending insights into agriculture and productivity.
Dr. Mantis
Dr. Tamma Carleton has been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association!
Her dissertation examined the effects of climate change on the wellbeing of populations (e.g. effects of extreme heat and crop failure on suicide rates in India), and the extent to which they are able to use resources (e.g. groundwater) to adapt to those changes (sometimes adaptation gaps remain).
all grown up…
We are very proud that Jon Proctor will finally leave the bay area to do his postdoctoral work at Harvard!
Jon was awarded a fellowship at the Harvard University Center for the Environment and a fellowship at the Harvard Data Science Initiative, so he may never have to leave and get a real job.
old enough to do research
We are psyched that Julia Longmate will hanging around Berkeley to pursue her doctoral studies in the Energy Resources Group this coming Fall!
Julia has been a central team member on the Quantitative Sustainable Development Project, developing new methods to measure soil and topography value with econometrics, designing systems for identifying water pollution sources, and modeling nasty smells… We won’t miss Julia as much as Sandy, since we are confident she will come by to visit for the free snacks:) But we are still excited to see what comes next for Julia!
future Dr Sum!
We are very excited for Sandy Sum who will be heading to UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management in the Fall to pursue her doctoral studies!
Sandy has been a core team member on the Quantitative Sustainable Development Project for three years, developing new methods of valuing natural capital, modeling pasture growth econometrically, and developing new approaches for contingent valuation using revealed preferences, among many other things. We will miss her, but are very excited for her next big step!
Dr Kendon Bell
Kenny Bell has been awarded a Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship! The fellowship is one of (or maybe the) most prestigious in New Zealand and Kenny is the first economist to ever receive it!
Dr. Tamma Carleton has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management!
...but first she is going to enjoy a relaxing two year post doc in EPIC/Economics at the University of Chicago.
Gabe Englander was awarded the NMFS Sea Grant Fellowship to fund two years of his research on marine economics and fisheries population dynamics!
Dr. Jonathan Kadish has graduated and founded the Elastic Data Lab! We are very proud of this future GPL benefactor:)
Dr. Felipe González has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile!
The Lab is excited to welcome three summer interns from the DS421 program: Valerie Vasquez, Matt Kling, and Ian Bolliger!