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Solomon Hsiang
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!
A collaboration between the New York Times data viz team and the Climate Impact Lab was released today, allowing visitors to explore how much their local climate has changed since the year they were born and how it is projected to change in the future.
Jon Proctor, Solomon Hsiang, and coauthors published a study in Nature estimating the effect of solar radiation management (SRM) on global agricultural production. The paper exploits the historical eruption of massive volcanoes that inject sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to understand the effect of changing light conditions on crop yields. The paper finds that benefits from cooling, the intended effect of SRM, are fully offset by harm to yields via shading.
Read the study ungated here.
A resource page for the article is here.
Press release here.
Visualization of the stratospheric sulfate aerosols injected into the atmosphere after the eruption of Mt Pinatubo. Each frame is a month. Visualization by Jon Proctor & Solomon Hsiang.
Greg Ip discussed our research into the global economic costs of excess mortality risk caused by climate change in his recent Wall Street Journal column.
The research covered in the article is output from the Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration between the GPL at Berkeley, EPIC at U Chicago, The Rutgers Earth System Science & Policy Lab, and the Rhodium Group.
Credit: Wall Street Journal
Felipe González, Patrick Baylis, Solomon Hsiang and colleagues published an article in Nature Climate Change demonstrating that higher temperatures increase suicide rates across the entire United States and Mexico.
Read the article here.
NPR Marketplace's Jed Kim reported on the Social Cost of Carbon research program at the Climate Impact Lab.
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:)
Despite our best efforts to keep him here, we said farewell and good luck to Terin Mayer as he sets off to do his PhD at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at University of Minnesota!