This week, ARE PhD candidate Bruno Pimenta gave an Exit Seminar in the lab, designed to summarize his dissertation research, describe his research journey, and give the lab a preview of his future research agenda.
Bruno entered the ARE PhD program in 2020 and has been a regular member of the lab since 2022. Before coming to Davis, he completed a master's degree at the University of São Paulo. Following graduation, he will join Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher, studying the electrification of supply chains with renewable energy.
This week, ARE PhD candidate Kyumin Kim presented his ongoing work, entitled "Balancing multiple interventions for dynamically efficient kelp forest restoration under marine heatwave uncertainty."
This week, Sam Evans presented in the Lab. Sam is a research economist in the Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) at CAL FIRE. He is part of the agency's risk and hazard mitigation branch and also does work on California's timber and forest products sectors. Sam provided an overview of the program, the use of applied research in the agency, the need for more economics, and opportunities for funding and collaboration.
This week, ARE PhD candidate Will Troske presented his ongoing work on the behavioral response of commercial shipping firms to sulfur emissions regulations.
This week, ARE PhD candidate Kelly Wu presented her ongoing work, entitled "Spatial, temporal, and cross-fishery adaptation in the U.S. West Coast Dungeness Crab Fishery." This work is motivated by the fact that climate shocks increasingly disrupt coastal fisheries. Kelly and coauthors examine how fishermen respond to climate shocks in the U.S. West Coast Dungeness crab fishery, where Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) increasingly trigger fishery closures.
This week, the Lab hosted a two-part seminar. First, Gal Koss presented on best practices for data visualization, graphing, and plotting. Gal discussed Edward Tufte and seminal work The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, the Coolors palette generator tool, and how to avoid "chartjunk." Some data visualization resources from Gal are attached at the end of this post.
