Program
We're stoked to see you in Portland, Oregon for TWEEDS this year!
Below you will find our planned schedule.
Location: All talks will be in the Billy Frank Jr. Room of the Ecotrust Events Building at 721 NW 9th Avenue in Portland.
We will serve breakfast and lunch both days immediately outside the Billy Frank Jr. Room. There will also be a reception on Friday evening on the rooftop of the Ecotrust building.
All times are Pacific.
Friday, 15 September 2023
| 08:30am | Welcome, coffee, and social |
| 09:00am | Eliana Stone and Megan Ayers |
| Remote control: Debiasing remote sensing predictions for causal inference | |
| 09:20am | Jonathan Proctor |
| Global high-resolution estimates of the United Nations Human Development Index using satellite imagery and machine learning | |
| 09:40am | Andy Hultgren |
| The global inequality implications of climate change: Evidence from high resolution impacts estimates | |
| 10:00am | Coffee/tea break |
| 10:30am | Irene Jacqz |
| The persistent effects of a novel toxic pollutant | |
| 10:50am | Andrew Wilson |
| Simultaneous measurement of health damage from transboundary and domestic air pollution in mixture | |
| 11:10am | Laura Grant |
| Do water groups mitigate free-riding in transboundary pollution? | |
| 11:30am | Lunch |
| 01:00pm | Keynote: Peter Christensen |
| How will economics + data science inform decarbonization policy? Lessons from the buildings sector | |
| 02:00pm | Short coffee/tea break |
| 02:15pm | Lightning talks, vol. 1 (9 x 5 min) |
| 03:00pm | Coffee/tea break |
| 03:30pm | Dennis Engist |
| The impact of genetically modified crops on bird diversity | |
| 03:50pm | Kelsey Johnson |
| Estimating the economic benefits of conservation policies for threatened species: A case study of riparian buffer rules and salmon | |
| 04:15pm | Short break |
| 04:30pm | Emmett Saulnier |
| Optimal subsidies for residential solar | |
| 04:50pm | Daniel Bigelow |
| The impact of urban growth boundaries on development density and housing prices | |
| 05:10pm | Food, drinks, party |
| On the roof of the Ecotrust building | |
| 09:00pm | Night on the town (or go to bed) |
Saturday, 16 September 2023
| 08:30am | Welcome back, coffee, and social |
| 09:30am | Amanda Ang |
| Climate change, population density and the incidence of US wildfires | |
| 09:50am | Chris Malloy |
| The consequences of wildfire liability for firm precaution: Evidence from power shutoffs in California | |
| 10:10am | Iván Higuera-Mendieta |
| A table is worth a thousand pictures: Multi-modal contrastive learning in house burning classification in wildfire events | |
| 10:30am | Coffee/tea break |
| 11:00am | Lightning talks, vol. 2 (9 x 5 min) |
| 11:45am | Lunch |
| 01:15pm | Joséphine Gantois |
| The value of disaster prevention: The desert locust | |
| 01:35pm | Hannah Druckenmiller |
| Willingness to pay for flood-resistant homes | |
| 02:00pm | Coffee/tea break |
| 02:30pm | Panel: Tamma Carleton, Peter Christensen, Grant McDermott |
| TWEEDS in practice: A roundtable on data and lab Management | |
| 03:30pm | The end. ❤️ |
| Get in touch if you're interested in grabbing drinks or a hike. |
Programs from previous iterations: 2019 | 2020 | 2022
Please contact Ed Rubin with any additional questions.