Program
We will meet remotely via Zoom on 29–30 October 2020.
All times are Pacific (i.e., PDT).
Standard talks are 12 minutes with 3 minutes for Q&A.
Blocks of 2–3 talks are followed by 15 additional minutes for Q&A.
Lightning talks are 5 minutes each.
Thursday, 29 October 2020
| 09:00am | Welcome/coffee/social |
| 09:15am | Marshall Burke |
| Sustainable development from space | |
| 09:30am | Peiley Lau |
| Identifying environmental misreporting from space: Evidence from natural gas flaring in the Bakken Shale | 09:45am | Post-talk Q&A |
| 10:00am | Break |
| 10:15am | Keynote: Seema Jayachandran |
| Crop residue burning in India | |
| 10:45am | Break |
| 11:00am | Jennifer Alix-Garcia |
| Remotely Incorrect? | |
| 11:15am | Brian Clough |
| Lessons learned from building SilviaTerra Basemap, a first of its kind forest data product for the United States | 11:30am | Post-talk Q&A |
| 11:45am | Break/lunch |
| 12:15pm | Brian Sullivan |
| Moving from peta-pixels to things. Increasing transparency through ML and Data Science | |
| 12:30pm | David Kroodsma |
| Tracking the Actual Footprint of Fisheries: Fusing Radar and Vessel Telemetry Data to Reveal Global Vessel Traffic | |
| 12:45pm | Renato Molina |
| The value of improving hurricane forecasts | |
| 01:00pm | Post-talk Q&A |
| 01:15pm | Break |
| 01:30pm | Lightning round #1 |
| 02:15pm | Happy hour |
Friday, 30 October 2020
| 09:00am | Fiona Burlig |
| Groundwater, energy, and crop choice | |
| 09:15am | Morgan Levy |
| Water demand, land subsidence, and groundwater: Exploring data-driven approaches to freshwater sustainability challenges | |
| 09:30am | Rhiannon Jerch |
| The Local Benefits of Federal Mandates: Evidence from the Clean Water Act | 09:45am | Post-talk Q&A |
| 10:00am | Break |
| 10:15am | Nicholas Koch |
| Machine Learning from Big GPS Data about the Costs of Congestion | |
| 10:30am | Andrew Waxman |
| Transportation Policies, Urban Structure, and Equilibrium Sorting | |
| 10:45am | Adam Millard-Ball |
| Street-network sprawl, worldwide | |
| 11:00am | Post-talk Q&A |
| 11:15am | Break |
| 11:30am | James Archsmith |
| Adjustment on the margin: Evaluating emissions reduction policies in the face of short-run adjustment costs | |
| 11:45am | Zane Selvans |
| Clouds and PUDLs: a JupyterHub for Energy Systems Analysis | |
| 12:00pm | Post-talk Q&A |
| 12:15pm | Break/lunch |
| 12:45pm | Nicholas Potter |
| Reproducible Geoprocessing of Agricultural, Climate, and Land Use Data at Scale with R | |
| 01:00pm | A. Patrick Behrer |
| Earth, Wind, and Fire: The impact of anti-poverty efforts on Indian agriculture and air pollution | |
| 01:15pm | Post-talk Q&A | 01:30pm | Break |
| 01:45pm | Lightning round #2 |
| 02:30pm | Happy hour |
Please contact Ed Rubin with any additional questions.