Program
We're stoked to see you in Portland, Oregon for TWEEDS again!
Below is the planned schedule.
Location: All talks will be in the Gymnasium of the McMenamins Kennedy School at 5736 NE 33rd Ave in Portland.
We will provide breakfast and lunch both days (and, of course, lots of coffee/tea). There will also be a reception on Friday evening.
All times are Pacific.
Day 1: Friday, 25 April 2025
| 08:00am | Welcome, coffee, and social |
| 09:00am | Morgan Levy |
| Green space for heat adaptation: Spatial insights into ecohydrologic constraints | |
| 09:20am | Jonathan Proctor |
| Identifying climate-vulnerable populations using satellite imagery | |
| 09:40am | Ashwin Rode |
| The urban mortality consequences of rainfall and sea level rise | |
| 10:00am | Coffee/tea break |
| 10:30am | Gustavo Nino |
| Load it up: Economies of scale, market power, and natural disasters in ground freight transportation | |
| 10:50am | Allen Peters |
| Flexibility versus fundamentals: Blending machine learning and engineering in modeling maritime shipping emissions | |
| 11:10am | Catherine Courtier |
| Using vessel monitoring systems data to analyze the spatial distribution of the Pacific Salmon ocean troll fishery to changing ocean conditions on the West Coast | |
| 11:30am | Lunch |
| 01:00pm | Keynote: Jennifer Burney |
| 02:00pm | Short coffee/tea break |
| 02:15pm | Frederik Noack |
| Biodiversity's contribution to agricultural production | |
| 02:35pm | Joel Ferguson |
| Adaptation and the gains from factor reallocation: Evidence from Minnesota and Wisconsin farmland transactions | |
| 02:55pm | Short coffee/tea break |
| 03:10pm | Lightning talks, vol. 1 (11 x 5 min) |
| 04:05pm | Food, drinks, party |
| 07:00pm+ | Night on the town (or go to bed) |
Day 2: Saturday, 26 April 2025
| 08:00am | Welcome back, coffee, and social |
| 09:00am | Panel: Causal inference w/ predicted data (5 talks + Q&A) |
| SayedMorteza Malaekeh | |
| A multimodal causal framework for large-scale ecosystem valuation: Application to wetland benefits for flood mitigation | |
| Kerri Lu | |
| Regression coefficient estimation from remote sensing maps | |
| Luke Sanford | |
| Elevating spatial evaluation: Satellite-driven confounder adjustment | |
| Andrew Dickinson | |
| Environmental prediction for diverse contexts | |
| Dan Kluger | |
| A generalizable approach to prediction-powered inference | |
| 10:30am | Long coffee/tea break |
| 11:10am | Nilesh Shinde |
| Beyond the canopy: How satellite data resolution influences policy evaluation and deforestation behavior | |
| 11:30am | Lunch | 12:50pm | Lightning talks, vol. 2 (10 x 5 min) |
| 01:40pm | Coffee/tea break |
| 02:00pm | Marissa Childs |
| Growing wildfire-derived PM2.5 across the contiguous U.S. and implications for air quality regulation | |
| 02:20pm | Brooke Fitzgerald |
| Estimating the global cost of smoke plume exposure using machine learning | |
| 02:40pm | Junho Choi |
| Bitcoin bites: Ambient pollution and labor market outcomes in Pennsylvania | |
| 03:00pm | Short coffee/tea break |
| 03:15pm | James Rising |
| Reductions in economic outcomes due to climate change today | |
| 03:35pm | Maren Ludwig |
| The global fresh water costs of climate change in agriculture | |
| 04:00pm | The end. ❤️ |
Programs from previous iterations: 2019 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023
Please contact Ed Rubin with any additional questions.