Program

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. ❤️

Get in touch if you'd like to do something after (brewery, hike, etc.).

Programs from previous iterations: 2019 | 2020 | 2022 | 2023

Please contact with any additional questions.