Sessions Schedule

The schedule including list of attendees can be downloaded as pdf here.

All sessions will be in Room 1512, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

Format of presentations:

  • Short presentations (15 mins, questions included)
  • Long presentations (30 mins, questions included)
  • Speed talks (5 mins)

Saturday, October 19

8:00 – 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 AM Welcome and Introductions

9:00 – 10:00 AM Discuss the direction of the Sustainable Development field
10:00 – 10:15 AM Coffee Break
10:15 AM -12:05 PM Research Presentations:

  • “Is long term price insurance valuable to consumers? Evidence from the retail electricity market” – Sherry Xueting Wang
  • “Does Self-Reporting Measure Up? Environmental Misreporting in the Bakken” – Ruiwen Lee
  • “Characterizing intermittent-only Electricity markets with grid-scale Storage” – Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy
  • “Sources of geographic health disparities across the United States: Evidence from migrating veterans” – Aaron Baum

12:05 – 12:50 PM Lunch

12:50 – 1:20 Speed Talks
1:20 – 2:40 Research Presentations:

  • “Dynamic Integrated Climate Economy Model with an Endogenous Mortality Response” – Danny Bressler
  • “The Influence of International Migration on Interstate Conflict” – Timothy Foreman
  • “Mapping the Response of Population Movements to Hurricane Harvey with Cellphone GPS Location Data” – Stephanie Lackner
  • “Characterizing the contribution of high temperatures to sustained child undernourishment” – Jesse Anttila-Hughes

2:40 – 2:55 Coffee Break
2:55 – 4:30 Research Presentations:

  • “Rhyme and Reason: Developing a model of the characteristic evolution of US interests” – James Rising
  • “Informal risk sharing to mitigate local environmental risks” – Prabhat Barnwal
  • “Embedded countermovements: How societies govern (or not) Amazon development” – José Carlos Orihuela

4:30 – 4:45 Coffee Break
4:45 – 5:35 Research Presentations:

  • “Sensitivity of Tree Growth to Extreme Degree Days Across the Continental United States” – Joséphine Gantois
  • “Agriculture, Water, and Machine Learning: Served Two Ways” – Matt Harrington
  • “On the location of wind farms” – Raimundo Atal

5:35 – 6:15 Discussion on staying connected

7:00 PM Dinner at TBD

With the support of the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in the City of New York

Organizing Committee: Kimberly Oremus, Amir Jina, Andrew Wilson, Sandra Aguilar Gomez