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