Dear LFS graduate students,
We will be interviewing 3 candidates for the position of Assistant Professor in Food and Resource Economics (1 of 3 positions awarded from the President’s Academic Excellence Initiative), starting January 13. We would like to invite you to attend the LFS Graduate Student Roundtables, as listed below. You are also invited to attend their research and teaching seminars. These will all be done online. We hope that you will be able to attend and to provide feedback on these candidates. A copy of the advertisement can be found here.
Colette Salemi, PhD candidate, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
Colette Salemi is an applied microeconomist conducting research at the intersection of environmental and resource economics and development economics. She will complete her PhD in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota in Spring 2022. Colette uses geospatial data and household microdata to examine the impacts of conflict and forced displacement, especially in relation to food and natural resources. For example, Colette’s ongoing research on refugee camps in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh evaluates how camp openings affect land use, forest cover, and the nutritional status of local communities. Colette is also interested in sustainability challenges related to refugee encampment, the climate-conflict nexus, and studies of environmental conservation and ecosystem services.
Research Seminar: Hungry hosts? Refugee camps and host community nutritional outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa
January 13, 3:30-5:00pm
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5wtd-Ghpz0iGdVIl7xcXL_Wiu3sqGybfayb
Teaching Seminar: Beyond Maps: Introduction to Geocomputation
January 14, 2:00-3:00pm
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5UvduyurzsrEtJu7AZtOiBkqOqnDjy9PKLh
LFS Grad Student Roundtable
January 13, 2:00-2:45pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69655595286?pwd=UkE3aWtaU08wbUc1UXpLR0RuRVNzZz09
Meeting ID: 696 5559 5286
Passcode: 803255
Dora Zsuzsanna Simon, Assistant Professor, University of Stavanger, Business School
Dora Simon started as an Assistant Professor in September 2021 at the University of Stavanger Business School in Norway. Her main fields are International Trade and Environmental Economics, focusing on the agricultural sector. She finished her Ph.D. in 2021 at the University of Zurich.
Research Seminar: To Beef or Not To Beef: Trade, Meat, and the Environment
January 17, 12:00-1:30pm
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5clc-2trj0iGNHK_KJXC6IkJ-XpT8lzYVKM
Teaching Seminar: Emerging tools for Data Analysis in Economics
January 18, 9:00-10:00am
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Aode2hrTgqE9cOhGrJizbHhmqhGHS81Uil
LFS Grad Student Roundtable
January 17, 9:30-9:45am
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/63234929123?pwd=SjdUdzZBTHVZbk81RVJOaUVZVlpUdz09
Meeting ID: 632 3492 9123
Passcode: 331169
Jonathan Proctor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Center for the Environment and Data Science Initiative
Jonathan Proctor is an environmental economist with a background in agronomy, climate science, remote sensing and machine learning. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow jointly at the Harvard Data Science Initiative and the Center for the Environment. He received his PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2019. He develops and applies new methods to empirically estimate anthropogenic impacts on climate and, in turn, on global socio-environmental systems. He is particularly fascinated by how light, water and temperature jointly determine crop growth, and how high resolution satellite imagery can be used to measure socio-environmental conditions.
Research Seminar: Accurate specification of water availability shows its importance for global crop production
January 24, 3:30-5:00pm
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Yqfu6qpjIjHdEeoTgnkkdRBlcLhNdIw6oT
Teaching Seminar: Emerging tools for Data Analysis in Economics: Satellite Remote Sensing
January 25, 2:00-3:00pm
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5IldOCrpj0iE9a0W2S1BF5nLUn_EGblTig8
LFS Grad Student Roundtable
January 24, 1:00-1:45pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69661550759?pwd=QUdGdjdYdzlKSFo4d2puRW4rNmg4UT09
Meeting ID: 696 6155 0759
Passcode: 198029
Melanie Train
Human Resources Manager-Faculty | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
248-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Phone 604-822-3105 | Fax 604-822-6394
Email: melanie.train@ubc.ca
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