Events

• Abstract: The Columbia Climate School Postdoctoral Research Program is unique in its mission to train a generation of professionals equipped to address some of the world's most urgent problems. The symposium will highlight the work of current Postdoctoral Researchers: Kevin Schwarzwald, Ariana Salas Castillo, Peterson Faina, and Amel Derras Chouk.

Speakers’ presentations:

• Kevin Schwarzwald, “Standard approaches for projecting the socioeconomic impacts of climate change substantially underestimate the spread of future risk”
• Ariana Salas Castillo, “The Political Economy of Top-Down Bus Reforms: Evidence from Costa Rica’s Greater Metropolitan Area and Santiago, Chile”
• Peterson Faina, “Explaining variation in hydroclimate from the Last Glacial Maximum through the Common Era in Southern Madagascar's subarid bioclimatic zone"
• Amel Derras Chouk, “How fast are thunderstorm updrafts?”

• Moderators: Suzana Camargo, Professor of Climate; Co-Director of the Postdoctoral Program, and Michael Puma, Professor of Climate; Co-Director of the Postdoctoral Program.