Speaker:
Jon Proctor
Assistant Professor – Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia
Talk title:
Anthropogenic impacts on climate and global socio-environmental systems: predicting crop growth and leveraging high resolution imagery to measure socio-environmental conditions
Speaker Bio:
Jon Proctor is an assistant professor in Food and Resource Economics in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at UBC. Jon is an environmental economist and scientist with a background in agronomy, climate science, remote sensing, and machine learning.
Jon did his PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2019, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Data Science Initiative and the Center for the Environment.
Jon’s research group develops and applies new methods to empirically estimate anthropogenic impacts on climate and, in turn, on global socio-environmental systems. They explore how light, water, and temperature jointly determine crop growth and how high resolution imagery can be used to measure socio-environmental conditions.
This is hybrid event hosted in Geog 229 and on zoom.
