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SUMMARY: Geography Colloquium Series – Jon Proctor
DESCRIPTION: Speaker: Jon Proctor Assistant Professor – Land and Food Syst
ems\, University of British Columbia Talk title: Identifying climate-vulner
able populations using satellite imagery Talk Abstract: Understanding how c
limate hazards like extreme heat and flooding influence human wellbeing is
critical for preparing societies for climate change. Yet empirical estimate
s of how vulnerability to climate hazards differs across […]
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Speaker:
Jon Proctor
Assistant Professor - Land and Food Systems\, University of British Columbia<
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Talk title:
Identifying climate-vulnerable populations using satellite imagery<
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Talk Abstract:
Understanding how climate hazards like extreme heat
and flooding influence human wellbeing is critical for preparing societies
for climate change. Yet empirical estimates of how vulnerability to climat
e hazards differs across populations is limited by both a lack of knowledge
about and data on determinants of climate vulnerability. Here\, we leverag
e the rich and diverse information within high resolution optical satellite
imagery to predict local climate vulnerability in the U.S. and globally. I
ncluding imagery information into empirical models of how temperature and m
oisture influence agricultural productivity\, how temperature influences hu
man mortality and how flood depth damages buildings\, improves model predic
tions of historic damages from climate hazards and reveals substantial loca
l differences in climate vulnerability and resilience.
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peaker Bio:
Jon Proctor is an assistant professor in Food and Resource Economics in the Facul
ty of Land and Food Systems at UBC. Jon is
an environmental economist and scientist with a background in agronomy\, c
limate science\, remote sensing\, and machine learning.
Jon did his
PhD in Agriculture a
nd Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2019\, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Data Science In
itiative and the Center for the Environment.
Jon’s research group<
/span> 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 hi
gh resolution imagery
can be used to measure socio-environmental conditions.
This is hybrid event hosted in Geog 229 and on zoom.
Meeting ID: 669 3222 9
867
Passcode: 904698
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