Talks on environmental flows and flood displacement by former and current PhD students
1230-2pm, Rm 315A Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley

Evaluating Environmental Flows in the Central Valley Under Various Management Scenarios by Sooyeon Yi, UC Berkeley post-doc, and Assistant Professor Chico State University

It’s the housing, stupid! Regional flood risk management in a land of exposure: the Pajaro Valley case study by Adrienne Dodd, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley

Please RSVP here and we’ll reserve pizza and a drink for you.

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Sooyeon Yi is a postdoctoral researcher in Ted Grantham’s lab in ESPM at UC Berkeley, where she leads work on environmental flows as part of the COEQWAL project. She will be joining California State University, Chico as an Assistant Professor of Hydrology in Spring 2026. Her talk will focus on the environmental flows work developed through the COEQWAL project.

Adrienne Dodd is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning engaging in applied research around Disaster Mitigation and Management. She has an MS in Natural Disaster Mitigation and Management from National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan, and a BA in Environmental Studies from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Currently, her dissertation work looks at what preparatory planning in the face of large-scale disaster induced displacement looks like, and how it can be improved to mitigate long-term housing insecurity and displacement after a disaster. Her past work has focused on community-engaged participatory planning for disaster mitigation and climate adaptation.