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In the Press

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Investigating the Parallels Between Climate Change and the COVID-19 Crisis
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Matthew Vollrath at Peninsula Press interviews me as he explores the similarities, differences, and dangers of climate change and COVID-19 in the 6-part miniseries podcast Climate Change in the Coronaverse. Hear our chat about the psychological elements that make it so difficult to cope with - and find meaningful solutions to - both issues in Episode 1: The Action Gap.

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Ensia Explores Our Emerging Field of Enviromental Neuroeconomics
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Ensia covers our projects using brain imaging to study environmental valuation and ecolabeling. Read more here.

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BBC Radio Covers Work at the Intersection of Art and the Environment

​BBC Radio interviews me on how art can be used to share environmental data with our climate change data sonification work and other projects. Listen here.

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Berkeley Lab Discusses Our Work on Transportation Decision-Making 

​With colleagues Anna Spurlock and Ming Hsu, I will be exploring behavioral economics approaches to encourage public transportation usage, and examining how they work using neuroimaging. Read more about the project here.

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"Adapting Neuroeconomics for Environmental and Energy Policy" Now Available at Behavioural Public Policy

​I discuss how neuroeconomics can be used to inform energy policy and the climate change debate in a recent article at Behavioural Public Policy. 

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The Atlantic Covers Our Process of Turning Ecological Data into Music 

​More coverage at The Atlantic of how I turned Lauren Oakes's ecological data into music with help from the good folks at CCRMA!

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Turning Data Into Music: An Alaskan Forest Plays an Orchestra 

​In a fun side project, I developed a technique to turn data into music and transformed Lauren Oakes's ecological fieldwork on the decline of Alaskan yellow cedars due to climate change into an orchestral arrangement.
Hear and read about it at Outside Magazine!

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Environmental Valuation Study in National Parks Magazine

The Spring issue of National Parks magazine features our work on how people value the environment and the brain activity that can predict pro-environmental behavior and helps to motivate donations to state and national parks. Read about it here! 

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Environmental Philanthropy Study Highlighted in Pair of Stanford News Articles

Stanford News covers my work with Brian Knutson's work on environmental philanthropy and how we value the environment, available here, as well as neuroeconomics and the role of emotions in a broader decision-making context, found here. ​

Public Talks

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Stanford TedX: Your Brain, the Environment, and Our Decisions 


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UC Merced Talk on Neural Valuation of Natural Resources with Brian Knutson