SEERE (Sustainable Environment, Energy, and Resource Economics)
SPRING 2026
Faculty Organizer: Ivan Rudik |irudik@cornell.edu
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu
All presentations are held on Thursdays from 11:40 – 12:55 pm in 102 Mann Library, unless otherwise noted.
DATE: FRIDAY, January 23, 2026 – JOINT with FAE
SPEAKER: Frederik Noack, University of British Columbia
PRESENTATION: “The Value of Biodiversity: Evidence from Migratory Birds”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
*TIME: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
DATE: February 5, 2026
Group Lunch (BYOL) & PhD presentation
SPEAKER: Tianjiao Mei, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: February 12, 2026 – PhD presentations
SPEAKER 1: Feiyu Wang, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
SPEAKER 2: Terry Zhang, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: February 19, 2026 – PhD presentations
SPEAKER 1: Virginia Callison, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
SPEAKER 2: Toni Marcheva, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: February 26, 2026 – PhD presentations
SPEAKER 1: Tianzi Liu, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
SPEAKER 2: Jacob Holifield, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 4, 2026 – JOINT with IDE
SPEAKER: Dev Patel, Brown
PRESENTATION:
ROOM:
*TIME:
DATE: March 12, 2026
SPEAKER: Charles Taylor, Harvard University
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: March 19, 2026 – PhD presentation
SPEAKER: Luc Esprabens, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: FRIDAY, March 20, 2026 – JOINT with FAE
SPEAKER: Gabe Lade, Ohio State University
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
TIME: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
DATE: March 26, 2026 – JOINT with IO
SPEAKER: Will Rafey, UCLA
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: April 9, 2026 – PhD presentations
SPEAKER 1: Zhiren Hu, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
SPEAKER 2: Anthony Ponce, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: April 16, 2026
SPEAKER: Eugenie Dugoua, LSE
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: April 23, 2026
SPEAKER: Christopher Costello, UCSB & EDF
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: April 30, 2026 – PhD presentation
SPEAKER: Yurou He, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
FALL 2025
Faculty Organizer: Todd Gerarden | gerarden@cornell.edu
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu
All presentations are held on Thursdays from 11:40 – 12:55 pm in 121 Atkinson Hall, unless otherwise noted.
DATE: August 28, 2025 – JOINT with IO
SPEAKER: Meredith Fowlie, UC Berkeley
PRESENTATION: “Land Conservation and the Clean Energy Transition: Evidence from U.S. Wind and Solar Development”
ROOM: 121 Atkinson Hall
DATE: September 4, 2025
SPEAKER: Cynthia Yin, Cornell University
PRESENTATION: “Do production frictions affect the impact of
sustainable investing?”
ROOM: 121 Atkinson Hall
DATE: September 11, 2025 – Practice Job Talk
SPEAKER: Antonia Marcheva, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “The benefits and costs of agricultural adaptation to surface water scarcity”
*ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: September 18, 2025
SPEAKER: Arthur Benthem, University of Pennsylvania
PRESENTATION: “An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union”
ROOM: 121 Atkinson Hall
DATE: September 25, 2025 – PhD Presentation
SPEAKER: Molly Doruska, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Flood Risk and Differential Firm Investment: Evidence from Dakar, Senegal”
ROOM: 121 Atkinson Hall
DATE: October 2, 2025 – PhD Presentation
SPEAKER: Trevor Dean Arnold, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “The Welfare Effects of Heat Pump Subsidies”
ROOM: 121 Atkinson Hall
DATE: October 9, 2025 – PhD Presentation
SPEAKER: Jack Ma, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Extreme Heat and Directed Innovation”
ROOM: 121 Atkinson Hall
DATE: October 16, 2025
SPEAKER: Nick Hagerty, Montana State University
PRESENTATION: “Conservation Payments: Experimental Evidence from Groundwater Irrigation”
ROOM: 121 Atkinson Hall
DATE: *TUESDAY*, October 21, 2025 – JOINT with IO
SPEAKER: Andrew Butters, Indiana University
TIME: 11:40 – 12:55 PM
https://events.cornell.edu/event/io-seere-workshop-andrew-butters
DATE: October 23, 2025 – PhD Presentations
SPEAKER 1: Tianzi Liu, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
SPEAKER 2: Bingyan Dai, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION:
*ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: October 30, 2025 – PhD Presentation
SPEAKER: Matías Navarro, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “On the Right Track? Designing Optimal Public Transit Contracts”
ROOM: 121 Atkinson Hall
DATE: November 6, 2025 – JOINT with Trade & IO
SPEAKER: Allan Hsiao, Stanford University
PRESENTATION: “Critical Minerals, Geopolitics, and the Green Transition”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: November 13, 2025
SPEAKER: Eva Lyubich, US Census Bureau
PRESENTATION: “Transitional Costs and the Decline of Coal: Worker-Level Evidence”
*ROOM: B01 Sage Hall
DATE: *WEDNESDAY* November 19, 2025 – JOINT with Development
SPEAKER: Abdoulaye Cissé, UC Berkeley
TIME: 1:25 – 2:40 PM
https://events.cornell.edu/event/development-seere-workshop-abdou-cisse
DATE: November 20, 2025 – PhD Presentation
SPEAKER: Jeisson Prieto, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Adaptive Water Management under Climate Stress: Evidence from the Panama Canal”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
TIME: 11:40 am – 12:25 pm
DATE: December 4, 2025 – PhD Presentations
SPEAKER 1: Emil Kee-Tui, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “The Impact of Coal Mining on Drinking Water”
SPEAKER 2: Yurou He, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Creative Destruction or Lasting Decline: Evidence from Post-Disaster Recovery”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: December 11, 2025 – PhD Presentation
SPEAKER: Victor Dornelas, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Water leakage and the market for California tree nuts”
ROOM: 150 Warren Hall
SPRING 2026
DATE: Friday, January 23, 2026 – JOINT with FAE
SPEAKER: Frederik Noack, University of British Columbia
PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
TIME: 2:30 – 4:00 pm
ARCHIVES – SPRING 2025
Faculty Organizer: Catherine Kling |clk228@cornell.edu
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu
All presentations are held on Thursdays from 11:40 – 12:55 pm unless otherwise noted.
DATE: January 23, 2025 – JOINT with FAE
SPEAKER: Daniel Phaneuf, University of Wisconsin-Madison
PRESENTATION: “Gross External Damages of Water Pollution in the United States”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: February 6, 2025
SPEAKER 1: Tianzi Liu, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “The (Mis)Allocation Channel of Climate Change – Evidence from Global Firm-level Microdata”
SPEAKER 2: Bingyan Dai
PRESENTATION: “The Dynamic Efficiency Costs of Pesticide Resistance”
ROOM:102 Mann Library
DATE: February 13, 2025
SPEAKER: Yurou He, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Land Assembly: Outsider Bargaining with A Network”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: February 20, 2025
SPEAKER 1: Emil Kee-Tui, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “The Human Health Impacts of Freshwater Harmful Algal Blooms”
SPEAKER 2: Luc Esprabens, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Wildfires and Municipal Finances”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: February 27, 2025
SPEAKER: Molly Doruska, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Flood Risk and Differential Firm Investment: Evidence from Dakar, Senegal”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: March 6, 2025
SPEAKER: Sefi Roth, London School of Economics
PRESENTATION: “Making the Invisible Visible: The Impact of
Real-Time Feedback on Indoor Air Pollution”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: March 13, 2025
SPEAKER: Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University
PRESENTATION: “Valuing Solar Subsidies”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: March 20, 2025
SPEAKER 1: Anthony Ponce, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Policy Spillovers to Biodiversity: The Impacts of Interventions for Water Quality on Bird Abundance”
SPEAKER 2: Feiyu Wang, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “EV Tariffs: Market Impacts and Climate Outcomes”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: March 27, 2025
SPEAKER 1: Vaios Triantafyllou, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “The non-green effects of going green: Local environmental and economic consequences of lithium extraction in Chile”
SPEAKER 2: Victor Dornelas, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “Coordination of conservation efforts in Brazil”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: April 10, 2025
SPEAKER: Matías Navarro, Cornell University PhD
PRESENTATION: “On the right route? Designing optimal public transit contracts”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: April 17, 2025 – JOINT with Industrial Organization
SPEAKER: Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago
PRESENTATION: “The End of Oil”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: April 24, 2025
SPEAKER: Katrina Jessoe, UC Davis
PRESENTATION: “Externalities of Climate Adaptation in Common-Pool Groundwater Resources”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: May 1, 2025 – JOINT with Econometrics
SPEAKER: Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago
PRESENTATION: “Dynamic Targeting: Experimental Evidence from Energy Rebate Programs”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library