Confluence Speaker Series: Fall 2026

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.

This week's presentations are:

Presenter 1: Benjamin Saalidong
Talk Title: The Relative Importance of Methane oxidation versus Emission During Turnover in a Eutrophic Lake

Presentation 2: Henry Li
Talk Title: The Moratorium Wave: The Present and Future of Data Centers in the State of Maine and Northeast

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.

This week's presentations are:

Presenter 1: Leila Wahab
Talk Title: On the utility of bulk soil geochemical data: relationships to soil C and predicting mineralogy

Presenter 2: Saish Solankar (MESc)
Talk Title: The Hornet Thieves, and other Familial Bugs: Chitinous Assemblage & Ontological Sovereignty in the Lotha of Nagaland

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.

This week's presentations are:

Presenter 1: Alicia Entem
Talk Title: Being Second Choice isn’t All Bad: Using Observed Preference Ranking within a Recreation Demand Model

Presenter 2: Julia Soule (MEM)
Talk Title: Biking to Salvation in the Arkansas Ozarks

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.\

This week's presenters are:

Presenter 1: Aymane Eddahmani (PhD)
Talk Title: Between the table and thermostat: energy poverty and food insecurity in Miami

Presenter 2: Urmila Mallick (PhD)
Talk Title: Carbon in the Kalahari: Quantifying Wildlife-Mediated Soil Carbon Hotspots for Dryland Carbon Accounting

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.

This week's presentation are:

Presenter 1: Kazi Nazrul Islam
Talk Title: Assessing tree community responses to anthropogenic disturbances in Bangladesh’s last tropical moist deciduous (Sal) forests

Presenter 2: Doreen Owusu
Talk Title: Restoring for Resilience: Forest Recovery in Ghana's Sui River Forest Reserve

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.

This week's presentations are:
Presenter 1: Kexin Song, (Postdoc)
Talk Title: Observing and Projecting Multi-Infrastructure Land-System Change from Data Center Expansion

Presenter 2: Hannah Nyarko (MESc)
Talk Title: Piercing the Canopy using LiDAR and Satellite Fusion

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.

This week's presentations are:

Presenter 1: Chong An Ong (MEM)
Talk Title: Seeing the Trees through the Data - Integrating Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis

Presenter 2: Lauren Oliver
Talk Title: TBD

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.

This week's presentations are:

Presenter 1: Destiny Treloar (PhD)
Talk Title: Mediators of Food Insecurity

Presenter 2: Amma Agyei-Aboakye

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.

This week's presentations are:

Presenter 1: Nohemi Huanca-Nunez (Associate Research)
Talk Title: Root structural strategies better predict variation in conspecific density dependence than above-ground traits

Presenter 2: Colin Schmitt (MEM)
Talk Title: When Cemeteries Die

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.

This week's presentations are:

Presenter 1: Christian Espinosa Schatz (PhD Candidate)
Talk Title: From Maize Fields to Forest Fallows in Highland Guatemala: The Social-Ecological Dynamics of International Migration and a Mayan Ontology of Shade

Weekly speaker series open to master's and PhD students, as well as postdocs at YSE, to share their research with the YSE and wider Yale community.

This week's presentations are:

Presenter 1: Nels Ure (MEM)
Talk Title: Currents of Connection: Empowering Indigenous Youth in Wild Salmon Conservation

Presenter 2: Patrícia Silva (Postdoc)
Talk Title: Crossing the Line: Identifying Climatic Thresholds for Large Wildfires in the Amazon