Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Chris Field

The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment is pleased to announce a post-doctoral position on solar geoengineering impacts. The successful candidate will work on a new, multi-investigator project focused on economic, health, and social impacts of past volcanic eruptions that produced substantial amounts of stratospheric aerosols.  The analysis will be based on causal inference methods from econometrics.  The project extends the work of Proctor and colleagues (Nature, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0417-3) to other impact variables.  Impact variables to be explored include crop-specific and region-specific agriculture, animal agriculture, human health, and several aspects of economic activity.  Some, but not all, of the relevant data sets are already assembled. The project team includes experts in specific impact areas as well as causal inference.
 
The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment is a research unit within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. The Woods Institute encourages interdisciplinary and solutions-oriented approaches to important environmental problems.  More than 150 Stanford faculty members, representing all seven of Stanford’s schools, are affiliates.  The institute pursues its objectives through seed funding, hosting interdisciplinary centers, organizing convenings, and leadership training.