The GSO Symposium is a student-organized event with the goals of increasing communication within our department and amongst our partners, showcasing the diversity of research topics we are investigating, and providing graduate students with an opportunity to present their research in a professional atmosphere.
The 2023 Symposium was held as a hybrid event in the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center on Feb. 24th, 2023.
Symposium Awardees
Best Prospective Talk: Max Majinska
Best Retrospective Talk: Molly Engelman
The 2023 Symposium was filled with:
- 21 graduate and undergraduate student presentations
- a wonderful plenary from Dr. Martin Smith from Duke
- over 100 in-person attendees
- over 60 online attendees from four countries
- great conversation, company, and food
This year, in particular, there was a warm feeling of community, as we all came together after the tragedy on campus two weeks before the event. Thank you again to the incredible committee members, moderators, donors, venue and audiovisual staff, and presenters for making this year’s symposium one to remember.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Martin Smith
George M. Woodwell Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics
Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment
"Economics of Aquatic Foods: Combining Bioeconomics and
Market Analysis to Inform Regulations that Deliver Value"
Martin D. Smith is the George M. Woodwell Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics in the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Department of Economics at Duke University. He earned a PhD at University of California, Davis in Agricultural and Resource Economics (2001) and a BA at Stanford University in Public Policy (1992). Smith studies the economics of the oceans and works primarily on bioeconomics of the fishery, economics of global seafood markets and trade, and economics of coastal climate change adaptation. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Marine Resource Economics and as a member of the Ocean Studies Board of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, a member of the Scientific and Statistical Committee of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, and President of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade. He is currently a Features Editor for Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Smith has published over 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, and reviews, including works in The American Economic Review, Nature, Science, and PNAS. He has made appearances on NPR and BBC Radio to discuss seafood issues and has received national and international awards, including an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship, Quality of Research Discovery from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and Fellow of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
