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Jonathan Proctor

August 15, 2023

Jonathan Proctor

Assistant Professor, Food and Resource Economics

jon.proctor@ubc.ca

MacMillan 235, 2357 Main Mall

Education
  • Ph.D. Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley; advisedby Maximilian Auffhammer and Solomon Hsiang, August 2019.
  • M.S. Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2016.
  • B.S. Earth Systems, Stanford University, 2014. Distinction.
Research
Teaching
  • Teaching Fellow, EPS168: Human Environmental Data Science, Harvard University, 2020, 2021.
  • Graduate Student Instructor, PP275: Spatial Data Analysis, UC Berkeley, 2017.
  • Teaching Assistant, ECON 106: World Food Economy, Stanford University, 2014.
  • Teaching Assistant, TAPS 103: Beginning Improvising, Stanford University, 2014.
Selected Publications

Proctor, J. (2023). "Extreme rainfall reduces rice yields in China." Nature Food (news & views).

Proctor, J., Rigden, A., Chan, D., Huybers, P. (2022). "More accurate specification of water supply shows its importance for global crop production." Nature Food.

Burney, J., Persad, G., Proctor, J., Bendavid, E., Burke, M., Heft-Neal, S. (2022). "Geographically-resolved social cost of anthropogenic emissions accounting for bothdirect and climate-mediated effects." Science Advances.

Chan, D., Rigden, A., Proctor, J., Chan, P., Huybers, P. (2022) "Differences in Radiative Forcing, Not Sensitivity, Explain Differences in Summertime Land TemperatureVariance Change Between CMIP5 and CMIP6." Earth's Future.

Rolf, E., Proctor, J., Carleton, T., Bolliger, I., Shankar, V., Ishihara, M., Recht, B., Hsiang, S. (2021) "A Generalizable and Accessible Approach to Machine Learningwith Global Satellite Imagery." Nature Communications.

Proctor, J. (2021) "Non-linear effect of atmospheric opacity on global crop yields." Nature Food.

Carleton, T., Cornetet, J., Huybers, P., Meng, K. and Proctor, J. (2021) "Global evidence for ultraviolet radiation decreasing COVID-19 growth rates." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Proctor, J., Hsiang, S., Burney, J., Burke, M., and Schlenker, W. (2018). "Estimating global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions." Nature.

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