The 32nd annual Camp Resources will be held Aug. 9–11, 2026, in Asheville, North Carolina. Sponsored by CEnREP and NC State University, Camp Resources is a workshop designed for graduate students and young professionals to present their research in a relaxed but serious environment. For over 30 years, it has been a cherished place where many people have made their first professional presentation and received valuable feedback and networking opportunities.
In addition to support from NC State, Camp Resources receives generous support from the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This year, the workshop will feature a tutorial from Jonathan Proctor, an Assistant Professor in Food and Resource Economics at the University of British Columbia.
His work combines environmental economics, satellite imagery, and machine learning to produce policy-relevant evidence on climate impacts and adaptation. Before starting at UBC, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and a PhD student at UC Berkeley. As Proctor will discuss, satellite imagery and other remote sensing records can augment existing empirical approaches with valuable data, but also raise new challenges introduced by measurement errors and interpolations. He will discuss these pros and cons and ways to address the challenges.