Title: Student Showcase | Digital Ecologies Working Group Fall 2025
Event description
The Digital Ecologies Working Group, led by Deibi Sibrian (Ph.D. student in ESPM), brings together graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty to examine the socio-environmental impacts of digital transformations across Latin America, with a current focus on El Salvador. This student-led showcase presents interdisciplinary research on cryptocurrency-driven urbanization, the reversal of El Salvador’s national mining ban, and the rise of AI infrastructure.
Using methods such as remote sensing with Google Earth Engine, sentiment analysis, and visual ethnography, apprentices and graduate collaborators share findings on how digital industries are reshaping ecosystems, land governance, and community health. The showcase will highlight innovative student research and invite discussion on pathways toward environmental justice and regenerative digital futures.
Presented by the Digital Ecologies Working Group, supported by CLACS.
Group Lead
Deibi Sibrian is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM) at UC Berkeley. He centers critical interdisciplinary ecology and multispecies justice. Deibi coined the term “Cryptonocene,” an interdisciplinary framework, to study the socio-environmental health impacts of cryptocurrencies, AI, and other related technologies. He is an NSF Digital Transformation Fellow and Mentored Research Fellow. Before joining Berkeley, Deibi was the project manager for an interdisciplinary team conducting occupational health and safety research requested by the Washington State Legislature.