Seminar Schedule - Fall Semester 1996

September 12
Jo-Anne Henry
"Organizing Underserved Communities Around Environmental Justice: How One Group Does It."

September 19
Tom Webb, Geology Department
"Evidence for Forest Pathogens in the Paleoecological Record"

September 26
Barton St. Armand, English Dept.
"Ecocriticism:The New American Nature Writing Renaissance"

October 3
Michael Muller
"The Fallacy of Concreteness: Confronting Uncertainty in Environmental Modeling"

October 10
Nancy Jacobs, History Dept.
"History from the bottom up: Environmental and Social History in South Africa"

October 17
Cheryl Foster, URI Dept. of Philosophy
"Aesthetic Tensions: Nature and Culture in Sedona, Arizona"

October 24
Adam Lowe

October 31
Marissa Maier
Migrant Farmworkers and Pesticides in Oregon: Are Workers Being Unsafely Exposed?

November 7
Norris Muth
Does it Make Sense to Manage Purple Loosestrife in RI? Pretty Purple Pest-Plant Eaters

November 12
Brian Slater
If User Fees for Solid Waste Disposal Work in Worcester, Why not in Providence?

November 14
Sibylle Otto
The Influence of Invasive and Exotic Vegetation on the Water Quality Maintenance Function of a Tidal Freshwayer Marsh

November 21
Xena Huff
Are We Breaking the Grid-Lock or Opening the Floodgates? Environmental Dispute Resolution: A RI Case-Study on the Impact of Negotiation Process on Wetlands Policy

December 3
Kevin Kline

December 5 Chris Harwood
Could RI Deal With a Major Hazardous Materials Incident?