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Seminar Schedule - Fall Semester 1999

September 16

    Norm Boucher of the Brown Alumni Magazine, "Writing About the Environment, A Twenty Year Perspective"
September 23
    Victor Bell and Catherine Goodall, "Product Stewardship and International Product and Packaging Requirements"
September 30
    Jan Reitsma, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
October 7
    Margarita Potchitaeva, Visiting Russian Profesor, "Russian Environmental Values"
October 14
    Joel Tarr, Profesor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, "Perspectives on Urban Environmental History: The Case of Pittsburgh"
 

October 21

    Saran Muthusamy, Senior Concentrator in Environmental Studies, thesis presentation
October 28
    Miriam Rotkin-Ellman, Senior Concentrator in Environmental Science, The Role of Tree Roots in the Below Ground Carbon Dynamics of Forested Riparian Zones
November 4
    Shepard Krech, a Professor of anthropogy at Brown, and the author of a recent publication "The Ecological Indian"
November 11

November 16

Ben Bruder, Senior Concentrator in Environmental Studies, Who Wants Wilderness?; Adolescents' Perceptions of the National Parks: a study using Cultural History and Social Research

November 18

    Janet Coit, Chief Policy Aid at U.S. Senator Chaffee's office
November 23
    Rozy Fredericks, Senior Concentrator in Environmental Science, A Local Scale Carbon Budget Analysis of a 200 Acre Reforested Abandoned Farm in Campton New Hampshire
November 30
    Adrianne Gass, Senior Concentrator in Environmental Studies
December 2
    Peter Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists, "Implications of the Kyoto Protocol for Tropical Forests"