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Seminar Schedule - Fall Semester 2001

Date Time Location Speaker Title

Wed Sep 12

12:00 Narraganset Bay Commission Jon G. Sutinen

The Political Economies of Fisheries Management

Wed Sep 12

3:00 URI - Kingston Lester Brown

Building an Eco-economy for the Earth

Thurs Sep 13

12:00

UEL 106

Dr. Beresford

Australia’s Salinity Crisis

Thurs Sep 13

4:00

MacMillan 115

Karen Fischer

Seismic constraints on mantle dynamics and lithospheric evolution in North America

Mon Sep 17

12:00

BMC 291

Fausto Sarmiento (FFT)

Human Drivers of Ecological Change in TropAndean Landscapes

Wed Sep 19

7:00

URI - Providence

Penn Loh

Building Environmental Justice from the Ground Up

Thurs Sep 20

12:00

Inn at Brown Conf. Room

Richard Bilsborrow (Pop)

Migration and the Environment: General Issues and a Case Study of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Thurs Sep 20

4:00

MacMillan 115

Richard Vorder Bruegge

From Venus to OJ: Applying the Principles of Remote Sensing to Forensic Image Analysis

Fri. Sept. 21

12:00

Walter Hall 102

Rick Enser

Biodiversity and Conservation in Rhode Island

Tues Sep 25

7:00

URI - Kingston

Eileen Clausen

Climate Change: A Strategy for the Future

Thurs Sep 27

12:00

UEL 106

Rob Fetter

Do community characteristics affect environmental outcomes?

Thurs Sep 27

12:00

Zimmer Lounge - Maxcy Hall

Steven Raphael

Public Transportation and the Spatial Distribution of Minority Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Tues Oct 2

7:00

URI - Providence

William McDonough

Creating the next Industrial Revolution

Thurs Oct 4

12:00

UEL 106

Ned Connors

We call it progress--but where's it really going?

Thurs Oct 4

12:00

Zimmer Lounge - Maxcy Hall

Oded Galor

Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth

Tues Oct 9

7:00

URI - Kingston

Geoffrey Heal

Nature and the Marketplace

Wed Oct 10

12:00

Narragansett Bay Comm.

Dr. Grace MacPhee

Why do Winter Flounder Like Cold Winters?

Wed Oct 10

4:30 MacMillan 117

Paul Ehrlich

Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect

Thurs Oct 11

12:00

UEL 106

Theo Lubke

Living with Marela - The Impact of Asbestos Mining on a South African Community

Thurs Oct 11

4:00

MacMillan 115

Les Cwynar

Climate Change in the White Mts. Of New Hampshire

Tues Oct 16

3:00

Barus and Holley 168

Amory Lovins

Natural Capitalism and Energy Security

Tues Oct 16

7:00

URI - Kingston

Amory Lovins

Living with Brownouts, Blackouts, or Creating a Sustainable Energy Policy

Thurs Oct 18

12:00

UEL 106

Danuta Drozdowicz

Green-e: The Power of Certification - Building Demand for Environmentally Friendly Electricity

Tues Oct 23

7:00

URI - Providence

Timothy Beatley

Green Design and Sustainable Cities

Tues Oct 23 4:00 Macmillan 115 Sheldon Whitehouse Palazollo vs. Rhode Island

Fri Oct 26

12:00

Inn at Brown Conf. Room

Emilio Moran (Pop)

Household Demographic Structure and Its Impact on the Trajectories of Deforestation in the Amazon

Mon Oct 29

7:00

URI - Kingston

David Orr

Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

Thurs Nov 1

12:00

UEL 106

Susan Poats (FFT)

Empowering Communities to Manage Their Own Water: Lessons from Multi-Stakeholder Negotiation in the Northern Andes

Thurs Nov 1

4:00

MacMillan 115

Sarah Kruse

Understanding Ground Penetrating Radar Response in Sediments and Contaminant Zones

Tues Nov 6

7:00

URI - Kingston

Laura Westra

Environment, Health, and Global Justice

Thurs Nov 8

12:00

UEL 106

Adelia Barber

Conservation of a Rare California Wildflower: A Case Study of the Santa Cruz Tarplant

Mon Nov 12

12:00

Narragansett Bay Comm.

Marta Gomez-Chiarri

Shellfish Diseases in Narragansett Bay: Are we Losing our Oysters?

Tues Nov 13

7:00

URI - Kingston

Deborah DuNann Winter

Changing Our Minds: Psychological Barriers to a Sustainable Future

Thurs Nov 15

12:00

UEL 106

Andres Power

The Environment and Crime in the City: Is there a Relationship?

Fri Nov 16

12:00

Walter Hall 102

Scott Wilson (FFT)

What is Garbage? The Cultural, Economic, and Ecological Context of Solid Waste Management in the Tropical Andes

Tues Nov 20

7:00

URI - Kingston

Larry Rasmussen

How Can a Moral and Religious Imagination Promote Sustainability?

Tues Nov 27 12:00 UEL 106 Belinda Chen Beyond the Green: A discussion of Diversity in Environmental Studies

Tues Nov 27

7:00

URI - Kingston

Magnus Ngoile

Creating Economic Opportunities in Sensitive Coastal Environments

Thurs Nov 29

12:00

UEL 106

Jennifer Plaut

Carbon Dynamics Followingf Whole-Tree Harvest in the Southern Boreal Forest

Tues Dec 4

12:00

UEL 106

Miriam Pfister

Tues Dec 4

7:00

URI - Kingston

Rob Thayer

Life Place: How Big a Place Do We Need to Make a Life?

Thurs Dec 6

12:00

UEL 106

Doug Costello

Moving Beyond the City-Wilderness Paradox: A study of Environmental Education in an Urban High School

Wed Dec 12

12:00

Narragansett Bay Comm.

Dr. Barbara K. Sullivan

Climate and Comb-Jellyfish: A Threat to Fisheries in Narragansett Bay?

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