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Seminar Schedule - Spring Semester 2003

Seminars are held at noon in the UEL Classroom (135 Angell Street, Room 106).

Bread, juice, and vegan soup are served on Thursdays for $2.
Please feel free to bring a bagged lunch to any seminar.

Date Speaker Title
Thurs Jan 30 Allysa Arcaya Overfished and Under-regulated: Can the Rhode Island Lobster Fishery be Co-Managed?
Thurs Feb 6 Colby Gottert Managing Opposition: How Lessons Learned from Coral Reef Management in Honduras Can Benefit Madagascar
Thurs Feb 13 Chris Mooney Of Epidemic Proportions: Evaluating the Efficacy of the Rhode Island Department of Health's Efforts to Reduce the Prevalence of Childhood Lead Poisoning
Thurs Feb 20 Jessica Galante "Don't Drink the Water!": Communicating about Health in Water Contamination Events
Thurs Feb 27 Rebekah Rottenberg The Environmental Effects of Golf Courses in Rhode Island
Thurs Mar 6 Katherine Walace Quenching Growth Demands: Policies to Avoid Regional Water Supply Shortages as Residential Development Increases in Narragansett and South Kingstown, Rhode Island
Thurs Mar 13

Andrea Balazs

Managing Rhode Island's Precious Water Resource: Best Management Practices and Water Efficiency Standards for Turf Farming and Residential Outdoor Use in the Pawcatuck Watershed
Tues Mar 18 Heidi Hausman The Future of Certification for Rhode Island Forests and Forest Products
Thurs Mar 20 Kifle Woldesilassie Sustainable Management of Coastal and Marine Resources: What is the future of land- and sea-based shrimp farming in Eritrea?
Tues Apr 1 Dan Weitz  
Thurs Apr 3 Hemal Kanzaria A Comprehensive Analysis of the Highland Malaria Situation in East Africa with a Focus on Land Use
Tues Apr 8 Valerie Esposito Marine Protected Area: Is it right for Rhode Island? Perceptions of policy-makers, scientists and user groups
Thurs Apr 10 Robert Liberty Oregon's Smart Growth Program: Why It Is Totally Irrelevant to Rhode Island
Tues Apr 15 Michael Joseph Environmental Health Literacy: A Look at How Southeast Asians in Rhode Island Perceive the Risk of Mercury Exposure from Eating Fish
Thurs Apr 17 Matt Vadeboncoeur Conservation Strategies for Northern Blazing Star, (Liatris scariosa var novae angliae), a rare New England Wildflower
Tues Apr 22 Eric Brazer Does the Atlantic Cod Have a Future in the Gulf of Maine?
Thurs Apr 24 Christina Mair  
Thurs Apr 29 Carter Romansky  
Thurs May 1 Lindsey Wong Climate Change in New England and Vector-Borne Disease Implications

Please direct all questions to: Margaret_Frye@brown.edu