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Seminar Schedule - Spring Semester 2004

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

Tues Feb 3 Atiyah Curmally Economic Incentives for Solid Waste Disposal in Rhode Island
Thurs Feb 5 Louella Hill Coming Home to Eat: What are the barriers to a more localized foodshed in Rhode Island?
Tues Feb 10 Director candidate The Science and Policy of Tropospheric Ozone: Past, Present, and Future
Thurs Feb 12 Laura Rickard Who Cares About Climate Change? Science, Public Perception, and Communication.
Tues Feb 17 Director Candidate Global Biodiversity Scenarios: Socio-Economic and Ecological Drivers
Affecting Biodiversity Change in the Next Century
Thurs Feb 19 Katherine Fisher Nitrogen Loading in Rhode Island Rivers
Weds Feb 25 Kostya Ussar Should Auto Body Repair and Paint Shops in the State of Rhode Island
be Subject To Environmental Regulation?
Thurs Feb 26 Kathleen Esposito The Role of Wastewater Reuse in the Future of Rhode Island Water
Resources Management
Weds Mar 3 Jenny Henman Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Development in the Peruvian Amazon: Compatible Goals?
Thurs Mar 4 Alex Adams How Can Richmond, RI Grow Smarter? Is transfer of development rights the answer?
Tues Mar 9 Julia Glenday Assessing the Potential for Carbon Trading Projects in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya
Thurs Mar 11 Josh Apte A Window on Green Architecture: The Role of Residential Windows in Climate Change
Thurs Mar 18 Marian Thorpe Beyond the three R's: environmental literacy and social capital in Olneyville
Tues Mar 23 Kaytrue Ting SmartConservation: Analyzing the Efficacy of Use-Value Taxation as a Conservation Tool
Weds Mar 24 Catherine Mansell Effects of a MTBE contamination event on the attitudes and feelings of adolescents
Thurs Mar 25 Laurel Pierpont  
Tues Apr 6 Michael Dema  
Thurs Apr 8 Maria Sinnamon  
Tues Apr 13 Molly Smyrl It's Too Easy Being Green(space): A Study of the South County Greenspace Program
Thurs Apr 15 Anna Greene  
Tues Apr 20 Brendan O'Keefe A Geographic Analysis of Gull Predation on Crabs in the Gulf of Maine
Weds Apr 21 Erica Rogers The Power of Narrative in Developing an Environmental Ethic
Thurs April 22 Nick Bayard Waste Management Issues In Rhode Island: THE ROCK OPERA
Tues April 27 Lauren McGeoch Plant Ecology in a Human Context: Mondia whytei in Kakamega Forest,
Kenya
Thurs April 29 Lauren Oakes Bridging the Gap: A Case Study on the Planning for the Future of the 'Old' Jamestown Bridge
Tues May 4 Nadav Carmel The Woonasquatucket River Industrial Archaeology Mapping Project
Thurs May 6 Molly MacGregor Better buildings at Brown: A high performance design approach

Please direct all questions to: Maggie_Frye@Brown.edu