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CES Seminar Series, Fall 2008

date

speaker

title

time/location

Thursday Sept. 11

Dr. Glen Adelson
Dept. of English
Brown University
Hard Interdisciplinarity: The Paradigm for Environmental Studies UEL
Noon
Thursday Sept. 18 Dr. Rob Johnston
Director of the George Perkins Marsh Institute & Professor of Economics
Clark University
Comparing Non-market Values for Undeveloped Land:  Can Meta-Analysis Inform Conservation? UEL
Noon
Thursday
Sept. 25
Dr. Ames Colt
Office of the Govenor of Rhode Island
Sisyphus's Rock: Pursuing the Ideals of Ecosystem-Based Management for New England's Coasts and Oceans
UEL
Noon
Thursday October 2 Dr. Bill Reed, Architect
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
Is Sustainability Sufficient? Life Regeneration and the Built Environment UEL
Noon
Thursday
October 9
  NO SEMINAR UEL
Noon
Thursday October 16

Susan Farady
Director, Marine Affairs Institute, School of Law
Roger Williams University

Experiments in Ocean Governance UEL
Noon
Tuesday
October 21
Dr. Natalie Jeremijenko
Associate Professor in Art, Environmental Health Clinic,
New York University
Urban Space Stations, Feral Robotic Dogs, and Tadpole Bureaucrats: Restructuring the Contemporary Environmental Movement UEL
Noon
Special Thursday Lecture, 7PM
October 23
Lois Gibbs
Love Canal Leader, Executive Director
"Love Canal ... 30 Years Later--What do we know, 'For Sure', and Where do we Go From Here"
MacMillan 115
Thursday October 30 Dr. Meredith Hastings
Asst. Professor
Dept. of Geology
Brown University
Nitrate in Ice Cores: A New Emerging, Perspective UEL
Noon
Thursday
November 6
Jason Miner
The Nature Conservancy
Conserving Large Forests of the Northeast UEL
Noon
Thursday Nov. 13 Dr. Sri Nagavarapu
Assistant Professor Environmental Studies and Dept. of Economics

Brazilian Ethanol: A Gift or Threat?

UEL
Noon

Special Lecture
Friday
Nov. 21

Dr. Vivian Loftness
Fellow, American Inst. of Architects
School of Architecture
Carnegie Mellon University

Green Buildings: Energy, Health and our Quality of Life

Smith-Buonanno room 106
4 PM

Thursday Nov. 27

 

Thanksgiving Break

 

Monday
Dec. 2

Lindsay Hagaman

The Impact of Land Use on Nutrients in Freshwater Streams, Guanacaste Costa Rica

UEL
Noon

Thursday
Dec. 4
Dr. Klaus Nüsslein
Assoc. Prof and Director of Graduate Studies
Dept. of Microbiology
UMass, Amherst

Microbial Degradation of Rocket Fuel: A Leaner Way

UEL
Noon
Thursday
Dec. 11
Sarah Clark

Brownfields: Blight, Beneficial Reuse, and...Community?

UEL
noon