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CES Seminar Series, Spring 2011

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speaker

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time/location

Th. Jan 27

 Gerald Visgilio, Environmental Economist from Connecticut College, Visiting Professor at Brown CES for sabattical Spring, 2011. What Works for Controlling Air Pollution?  Regulation, Fines, and Cap-and-Trade--a Textbook Analysis.

noon, UEL 106
Special Seminar Series, Environmental Change Initiative/Center for Environmental Studies
Th. Feb 3 Matthias Ruth, Roy F. Weston Chair of Natural Economics, Center for Integrative Environmental Research, School of Public Policy and A. James Clark School of Engineering

Regional Responses to Energy Supply and Climate Change Challenges

 noon, UEL 106
Special Seminar Series, Environmental Change Initiative/Center for Environmental Studies

M. Feb 7

 Bruce Hungate, Professor of Ecosystem Ecology, Northern Arizona University From the globe to the cell and back—responses of ecosystems to global environmental change

noon, Sidney Frank Hall, Room 220, Nathan Marcuvitz Auditorium

Special Seminar Series, Environmental Change Initiative/Center for Environmental Studies
W. Feb 9 Hanqin Tian, Dixon and Alumni Professor of Ecology; Director, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, Auburn University

Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions: An Interdisciplinary Research Program in Climate and Global Change

noon, List Art Building, Room 120
Th. Feb 10

Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenbergher, co-founders of the Breakthrough Institute

The New Green Heretics: Ecological Modernization as the Future of Environmentalism

 noon, UEL 106
Special Seminar Series, Environmental Change Initiative/Center for Environmental Studies
M. Feb 14 Amanda Lynch, Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Monash University The Science-Policy Interface in Climate Adaptation noon, Nathan Marcuvitz Auditorium, Sidney Frank Hall, Room 220
Special Seminar Series, Environmental Change Initiative/Center for Environmental Studies
Th. Feb 17 Arun Agrawal, Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan Against Mono-Consequentialism: Explaining Multiple outcomes in Social-Ecological Systems noon, Barus & Holley, Room 168
Special Seminar Series, Environmental Change Initiative/Center for Environmental Studies
W. Feb 23 Krister Andersson, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, University of Colorado Local Governance and Environmental Change in Latin America noon, Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Roberts Campus Center
Special Seminar Series, Environmental Change Initiative/Center for Environmental Studies
Tu. Mar 1 Rachel Warren, Advanced Fellow, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia 'Climate Change and Land Use Change in the Community Integrated Assessment System, CIAS' noon, Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Roberts Campus Center (tentative)
Th. Mar 3 Andy Hoffman, University of Michigan (Business and Environmental Schools) and MIT (School of Management, visiting) Talking Past Each Other?  Social Framing Under the Climate Skeptical and Climate Convinced Logics.

noon, UEL 106
Th. Mar 10 Ken Foreman, MBL

Semester in Environmental Science at Marine Biological Laboratory

 noon, UEL 106
Th. Mar 17   Senior Capstone Presentations  
Th. Mar 24   Senior Capstone Presentations  
Th. Mar 31
Spring Break - no
 regularly schedule seminar this week
Th. Apr 7   Senior Capstone Presentations  
Th. Apr 14 Melanie Parker, land conservation trust, Montana TGD noon, UEL 106
Th. Apr 21 see schedule for presenters Senior Thesis presentations noon, UEL 106
F. Apr 22 see schedule for presenters Senior Thesis presentations 1:15pm, UEL 106
Th. Apr 28 see schedule for presenters Senior Thesis presentations noon, UEL 106
F. Apr 29 see schedule for presenters Senior Thesis presentations 1:15pm, UEL 106
Th. May 5 NO THURSDAY SEMINAR THIS WEEK Come hear the graduate student thesis presentations tomorrow.  
F. May 6 see schedule of presenters Master's Thesis presentations 10:00am - 2:30pm