Seminars
2011 - 2012 Seminar Schedule
- (All seminars are on Tuesday at 4:00 pm and are held in theTuring Auditorium, unless otherwise noted)
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| OCT 11 |
Larry Crowder | Science Director, Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) and a Professor, Hopkins Marine Station and a Senior Fellow, the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University | Understanding challenges to endangered sea turtles: The role of life history and demography |
| FEB 7 | Ben Houlton | Assistant Professor, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis | Nitrogen from the deep: rocks and the terrestrial nitrogen cycle |
| FEB 21 | Jason Blackstock | CIGI Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Waterloo, Ontario | Governing Solar Geoengineering: From Lab Research to the Real (Geopolitical) World |
| FEB 22 Wednesday |
Derek Posselt | Assistant Professor Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan. | Cloud Systems at the Intersection Between Weather and Climate: Examining Interactions Across Multiple Scales. |
| FEB | Amy Luers | Director of Climate Change Skoll Global Threats Fund | Webbing the science-decision maker gap: science communication in the digital age |
| MAR 6 | Katharine Suding | Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC, Berkeley | Species invasion and restoration in a changing world: when and where should we actively restore ecosystems? |
| MAR 13 | Mark Flanner | Assistant Professor Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan | Cryosphere-climate feedback and a unique role for black carbon |
| MAR 20 | Alan Robock | Professor II, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University. | Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict: Nuclear Winter Still a Threat |
| TBA | Todd Dawson | ||
| May 22 | David Graves | Founder at Saintsbury Vineyard | Wine as an Indicator of Climate Change: Coastal California as a Case Study |