Past Seminars

  • March 15, 2021

    Katherine Gutierrez, History Department, UC Santa Cruz

    Mary Clemens, Maximo Ramos, and the Region of Imperial Strategy

     

    March 1, 2021

    Marcelo Mena, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso

    Net Zero Climate Policy in Chile

     

    February 22, 2021

    Jorgge Menna Barreto, Art Department, UC Santa Cruz

    Environmental Sculpture

     

    February 8, 2021

    Courtney Bonam, Department of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz

    Polluting Black Space

     

    February 1, 2021

    Dean Hardy, Geography Department, University of South Carolina

    A Blockade on Racial Capitalism’s Land Dispossessions: Reimagining Possible Futures

    through Sea-Level Rise Adaptation and Beyond

     

    January 25, 2021

    Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

    Sustaining Coastal Communities: Collaborative Approaches to Environmental Archaeology

     

    January 11, 2021

    Malin Pinsky, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University

    Life in a Giant Water Bath: Consequences for Ecological Dynamics in the Ocean

     

    December 7, 2020

    David Meek, University of Oregon

    Educating for Food Sovereignty: Insights from Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement

     

    November 30, 2020

    Yoshi Maezumi, Marie Curie Fellow, University of Amsterdam

    The Human Legacy in the Amazon

     

    November 23, 2020

    Michelle Scobie, University of the West Indies

    Global Environmental Governance and Small States: Architectures and Agency in the Caribbean

     

    November 16, 2020

    Monica White, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Freedom Farmers: Black Agricultural Cooperatives and Food Justice

     

    November 9, 2020

    Michael Mascarenhas, UC Berkeley

    Thirsty for Environmental Justice. Racialized Austerity and Michigan’s War over Urban Water

     

    November 2, 2020

    Karletta Chief, Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona

    Training STEM graduate students to work in Indigenous Communities to co-solve FEWS challenges

     

    October 26, 2020

    Andy Kulikowski, UC Santa Cruz

    The influence of plant-insect interactions and incentive-based environmental policy on tropical forest restoration

     

    October 19, 2020

    Xavier Basurto, Duke University

    Championing the Decolonization of Fisheries Management

     

    October 12, 2020

    Dr. Madeleine Fairbairn, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

    “Just another asset class”? Farmland as a financial investment

     

    October 5, 2020

    Dr. Kai Zhu, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

    Large-scale ecological responses to climate change in space and time

     

    JUNE 1, 2020

    Shannon Lynch, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

    Responding To A Plant Pest-disease Complex Across Social-ecological Scales

     

    MAY 18, 2020

    Colby Anton, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

    The Demography and Comparative Ethology of Top Predators in a Multi-Carnivore System

     

    MAY 18, 2020

    John Armstrong, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

    Local Government Adoption of Effective Climate Change Policies and Ecosystem Implications of Urban Renewable Energy

     

    MAY 11, 2020

    Rachel Voss, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

    Supporting smallholders in times of change: lessons from Senegalese farmers

     

    MAY 4, 2020

    Emily Reisman, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

    Putting Efficiency in its Place: situating paradigms of agricultural sustainability

     

    APRIL 20, 2020

    Tierra Smiley Evans, Candidate for the Global and Community Health - Social Justice

     

    APRIL 13, 2020

    Pam Rittelmeyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

    Meanings behind perceptions: Flood Risk and Management of the California Delta Levee System

     

    MARCH 30, 2020

    Dr. Naya Jones, Candidate for the Global and Community Health - Social Justice

     

    MARCH 20, 2020

    Jim Clark, Nicholas Professor in Global Environmental Change, Duke University

    Mast Inference and Forecasting (MASTIF) for climate change: the birth rates that control local to continental forest responses and their consequences for pulsed-resource food webs

    Host: Kai Zhu

    View Seminar on Youtube

     

    FEBRUARY 24, 2020 (Special Evening Seminar)

    Gary Nabhan, Research Social Scientist, Center for Regional Food Studies, University Of Arizona

    Food from the Radical Center: How collaborative conservation is healing the wounds & creating green livelihoods in the rural west

     

    FEBRUARY 24, 2020

    Adam Pellegrini, Postdoctoral Fellow, Fire and Ecosystem Ecology, Stanford

    Frequent fire and potential feedbacks with ecosystem carbon cycling

    Host: Kai Zhu

    View Seminar on Youtube 

     

    FEBRUARY 10, 2020

    Kate O’Neill, Professor, Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

    Trash Goes Global: Wastes as a Global Resource Frontier

     

    FEBRUARY 3, 2020

    Josie Lesage, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz

    Keeping an eye on the little things: Management and change in California grasslands

     

    JANUARY 27, 2020

     Vandana Shiva, founder of Earth University, Right Livelihood Laureate

    Earth Democracy - reflecting the values, worldviews and actions of diverse movements working for peace, justice and sustainability

     

  • DECEMBER 2, 2019

    Kate Ross, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, UCSC

    Drought to Deluge: Sensitivity to meteorological variation in trees of the Eastern Sierra Nevada and Forest community belief systems regarding climate change

     

    NOVEMBER 25, 2019

    Briana Abrahms, Research Ecologist, NOAA Fisheries

    Environmental forcing, memory, and social learning of migration strategies in marine and terrestrial taxa

     

    NOVEMBER 18, 2019

    Jesse Reynolds, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy, UCLA

    Linking Solar Geoengineering and Emissions Abatement Policies: Strategically Resolving an International Climate Policy Dilemma

     

    NOVEMBER 4, 2019

    Gregory Goldsmith, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Chapman University

    The plants sure could use a good rain!

     

    OCTOBER 28, 2019

    David Pellow, Professor and Chair, Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara

    Toward a Critical Environmental Justice: Exploring State Violence in Carceral Institutions

     

    OCTOBER 21, 2019

    Vicky Oelze, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UCSC

    Breastfeeding and weaning in wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) revealed by stable isotope analysis of feces from mother-infant-dyads

     

    OCTOBER 14, 2019

    Fernando Leiva, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, UCSC

    New Corporate Strategies for Expanding the Frontiers of Extractivism in Chile

     

    OCTOBER 7, 2019

     Joji Muramoto, Organic Agriculture Specialist, UCSC Cooperative Extension

    Towards Soil Health Management and Sustainable Organic Farming in California: Nitrogen and soil-borne disease management in organic strawberries and vegetables in coastal California

     

    SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

    Elliott Campbell, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, UCSC

    Unconventional paths to photosynthesis research

     

  •  MAY 20, 2019

    Marnie Riddle, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC

    Common-law approaches to nonpoint nutrient pollution can compensate for regulatory failures

    Host: Andy Szasz

      

    MAY 13, 2019

    Barry Nickel, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC

    Should I stay or should I go? Effects of human-induced fear on the movement energetics and spatial ecology of pumas

    Host: Chris Wilmers

     

    MAY 6, 2019

    Kelsey Forbush, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC

    Connecting the rhizosphere priming effect with soil structure, plant species, and root biomass

    Host: Weixin Cheng

     

    APRIL 29, 2019

    David Ackerly, Dean College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley

    Will plant communities change more quickly in refugia? A biogeographic and landscape perspective

    Host: Kai Zhu

     

    APRIL 22, 2019

    Alastair Iles,: Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

    The technology politics of mechanizing crops: Insights from Californian agriculture

    Host: Stacy Philpott and Madeleine Fairbairn

     

    APRIL 15, 2019

    Juniper Harrower, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC

    Species interactions and climate change in the loss of Joshua trees and the role of eco-art for understanding multispecies connections

    Host: Greg Gilbert

      

    APRIL 8, 2019

    Kate Ennis, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC

    Coffee and climate: How climate influences ecosystem functions, production and producer responses in coffee agroecosystems

    Host: Stacy Philpott

     

    MARCH 18, 2019

    Maywa Montenegro de Wit, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis

    Entangling seed access and diversity: Inside the struggles for seed freedom

    Host: Daniel Press

     

    MARCH 11, 2019

    Jedediah Brodie, Craighead Endowed Chair of Conservation, Division of Biological Sciences and Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana

    Habitat change, hunting, and their synergies

    Hosts: Chris Wilmers and Karen Holl

     

    MARCH 4, 2019

    Alicia Calle, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC

    Cattle, trees and forests: Restoring hope in Colombia’s degraded landscapes

    Host: Karen Holl

     

    FEBRUARY 25, 2019

    Diane Matar, Postdoctoral Researcher; and Indira Phukan, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University.

    Hope in the Face of Change: Infusing California redwood-park visits with inspiration, motivation, and connection

    Host: Elliott Campbell

     

    FEBRUARY 11, 2019: Lighting Talks

    Kai Zhu, Landscape vegetation dynamics in a changing world; Brent Haddad, How law evolves in response to climate change; Elliott Campbell, How carbon dioxide has changed Earth's metabolism - And why we need to know.

    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn

     

    FEBRUARY 4, 2019

    Jonathan London, Associate Professor, Department of Community and Regional Development, Director, Center for Regional Change, UC Davis

    Unearthing deep roots of urban agriculture

    Host: Chris Benner

     

    JANUARY 28, 2019

    Andrew Mathews, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, UCSC

    Global environmental change in Italian forests: Historical ecology and landscape ethnography

    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn

     

    JANUARY 14, 2019

    Graeme Baird, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC

    Learning from agroecosystem data: Model approaches to ecological disease and nitrogen

    management

    Host: Carol Shennan

     

    JANUARY 7, 2019

    Gara Villalba, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Autonomous University of Barcelona

    Exploring options for optimizing food-energy-water nexus at the building and neighborhood in

    the Mediterranean region

    Host: Elliott Campbell

     

  • DECEMBER 5, 2018

    Jo Handelsman, Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

    Microbiomes: From the White House to the Lab

    Kamieniecki lecture series. Wednesday, December 5, 7pm (tentative time). UCSC Hay Barn.

     

    DECEMBER 3, 2018

    Manisha Anantharaman, Assistant Professor, Program in Justice, Community, and Leadership, Saint Mary’s College

    The Politics of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability Transitions: Stories from Bangalore, India

    Host: Flora Lu

     

    NOVEMBER 26, 2018

    T.J. Demos, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture; Director, Center for Creative Ecologies, UCSC

    To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable

    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn

     

    NOVEMBER 19, 2018

    Paulo Quadri, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC

    Local Habitat Modulation of High Altitude Tropical Conifer Responses to Climate Change

    Host: Erika Zavaleta

     

    NOVEMBER 5, 2018

    Monika Egerer, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC

    Local and Landscape Drivers of Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Human Well-being in Urban Agroecosystems

    Host: Stacy Philpott

     

    OCTOBER 29, 2018

    Hillary Angelo, Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, UCSC

    Urbanized Nature: Greening as Citymaking

    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn

     

    OCTOBER 22, 2018

    Jerry Zee, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, UCSC

    Aerosol Politics: Geo-Meteorological Phase Shifts in a Chinese Weather-System

    Host: Flora Lu

     

    OCTOBER 15, 2018

    Tracey Osborne, Assistant Professor, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona

    Carbon Counter-Mapping: A Public Political Ecology for Climate Justice

    Host: Chris Benner

     

    OCTOBER 8, 2018

    Nina Wurzburger, Associate Professor, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia

    A Fix or a Problem? Disturbance-induced Nitrogen Fixation Facilitates Recovery, but Contributes to Declining Forest Resilience

    Host: Kai Zhu

     

    OCTOBER 1, 2018

    Lindsey Dillon, Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, UCSC

    When Sustainability Becomes Toxic: The Political Ecologies of Urban Redevelopment in Southeast San Francisco

    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn

     


    JUNE 4, 2018
    Laurie Drinkwater
    Horticulture, Cornell University
    Host: Deborah Letourneau

    MAY 21, 2018
    Sarah Skikne
    Department of Environmental Studies, UCSC
    Host: Erika Zavaleta 

    MAY 14, 2018
    “Going Out on a Limb for Beneficial Insects or... Peril in the Field”
    Deborah Letourneau
    Department of Environmental Studies, UCSC
    Host: Greg Gilbert

    MAY 7, 2018
    "Environmental Activism in a 'Post-Truth' Era"
    Lindsey Dillon
    Sociology Department, UCSC
    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn
  • Seminar Series | “Complexity in a Cup of Coffee: Socio-ecological Dynamics in Mexican Coffee Agroecosystems”

    APRIL 30, 2018
    Esteli Jimenez-Soto
    Department of Environmental Studies, UCSC
    Host: Stacy Philpott
  • Seminar Series | "Science and Governance of Climate Engineering”

    APRIL 23, 2018
    Sikina Jinnah and Tom Ackerman
    Politics Department, UCSC and Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, respectively
    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn
  • Seminar Series | "Resource Availability Mediates Disease Dynamics in Bees"

    APRIL 16, 2018
    Hamutahl Cohen
    Department of Environmental Studies, UCSC
    Host: Stacy Philpott
  • Seminar Series | “Climate Justice and Disadvantaged Communities in California”

    APRIL 9, 2018
    Tim Duane
    UCSC Department of Environmental Studies
    Host: Greg Gilbert
  • Seminar Series | “Explorations into the Biochar Frontier”

    APRIL  2, 2018
    Sanjai Parikh
    UC Davis
    Host: Weixin Cheng
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    MARCH 12, 2018
    Kristina Lyons
    Assistant Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz
    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn
  • Seminar Series | Feminist, postcolonial and decolonial interfaces with science studies

    MARCH 12, 2018
    Kristina Lyons
    Assistant Professor, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz
    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn
  • Seminar Series | Evolutionary ecology of multispecies mutualisms

    MARCH 5, 2018
    Elizabeth Pringle
    Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno
    Hosts: Esteli Jimenez Soto
  • Seminar Series | Energy and environmental economics

    FEBRUARY 26, 2018
    Jeremy West
    Assistant Professor of Economics. University of California at Santa Cruz
    Host: Adam Millard-Ball
  • Seminar Series | Land use impacts on stream restoration outcomes

    FEBRUARY 12, 2018
    Bronwen Stanford, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Studies
    University of California Santa Cruz
    Host: Erika Zavaleta
  • Seminar Series | Lightning Talks!

    FEBRUARY 5, 2018
    Karen Holl, “Lessons learned about applied nucleation as a tropical forest restoration strategy”; Greg Gilbert; Damian Parr; Michael Loik
    Host: Esteli Jimenez Soto
  • Seminar Series | Carbon credits as an incentive for habitat restoration: How do we get the most habitat bang for our carbon buck?

    JANUARY 29, 2018
    Virginia Matzek
    Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences
    Santa Clara University
    Host: Karen Holl
  • Seminar Series | Behavior, physiology, and population dynamics of native bees in rapidly changing and extreme environment

    JANUARY 22, 2018
    Hollis Woodard
    Assistant Professor, ​Department of Entomology, University of California Riverside
    Host: Esteli Jimenez Soto
  • Seminar Series | Bat ecology and conservation in agricultural landscapes in the California central coast

    JANUARY 8, 2018
    Elissa Olimpi
    Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz
    Host: Stacy Philpott
  • Seminar Series | You can count on us: Assessing the politics, promise, and perils of global urban climate governance

    December 4, 2017
    David Gordon
    Assistant Professor, Politics Department, UCSC
    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn
  • Seminar Series | Immigrant farmworker health, inequalities, and what can be done

    November 27, 2017
    Seth Holmes and indigenous farmworker research collaborators
    Seth Holmes is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and Public Health; Co-Chair
    Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, UC, Berkeley
    Hosts: Esteli Jimenez Soto and Madeleine Fairbairn
  • Seminar Series | Cross-pollinating agriculture, ecosystems and food: Human/bee relationships in Anolaima, Colombia

    November 20, 2017
    Marcela Cely Santos, Ph.D. Candidate
    Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Stacy Philpott
  • Seminar Series | From Minkowski to muskoxen: An ecological theory of time

    November 13, 2017
    Eric Stephen Post
    Professor of Climate Change Ecology, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, UC Davis
    Host: Chris Wilmers
  • Seminar Series | For-profit democracy: The rise of environmental injustices, and the decline of governmental authority

    November 6, 2017
    Loka Ashwood, Assistant Professor
    Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University
    Host: Madeleine Fairbairn
  • Seminar Series | Vegetation phenology and remote sensing

    October 30, 2017
    Cong Wang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Environmental Studies Dept., UCSC
    Host: Kai Zhu
  • Seminar Series | Urban sprawl: History, geography and climate consequences

    October 23, 2017
    Adam Millard-Ball, Assistant Professor
    Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Daniel Press
  • Seminar Series | As husband and wife: Modern farms and portable families in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta

    October 16, 2017
    Robin Lovell, Ph.D. Candidate
    Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Jeff Bury
  • Seminar Series | SupplyShift: A global network for corporate supply chain sustainability information and the startup journey of former ENVS grad students

    October 9, 2017
    James Barsimantov, Chief Operating Officer
    SupplyShift; UCSC ENVS PhD graduate
    Host: Greg Gilbert
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    Wednesday, June 7, 2017
    Duran Fiack, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
    UC Santa Cruz
    Host: Sheldon Kamieniecki
  • Seminar Series

    Monday, May 15, 2017
    Arthur Middleton, Assistant Professor
    Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley
    Host: Chris Wilmers
  • Seminar Series | Farmer adaptation and alternative management practices in semi-arid West Africa

    Monday, May 8, 2017
    Jon Eldon, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
    UC Santa Cruz
    Host: Carol Shennan
  • Seminar Series | Scenario Modeling of Potential Climate Change Effects in California Reservoirs

    Wednesday, May 3, 2017
    Amber Jean Kuss McCullum, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
    UC Santa Cruz
    Host: Brent Haddad
  • Seminar Series | The only thing we have to fear: Humans as a top behavioral predator in the Santa Cruz Mountains

    Monday, April 24, 2017
    "The only thing we have to fear: Humans as a top behavioral predator in the Santa Cruz Mountains"
    Justine Smith, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
    UC Santa Cruz
    Host: Chris Wilmers
  • Seminar Series | Local Fishery, Global Commodity: Governing resource access in marine and coastal fisheries

    Wednesday, April 19, 2017
    Katherine Seto, PhD Candidate
    Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley
    Host: Daniel Press
  • Seminar Series | Global garbage and gendered spaces of nature and development in coastal Yucatán, Mexico.

    Monday, April 17, 2017
    Anne-Marie Hanson, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Illinois, Springfield
    Host: Daniel Press
  • Seminar Series | "Sovereignty, seafood, science, and the making of coastal and oceans governance"

    Wednesday, April 12, 2017
    Elizabeth Havice, Assistant Professor, Geography Dept.
    UNC - Chapel Hill
    Host: Daniel Press
  • Seminar Series

    Monday, April 10, 2017
    Michele L. Barnes, NSF SBE Postdoctoral Fellow
    Univ. of Hawaii
    Host: Daniel Press
  • Seminar Series

    Wednesday, March 15, 2017
    Joseph Bull, Quantitative Environmental Scientist Candidate
    12:00 to 1:10 pm in ISB 221
    Come early for coffee, tea and snacks
    Host: Chris Wilmers
  • Seminar Series

    Monday, March 13, 2017
    Quantitative Environmental Scientist Candidate Kai Zhu
    12:00 to 1:10 pm in ISB 221
    Come early for coffee, tea and snacks
    Host: Chris Wilmers
  • Seminar Series | Investigating human behaviors as adaptation to changing social and biophysical landscapes

    Wednesday, March 8, 2017
    Quantitative Environmental Scientist Candidate
    Jonathan Salerno, Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
    12:00 to 1:10 pm in ISB 221
    Come early for coffee, tea and snacks
    Host: Chris Wilmers
  • Seminar Series

    Wednesday, March 1, 2017
    Quantitative Environmental Scientist Candidate
    12:00 to 1:10 pm in ISB 221
    Come early for coffee, tea and snacks
    Host: Chris Wilmers
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    Seminar Series
    Monday, February 27
    Joshua Cinner, Coastal Sciences & Policy Candidate
    Host: Don Croll
  • Seminar Series | "An Ecosystem Ecologist Goes to Washington: Science to Inform Restoration, Management, and Policy"

    Wednesday, February 15
    Ariana Sutton-Grier, Research Faculty for the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center,
    University of Maryland College Park,
    Host: Don Croll
  • Seminar Series | Uncertainty in water management: when things are poorly known and differently understood

    February 1, 2017
    Dr. Marcela Brugnach, Water Engineer and Management Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands
    Host: Stacy Philpott

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  • Seminar Series | The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Sustainable Water and Food Systems in Coastal California

    January 30, 2017
    Dr. Jason Gurdak, Associate Professor, Earth and Climate Sciences Department, San Francisco State University
    Host: Stacy Philpott

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  • Seminar Series | Integrating data and models to inform biodiversity decision-making

    January 23, 2017
    Leah Gerber, Director of the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Arizona State University
    Host: Don Croll

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  • Seminar Series | Land use change and the loss of climate adaptive ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes

    January 18, 2017
    Dr. Brenda Lin, Senior Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Land and Water Division
    Host: Stacy Philpott

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  • Seminar Series | Rethinking Food Localization: A Food-Water-Energy Perspective

    January 11, 2017
    Dr. Elliot Campbell, Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced
    Host: Stacy Philpott

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  • Seminar Series | Salinity intrusion in the Vietnamese Mekong delta: how can we sustainably adapt agricultural production systems to this (un)natural process?

    January 9, 2017
    Dr. Fabrice Renaud, Head of Section, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security
    Host: Stacy Philpott

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  • Seminar Series | PhyloSusceptibility: Phylogenetics Predictions about Pathogenic Phungi

    September 26, 2016
    Gregory S. Gilbert, Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Karen Holl

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  • Seminar Series | Agroecosystems, Biodiversity, Ecological Complexity, and Human Benefits

    October 3, 2016
    Stacy Philpott, Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Deborah Letourneau

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  • Seminar Series | Does American Environmental Policy Work? Limits, Failures and Reforms?

    October 10, 2016
    Daniel Press, Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Tim Duane

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  • Seminar Series | Complexity and the Quest for Sustainable Crop Production Systems

    October 17, 2016
    Carol Shennan, Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Deborah Letourneau

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  • Seminar Series | The Climate Conundrum: Complex Human and Natural Systems Research Challenges in the Andes

    October 24, 2016
    Jeff Bury, Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Flora Lu

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  • Seminar Series | The Physiology, Behavior, and Indirect Effects of Large Predators in a Human Dominated World

    Monday, October 31
    Chris Wilmers, Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Terrie Williams

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  • Seminar Series | The Pesticide Treadmill: Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Two Organophosphates in California's Central Coast

    November 7
    12:00–1:05 p.m. in 221 ISB
    Come early for coffee, tea, & snacks
    Ann Drevno, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Daniel Press

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  • Exhibit | Cross Pollination: The Art and Science of Santa Cruz Insects

    November 12 
    10:00–5:00 p.m. at Cowell Ranch Hay Barn
    November 13
    10:00–3:00 p.m. at Cowell Ranch Hay Barn
    Showcasing the artwork of Maryjo Koch and the Randall Morgan Insect Collection held by UCSC's Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History. Read more »

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  • Seminar Series | Crude Contradictions: Political Economy, Indigenous Struggles, and Conservation in Contemporary Ecuador

    November 14
    12:00–1:05 p.m. in 221 ISB
    Come early for coffee, tea, & snacks
    Flora Lu, Professor, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC
    Host: Andy Sasz

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  • Seminar Series | Police, Pesticides, and Prisons: Environmental Justice and the Capitalist Racial State in Delano, California

    November 21
    12:00–1:05 p.m. in 221 ISB
    Come early for coffee, tea, & snacks
    Keith Miyake, UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of American Studies, UC Davis
    Host: Flora Lu

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    November 28
    12:00–1:05 p.m. in 221 ISB
    Come early for coffee, tea, & snacks
    Host: TBA

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