Seminars

Winter 2010 Environmental Studies Seminar Series

Mondays 12:30-1:40 followed by an informal discussion 1:40-2pm.

221 Interdisciplinary Sciences Building.

Snacks and coffee provided at 12:15!

January 11: Adina Paytan, Associate Research Scientist, Institute of Marine Sciences, UCSC

Title: A new look into phosphorus cycling

Host: Michael Loik

January 25: Rebecca Shaw, Director of Conservation and Director of Climate Change Adaptation, The Nature Conservancy, California

Title: Changing conservation in the face of a changing climate

Host: Karen Holl

February 1: Deborah Letourneau, Professor, Environmental Studies Dept., UCSC

Title: Vegetation management for conservation and pest control -- Fulbright research and teaching in Colombia

Host: Greg Gilbert

February 8: Nancy Grulke, Research Plant Physiologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station

Title: The role of air pollution in increasing forest susceptibility to wildfire

Host: Brian Petersen

February 22: Jake Kosek, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Geography, UC Berkeley

Title: The natures of the beast: On honeybees & and the biopolitics of terror

Host: Brian Petersen

March 1: Kris Hulvey, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies Dept., UCSC, Exit Talk

Title: How can we manage plant invasions in California grasslands? The role of competitive native species and coordinated landowner action

Host: Erika Zavaleta

March 8: Scott Prudham, Assoc. Professor, Department of Geography and Centre for Environment, University of Toronto

Title: Men and things: Objectification, Polanyi's double movement and speculations on a green political economy

Host: Sean Gillon

March 15: Shalene Jha, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

Title: Movement in the matrix: population genetics and ecosystem services across human-dominated landscapes

Host:  Heather Briggs