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

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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

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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

Seminar Series | “Complexity in a Cup of Coffee: Socio-ecological Dynamics in Mexican Coffee Agroecosystems”

Seminar Series | "Science and Governance of Climate Engineering”

Seminar Series | "Resource Availability Mediates Disease Dynamics in Bees"

Seminar Series | “Climate Justice and Disadvantaged Communities in California”

Seminar Series | “Explorations into the Biochar Frontier”

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Seminar Series | Feminist, postcolonial and decolonial interfaces with science studies

Seminar Series | Evolutionary ecology of multispecies mutualisms

Seminar Series | Energy and environmental economics

Seminar Series | Land use impacts on stream restoration outcomes

Seminar Series | Lightning Talks!

Seminar Series | Carbon credits as an incentive for habitat restoration: How do we get the most habitat bang for our carbon buck?

Seminar Series | Behavior, physiology, and population dynamics of native bees in rapidly changing and extreme environment

Seminar Series | Bat ecology and conservation in agricultural landscapes in the California central coast

Seminar Series | You can count on us: Assessing the politics, promise, and perils of global urban climate governance

Seminar Series | Immigrant farmworker health, inequalities, and what can be done

Seminar Series | Cross-pollinating agriculture, ecosystems and food: Human/bee relationships in Anolaima, Colombia

Seminar Series | From Minkowski to muskoxen: An ecological theory of time

Seminar Series | For-profit democracy: The rise of environmental injustices, and the decline of governmental authority

Seminar Series | Vegetation phenology and remote sensing

Seminar Series | Urban sprawl: History, geography and climate consequences

Seminar Series | As husband and wife: Modern farms and portable families in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta

Seminar Series | SupplyShift: A global network for corporate supply chain sustainability information and the startup journey of former ENVS grad students

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Seminar Series | Farmer adaptation and alternative management practices in semi-arid West Africa

Seminar Series | Scenario Modeling of Potential Climate Change Effects in California Reservoirs

Seminar Series | The only thing we have to fear: Humans as a top behavioral predator in the Santa Cruz Mountains

Seminar Series | Local Fishery, Global Commodity: Governing resource access in marine and coastal fisheries

Seminar Series | Global garbage and gendered spaces of nature and development in coastal Yucatán, Mexico.

Seminar Series | "Sovereignty, seafood, science, and the making of coastal and oceans governance"

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Seminar Series | Investigating human behaviors as adaptation to changing social and biophysical landscapes

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Seminar Series | "An Ecosystem Ecologist Goes to Washington: Science to Inform Restoration, Management, and Policy"

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

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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