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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Lectures, seminars, and colloquia on environmental themes
(click here for individual schedules of seminars and conferences)
Summer, 2008 |
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Wednesday, July 9, 9-11 am |
Paul Murray, Dir. of Envir. Health and Sustainability, Herman Miller: The Power of One. The Power of One will articulate how the actions of even one person can have a profound impact on raising a company’s – and even an industry’s – environmental awareness. The event is free but registration is required. |
PREVIOUS EVENTS |
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Tuesday, April 1, 12:30 pm |
Jerry Mead, U. Pennsylvania: Modeling primary production at two spatial scales: Little Sandy Creek, NY, and the Delaware River basin. |
| Wednesday, April 2, 2:50 pm 145 Baker Lab (ESF) |
Sloane Crawford , NYS DEC : Wood for schools. Bioenergy and Bioproducts Seminar. Information 470-6732 |
| Thursday, April 3, 4 pm 113 Heroy (SU) |
Scott Miller, Syracuse University: Beyond rock uplift: Landscape evolution models and quantitative geomorphology of convergent orogens. Dept. of Earth Sciences colloquium |
| Thursday, April 3 , 7 pm, Shemin Auditorium, Schaffer Art Bldg (SU) | Lee Alan Dugatkin, U of Louisville: The altruism equation: Seven scientists search for the origins of goodness. Jack and Pat Bryan Life Sciences Lecture Series. |
| Friday, April 4, noon, Lundgren Room, 112 Lyman Hall (SU) | Lee Alan Dugatkin, U of Louisville: Culture, genes, and sexual selection in animals and humans. Biology Lecture Series. |
Friday, April 4, 3 pm 146 Baker Lab (ESF) |
Margaret Shannon, U of Vermont: The essential role of research for sustainable forest management: Feminist theory and practice. Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions Speaker Series. Sponsored by the dept. of Forest and Natural Resource Management and the ESF Women's Caucus |
| Tuesday, April 8, 4 pm 146 Baker Lab (ESF) |
Pat Reuxinger, NYS DEC: Freshwater wetlands: Conservation policy in New York State. Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions Speaker Series. Sponsored by the dept. of Environmental Studies Randolph Pack Environmental Institute and the ESF Women's Caucus |
| Wednesday, April 9, 5:30 pm Marshall Hall Auditorium (ESF) |
Timothy Beatley, University of Virginia: Green Urbanism: Strategies for re-earthing cities native to nowhere. Bradford G. Sears Lecture, Dept. of Landscape Archtiecture. |
| Thursday, April 10, 4 pm 113 Heroy (SU) |
Yemane Asmerom, University of New Mexico: Holocene climate variability and implication for global warming. Dept. of Earth Sciences colloquium |
| Thursday, April 10, 6:30 pm, 145 Baker (ESF) | Kevin Stack, ESF visiting faculty: What is biomimicry? |
| Thursday, April 17, 4 pm 113 Heroy (SU) |
David Strait, SUNY Albany: Something to chew on: integrative analysis of hominid feeding biomechanics. Dept. of Earth Sciences colloquium |
| Thursday, April 17, 4 pm Marshall Auditorium (ESF) |
David Pimentel , Cornell: Biomass for liquid fuels: Energy and the environment. Shifting Paradigms lecture; reception follows. |
| Thursday, April 17, 4:30 pm 140 Baker Lab (ESF) |
Bruce Lippke, U of Washington : Using wood to improve environmental performace of structures also optimizes forest contributions to reducing global warming potential. ESF Speaker Series in Sustainable Construction and Renewable Wood Products. |
| Friday, April 18, noon, Lundgren Room, 112 Lyman Hall (SU) | Tristan Stayton, Bucknell: "Shell Game: Morphological Evolution and Mechanical Comprise in the Turtle Shell." Biology Lecture Series. |
| Monday, April 21, 4:30 pm Marshall Hall Auditorium (ESF) |
Ethan Carr, University of Virginia: Parks and their Public: Planning and ideology in US National Park design. George Albrecht Memorial Lecture, Dept. of Landscape Architecture. |
| Tuesday, April 22, 4 pm 146 Baker Lab (ESF) |
Susan Crow, Placematters, Denver, CO: Creating resilient communities: Tools for regional land use planning in the face of coastal hazards in South Carolina. Women in Scientific and Environmental Professions Speaker Series. Sponsored by the Dept. of Landscape Architecture and the ESF Women's Caucus |
| Wednesday, April 23, noon 110 Moon Library (ESF) |
Karen O'Neill , Rutgers University: Sovereign States and Climate treaties: Why national hazard policies limit international cooperation. Dept of Environmental Studies and Randolph Pack Environmental Institute brown bag series on Climate Action. |
| Thursday, April 24, 4 pm 113 Heroy (SU) |
James Russell, Brown University: Late Holocene climate change and glaciation in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda/Congo. Dept. of Earth Sciences colloquium |
| Friday-Saturday, April 25-6 8:30 am - 7 pm, Sheraton University Hotel |
Black Women's Health and Environmental Justice Symposium, SU Dept. of African American Affairs. Event flyer (PDF) and Program (PDF) |
| Tuesday, May 20, 2:30-4 Location TBA (ESF) |
Sara S. Berry, Johns Hopkins U: Changing Processes of Claiming Land and Local Governance in West Africa: How these processes have (and have not) changed in 25 years of neoliberal policy initiatives; and what these changes imply for sustainable management of natural resources, particularly forests. Sponsored by Dept. of Environmental Studies and Randolph G. Pack Environmental Institute at SUNY-ESF. |