CES Seminar Series, Fall 2007

date

speaker

title

time/location

Thursday Sept. 27

Charles Chester
Brown University
(host Jeremy Rich)

Life since Brown: Conservation at multiple scales, from microbial mats to large landscapes

noon
UEL 106

Thursday
Oct. 4

John Crawford
Conservation Law
Foundation
(host Heather Leslie)

Implementing Conservation Areas to Restore Health to New England's Ocean

noon
Wilson 302

Thursday
Oct. 11

Jeremy Rich
Brown University

Role of microbial diversity in global nitrogen cycling

noon
Wilson 302

Thursday
Oct. 18

Kate Smith
Univ. of Georgia
Brown University

U.S. live animal trade: 1.6 billion and climbing

noon
MacMillan
room 115

Thursday
Oct. 25

John Hobbie
Marine Biological Lab
(host Jeremy Rich)

Mycorrhizal fungi supply mostof the nitrogen needs of their symbiotic host trees and shrubs

noon
MacMillan
room 115

Thursday
Nov. 1

Maja Schlueter
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental
Research, Germany
(host Heather Leslie)

Modeling institutions for adaptive water management in a semi-arid river basin

noon
MacMillan
room 115

Thursday
Nov. 8

Sally Yozell
Nature Conservancy
(host Heather Leslie)

The future of marine conservation in the NW Atlantic Region

noon
MacMillan
room 115

Thursday
Nov. 15

Mercedes Pascual
University of Michigan
(Host Osvaldo Sala)

Infectious disease dynamics in a changing world

noon
MacMillan
room 115

Thursday
Nov. 22

Thanksgiving

Tuesday
Nov. 27

CES Student presentations

Joshua Finn: Overcoming Barriers to the Smart Grid: An Analysis of Time of Use Rate Programs at Three Pacific Northwest Utilities

Nina Ridhibhinyo: Human Impacts on Forest Dynamics in Blackstone Park

noon

UEL

room 106

Thursday Dec. 6

Scott Nixon
University of Rhode Island
(host Jeremy Rich)

Impact of Changing Phenology on Benthic-Pelagic Coupling in Narragansett Bay

noon
MacMillan
room 115