Spring 2015 ESPM Departmental Seminar

Thursdays, noon, 132 Mulford Hall

  • January 22.  Taylor Ricketts, University of Vermont: “Is nature good for you?  Linking ecosystems and human health”
  • January 29. The 2015 ESPM Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Carolyn Finney: “Righteous Road: Black Faces, White Spaces & the Promise of Radical Presence”
  • February 5. Andrew Gutierrez, ESPM: “Weather, Yield and Suicides: Deconstructing Indian Rain Fed Bt-Cotton – why agricultural economists got it wrong.”
  • February 12. Erica Bree Rosenblum, ESPM: “Speciation and extinction in changing environments”
  • February 19. Theodore Grantham, Balancing societal and ecological water needs
    in managed hydrosystems
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    Interview Seminar for the Water Resources & Climate Change Adaptation CE Specialist position
  • February 26. Christine Kirchhoff, From More Efficient Knowledge Production to
    Resilient Water Governance: Supporting Better Water Management Across Scales of
    Decision Making
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    Interview Seminar for the Water Resources & Climate Change Adaptation CE Specialist position
  • March 5. Neil Carter, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), “Untangling the complexity of human-wildlife coexistence.” Interview Seminar for Wildlife Management and Policy position
  • March 10. Aavudai Anandhi Swamy. Special Seminar:Challenges addressing impacts of climate change on water resources for ecosystem services”. Interview Seminar for the Water Resources & Climate Change Adaptation CE Specialist position
  • March 12. Kai Blaisdell, ESPM: “Ecology and management of an emerging disease in vineyards”
  • March 17. Lucia Zappala’, University of Catania, Sicily, Italy: Special Seminar: “Exotic agricultural pests in the Mediterranean basin: from classical to conservation biological control”. VLSB 2038.
  • March 19. Arthur Middleton, Yellowstone and the role of wildlife ecology in ecosystem management. Wildlife Management and Policy search
  • April 2. Xue Feng, Duke University, “Climate variability and ecohydrology of seasonally dry ecosystems“, Interview Seminar for the Watershed search
  • April 9. Morgan Gray, ESPM: “The Importance of Land Use in Understanding Carnivore Distributions”
  • April 16. Marianne Glasius, Aarhus University, Denmark: “Tracing sources of organic aerosols in urban and arctic environments”
  • April 23. Frank Courchamp, National Research center, France: “Title TBA”
  • April 30. The 2015 ESPM Distinguished Student Lecture, Matthew Luskin: “Pervasive impacts from oil palm expansion, hunting, and trophic cascades, on Southeast Asia’s wildlife and tree dynamics”

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