ESPM Colloquium Seminar Schedule
Mondays 4:00 – 5:30 pm, 159 Mulford
Last Modified 05/6/08 02:18January 28 - Garrison Sposito, ESPM. "Nature's Own Nanoparticles: bacteriogenic Manganese Oxides as Agents of Biogeochemical Change".
February 4 - Anne-Hélène Mathey, Forest Resources Management , University of British Columbia, Canada. "A Decentralized Planning Approach for Addressing complexity in Forest Ecosystem Management"
February 11 - Robert M. Scheller, Conservation Biology Institue, Corvallis, Oregon. "Changing Forest Landscapes and Consequesnces for Ecosystem Functioning".
February 18 - No colloquium, President's Day holiday
February 25 - Jeremy W. Lichstein, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University. "Predicting Forest Dyanmics with a Simple Tractable MOdel: Implications for Studying Climate-Vegetation Feedbacks."
March 3 - Rosemary Gillespie, Professor in Organisms and the Environment, ESPM and Director of the Essig Museum of Entomology, UCB. “Past Meets Present: Community Assembly on Remote Oceanic Islands.”
March 10 - Randall D. Jackson, Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Restoring Ecosystem Services to Grasslands.”
March 17 - Katharine Nash Suding, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine. “Incorporating Ecosystem Thresholds and Feedbacks into the Theory and Practice of Restoration.”
March 24 - No colloquium, Spring Break.
March 31 - Bradley J. Cardinale, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara. "Effects of Biodiversity on the Function of Ecosystems ... One Summary of, and Vision for a Paradigm."
April 7 - Dan Kammen, 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy in the Energy and Resources Group and the Goldman School of Public Policy, and Co-Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment. "Science and Policy Innovations for a Low Carbon Society".
April 14 - Subhrendu Pattanayak, Fellow at RTI International, Associate Professor at NC State University, and Sr. Fellow at the Center for Applied Biodiversity Sciences. “Nature Cares”
April 21 - Terry Chapin, Professor Ecology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska at Fairbanks. "Social ecology sustainability in a changing world: Concepts and Policy Strategies to Address Climate Change in Alaska."
April 28 - Arlene Blum, PhD. Visiting Scholar, Center for Institutions and Governance, UC Berkeley. "The Fire Retardant Dilemma: Balancing Fire Prevention, Human Health, and Environmental Safety."
May 5 - David Wilcove, Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Public Affairs, Princeton University. "The Impacts of Agriculture on Tropical Biodiversity: Lessons and Lies from Kenya and Borneo."
May 12 - Bill Dietrich, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. "Is there a Topographic Signature of Life of Earth?"