UPCOMING PUBLIC EVENTS
Thursday & Friday, May 17-18, 2012
Bren Hall (various locations)
2012 Corporate Partners Summit (by invitation),— Successful Environmental Sustainability Programs: Showing Environmental Leadership in a Recovering Economy. (more)
Monday, May 21, 2012, 11:30 - 12:30
Bren Hall 1424
Research Colloquium on Environmental Institutions, Neal Woods, Professer, Political Science, University of South Carolina — "Environmental Free Riding in the United States." (more).
Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 11:30 - 12:30
Bren Hall 1414
Community Colloquium, Francisco Chavez, Monterey Bay Aquarium — title/topic TBA
Monday, June 4, 2012, 11:30 - 12:30
Bren Hall 1424
Research Colloquium on Environmental Institutions, Aseem Prakash, Professor, Political Science, University of Washington — (more).
Friday, June 15, 2012, 10 a.m.
Michael J. Connell Memorial Courtyard, Bren Hall
2012 Commencement Exercises, Mary Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board, speaker; topic/title TBA. (more) |
RECENT EVENTS
Events Archive
May 9, 2012
Community Colloquium, Eco-Entrepreneurship, Fran Seegull, Managing Director of Investments, ImpactAssets — "Impact Investing and the Social Capital Markets." (more)
May 2, 2012
Community Colloquium — Zurich Financial Services Distinguished Visitor on Climate
Change, Andy Revkin, journalist, Dot Earth blog, The New York Times — "Building the 'Knowosphere': How new ways to share and shape ideas can help build durable progress on a finite planet." (more)
April 23, 2012
Community Colloquium, Sandy Andelman, Conservation International — "Conservation Science Outside the Comfort Zone:
Scaling up
environmental science to change the way development decisions are
made." (more)
April 18, 2012
Research Colloquium, David Lea, Professor, Earth Science, UCSB — "Can Global Warming be Held to
2° C above Pre-Industrial?" (more)
April 16, 2012
Community Colloquium, Paul Portney, Professor of Economics, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona — "The Future of Environmental Protection in the United States." (more)
April 13, 2012
Bren Hall and Marine Science Institute (various rooms) — 2012 Master's Group Project Public Presentations. (more)
April 5, 2012
Community Colloquium — Robert Haddad, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration; "The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and NRDA: the good, the bad, and the ugly." (more)
April 2, 2012
Research Colloquium, Part of the Environmental Institutiones series — Mark Lubell, Environmenal Science and Policy, UC Davis; "Collective Action and the Complex Environment." (more)
March 21, 2012
Seminar — Amory Lovins, Co-founder, Chairman, Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute; "Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era." (more)
March 20, 2012
Research Colloquium — Tal Ben-Horin, PhD Candidate, the Bren School; "Withering syndrome and the future of
Southern California abalone fisheries." (more)
March 19, 2012
Research Colloquium on Environmental Institutions — Steve Ansolabehere, Harvard University Department of Government and Center of the Environment; "Public Opinion and America's Energy Future. (more)
March 14, 2012
Community Colloquium — David Policansky, Bren School Visitor, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences; "Who Should Decide? Science and Policy in Decision Making."
(more)
March 12, 2012
Research Colloquium — Bernardo Rudorff, Brazilian Institute for Space Research; "Monitoring of sugarcane crop for sustainable biofuel production using remote sensing images & Monitoring of soybean plantation in the Amazon biome within the Soy Moratorium context. (more)
March 7, 2012
Community Colloquium — Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited; "Saving the World one Trout at a Time." (more)
Feb. 22, 2012
Community Colloquium — Zurich Financial Services Distinguished Visitor on Climate
Change, Edward Rubin, Engineering and Public Policy; Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; "The Government Role in Fostering Technology Innovation
for Climate Change Mitigation." (more)
Feb. 15, 2012
Community Colloquium — Juan-Pablo Montero, School of Economics and Business Administration, Pontífica Universidad Católica de Chile; "Market Power in Tradeable Quota Markets for Pollution and Fisheries." (more)
Feb. 10, 2012
Community Colloquium — Jan Minx, Head of Technical Support Unit, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang (IPCC); "How to Produce a Good IPCC Assessment:
a Working Group 3
perspective." (more)
Feb. 9, 2012
Research Colloquium — Juan-Pablo Montero, School of Economics and Business Administration, Pontífica Universidad Católica de Chile; "The Effect of Transport Policies on Car Use: Theory and Evidence from Latin American Cities." (more)
Feb. 8, 2012
Community Colloquium — Carolyn Fischer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the
Future; "Overlapping Policies for Renewable Energy: Is the Whole Less than the Sum of its Parts?" (more)
Feb. 6, 2012
Community Colloquium — David Tilman, Bren School and University of Minnesota; "Biodiversity: Causes, Consequences and Conservation." (more)
Feb. 2, 2012
Research Colloquium on Environmental Institutions — Mariana Conte Grand, Director Master in Economics, Universidad del CEMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; '"A Reassessment of Argentina's GHG Proposed Target." (more)
Feb. 1, 2012
Community Colloquium — Stephen Salant, Dept. of Economics and School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan; "Speculative Attacks in Markets for Emission Permits." (more)
Jan. 30, 2012
Community Colloquium — Salvador Lluch-Cota, Main Researcher, Fisheries Ecology Program, Northwest Biological Research Cener, La Paz, Mexico; "Fisheries in a Changing Climate." (more)
Jan. 26, 2012
Research Colloquium — Stephen Salant, Dept. of Economics and School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan; "The Partnership Solution to the Common Property Problem: Theory and Laboratory Experiments." (more)
NOTE: Dr. Salant will be presenting a Community Colloquium for general audiences on Feb. 1. (See below.)
Jan. 25, 2012
Research Colloquium on Environmental Institutions — Andy Whitford, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia; "Information and Uncertainty in Regulatory Processes: Evidence from Pesticides Regulation." (more)
Jan. 23, 2012
Community Colloquium: Fulbright Public Lecture — Kai Chan, Associate Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; "The Tangible (and Intangible) Values of Nature." (more
Jan. 20, 2012m
Bren Net Impact New Venture Competition — Eco-Entrepreneurship master's students compete to represent Bren at the Walmart Better Living Business Plan Challenge in Arkansas. (more)
Jan. 19, 2012
Research Colloquium — Carolyn Fischer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; “Alternative Climate Policies and Intertemporal Emissions Leakage.” (more)
NOTE: Dr. Fischer will be presenting a Community Colloquim for a more general audence on Feb. 8.
Jan. 18, 2012
Research Colloquium — Jay Famiglietti, UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, School of Physical Sciences, UC Irvine; "Water Cycle Change and the Human Fingerprint on
the Water Landscape of the 21st Century:
Observations from a Decade of GRACE." (more)
Jan. 13, 2012
Community Colloquium — Serra Hoagland (MESM 2011), Biological Scientist; Primary Researcher, Wildlife Linkages Project, USDA Forest Service; "Assessing Habitat Linkages in Coastal Open Spaces." (more)
Jan. 9, 2012
Community Colloquium —Jesse Ausubel, Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University; "The Census of Marine Life: Some Major Findings" (more)
Nov. 28, 2011
Community Colloquium — Alessandro Faldi, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company;“The Global Energy Challenge and the Role of Technology." (more)
Nov. 21, 2011
Community Colloquium — Hugo Salgado, Professor of Economics, Universidad de Concepción; "Individual Transerfable Quotas in Chilean Fisheries: A tale of economic success and social disconformity." (more)
Nov. 16, 2011
Community Colloquium — John Foran, Professor, Dept. of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara; "Climate Justice Movements: Some Working Hypotheses." (more)
Nov. 14, 2011
Research Semina — Dr. Junjie Zhang, Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics, UC San Diego; "Agglomeration Externalities, Carbon Market and Wind Power Investment in China." (more)
Nov. 14, 2011
Community Colloquium — Thomas Jacobson, Professor, Dept. of Environmental Studies & Planning, California State University, Sonoma; "Sustainability and Property Rights: Who's going to pay for this mess?" (more)
Nov. 10, 2011, 4:30
Community Colloquium — Suprabha Seshan, Ecologist, Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, Kerala, India; "Rainforest Etiquette in a World Gone Mad." (more)
Nov. 9, 2011
Panel Discussion, Environmental Justice — Mark Heintz (Deckers Outdoor), Elissa Loughman (Patagonia), Gordon Seabury (Horny Toad, Nau), Jack Ucciferri (Harrington Investments) — "A Place for Environmntal Justice in the Business World." (more)
Nov. 7, 2011
Research Colloquium — Vicki Grassian, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa; "An Integrated Approach Toward Understanding the Environmental Fate, Transport, Toxicity and Occupational Health Hazards of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles." (more)
Oct. 26, 2011
Community Colloquium — David Raney, Raney and Associates; "Transportation of People and Goods – Lessons From Our Past and Discussion of Meaningful Pathways Toward Future Mobility." (more)
Oct. 24, 2011
Community Colloquium — Charles Curtin, Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Antioch University; "Cross-scale experiments with adaptive capacity in near-shore ecosystems of the Gulf of Maine." (more)
Oct. 19, 2011
Community Colloquium — Lynn Scarlett, Former Deputy Secretary, US Dept. of the Interiro; Co-Director, Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth; "Conservation in a Time of Scarcity." (more)
Oct. 18, 2011
PhD Dissertation Defense, Ned Bair — "Fracture mechanical and statistical properties of nonpersistent snow avalanches." (more)
Oct. 17, 2011
Community Colloquium, Patricia Balvanera — "Interdisciplinary studies on ecosystem services: linking science to decision
makers." (more)
Oct. 5, 2011
Community Colloquium — Zurich Financial Services Distinguished Visitor on Climate
Change: Dennis Ojima, Colorado State University, Fort Collins; "Toll on the Commons: What have we taken and what will be the future costs?" (more)
Oct. 3, 2011
Community Colloquium —Elliott Campbell, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced; "Bioenergy Sustainability: Want to Get Involved?" (more)
Sep. 27, 2011
PhD Dissertation Defense, Matthew Kay — "Community-based fisheries research at the Santa Barbara Channel Islands" (more)
Sept. 14, 2011
PhD Dissertation Defense, Jason Kreitler — "Ecosystem Services and Cost-effective Conservation Planning" (more)
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