ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES EVENTS SPRING 2008
Evening Colloquia
Tuesday, February 19
7:00 pm in Olin 1
Joel Tickner '89, Assistant Professor, Department of
Community Health and Sustainability, University of MA Lowell
Rethinking the Way We
Address Complex Risks to Human Health and Ecosystems
Tuesday, February 26
7:00 pm in Olin 1
Peter McKinley '87, Director of Forestland Conservation,
Forest Society of Maine
Conserving Warblers and
Willet
Tuesday, March 11
7:00 pm in Olin 1
IBM Lecture, Co-sponsored by the STS Program
F. Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland, Professor of Chemistry and Nobel Laureate,
UC Irvine
Our Changing Atmosphere
Thursday, March 13
7:00 pm in Diamond 142
Co-Sponsored by the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and
Civic Engagement
Sally Fairfax, Professor of Forest Policy, University of
California, Berkeley
Protecting Large
Working Landscapes: Models and Cautionary Tales
Tuesday, March 18
7:00 pm in Olin 1
Jon Isham, Professor of Economics and ES, Middlebury College
Hollis Lecture - Fanning the Flames:
Some Next Steps for the World's Climate Movement
Tuesday, April 15
7:30 pm in Diamond 142
Grossman Lecture
Tom Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics
Emissions Trading: The
Evolution of an Economic Idea from Concept to Global Implementation
Wednesday, April 16
7:30 pm in Lovejoy 100
Co-sponsored by History Department
James McCann, Professor of History, Boston University
Unintended Consequences: The Effect of Maize
Cultivation on Malaria Transmission in Ethiopia
Lunchtime Colloquia
Wednesday, March 5
12:00 pm in the Fairchild Room in Dana, join us at 11:30 for
lunch with Andy.
Andy Smith, State Toxicologist and Director, Environmental
and Occupational Health Programs, Maine Center for Disease Control and
Prevention
What are the Top Five
Public Health Issues for Maine, and How are They Being Addressed?
Wednesday, April 2
12:00 pm in the Fairchild Room in Dana, join us at 11:30 for
lunch with Peter.
Peter Sly, Mellon Fellow in Environment and Justice
Environmental Justice
and Indian Water Rights: 100 years of Paper Water
Wednesday, April 9
12:00 pm in the Fairchild Room in Dana. Join us at 11:30 for
lunch with Kabiri.
Ngeta Kabiri, Faculty Fellow in Environmental Studies and Government
Conservation Politics
in Africa
Other Events
Tuesday, February 12
7:00 pm in Diamond 122
Sponsored by the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and
Civic Engagement
Know Before You Vote: Philip Nyhus & Gail Carlson
on the environment
Wednesday, February 13
12:00 pm in the Fairchild Room in Dana, join us at 11:30 for
lunch with Claire Thompson, Steve Erario, Rose Becker, Eric Hansen, and Katie
Klepinski
Mellon Interns Share Their Jan Plan Experiences
Friday, February 22
4:00 pm in
Miller 14
STS Seminar
Lenny Reich, Professor of Administrative Science and STS
Climbing the Oil Peak:
Energy, Power, and the American Way of Life
Wednesday, April 23
12:00 pm in the Fairchild Room in Dana
Green Colby: Celebrate Earth Day with a Open
Discussion about Campus Greening
Wednesday, April 30
7:30 pm in Diamond 142
Celebration of the Undergraduate Research Symposium, Keynote
Address,
Roger D. Launius, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum,
Looking Backward/Looking Forward: Spaceflight at the
Turn of the New Millennium