URBAN ECOLOGY SEMINARS
seminars
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Spring 2005 Series |
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Wednesday, 23 March 7-8 pm, Kane Hall 120 |
Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University, "The Nineveh Gap: Why We Can’t Predict Political Responses to Environmental Problems" Part of the Oceans to Stars Lecture Series sponsored by the UW Earth Initiative and the UW Almuni Association
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Thursday, 24 March 430-530 pm Physics Auditorium A102
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Paul Ehrlich, Standford University, "Countryside Biogeography: The Conservation Value of City, Suburbs, and Farmland" - Seminar Flier Reception to follow in Anderson 207 (Forest Club Room) |
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Spring 2004 Series Winkenwerder 201 4:30 pm |
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| Thursday, April 15th | Kent Portney, Tufts University: "Taking Sustainabile Cities Seriously, An Update" - Seminar Flier | |
| Thursday, April 29th | Carol
Wessman, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
and theCenter for the Study of Earth from Space (CSES),
University of Colorado at Boulder: "Ecological Systems from a
Bird's-Eye View: Pattern in Process" - Seminar
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| Thursday, May 13th | Paul Robbins, Associate Professor, Geography, Ohio State University: “Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn” - Seminar Flier. Dr. Robbins will also be presenting a seminar entitled, "The Politics of 'Barstool Biology': Knowledge, power, and elk in greater northern Yellowstone" at 1230 pm in Room 258 Mary Gates Hall (flier for this seminar) |
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| Thursday, May 20th | Laurie Wayburn, Pacific Forest Trust, "Forests Through the 21st Century: Managing Across a Changing Landscape" (flier for this seminar) |
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Winter 2004 Series - flier Winkenwerder 201 4:30 pm |
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| Thursday, January 22th | Eugene Hunn, Professor of Anthropology, UW: : “Why do Urban Naciremans* Know So Little About Their Natural Environment?” -Seminar flier | |
| Thursday, February 26th | Alan Thornhill, Executive Director, Society
for Conservation Biology: “The Conflict Between Growth of
Human Economic Systems and Conservation of Ecological Systems: The
Role of the Sciences ” - Seminar Flier |
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Quarter |
Paul Robbins, Associate Professor,
Geography, Ohio State University: “Producing and Consuming Chemicals:
The Moral Economy of the American Lawn” |
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| Thursday, October 9th |
Fred Gehlback, Professor Emeritus, Baylor University, Texas. "Urbanization Icreases Avian Predation on Bird Nests" - Link to Seminar Flier
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| Thursday, October 16 |
Visiting Graduate Students from Berlin present their graduate research
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| Thursday, November 13th |
William Shaw, University of Arizona. "Integrating Conservation into Large-scale Comprehensive Planning: The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan" - Link to Seminar Flier
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| Thursday, December 4th, 5 pm Start |
Scott Meschke, Urban Public Health, UW."The Effect of Urbanization on the Transmission of Infectious Disease: Treatment of Water and Wastewater" - link to seminar flier
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Spring 2003
Series - Click here for a printable FLIER |
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Unless otherwise noted,
seminars are on Thursdays at 430 pm in 223 Anderson |
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Thursday, April 10th |
Mark
Brown, Associate Professor, Environmental Engineer. Sci.,
Univ. of Florida “ ‘Emergy’ and Urban Ecosystems” |
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| Wednesday, May 14th | Walker Ames Professorships presents: Robert Kates, University Professor Emeritus, Brown University "The Great Transition to Sustainability: The promise and challenge of the times ahead" Kane Hall, Room 110 - Co-sponsored by Urban Ecology |
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Thursday, May 22nd |
H.
Ronald Pulliam, Regents Professor of Ecology, University
of Georgia and |
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Thursday, June 5th |
Rachel
Kaplan,
Professor of Natural Resources and Stephen Kaplan,
Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan |
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Winter 2003 Series - Click here for a printable FLIER |
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| Unless otherwise noted, seminars are on Thursdays at 430 pm in 201 Winkenwerder (Please note the change in location from previous quarters) | ||
Thursday, February 6th |
Gordon Orians: Environmental Aesthetics: using habitat selection theory as a conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting human responses to natural and modified environments - Click to download the FLIER | |
Wednesday, February 12th 110 Kane Hall, 7 PM |
Robert Costanza (Part of the Walker-Ames Lecture Series): Human-dominated ecosystems: understanding the anthroposphere in the anthropocene Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics - University of Vermont.
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Thursday, February 20th |
Michael Heyman: Land Use Planning and Regulation in the San Francisco Bay Area: Abortive tries and potential progress - Click to download the FLIER UC Berkley Web Page for Dr. Heyman |
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Thursday, February 27th |
Lawrence Susskind: Mediating Science-intensive Policy Disputes: The Importance of Joint Fact Finding- FLIER •
Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT |
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Thursday, March 6th |
Virginia Dale: Effects of Land Use on Ecological Condition - FLIER Download the following article for the Urban Ecology Class reading |
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Fall
2002 Series |
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| Thursday, October 17th | Peter Nowak, University of Wisconsin |
| Thursday, November 7th | Bill Rodgers, University of Washington |
| Thursday, December 5th | Marc Imhoff, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA |
| Unless otherwise noted, seminars are on Thursdays at 430 pm in 223 Anderson |
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| Spring 2002 |
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| World Urbanization |
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| Urban Ecology Introductory Seminar |
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Bird
Community Response to Settlement |
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| Team Teaching Workshop, December 17th,
2001 |
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