Environmental Science Colloquium

Weekly seminar open to all UCLA faculty, students and staff.

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Invasive species and other threats to California's biological diversity

JOHN M. RANDALL, Associate Science Director, South Coast & Deserts, The Nature Conservancy - California Chapter & Plant Sciences Department, University of California, Davis

Monday, November 09, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
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Fall 2009 Environmental Science Colloquium

Weekly seminar open to all UCLA faculty, students and staff

The Los Angeles River: Past, Present and Future

SHELLY BACKLAR, Executive Director, Friends of the LA river (FoLAR)

Monday, October 05, 2009

Don't Forget the Second "D" : The Importance of Including Degradation in a REDD Mechanism

DAVID GANZ, Director, Global Fire Initiative, The Nature Conservancy Visiting Scholar, University of California-Berkely

Monday, October 12, 2009

But, Its a Dry Heat... Climate Warming, Increased Aridity and its Impacts in Southwestern North America

GLEN M. MACDONALD, Director, Institute of the Environment, UC-Los Angeles Professor, IoE, Dept. of Geography, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA

Monday, October 19, 2009

Audubon: 100 years of Citizen Science

GARRY GEORGE, Director, Audubon California

Monday, October 26, 2009

City of Los Angeles Biosolids Management Program

DERRICK K. LEE, EMS Coordinator, Bureau of Sanitation, City of Los Angeles

Monday, November 02, 2009

Invasive species and other threats to California's biological diversity

JOHN M. RANDALL, Associate Science Director, South Coast & Deserts, The Nature Conservancy - California Chapter & Plant Sciences Department, University of California, Davis

Monday, November 09, 2009

Making Los Angeles A Global Capital of Clean Technology

SEAN ARIAN, Director of Economic Development, Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

Monday, November 16, 2009

World's Most Endangered Forest

THOMAS GILLESPIE, Department of Geography, UC-Los Angeles

Monday, November 23, 2009

Presentation of Individual Practicum Project

NANCY TSENG, Environmental Science Senior

Monday, November 30, 2009


Previous Environmental Science Colloquium

Archive of previous Environmental Science Colloquiums.

Green Chemistry

Martha Dina Arguello, Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles

Monday, May 18, 2009

Fair Trade and the Environment

Sam Bills, Manager, Ten Thousand Villages, and Dr. Tom Dietsch, Ph.D. Researcher, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, UCLA

Monday, May 11, 2009

The Science, Art and Politics of Conservation

Ileene Anderson, Center for Biological Diversity, Biologist, Public Lands Desert Director

Monday, May 04, 2009

Are Environments Gendered?

Dr. Sandra Harding, Professor, Social Science and Comparative Education, UCLA

Monday, April 27, 2009

Mercury, arsenic, and pathogens: three pollutants affecting large populations in developing and developed countries

Dr. Jenny Jay, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, UCLA

Monday, April 13, 2009

Stone Canyon Creek Restoration, Science, Policy, and Practice

Mark Abramson and Heather Burdick, Santa Monica Baykeepers

Monday, April 06, 2009

Conservation Biology in the Amazon and the Choco Rainforests

Renata Duraes, Post Doctoral Researcher, CTR, UCLA

Monday, March 02, 2009

Harmful Algal Blooms in Southern California Coastal Oceans

Rebecca Shipe , Assistant Professor, EEB

Monday, February 23, 2009

"A Sea of Trash", Sailing, Science, and Marine Ecosystem Issues

Marcus Erikson, Ph.D. Director of Research and Education, Algalita Marine Research Center

Monday, February 09, 2009

Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

Hilary Godwin, Professor, Environmental Sciences, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Public Health, UCLA

Monday, February 02, 2009

Ecological Predictors of West Nile Virus in Southern California

Ryan Harrigan, Post Doctoral Researcher, CTR, UCLA

Monday, January 26, 2009

Climate Change: Impact on Species Evolution

Environmental Science Colloquium with DR. CURTIS DEUTSCH, UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Monday, November 24, 2008

Environmental Implications of the Re-introduction of Wolves

Environmental Science Colloquium with DR. WOLFGANG BUERMANN, UCLA Institute of the Environment, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Monday, November 10, 2008

Wine and Environmental Economics

Environmental Science Colloquium with DR. MAGALI DELMAS, UCLA Institute of the Environment

Monday, November 03, 2008

Urban Green Cuisine: Regenerating Urban Food Systems

Environmental Science Colloquium with RICKEY SMITH, Urban Green Cuisine

Monday, October 27, 2008

The Industrialization of Agriculture and Counter Trends: Environmental Implications

Environmental Science Colloquium with DR. JON PHILLIPS, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Monday, October 20, 2008

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Green Ambassadors Is Creating Change Agents

Environmental Science Colloquium with GREEN AMBASSADORS & SARA LAIMAN, Environmental Charter High School

Monday, October 06, 2008

Dolphin Project - Think and Grow Rich

Environmental Science Colloquium with MARTIN DUNKERTON, Creation Films

Monday, September 29, 2008

Complexity, Resilience, and Uncertainty in Urban Ecosystems: Linking Observations, Models, and Scenarios

MARINA ALBERTI, Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington

Monday, May 19, 2008

2041 Voyage for Cleaner Energy

ROBERT SWAN, Polar Explorer and Environmental Leader

Monday, May 12, 2008

The Return of Stone Canyon Creek

Then you saw it, now you don't. Someday soon, you may see it again. A presentation of ongoing efforts to restore the often overlooked Stone Canyon Creek on UCLA campus.

Monday, April 28, 2008

From a tangle of challenges on a greenhouse planet - depleted energy and resources, crashing species, crushing health costs - can we weave wholecloth solutions? We must - it's this century's work.

Richard Jackson, Director, Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan

Monday, April 14, 2008

Balancing Fire Hazard Reduction and Resource Protection in California's Fire Prone Ecosystems

Jon Keeley, Research Ecologist, USGS; Adjunct Prof., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA

Monday, April 07, 2008

Place-Based Management of Ocean Ecosystems

Gail Osherenko, Bren School of the Environment, University of California at Santa Barbara

Monday, March 10, 2008

Energy Efficiency: the first, and most profitable way to delay Climate Change

Arthur Rosenfeld, Commissioner, California Energy Commission Presented in Conjunction with the Department of Physics and Astronomy:

Monday, February 25, 2008

A Blueprint for Healing the Bay

The UCLA Institute of the Environment Oppenheim Lecture Series Presents: Dr. Mark Gold, President, Heal the Bay.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Climate Change and the Law

Sean Hecht, Executive Director, UCLA Environmental Law Center

Monday, January 28, 2008

Preventing the Introduction of Invasive Plants through the Horticultural Trade

Ashley Boren, President, Sustainable Conservation

Monday, January 14, 2008