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This is where we will post information about seminars that
are relevant to this class. If you attend, you can get an
extra-credit point for writing a summary of the seminar
(maximum one page, double spaced).
Your write-up should include the following:
- Date, time, place, speaker, title
- Summary of the talk (or as much of it as you could
understand)
- Your own comments on the talk (for example, were the
points made by the speaker clear and convincing? What did you
find most surprising? Did anything conflict with what you
have learned in class?)
- Questions that the talk raised in your mind
Report must be turned in within 1 week of attendance!
(Turning in a pile of these the last week of class will NOT be accepted.)
Tuesday, January 4
Jonathan Patz: "Climate Change and Health"
5:30pm, Foege Building S060 (Genome Sciences Auditorium)
Wednesday, January 5
Dale Jamieson and Tom Ackerman: "Geoengineering as a
Response to Climate Change"
3:30-5:30pm, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall
Reception to follow.
Monday, January 10
Stephen Warren
"Halos in the Sky from Atmospheric Ice Crystals"
3:30pm, ATG 310C
Tuesday, January 11
Julie Vano (UW Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering):
Water
Seminar: "Predicted Impacts of Climate Change on Irrigated
Agriculture in the Yakima Basin"
8:30am, Anderson 223.
Wednesday, January 12
Phil Rasch (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory):
Geoengineering Seminar: "Marine Cloud Brightening"
3:30pm, Johnson 075
Thursday, January 20
Charles Hirschman (Sociology, Evans School) & James Murray (Oceanography):
"Global Environmental Issues: Population, Nonrenewable Resources"
12:30pm, Physics Astronomy A110
Miyoko Sakashita (Center for Biological Diversity)
"Curbing Carbon Pollution - Legal Solutions"
4:30pm, Fishery Sciences 102
Friday, January 21
Alan Robock (Rutgers University)
"Benefits, Costs, and Risks of Stratospheric Geoengineering"
3:30pm, Johnson 075
Tuesday, January 25
Jim Fleming (Colby College)
"Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and
Climate Control"
3:30pm, Johnson 102
Thursday, January 27
Joseph Cook (Evans School) & David Battisti (Atmospheric Sciences)
"Global Environmental Issues: Water, Food Security"
12:30 - 2pm, PAA A110
David Dzombak
"Geologic Sequestration of CO2: Evaluating and Monitoring
Seal Rock Integrity"
1:30-2:50pm, Kane 110
Tuesday, February 1
Lisa Graumlich (Dean, College of the Environment)
"Climate Change, Land-Use Change, Disturbance Regimes, and
the Future of Western Ecosystems"
4pm, PAA A102
Thursday, February 3
Winona LaDuke (Executive Director, Honor the Earth Fund)
"The Next Energy Economy: Grassroots Strategies to
Mitigate Global Climate Change; Indigenous concepts of sustainability"
6:30pm, Kane 130
Tuesday, February 8
Howard Frumkin (Public Health/Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences)
"Climate change and human health"
2:30pm, NOAA Montlake Auditorium (2725 Montlake Blvd E)
Biology Seminar
Peter Wyckoff (Associate Professor of Biology, University of Minnesota, Morris)
"Climate Change Comes to Lake Wobegon: The Future of Forests at the
Prairie-Forest Ecotone in Central North America"
4:00pm, PAA A102
Friday, February 11
Jane C. S. Long (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
"Frankenstein's Academy: What Geoengineering Can Help Us Learn"
3:30-4:30pm, Johnson 075
Monday, February 14
Jed Kaplan (Professor of Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland)
"From Moraine to Meadow and Forest to Farmland: 8000 Years of
Global Environmental Change"
4pm, Johnson 075
Thursday, February 17
Usha McFarling (Artist in Residence, UW), Steven Amstrup
(Alaska Science Center), and Cecilia Bitz (Professor,
Atmospheric Sciences)
"Polar Bears: Peril, Politics, and Propaganda"
3:30-5:00pm, Electrical Engineering 125
Brian Baird (US Congressman)
"Can an Acerbic Congress Deal with Acidic Oceans?"
4:30pm, Fishery Sciences Building 102
Tuesday, February 22
Steve Rayner (Oxford University)
"How to Eat an Elephant: A Bottom-Up Approach to Climate Policy"
3:30pm, Gowen 201
Wednesday, February 23
Steve Rayner (Oxford University)
"Geoengineering Governance"
3:30-4:50pm, Johnson 075
Tuesday, March 1
Tracey Collier (NOAA Oceans & Human Health Initiative)
"Contributions of marine products to global nutrition, and implications of changing climate "
2:30pm, NOAA Montlake Auditorium (2725 Montlake Blvd. E, Seattle)
Wednesday, March 2
Benjamin Hale (Depts. of Environmental Studies and Philosphy, Univ. Colorado)
"Fixing the Wrong Wrong: Geoengineering and the End of the World"
3:30pm, Johnson 075
Sven Huseby and Barbara Ettinger
"A Sea Change": movie and panel discussion about ocean acidification
4:30pm, Fishery Science Bldg 102
Brian Smoliak (grad student, Atmos Dept)
"The Usual Suspects: Investigating the Causes of Observed Climate Variability and Change" (the relative influence of natural and human factors, from volcanoes to the buildup of greenhouse gases, to explain recent temperature change)
7pm, Johnson 075
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