Environmental Studies Speakers Series
Fall 2004 Schedule
All talks are 12:20 to 1:10 on Fridays in room 228 of the Science Center. Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be served.
Sept 10: Gretchen Miles, Alfred
University
"Stable Carbon Isotopes: A Tool for Understanding Carbon Uptake
by Forests"
Skylar Pais, Alfred University
“Uranyl Ion Exchange in Zeolites: Moving Toward Model Compounds”
“The Good, the Bad and the Brine – Hydrogeology of the Onondaga Valley, Syracuse, NY”
Sept 24: Virginia Rasmussen, Program on Corporations, Law
and Democracy
“Communities Take the Offense: St. Thomas Township vs. St. Thomas
Development Corporation”
Oct 1: James Curatolo, Upper Susquehanna Coalition
“The Upper Susquehanna Coalition - A Watershed Approach addressing
Nonpoint Source Issues in the Headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay”
Oct 8: Tim Lowenstein, Binghamton University
“Secular Variations in Seawater Chemistry and its Influence
on Marine Life”
*** No seminar Oct 15 due to Mid-Semester Break ***
Oct 22: John Slater, Daniel Webster College
“Global Warming and Regional Cooling”
Oct 29: Margaret Davis, University of Minnesota
"Using fossils to trace forest response to changing climate:
an example from old-growth hemlock-hardwoods in northern Michigan"
Nov 5: David Lytle, United States Forest Service
“The Border Lakes Project: Managing a Mixed-Ownership Forest
Landscape for Multiple Objectives”
Nov 12: Eugene Wahl, Alfred University
"Global Temperatures Over the Last Two Millennia, Recent Controversy,
and Modern Human-Caused Climate Change"
Nov 19: Clarence Lehman, University of Minnesota
"Biodiversity and our planet's changing ecosystems"
Dec 3: Matthew Hall, Alfred University
“Enabling Materials for the Hydrogen Economy”
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