Mondays at 4:00 pm in 112 Walker Building
This seminar series is sponsored by the Earth and Environmental Systems Insitute and the Center for Landscape Dynamics. The series foreshadows the 2016 centennial of the National Parks Service and will inspire the audience to imagine what energy and environment conservation will look like in the next 100 years. Typical seminar format will be one 60-min talks each week.
Date | Speaker | Presentation |
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Sept 14 | Peter Fulé Northern Arizona University |
Megafires, Climate, and Future Forests |
Sept 28 | Penn State Graduate Students: Joe Keller (Ecology), Russell Hedberg (Geography), Lacey Goldberg (Architecture), Debasish Saha, and Erynn Maynard (Ecology) | Graduate Showcase: perspective from the recipients of the Center for Dynamics 2015 Grad Award - Each student will give an 8-10 minute talk about their research work. |
Oct 5 | No seminar | |
Oct 12 | Margaret Brittingham Penn State University |
Marcellus and Birds |
Oct 19 | Peter Newman Penn State University |
The Importance and Protection of Soundscapes in National Parks |
Oct 26 | Doug Boucher Union of Concerned Scientists |
The Global “Need” for Food in 2050: What the Numbers Mean |
Nov 2 | Craig Allen USGS, Colorado |
Managing Ecosystem Transitions in an Increasingly Dynamic Global Change World -- A Core Challenge for Conservation in the 21st Century |
Nov 9 | Doug and Rebecca Bird Anthropology, Penn State |
A Landscape Architecture of Fire: Pyrodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Indigenous Australia |
Nov 16 | No Seminar | |
Nov 23 | No Seminar | |
Nov 30 | No Seminar | |
Dec 7 | Terry Chapin University of Alaska-Fairbanks (Ecology Seminar Series) |
Conservation Stewardship: Shaping Pathways of Large-scale Change in Social-ecological Systems |
Organizing Committee Members:
Erica Smithwick, Jim Shortle, Alan Taylor, Dave Mortensen, Margot Kaye, Peter Newman, and Brian Orland
Co-sponsored by the Earth & Environmental Systems Institute and the Center for Landscape Dynamics