EVSC 494   UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES    Spring 2007

 

January 23                            Introduction and Overview

 

January 30                           Dr. Robert Pressey

Ecology Centre, University of Queensland, Australia

"Science and Politics in Conservation Planning"

 

February 6                             Dr. Vaughan C. Turekian
                                                Director, Office of International Initiatives
                                                American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC

“Science, Technology and the Environment: U.S. Foreign Policy”

 

February 13                         Ms. Monica Rulli and Ms. Simona Savini
                                                Instituto di Ecologia Applicata
                                                University of Rome, Italy

“Southeast Asian Mammal Databank Study in Borneo and Vietnam”

                                               

February 20                         Mr. Mel Vargas

Parsons Engineering, Austin, TX

“The Clean Water Act and Watershed Management”

 

February 27                          Mr. Marc Steininger

Conservation International, Washington, DC

”Remote Sensing and Threatened Species in Protected Areas”

 

March 6                                  Spring Break

 

March 13                               Dr. Michael Garstang, Professor Emeritus

Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia

“Meteorology and Communication between Elephants”

 

March 20                               Dr. Mike Erwin, Research Scientist

                                                USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Maryland

                                                "Avian influenza: basic principles and wildlife implications”

 

March 27                               Mr. Ladd Flock, Director

University Career Services, University of Virginia

"Environmental Career Resources"

 

April 3                                     Dr. Maria Uhle

                                                Program Officer, Polar Research Board
                                                The National Academies, Washington, DC

“Bioremediation of Pollutants in the Environment”

 

April 10                                  Dr. Nathan Currier

Visiting Professor University of Virginia

“A Reflection on Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth about Climate”

 

April 17                                  Dr. Cheryl Hapke

                                                USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Rhode Island

 "Impacts of Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina on the Long-term
                                 Shoreline Change Record in the Gulf of Mexico"

 

April 24                                  Mr. Thomas Jones

                                                New Venture Directions, Earlysville, VA

                                                “The Economics of Global Warming”

 

May 1                                      Undergraduate Distinguished Majors

   “Undergraduate Reports on Research in Environmental Sciences”

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