Previous Seminars: 2014

Thursday, 20 November
Undergraduate Research Symposium
Thursday, 6 November
Ms. Kame Westerman - Advisor/Gender & Conservation, Social Policy & Practice, Conservation International
"Ensuring that Conservation Works for Everyone"
Thursday, 9 October
Dr. Steven Davis, Assistant Professor of Earth Systems Science, UC Irvine
"Transforming the Global Power Sector: Commitments, Opportunities and Pitfalls"
Thursday, 18 September
Dr. Andreas Huth & Dr. Rico Fischer
Department of Ecological Modeling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany
"Complex Forests and Remote Sensing" (Huth)
"Contribution to a higher accuracy of aboveground biomass estimations in tropical forests: Linking LiDAR data and forest simulations" (Fischer)
Thursday, 17 April
Dr. Andrew Crooks
Assistant Professor, Computational Social Science, George Mason University
"GeoSocial Analysis: From Natural Disasters to Protests"
Thursday, 3 April
Dr. Zhu Liu
Post-doc Research Fellow at Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard
"Revisiting China's carbon emissions"

Thursday, 6 March
Dr. Julie Silva
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Geographical Sciences, UMD
"Researching Poverty and Uneven Development from a Geographer's Perspective"
Thursday, 20 February
Dr. Robert Kennedy
Asst. Professor, Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University
"Adventures in space-time: Landsat time series analyses for fun and profit"
Thursday, 27 February
Dr. Michael Rawlins
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, UMass Amherst
"Recent Trends and Potential Future Trajectories in Arctic Water and Carbon Cycles Under a Warming Climate"