NREL/ESS Spring 2013 Seminar Series

Feb 4

Seminar Series Kick-off -- Launch Event for the Department of Ecosystem Science & Sustainability

Speaker: Former Governor Bill Ritter, "Sustainability as a Core Value"

1:30-3:00pm in Room 228 Lory Student Center; Reception to follow at University Club

Feb 15

The Headwaters Initiative: Adaptation and Management in Headwater Regions of the World

Presented by Melinda Laituri, Professor, ESS

Feb 22

Social Networks and Sustainability: Mapping network characteristics that may help underrepresented women persist in science

Presented by Gillian Bowser, Research Scientist, NREL

More information can be found at http://www.sciencecodex.com/studying_networks_to_help_women_succeed_in_science-106997

No Seminar This Week

Environmental Science Literacy, Learning Progressions and Sustainable Solutions

Presented by John Moore, Director, NREL; Department Head, ESS

Sustainability: The Corporate View, Corporate Requirements, and Potential Roles for Scientists

Presented by Hillary Brick, Senior VP for Marketing at Giumarra

Social-Ecology-Psychology Colloquium

8:30am-12:00pm in the Grey Rock Room, Lory Student Center

• 8:30am - "Ecology, Culture, and the Brain: An Approach of Cultural Neuroscience," presented by Shinobu Kitayama, University of Michigan
• 9:30am - "Geographic Variation in the Prevalence of Personality Traits," presented by Jason Rentfrow, University of Cambridge
• 10:20am - "Multilevel Models in Cross-Cultural Psychology," presented by Fons J.R. Van de Vijver, Tilburg University/North-West University/Queensland University

Water Resources Sustainability in the Semi-Arid Western United States -- What is Happening and What Can be Done

Presented by Steven Fassnacht, Associate Professor, ESS

What is the Role of Environmental Education in the Sustainability of the Baltimore Urban Ecosystem?

Presented by Alan R. Berkowitz
Head of Education, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and Education Team Leader, Baltimore Ecosystem Study

The Undesirable Guide to Sustainable Forests

Presented by
Dan Binkley, Professor, ESS and
Megan Matonis, Graduate Student

Making Peace with Posterity: Ways to Rescue the Sustainability from the Perils of Perfectionism

Presented by
PATTY LIMERICK
Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West
University of Colorado

NEW LOCATION: Behavioral Science 131

Abstract
Dr. Limerick will use examples from Western American history to emphasize the value of taking the past seriously in order to take the future seriously.  She will also use her recent collaborative grant on natural gas development, from the National Science Foundation Sustainability Research Network, to suggest ways of steering around the obstacles posed by creating too idealized a vision for a sustainable future.