ENVS Events

Date: Monday 20 September 2010
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Benson 380, {duration}

Date: Monday 13 September 2010
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Benson 380, {duration}

Date: Wednesday 08 September 2010
Time: 04:00 pm
Location: CIRES Auditorium, {duration}

Title: TBA

Date: Wednesday 04 August 2010
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: CSTPR Conference Room, 1333 Grandview, {duration}

Amy Telligman, Economics, Sociology, and the Local Food Movement
David Cherney, Yellowstone’s Saviors? Nonprofits in environmental policy and American democracy

This Seminar Series provides an opportunity for ENVS graduate students to present and receive feedback on research in all stages of completion and to foster collaborative development of ideas and projects. Sessions will include two 15-20 minute conference-style presentations, each followed by 20-25 minutes for comments, questions, and discussion. Each session will conclude with an open discussion of future directions for research, especially collaborative, with a focus on opportunities for linking across disciplines, methods, and topics.

Refreshments will not be provided, but feel free to bring something to share!

Date: Wednesday 14 July 2010
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: CSTPR Conference Room, 1333 Grandview, {duration}

Caitlin Crouch, Acid Mine Drainage, Stream and Groundwater Geochemistry
Ricardo Simmons, Reconciliation Environmentalism: Philosophy and Theology

This Seminar Series provides an opportunity for ENVS graduate students to present and receive feedback on research in all stages of completion and to foster collaborative development of ideas and projects. Sessions will include two 15-20 minute conference-style presentations, each followed by 20-25 minutes for comments, questions, and discussion. Each session will conclude with an open discussion of future directions for research, especially collaborative, with a focus on opportunities for linking across disciplines, methods, and topics.

Refreshments will not be provided, but feel free to bring something to share!

Date: Wednesday 23 June 2010
Time: 03:00 pm
Location: CSTPR Conference Room, 1333 Grandview, {duration}

Ashwin Ravikumar, Interdisciplinary Data Collection for UN’s REDD+ Mechanism
Emily Zakem, Oxygen-18 Isotope Trends in Atmospheric CO2: Decadel Fluctuations

This Seminar Series provides an opportunity for ENVS graduate students to present and receive feedback on research in all stages of completion and to foster collaborative development of ideas and projects. Sessions will include two 15-20 minute conference-style presentations, each followed by 20-25 minutes for comments, questions, and discussion. Each session will conclude with an open discussion of future directions for research, especially collaborative, with a focus on opportunities for linking across disciplines, methods, and topics.

Refreshments will not be provided, but feel free to bring something to share!

Date: Wednesday 23 June 2010
Time: 09:00 am
Location: UMC 235, {duration}

Speakers: Matt Larsen, Associate Director for Water, USGS ; Mike Sullivan, Deputy State Engineer, Colorado

More Information (pdf)

Register at the Colorado Water Institute web site. Registration fee is $30.

Date: Wednesday 14 April 2010
Time: 05:30 pm
Location: Wolf Law Building, {duration}

Speakers: Lakshman D. Guruswamy, Ph.D., Nicholas Doman Professor of International Environmental Law; Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Security

Title: Universities and Law Schools as Incubators: Energy & Environmental Problem Solving

Topics:
* Why Law Schools should not be confined to training students to solve cases and controversies.
* Why and how Universities and Law Schools should become incubators for solving major local, national and international energy and environmental problems.
* Why Law Schools are qualified to do so.
* Jeremy Bentham's jurisprudential legacy.
* Examples of what can be done.

Free and open to the public.

Date: Wednesday 14 April 2010
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Wolf Law 204, {duration}

Speakers: Anita Halvorssen, Adjunct Professor, DU Law, Political Science, CU

Professor Halvorssen will be presenting on International Law and Climate Change. Her research interests include multilateral environmental agreements; trade and sustainable development; differential treatment for developing countries; biodiversity; climate change issues and the Kyoto Mechanisms; small island developing States; environmental governance; the UN and multilateral systems; institutional reform; and the role of civil society in sustainable development.

Professor Halvorssen is an Adjunct Professor at DU Law and for the Political Science Department at CU. She has also taught at CU Law in past years.

Lunch will be provided.

Sponsored by Doman Society of International Law and Environmental Law Society.

Contact: Amanda Matlock, (303) 204-1407

Websites: CU Law

Date: Wednesday 14 April 2010
Time: 11:00 am
Location: ECCB 1B41, {duration}

Speakers: Dr. Michelle Walvoord, USGS Denver

Title: Hydrologic impacts and biogeochemical consequences of ground ice and permafrost thaw in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska and other northern ecosystems

Abstract

The Yukon River Basin in central Alaska and northwestern Canada is undergoing hydrologic change in response to climate warming that has persisted for several decades. This 852,000 km2 basin contains sporadic to continuous permafrost and provides a unique opportunity to study climate change effects in undisturbed northern ecosystems. A primary focus of this multi- and interdisciplinary research effort is to identify and understand climate-related shifts in hydrologic processes and related impacts integrated across a wide range of scales. Observed changes over the past several decades include variations in the surface areas of wetlands and lakes, soil moisture, and the magnitude and seasonal variability of river discharge. Permafrost thaw likely drives many of these changes by modifying the routing of water above and below the surface, which in turn impacts fish and wildlife habitat and the biogeochemistry of carbon, nitrogen, and other chemical constituents.

Several complementary studies seek to understand hydrologic pathways in permafrost-impacted watersheds at catchment to regional scales.

Groundwater modeling studies are presented here that elucidate the impact of seasonal ground ice and permafrost on hydrologic pathways. 2-D dynamic freeze/thaw simulations of seasonal ground ice formation and thaw illustrate how groundwater flow patterns shift in the presence or absence of frozen ground. Regional groundwater flow simulations of permafrost thaw evolution in the Yukon Flats Basin illustrate the potential for dramatic changes in groundwater flow, river baseflow, and lakes and wetlands that are supported by groundwater.

Websites: Water Resources Engineering Seminar

Date: Tuesday 13 April 2010
Time: 06:00 pm
Location: Fiske Planetarium, {duration}

Title: Planet Earth

More than five years in the making, PLANET EARTH redefines blue-chip natural history filmmaking and continues the Discovery Channel mission to provide the highest quality programming in the world. The 11-part series will amaze viewers with never-before-seen animal behaviors, startling views of locations captured by cameras for the first time, and unprecedented high-definition production techniques. Award-winning actress and conservationist Sigourney Weaver is the series' narrator.

Websites: CU Environmental Center

Date: Tuesday 13 April 2010
Time: 05:00 pm
Location: Economics 205, {duration}

Speakers: Kevin Zimlinghaus, U.S. Forest Service

Kevin Zimlinghaus grew up on the coast in California and earned a BS degree in Natural Resources Management w/ a Forestry Concentration from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Just out of school, he began his Forest Service career working as a firefighter on a 5-person engine. After a four-year stint in fire suppression, he moved into Silviculture where he has been ever since working in the Lake Tahoe region, southern Oregon, and most recently here in Colorado. In Colorado, he has been involved with the planning and implementation of fuel reduction projects on National System lands. However, with the increasing populations of mountain pine beetle on the east slope of the divide, he have been working on mitigation measures to minimize the impacts of high valued areas across the districts that we manage.

All talks are free and open to all students. Join us to set your environmental career in motion!

For more information on the talk or series, contact Dale Miller, 303-492-6629.

Free Pizza and organic juice!

Co-sponsors: Environmental Studies Program, Environmental Center, CU Environmental Program & Career Services

Date: Tuesday 13 April 2010
Time: 04:00 pm
Location: Fiske Planetarium, {duration}

Title: Planet Earth

More than five years in the making, PLANET EARTH redefines blue-chip natural history filmmaking and continues the Discovery Channel mission to provide the highest quality programming in the world. The 11-part series will amaze viewers with never-before-seen animal behaviors, startling views of locations captured by cameras for the first time, and unprecedented high-definition production techniques. Award-winning actress and conservationist Sigourney Weaver is the series' narrator.

Websites: CU Environmental Center

Date: Monday 12 April 2010
Time: 07:00 pm
Location: Fiske Planetarium, {duration}

Title: Planet Earth

More than five years in the making, PLANET EARTH redefines blue-chip natural history filmmaking and continues the Discovery Channel mission to provide the highest quality programming in the world. The 11-part series will amaze viewers with never-before-seen animal behaviors, startling views of locations captured by cameras for the first time, and unprecedented high-definition production techniques. Award-winning actress and conservationist Sigourney Weaver is the series' narrator.

Websites: CU Environmental Center