Seminars
2009 - 2010 Seminar Schedule
- (All seminars are on Tuesday at 4:00 pm and are held in the Large Seminar Room, unless otherwise noted)
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| SEP 3 Thursday DGE conference room |
Josep Peñuelas | Research Professor, National Research Council of Spain / Director of Plant Ecophysiology and Global Change Unit , Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | "Neglected biological components of ecosystem - global change interactions" |
| SEP 22 | James Johnstone | Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley | "Summer fog variability in the coast redwood region: climatic relevance and ecological implications" |
| SEP 29 |
Kris Ebi | Head, Technical Support Unit, IPCC-Working Group II |
"A stitch in time: adaptation to the health impacts of climate change" |
| OCT 6 | Noah Diffenbaugh | Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University | "Dynamics and impacts of fine-scale climate change" |
| OCT 13 | David Keith | Director, ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems Group | The capability to engineer the climate is a necessary tool for managing climate risks. |
| OCT 15 Thursday Y2E2 299 |
Josep (Pep) Canadell | Executive Director, Global Carbon Project A joint project of the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP: IGBP, IHDP, WCRP, Diversitas) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research | "The 2008 Carbon Budget" |
| DEC 1 | Todd Dawson | Departments of Integrative Biology and Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley | Linking roots to regions: how root functions can impact hydrological and other ecosystem processes. |
| JAN 5 | Romain Barnard | Grassland Science, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Visiting UC Berkeley | How can plant diversity affect soil N cycling? Investigating from gene abundance to N2O fluxes |
| JAN 12 | John Weyant | Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University | Developing Global Climate Scenarios with Integrated Models. |
| JAN 22 Friday at NOON DGE conference room |
Mary O'Connor | Postdoctoral Associate, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis | "General temperature dependence of metabolism and the consequences for rates and outcomes of ecological processes" |
| JAN 28 | Julia K. Baum | National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara | Ocean Ecology in an Era of Global Change |
| FEB 19 Friday at NOON DGE conference room |
Duncan Menge | Postdoctoral Associate, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis | " Resolving the dual paradoxes of nitrogen limitation and nitrogen richness " |
| MAR 2 | John Harte | Professor, Energy and Resources Group, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley | "Maximum entropy predicts realistic patterns in the distribution and abundance of species" |
| APR 15 Thursday at NOON |
Anna M. Michalak | Associate Professor, Dpt of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Dpt of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, The University of Michigan | "Towards a global carbon monitoring system: Assimilating in situ and remote sensing observations in a geostatistical framework" |
| APR 27 | James Brown | University of New Mexico | "Metabolism is to Ecology as Genetics is to Evolution" |
| MAY 11 | Kirk Emerson | Senior Policy Associate, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona | "Making Collaboration Work for Climate Change." |