Past Environmental Speaker Series

Environmental Speakers Series: 2020-21

Fall Quarter

Placemaking and Climate Change Migration

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James Miller

How to Plant One Million Trees in 5 Years or Less

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Jessica Engel

Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin

Shana Lee Hirsch
Shana Lee Hirsch

Tools for Integrating Ecosystem Connectivity Into Planning

Shannon Crossen
Shannon Crossen

Studying the Natural Environment and Emerging Contaminants One Nanoparticle at a Time

Manuel Montano
Manuel Montano

50 years of Food and Farm Studies at Huxley: From Ernst Gayden's Human Ecology to FoodWISE Agroecology

Gigi Berardi
Gigi Berardi

The Pyrogeography of the 2020 US Fire Season

Michael Medler
Michael Medler

Non-native Fish Species: A Management Conundrum and an Ecological Headache

Angela Strecker
Angela Strecker

Aloha ʻĀina – Rebuilding Our Fractured Relationship to Place

Mary Tuti Baker
Mary Tuti Baker

Thanksgiving Holiday

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(No Speaker)

College of the Environment Action Workshop

Nick Stanger
Nick Stanger & Huxley Community Members

Winter Quarter

Energy, Economics and Electoral Politics

Sharon Shewmake
Sharon Shewmake

Ocean Outbreaks in the Salish Sea from Sea Grasses to Sea Stars are Heating Up

Drew Harvell
Drew Harvell

Salmon People: Tracing Indigenous resistance across the Pacific Northwest

Ruth Miller
Ruth Miller

Scaling Change: Imagining Future Ecologies

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Adam Huggins & Mendel Skulski

Read All About It: What's the News of the Salish Sea?

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Mike Sato

The Salish Sea Map: How Cartography Contributed to the Adoption of the Name Salish Sea

Stefan Freelan
Stefan Freelan

Cheryl Bryce (postponed)

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Cheryl Bryce

“Our Hands Are Out”: Building Partnerships for the Future by Remembering the Past

Kurt Grinnell, Speaker
Kurt Grinnell & Loni Greninger

The State of the Salish Sea: A Preview of the Upcoming Report

Kathryn Sobocinski, Speaker
Kathryn Sobocinski

Relatives of the Deep: The Ethnoecology of a Lekwungen Archipelago in the Salish Sea

Darcy Mathews, Speaker
Darcy Mathews

Using Clam Garden Research to Span the Boundary Between Indigenous Communities and Academic Research

Marco Hatch, Speaker
Marco Hatch

Spring Quarter

Reconstructing Past Climate Using Tree-Ring Data from Ancient Bristlecone Pine

Andy Bunn, Speaker
Andy Bunn

Seabed Mining: A Threat to Washington's Waters, and our Successful Campaign to Ban this Practice

Lee First, Speaker
Lee First and Liz Schotman

Tahoma’s Biggest Stories

Jeff Antonelis-Lapp, Speaker
Jeff Antonelis-Lapp

Intersectional Environmentalism: The key to Fighting Racism and Climate Change

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Emily Pinckney

Creating a Carbon Conservation Trust Movement

Steve Hollenhorst
Steve Hollenhorst

Commissioner Franz On Washington Environmental Policy and Community Resilience

Hillary Franz, Speaker
Hillary Franz

Deep Seafloor Life in the Water Column

Shawn Arellano, Speaker
Shawn Arellano

Kelp in Washington: Why You Must Care!

Thomas Mumford, Speaker
Tom Mumford

How Interactions Belowground Make the Aboveground Possible

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Rebecca Bunn