Past Environmental Speaker Series

Environmental Speakers Series: 2021-22

Fall Quarter

WWU's Sustainability Engagement Institute

Lindsey MacDonald
Lindsey MacDonald

Salmon Habitat Restoration using Engineered Log Jams: Is it Working?

James Helfield
Jim Helfield

Ocean Acidification in the Salish Sea and Beyond

Brooke Love
Brooke Love

Contaminants of Emerging Concern and their Connections to Salish Sea Wildlife and People

Ruth Sofield
Ruth Sofield

Carbon Mitigation Strategies for Mid-Sized Cities: The Bellingham Climate Action Plan

Charlie Barnhart
Charlie Barnhart

The Response of the Stillaguamish Watershed to Projected Climate Change

Robert Mitchell
Bob Mitchell

Harbor Seals in Whatcom Creek

Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez
Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez

Rediscovering Our Toxic Legacy – A Tale of DDT

Karin Lemkau
Karin Lemkau

Thanksgiving Holiday

Pumpkin pie with crust shaped into mathematical pie symbol on top
(No Speaker)

The Nitrogen Cascade, from the Nooksack to the Globe

David Hooper
David Hooper

Winter Quarter

An overview of the Salish Sea Environment and the work of the Salish Sea Institute

Ginny Broadhurst
Ginny Broadhurst

A Way of Life

Timothy Bellew Sr.
Tim Ballew

The Importance of Environmental Justice Storytelling

Samara Almonte
Samara Almonte

Conservation, Restoration and the Challenge of Complex Life Histories

Brian Bingham
Brian Bingham

Nuts’a’maat: We Are All One

John Harris
John Harris

Restoring the Iconic Pinto Abalone in the Salish Sea

Deb Donovan
Deb Donovan

Northwest Coast Ethnobotany and Lessons for Food Systems Sustainability

Abe Lloyd
Abe Lloyd

Watershed Restoration: The Rest of the Story - Bringing Land Use and Upper Watershed Processes into Focus

Oliver Grah
Oliver Grah

Synthetic Biology, Phantom Ecology and other Radical New Approaches to Both Save Species and Broaden Participation in STEM

Dr. Milton Muldrow, Jr.
Dr. Milton Muldrow, Jr.

Effects of Ocean Warming Across the Life Cycle of Bull Kelp

Brooke Weigel
Brooke Weigel

Creating an Atlas of the Salish Sea Bioregion

Aquila Flower
Aquila Flower

Spring Quarter

Environmental Storytelling

Annie Crawley
Annie Crawley

Energy, the Environment and Everyday Life: Transitioning to a Place-based Culture

Paul Kearsley
Paul Kearsley

Conservation and Stewardship Amongst a Growing Human Population - Whatcom Land Trust's Strategy

Jennifer Mackey
Jennifer Mackey

Invasive for Whom? Including Farmer Perspectives in the Vision for the Galapagos Islands

Francisco Laso
Francisco Laso

Partnering on Oil Spill Prevention, Response, and Recovery

Meg Harris kayaking
Meg Harris

Bringing Earthquake Early Warning to Washington: Background, Challenges, and Were we Successful?

Mouse Marie Reusch in tulip field
Mouse Marie Reusch

Restoring the Nooksack Watershed Through Community-Driven Forest Stewardship

Alexander Harris and Lois (a chicken)
Alex Harris

Positionality and Accountability in Climate Advocacy

Sarah Myhre
Sarah Myhre

Regional Stormwater Treatment Innovations: The Park Place Facility & POST Media Development Story

Chris Webb
Chris Webb

It's the Little Things: Forage Fish Ecology and Management in the Salish Sea

Tessa Francis
Tessa Francis