Past Environmental Speaker Series

Environmental Speakers Series: 2022-23

Fall Quarter

Mountain Goat Conservation and Restoration in Washington State

David Wallin

Dr. David Wallin

September 22, 2022

Putting recent western North Atlantic warming into context

Nina Whitney on a ship wearing protective gear

Dr. Nina Whitney

September 29, 2022

Food Freedom Through Climate Change Activism

The three zero waste team members at an event

Jenna Deane, Brandi Hutton, and Elodie Cerauskis

October 6, 2022

The Salish Sea Map: How Cartography Contributes to Geography (The Adoption of the Name Salish Sea)

Stefan Freelan

October 13, 2022

Remote Work: Monitoring Glacier Change in Kenai Fjords National Park

Dr. Taryn Black

October 20, 2022

Forest fires in western Cascadia

Dr. Brian Harvey

October 27, 2022

Expanding the Forest Management Toolbox: a Large-scale Field Experiment on Washington State Lands

Dr. Teodora Minkova

November 3, 2022

Law and Odor

Dr Tim Sturtz

November 10, 2022

A Coast Salish Environmental History of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott

Dr. Joshua L Reid

November 17, 2022

Thanksgiving Holiday

full pumpkin pie on a table

(No Speaker)

November 24, 2022

From Rhetoric to Reality: Green Amendments as a New Path for Environmental Protection

Maya K. van Rossum

December 1, 2022

Winter Quarter

What Dead Birds Tell Us About a Warming World

Dr. Julia K. Parrish

January 5, 2023

How Youth Activism Upended the U.S. Politics of Climate Change

Nick Engelfried

January 12, 2023

Earth Observation of Wetlands - Unlocking the promise of tomorrow from patterns of the past

Dr. Meghan Halabisky

January 19, 2023

Seeing forests from three-dimensional (3-D) perspective: opportunities and challenges of lidar technology in forest ecology

Guang Zheng standing in a park

Dr. Guang Zheng

January 26, 2023

Sustainability in the cross-border context: Exploring the potential for the ‘Cascadia’ region

Dr. Laurie Trautman

February 2, 2023

How to Take Part in Improving Our Community's Climate Resilience -- Via Trees!

Michael Feerer

February 9, 2023

The Fight to Save Legacy Forests in WA: the Old Growth Forests of our Future

Brel Froebe

February 16, 2023

The Power of Storytelling and Nature

Jarre Hamilton in a forest setting

Jarre Hamilton

February 21, 2023

Green advocacy in Cascadia’s borderlands: The role of cross-border media and persuasion in protecting the Skagit Headwaters Donut Hole

Dr. Derek Moscato

February 23, 2023

Environmental justice and river restoration in Puget Sound

Dr. Grant Gutierrez

March 2, 2023

Creating an Atlas of the Salish Sea Bioregion

Dr. Aquila Flower

March 9, 2023

Spring Quarter

Not fiery enough: Why the modern era of large wildfires in eastern Oregon and Washington actually needs more fire

Dr. Daniel Donato

March 30, 2023

Forests in the age of big data: measuring and monitoring Canada’s forests from space

Dr. Chris Mulverhill

April 6, 2023

When is Conservation? Spirituality, Nature and Cultural Evolution in the 21st Century

Gabe Epperson Standing in a field

Gabe Epperson

April 13, 2023

Mini-Forest Revolution: Rewilding our communities for Climate Resilience

Hannah Lewis

April 20, 2023

CGE exploration of economic, environmental, and social changes to Hawaii Post-Covid 19

Patrick sitting at a table writing on some papers

Dr Patrick Buckley

April 27, 2023

Ocean Rights: An emerging environmental ethic to transform ocean governance

Michelle Bender

May 4, 2023

Salish Sea Seaweeds: Safe to Eat?

Jennifer collecting seaweed samples.

Jennifer Hahn

May 11, 2023

Climate and wildfires in western North America: a case for proactive management

Dr. Prichard standing in a forest in a black and white photo

Dr. Susan Prichard

May 18, 2023

See the Forest through the point clouds: Lidar applications for ecology.

Jonathan hiking in a burnt forest in the snow

Jonathan Batchelor

May 25, 2023

Always Looking Forward: A Year in the College of the Environment

Dr. Gabrielson standing on some stairs

Dr. Teena Gabrielson

June 1, 2023