Environmental Speaker Series

The Environmental Speaker Series, at WWU's College of the Environment, presents topics of environmental concern for the WWU and Bellingham communities. 
Talks are Thursdays at 4:30pm PT.

For Winter 2023 the series will be both on-campus (AW-204) and Online. The CLASS will be held on campus with the public allowed to attend in person as well. Parking is available in lot C. Talks will ALSO be live-streamed for the off-campus audience. 

Register with the Alumni Association to get a link for the live stream. Registration is free and open to all. 

Students in the class must attend in person.

Promoted in partnership with the Alumni Association's Western Engaged program.  

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WWU is an equal opportunity institution. For disability accommodation contact Jonathan (Batchej2@wwu.edu).

See also, Toxicology and Societies Speaker Series & Fairhaven's World Issues Forum

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2022-2023 Speaker Schedule

Winter Quarter - 2023

Dr. Julia K. Parrish

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What Dead Birds Tell Us About a Warming World
Jan 05 2023

Nick Engelfried

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How Youth Activism Upended the U.S. Politics of Climate Change
Jan 12 2023

Dr. Meghan Halabisky

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Earth Observation of Wetlands - Unlocking the promise of tomorrow from patterns of the past
Jan 19 2023

Dr. Guang Zheng

Guang Zheng standing in a park
Seeing forests from three-dimensional (3-D) perspective: opportunities and challenges of lidar technology in forest ecology
Jan 26 2023

Dr. Laurie Trautman

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Sustainability in the cross-border context: Exploring the potential for the ‘Cascadia’ region
Feb 02 2023

Michael Feerer

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How to Take Part in Improving Our Community's Climate Resilience -- Via Trees!
Feb 09 2023

Brel Froebe

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The Fight to Save Legacy Forests in WA: the Old Growth Forests of our Future
Feb 16 2023

Jarre Hamilton

Jarre Hamilton in a forest setting
The Power of Storytelling and Nature
Feb 21 2023

Dr. Derek Moscato

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Green advocacy in Cascadia’s borderlands: The role of cross-border media and persuasion in protecting the Skagit Headwaters Donut Hole
Feb 23 2023

Dr. Grant Gutierrez

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Environmental justice and river restoration in Puget Sound
Mar 02 2023

Dr. Aquila Flower

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Creating an Atlas of the Salish Sea Bioregion
Mar 09 2023

Spring Quarter - 2023

Dr. Daniel Donato

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Not fiery enough: Why the modern era of large wildfires in eastern Oregon and Washington actually needs more fire
Mar 30 2023

Dr. Chris Mulverhill

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Forests in the age of big data: measuring and monitoring Canada’s forests from space
Apr 06 2023

Gabe Epperson

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When is Conservation? Spirituality, Nature and Cultural Evolution in the 21st Century
Apr 13 2023

Hannah Lewis

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Mini-Forest Revolution: Rewilding our communities for Climate Resilience
Apr 20 2023

Dr Patrick Buckley

Patrick sitting at a table writing on some papers
CGE exploration of economic, environmental, and social changes to Hawaii Post-Covid 19
Apr 27 2023

Michelle Bender

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Ocean Rights: An emerging environmental ethic to transform ocean governance
May 04 2023

Jennifer Hahn

Jennifer collecting seaweed samples.
Salish Sea Seaweeds: Safe to Eat?
May 11 2023

Dr. Susan Prichard

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Climate and wildfires in western North America: a case for proactive management
May 18 2023

Jonathan Batchelor

Jonathan hiking in a burnt forest in the snow
See the Forest through the point clouds: Lidar applications for ecology.
May 25 2023

Dr. Teena Gabrielson

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Always Looking Forward: A Year in the College of the Environment
Jun 01 2023

Fall Quarter - 2022

Dr. David Wallin

David Wallin
Mountain Goat Conservation and Restoration in Washington State
Sep 22 2022

Dr. Nina Whitney

Nina Whitney on a ship wearing protective gear
Putting recent western North Atlantic warming into context
Sep 29 2022

Jenna Deane, Brandi Hutton, and Elodie Cerauskis

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Food Freedom Through Climate Change Activism
Oct 06 2022

Stefan Freelan

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The Salish Sea Map: How Cartography Contributes to Geography (The Adoption of the Name Salish Sea)
Oct 13 2022

Dr. Taryn Black

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Remote Work: Monitoring Glacier Change in Kenai Fjords National Park
Oct 20 2022

Dr. Brian Harvey

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Forest fires in western Cascadia
Oct 27 2022

Dr. Teodora Minkova

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Expanding the Forest Management Toolbox: a Large-scale Field Experiment on Washington State Lands
Nov 03 2022

Dr Tim Sturtz

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Law and Odor
Nov 10 2022

Dr. Joshua L Reid

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A Coast Salish Environmental History of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott
Nov 17 2022

(No Speaker)

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Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov 24 2022

Maya K. van Rossum

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From Rhetoric to Reality: Green Amendments as a New Path for Environmental Protection
Dec 01 2022