Environmental Speakers Series: 2022-23

Fall Quarter

Mountain Goat Conservation and Restoration in Washington State

David Wallin
Dr. David Wallin

Putting recent western North Atlantic warming into context

Nina Whitney on a ship wearing protective gear
Dr. Nina Whitney

Food Freedom Through Climate Change Activism

The three zero waste team members at an event
Jenna Deane, Brandi Hutton, and Elodie Cerauskis

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

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Stefan Freelan

Remote Work: Monitoring Glacier Change in Kenai Fjords National Park

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Dr. Taryn Black

Forest fires in western Cascadia

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Dr. Brian Harvey

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

Headshot of Teodora Minkova
Dr. Teodora Minkova

Law and Odor

Headshot of Dr Tim Sturtz
Dr Tim Sturtz

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

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Dr. Joshua L Reid

Thanksgiving Holiday

full pumpkin pie on a table
(No Speaker)

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

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Maya K. van Rossum

Winter Quarter

What Dead Birds Tell Us About a Warming World

Headshot of Dr. Julia K. Parrish
Dr. Julia K. Parrish

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

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Nick Engelfried

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

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Dr. Meghan Halabisky

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

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

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Dr. Laurie Trautman

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

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Michael Feerer

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

Headshot of Brel Froebe
Brel Froebe

The Power of Storytelling and Nature

Jarre Hamilton in a forest setting
Jarre Hamilton

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

headshot of Derek Moscato
Dr. Derek Moscato

Environmental justice and river restoration in Puget Sound

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Dr. Grant Gutierrez

Creating an Atlas of the Salish Sea Bioregion

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Dr. Aquila Flower

Spring Quarter

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

Headshot of Daniel Donato in the forest
Dr. Daniel Donato

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

Headshot of Dr Chris Mulverhill
Dr. Chris Mulverhill

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

Gabe Epperson Standing in a field
Gabe Epperson

Mini-Forest Revolution: Rewilding our communities for Climate Resilience

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Hannah Lewis

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

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Dr Patrick Buckley

Ocean Rights: An emerging environmental ethic to transform ocean governance

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Michelle Bender

Salish Sea Seaweeds: Safe to Eat?

Jennifer collecting seaweed samples.
Jennifer Hahn

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

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Dr. Susan Prichard

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

Jonathan hiking in a burnt forest in the snow
Jonathan Batchelor

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

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Dr. Teena Gabrielson