Past Environmental Speaker Series

Environmental Speakers Series: 2024-25

Fall Quarter

The Role of Geothermal Features in Human Evolution: A Hypothesis

Michael Medler examining lava flows in Hawaii
Dr. Michael Medler

Atoms, Nanoparticles, and Aggregates: Using Cohort Learning Models to Galvanize Undergraduate Research

Manuel Montaño
Prof. Manuel David Montaño

Bringing things together through WWU’s Marine and Coastal Science (MACS) program

Brian Bingham
Brian Bingham

Environmental Economics Unplugged: Navigating the Green Energy Future

Sharon Shewmake
Sharon Shewmake

Howdy Neighbor! Fostering A Deeper Understanding Of Our Place in the World Through Canadian-American Studies

Christina Keppie
Dr. Christina Keppie

The Institute for Watershed Studies: Six decades of environmental stewardship, community-engaged research, and student mentorship

Angela Strecker
Dr. Angela Strecker

Cross-Border Collaboration in Cascadia: understanding place, policy, and governance in our borderlands

Dr. Laurie Trautman
Dr. Laurie Trautman

Sustainability is more than recycling: how the SEI is working toward systems-change

Sustainability Action Plan logo
Grace Wang, Lindsey MacDonald, and Kate Beck

The Salish Sea Institute – sharing knowledge across disciplines and borders

Dr. Cindy Elliser
Dr. Cindy Elliser

Winter Quarter

The Salish Sea Institute – sharing knowledge across disciplines and borders

Dr. Cindy Elliser
Dr. Cindy Elliser

Attempting to Center Indigenous People in Marine Sciences

Marco Hatch standing on the beach of Larrabee park, wearing a blue collared shirt and short grey hair. Rocky coast and tree in the background.
Marco Hatch

Commercial Shipping Impacts and Risks in the Salish Sea

Lovell Pratt with a joyous smile, long silver hair, and scarf. Conifer tree extends across the background.
Lovel Pratt

Artistic Community Mapping from 19 islands in the Salish Sea- exploring how local and regional maps highlight important qualities of nature, culture and ecoregion.

Left- Burt Webber standing in the sun, silver hair and wire framed glasses, top right Olivia Hobson half-kneeling by lavender flower, wavy brown hair and sunglasses on top of her head, bottom right Sheila Harrington smiling, long silver hair with rocky terrain in background.
Sheila Harrington, Olivia Hobson & Bert Webber

Shellfish Aquaculture in the Salish Sea

Bill Dewey in a collared jacket, the ocean and shoreline in the background..
Bill Dewey

The Salish Sea’s Silent Crisis: Yessotoxins and Shellfish Die-Offs

Misty Peacock smiling by Salish Sea, short brown hair, leaning on elbow with beach and sea in the background.
Dr. Misty Peacock

In Relationship with the Salish Sea

Santana Rabang on the left, Free Borsey on the right, sitting on red carpeted stairs of a theater. Wearing woven hats, stage current and a decorative column in the background.
Free Borsey & Santana Rabang

The Value of Integrating Social and Ecological Science into Regional Vulnerability Assessments to Ocean Acidification: a case study from the Olympic Coast

Indoor headshot of Dr. Jan Newton, long brown hair, glasses in front of a grey background.
Dr. Jan A. Newton

Protecting the Salish Sea Through Science, Local Policy, and Community Engagement

Headshots of Austin Rose on left wearing baseball and scarf with boulder in background, right is Kaylee Galloway with long curly hair standing in front o a wood pannelled wall
Kaylee Galloway & Austin Rose

Spring Quarter

Epistemic Chaos: Science and Democracy in a Post-Truth World

The speaker in a collared shirt in front of a blurred nature background
Mark Neff

Creating an Atlas of the Salish Sea Bioregion

Indoor headshot of Dr. Aquila Flower, black shirt, short blonde hair.
Aquila Flower

Education: A key tool in challenging times for environmental and social justice

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Gene Myers

Wildfire Smoke-Derived Black Carbon Deposition on the Greenland Ice Sheet: Integrating Remotely Sensed, Modeled, and In-Situ Data to Investigate Smoke Deposition Patterns and Albedo Reduction

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Ella Hall

Cross-latitude drivers of snowmelt and albedo reduction: the impact of snow nutrients on growth and pigmentation of snow algae in Alaska, Washington, and the Antarctic.

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Ellie Ryan

Analyzing the Future of the Lower Snake River Dams under the US Army Corps of Engineers

A headshot of the speaker in a grey blazer and white collared shirt.
Gabrielle Lund

A Remote Sensing and GIS Approach to Model Irrigation Water Use in Washington’s WRIA 1

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Bo MacArthur

Inverts and Energy: Aquatic Invertebrate Communities in the Snohomish Estuary

A wide view of the speaker in the field research environment, surrounded by woody debris.
Sean Grealish

ESCI Scholars Week Short Talks

A group of students outdoors near a river with a raft.
Environmental Science Undergraduates

Claws for Concern: The European Green Crab Invasion of Padilla Bay

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Kaitlin Macaranas

Environmental Geographic Information Science Projects at WWU's Spatial Institute

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The Spatial Institute

**POSTPONED** Climate Obstruction, the Dismantling of Environmental Justice, and the War on Wokeness

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Laura Pulido

ENVS Graduate Student Research

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ENVS MA Students

Environmental Speakers Series: 2024-25

Fall Quarter

Winter Quarter

The Salish Sea Institute – sharing knowledge across disciplines and borders

Dr. Cindy Elliser
Dr. Cindy Elliser

Spring Quarter