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GCSC Seminar – Terry Irwin “Designing for Systems-Level Change”

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

"Designing for Systems-Level Change" - Terry Irwin, Professor and Head, Carnegie Mellon University School of Design  | 210 ASB In this lecture, Terry Irwin will discuss the role that design can play in addressing the complex problems confronting 21st century societies. She will introduce Transition Design, a new area of design focus aimed at catalyizing systems […]

GCSC Seminar – Jack Williams “Achieving global ecology via dispersed community curated data resources”

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

“Achieving global ecology via dispersed community curated data resources:  Neotoma and PalEON” Jack Williams, Center for Climatic Research, Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin  | 4pm, 210 asb  | read more Ecologists often seek to study processes operating at continental to global scales from amalgams of data originally collected at local to regional scales. Ecological data […]

GCSC Seminar – Kari Norgaard “Climate Change as Strategic Opportunity: Imagination, Responsibility, and Community”

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

“Climate Change as Strategic Opportunity: Imagination, Responsibility, and Community” - Kari Norgaard, DEPT. of Sociology, U. of Oregon Climate change poses profound ecological, social and political crises, but also opportunities to re-imagine our responsibilities to one another and the natural world and to create community. This talk draws upon fieldwork on climate denial and Norgaard's […]

GCSC Seminar – Kip Solomon “Can Groundwater Feed the World? It’s All About Time”

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

“Can Groundwater Feed the World? It’s All About Time” - kip solomon, geology & geophysics, u of utah Groundwater reservoirs are being increasingly used for agricultural expansion, but our understanding of recharge and the sustainable yield of these systems is only recently being defined with the aid of age-dating tracers. Read more here.

GCSC Seminar – Edella Schlager “Water Scarcity, Governance, and Adaptation in Western Transboundary River Basins”

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

“Water Scarcity, Governance, and Adaptation in Western Transboundary River Basins” - Edella Schlager, School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona How social and political adaptation to existing and anticipated hydrologic variability in western river basins is a function of institutional design.