We have been honored to host visiting researchers who are experts from diverse fields, and to feature the work being undertaken here at the University of Utah. Explore below to see the history of the GCSC seminar series.
Video recordings of most seminars (Spring 2015-on) are available for viewing by those with a U of U network ID (uNID). Log in to Canvas to view seminar videos.
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013-2014
2012-2013
2011-2012
2010-2011
August 31, 2021
- Brenda Bowen, Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
“Transdisciplinary Explorations of Sustainability in a Time of Change at the Bonneville Salt Flats”
September 14, 2021
- Stacy Harwood, City and Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah
"Everyday Racism in Integrated Spaces"
Many college campuses promote themselves as integrated multicultural spaces where students from diverse backgrounds live, study, and play together in unity. This study reveals that many students of color experience racial hostility and exclusion in their daily routines.
September 28, 2021
- Carlos Santana, Philosophy, University of Utah
"Whose Anthropocene? A data-driven look at the prospects for collaboration between natural science, social science, and the humanities"
October 19, 2021
- Heather Tanana, College of Law, University of Utah
"Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribal Communities" Read more
November 2, 2021
- Taylor Sparks, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah
"Why does humanity need new energy materials, and where will we find them?" Read more
November 16, 2021
- Lynne Zummo, Educational Psychology; Curator of Learning Sciences, Natural History Museum of Utah
"Confronting the politics of a changing climate in the science classroom" Read more
January 18, 2022
- Heather Holmes, Department of Chemical Engineering
"Wildfire Smoke and Air Quality in the Western U.S." Read more
February 1, 2022
- Shane Macfarlan, Department of Anthropology
"Human-Ecosystem Dynamics on the Forgotten Peninsula: A Historical, Demographic, and Ethnographic Exploration of Baja California Sur, Mexico" Read more
February 15, 2022
- Lazarus Adua, Department of Sociology
"The Downside of the Gap! Examining the Impacts of Inequality on Environmental Views and Outcomes in the United States" Read more
March 1, 2022
- Jennifer Follstad Shah, Environmental and Sustainability Studies
"WEO2: Using the Wasatch Environmental Observatory to engage in water resource research, education and outreach" Read more
April 5, 2022
- Robert Adler, Distinguished Professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law
“Interpreting the Clean Water Act: the uncertain relationship between environmental law and science” Read more
April 19, 2022
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
- Divya Chandrasekhar, City and Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah
“A grassroots view of disaster recovery”
How communities recover from disasters, the interactions underlying this recovery, and what it means to be disaster resilient in a complex, uncertain and unjust world. Read more here
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
- Julie Sze, Professor of American Studies at UC Davis
“Interdisciplinarity, Intersectionality and Environmental Justice: The Time is Now ”
What role can colleges and universities in particular, and specific fields (sustainability, environmental policy, etc.) play in addressing climate and other crises? Read more here
OCTOBER 13, 2020
- Daniel Mendoza, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah
“The confluence of air quality, urban development, health, and social justice”
Read more here
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
- Sarah Hinners, Director, Center for Ecological Planning + Design, Department of City and Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah
“Campus as a Living Lab: Embedded Research for Sustainability Innovation in the Built Environment”
Read more here
DECEMBER 1, 2020
- Joan Nassauer, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Michigan
“Cues to care in socio-hydro-ecological systems”
This talk will describe how mechanisms for the effectiveness of cues to care relate to properties of socio-hydro-ecological systems as exemplified by a transdisciplinary green stormwater infrastructure project in Detroit, MI, USA.
Read more here
february 2, 2021
- Steven Burian, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director, U Water Center, University of Utah.
"Catalyzing Higher Education Capacity to Advance Water Security in Pakistan"
february 9, 2021
- Daniel Sarewitz, Professor of Science and Society, Arizona State University
"The Science of Modeling Through" Read more.
february 16, 2021
- Lawson Brigham, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography and Arctic Policy, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Wilson Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
"The New Maritime Arctic: Changing Access, Global Connections and Geopolitics" Read more.
february 23, 2021
- Mercedes Pascual, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago
"Changing climate and vector-borne infections: some challenges of scale" Read more.
march 9, 2021
- Mary Miss, artist
"City as Living Laboratory (CALL): Artists+Scientists+Communities"
CALL works to advance the role of artists in making cities more livable and resilient. This seminar will discuss projects that help people connect environmental challenges to personal experience and take action.
march 16, 2021
- Adrienne Cachelin, Professor (Lecturer), Environmental & Sustainability Studies, U Utah
Nalini Nadkarni, Professor, School of Biological Sciences, U Utah
Austin Green, PhD candidate in the School of Biological Sciences, U Utah
“Citizen Scientists or Scientist Citizens: Exploring Research-based Inclusive Public Engagement”
Read more. This seminar will not be recorded.
March 23, 2021
- Pamela McElwee, Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University
"Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia in a Post-COVID Era" Read more.
Co-sponsored with the Asia Center.
ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY STUDENT research symposium
- View students' presentations and posters here.
april 6, 2021
- Asia Dowtin, Assistant Professor of Urban and Community Forestry, Michigan State University
"Linking Water, Trees, and Stakeholders in the Urban Forest" Read more.
April 13, 2021
- Liliana Caughman, Faculty, Native Environmental Science, Northwest Indian College
"From Climate Action to Climate Justice: How scenarios, partnerships, and community priorities are driving equitable urban sustainability and resilience planning in Portland, Oregon"
Read more.
April 20, 2021
- Jessica Grindstaff, Founder, Director, Playwright and Set Designer, Phantom Limb Company
"Storytelling, Imagism and Empathy: Awakening an Audience" Read more here.
AUGUST 27, 2019
- Barbara Reck, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies “Why Using Metals Efficiently Matters” This presentation discusses the challenges of metal recycling in the context of broader material cycles and the role of interdependencies among metals– from byproducts in ores, to alloying elements and complex multi-material products. Read more here.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
- Masood Parvania, University of Utah Electrical & Computer Engineering “Sustainability at the Intersection of Power and Water Infrastructure: An Engineering Perspective” This seminar will outline the ongoing research on how closer collaboration and operation co-optimization of interdependent power and water infrastructure enhances the energy and economic efficiency of both systems. Read more here.
OCTOBER 1, 2019
- Ken D. Tape, University of Alaska Geophysical Institute “The Changing Arctic Landscape” This talk explores a century of changes in the arctic tundra landscape and its wildlife. Read more here.
OCTOBER 22, 2019
- Doug Kennett, U.C. Santa Barbara Department of Anthropology “Drought and long-term sociopolitical dynamics west of the hundredth meridian” Abstract/flyer Lessons from archaeological records provide insights into the complexity of sociopolitical responses in the past and to drought west of the hundredth meridian going into the future.
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
- Jeff Rose, University of Utah Parks, Recreation, and Tourism “Homelessness, Political Ecology, and Critical Sustainability” A critical spatial approach to unsheltered homelessness positions it as both a social and environmental justice concern that confronts common understandings of sustainability. Abstract/flyer
JANUARY 14, 2020
- Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Dean, S.J. Quincy College of Law “Tribal Environmental Law” Read more here.
JANUARY 28, 2020
- Juliet Carlisle, U Utah Department of Political Science “Driving the Agenda? California Drought in the 21st Century” Read more here.
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
- Hilary Swain, Archbold Biological Station “The confluence of biodiversity, ecosystem processes, and socio-economic factors in Florida ranchlands” Read more here.
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
- Nancy Grimm, Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University “Rivers of our dreams: water futures in urban central Arizona”. Read more here.
- Gabriel Bowen, Professor, Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah – August 28, 2018. ″Water in the Critical Zone: How Soils Control Flows and Chemistry in the Terrestrial Water Cycle” Abstract / flyer
- John C. Lin, Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah – September 11, 2018. ″The greenhouse gas-air quality nexus: experiences from the Western U.S.” Abstract / flyer
- Diane Pataki, Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah – September 25, 2018. “Projecting nature: Reflections on the science of ‘ecology for cities’” Abstract / flyer
- Seth Arens, Research Integration Specialist, Western Water Assessment Utah – October 16, 2018 “Planning for drought and climate change in Utah: working with resource managers to develop usable science” Abstract / flyer
- Gaby Katul, Theodore S. Coile Professor of Hydrology and Micrometeorology, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University – October 30, 2018 ″Evapotranspiration: From kinetic theory to the limits of plant life” Read more here.
- Steven “Kealoha” Wong, Hawai’i Poet Laureate, cohosted with Utah Presents and the Sustainability Office – November 13, 2018 “So many different crossroads, but the paths look the same.” Abstract / flyer
- Lauren Barth-Cohen, Educational Psychology, University of Utah – January 15, 2019 ″Capturing Three-Dimensional Science Learning about Climate Change in Classrooms through Embodied Modeling” Read more
- Robert Bullard, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University – January 31, 2019 ″Race, Place, and the Politics of Pollution“ This event is not part of the regular GCSC seminar series, but is a special seminar co-sponsored by the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Global Change & Sustainability Center, University of Utah Sustainability Office, and the University of Utah Office of Equity and Diversity. Read more
- Giovanna Di Chiro, Professor, Environmental Studies, Swarthmore College – February 12, 2019 ″Imagining Sustainable Futures: Collaborative ‘Soul’-utions for Earthly Survival” Read more
- Aradhna Tripati, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA – February 26, 2019 ″Frontiers in the study of past climate and environmental change: From new tracers to piloting a new inclusive science model” Read more
- Brenda Ekwurzel, Sr. Climate Scientist, Director of Climate Science for the Union of Concerned Scientists – March 20, 2019 ″Assessing and mitigating risks to water resources from climate change”
- Diana Tomback, Integrative Biology, University of Colorado Denver – April 2, 2019 ″Biodiversity catastrophe in real time: Loss of five-needle white pine communities and cascading consequences” Read more
- David Pellow, Environmental Studies, Global Environmental Justice Project, UC Santa Barbara – April 16, 2019 ″Toward a Critical Environmental Justice: Exploring State Violence and the Settler Colonial Conflicts” Read more here.
August 22, 2017
- Amy Wildermuth, Associate V.P. for Faculty, Academic Affairs; Chief Sustainability Officer; Professor, College Of Law, U of Utah ”Navigating renewable energy challenges on campus” Abstract, flyer
September 5, 2017
- Ryan Smith, Associate Dean, College of Architecture + Planning; Director, Integrated Technology in Architecture Collaborative, U of Utah ”Building Systems: ecological design and construction” Abstract, flyer
September 19, 2017
- Natalie Gochnour, Associate Dean, David Eccles School of Business; Director, Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah ”What’s missing in Utah’s economic prosperity?”
October 3, 2017
- Lisa Dilling, Director, NOAA Western Water Assessment; Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado ”Learning lessons from managing drought: Adaptation in an interconnected, uncertain world” abstract
October 24, 2017
- Ananya Chatterjea, Professor of Dance, University of Minnesota ”Choreographies of Resistance: Dancing Ecosystems” abstract | Read more
November 7, 2017
- Terry Irwin, Director, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University ”Designing for Systems-Level Change” Read more
November 28, 2017
- Jack Williams, Professor of Climate, People, and Environment, University of Wisconsin ”Achieving global ecology via dispersed community curated data resources: Neotoma and PalEON” abstract/flyer
January 9, 2018
- Kari Norgaard, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon “Climate Change as Strategic Opportunity: Imagination, Responsibility, and Community”
January 23, 2018
- Kip Solomon, Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah ”Can Groundwater Feed the World? It’s All About Time”
February 6, 2018
- Edella Schlager, School of Government & Public Policy, University of Arizona ”Water Scarcity, Governance, and Adaptation in Western Transboundary River Basins” download flyer
February 20, 2018
- Sarah Kanouse, Department of Art + Design, Northeastern University ”Entanglements: artistic strategies for complex ecologies” Read more here
March 6, 2018
- Sarah George, Executive Director, Natural History Museum of Utah “Climate Change at the Natural History Museum: Research and Interpretation”
March 27, 2018
- Peter Wilson, Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of South Florida, Associate Dean, University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies ”Antarctica – fishes, adaptations and dealing with ice” Read about Dr. Wilson’s research
April 10, 2018
- Sara K. Yeo, Department of Communication, University of Utah”The Science of Science Communication”
August 30, 2016
- Robin Craig, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law ”Rethinking Sustainability to Deal with the Climate Change Trickster: Resilience Theory, the Anthropocene, and the Example of Marine Fisheries” Read more
September 13, 2016
- Marc Parlange, University of British Columbia, Department of Civil Engineering ”West African Savanna hydrology under landscape transformation” Co-sponsored by Department of Mechanical Engineering Read more
September 27, 2016
- Leah Sprain, University of Colorado Boulder College of Media, Communication and Information ”Democratic dilemmas of energy system transformation” Co-sponsored by the Communication Institute Read more
October 18, 2016
- Julie Guthman, University of California Santa Cruz Program in Community Studies, Division of Social Sciences ”Pathogens, plant breeding, chemicals, land, and workers in the making and unmaking of California’s strawberry industry“ Read more
November 1, 2016
- Fernando Bosco, San Diego State University Department of Geography ”Journeys in a ‘Food Desert’: Place, Mobility, and the Everyday Food Practices of Young People” Read more
November 15, 2016
- Andrew Richardson, Harvard University Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology “Climate change, phenology, and ecosystem processes: What we are learning from the PhenoCam network” Read more
November 29, 2016
- Manisha Anantharaman, St Mary’s College Department of Justice. Community, & Leadership ”Class, poverty and urban sustainability in Bangalore, India” Read more
January 17, 2017
- Joerg Schaefer, Columbia University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences ”Ice Sheets, Glaciers and Society: past and present cryospheric change and its impact on society” Read more
January 31, 2017
- Wendy Wischer, University of Utah Department of Art and Art History ”Transcending data through creative expression” Read more
February 14, 2017
- Brett Clark, University of Utah Department of Sociology ”Pacific Northwest salmon, commodification, and the marine nutrient-land exchange” Abstract, flyer
February 28, 2017
- Anthony Barnosky, Stanford University, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ”Tipping Point for Planet Earth—How Close Are We To The Edge?” Read more
March 21, 2017
- Lance Gunderson, Department of Environmental Science, Emory University ”Adaptation and Transformation in Managed Riparian and Wetland Systems across the US.” Read more
April 4, 2017
- Jeffrey McCarthy, Director of Environmental Humanities, University of Utah “The Watery Part of the World: The Humanities, the Ocean and the Anthropocene” Read more
April 18, 2017
- Jennifer McIntosh, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona ”Tracing environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing and oil/gas production” Read more
August 25, 2015
- Paul Brooks, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah. ”What happens to the rain? Linking advances in fundamental research to applied challenges in sustainable water resources”
September 8, 2015
- Danya Rumore, Environmental Dispute Resolution Program, College of Law, U. of Utah. ”Ready or Not: Helping Communities Adapt to Climate Change through Collaborative Action Research”
September 22, 2015
- Gary Machlis, Science Advisor to the Director, National Park Service. ”Desolation Row: Sustainability for the Oft-Forgotten”
October 6, 2015
- Joanna Ganning, Metropolitan Research Center, University of Utah. ”How Effective is Commuter Rail in Spatially Pairing Supply and Demand for Commuting Infrastructure?”
October 20, 2015
- Erica Gaddis, Division of Water Quality, Utah Dept. of Environmental Quality. “Integrated Water Resources Management in the Great Salt Lake Basin: Opportunities for Research to Inform Management”
November 3, 2015
- Steven Burian, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah. “Mixing Water and Cities: Don’t Worry, It’s a Sustainable and Resilient Mocktail”
November 17, 2015
- John Abatzoglou, University of Idaho Department of Geography. “Western US Wildfire in the Anthropocene: Is anthropogenic climate change responsible for the new normal of wildfire activity across the western US?”
December 1, 2015
- Kathy Jacobs, Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions, University of Arizona. “The Science/Policy Interface: Climate Adaptation and Decision-making”
January 26, 2016
- Timothy M. Waring, School of Economics, University of Maine. “An Integrative Evolutionary Approach to Sustainability Science”
February 9, 2016
- Elizabeth Wilson, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. “Integrating Renewable Energy in the Western United States”
March 8, 2016
- Jim Steenburgh, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Utah. ”Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth”
March 22, 2016
- Reid Ewing, Department of City and Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah ”Cost of Sprawl 2015″
April 5, 2016
- Dorothy J. Merritts, Dept. of Earth and Environment, Franklin & Marshall College. ”Freeze-dried, rapidly thawed permafrost landscapes, breached milldams, and their relation to modern wetland-stream restoration, eastern US”
April 19, 2016
- Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences ”Quantifying the influence of historical global warming on the probability of unprecedented extreme climate events”
August 26, 2014
- Stephen Goldsmith, Department of City and Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah. ”Making the invisible visible”
September 9, 2014
- Tabitha Benney, Department of Political Science, University of Utah. ”Making Environmental Markets Work: The Case of Capitalism in the Emerging Economies”
September 23, 2014
- Kelly Bricker, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, University of Utah"Sustainable Tourism – A system for positive change?"
October 7, 2014
- Mark Lewis, Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology, University of Alberta"Aquaculture and Sustainability of Coastal Ecosystems”
October 21, 2014
- Philip Dennison, Department of Geography, University of Utah. ”Facing a Fiery Future: Wildfire Applications of Remote Sensing”
November 4, 2014
- Robert Grow, Director, Envision Utah. ”Your Utah, Your Future”
November 18, 2014
- Michelle Baker, Utah State University; iUTAH. ”Lost in translation: adventures in applied ecosystem ecology and combat science”
December 2, 2014
- Kevin Gurney, Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability. ”Revisiting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions: how new science can enable reductions from the building to the globe”
January 13, 2015
- Rob Jackson, Douglas Provostial Professor in Stanford University School of Earth Sciences. ”Hydraulic Fracturing and Water and Air Resources”
January 27, 2015
- Adil Najam, the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. “Environment, Development & Security in the Age of Climate Change Adaptation”
February 10, 2015
- David Whiteman, Department of Atmospheric Sciences. ”Meteorology of winter inversions in the Salt Lake Valley and in the Bingham Copper Mine”Cosponsored with the Program for Air Quality, Health, and Society
February 24, 2015
- Bryce Bird, Director, Utah Division of Air Quality. ”Utah’s Air Quality; Progress and Practice under the Utah Air Conservation Act”
March 10, 2015
- Chris Field, Director, the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology. ”Climate Change, 2015″
March 24, 2015
- Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University. ”Climate Change: Glaciers, People, and Options”
April 7, 2015
- Lucy Hutyra, Boston University. ”Quantifying and modeling the urban carbon cycle – A examination of land use change, vegetation responses, and emissions”
April 21, 2015
- Amanda Smith, Department of Mechanical Engineering. "Analyzing energy systems technology through a site-specific lens"
August 27, 2013
- Robert Keiter, College of Law, University of Utah. ”The National Park Idea and the Future of the National Park System.”
September 10, 2013
- Alexander Glazer, University of California, Berkeley. ”Mountain Top Removal/Valley Fill: Cheap Coal at High Cost”
September 24, 2013
- Brian Codding, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah. ”The Origins of Anthropogenic Fire in Arid Australia”
October 8, 2013
- Brenda Bowen, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah. ”Can carbon capture and storage turn black to green?”
October 22, 2013
- Wallace Akerley, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Utah School of Medicine. ”Radon: A Stealthy Assasin”cosponsored with the Program for Air Quality, Health, and Society
November 5, 2013
- Andrea Brunelle, Department of Geography, University of Utah. ”Climate driven dynamics in southwestern US desert ecosystems”
November 19, 2013
- Michelle Hofmann, University of Utah School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics”Children and Ambient Air Pollution: 21st Century Canaries in a Coal Mine”cosponsored with the Program for Air Quality, Health, and Society
December 3, 2013
- Scott Denning, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University. ”I’m not a Warmist! Effective Engagement of Hostile Audiences on Climate Change”
January 14, 2014
- Sarah Hinners, Ecological Planning Center, University of Utah. “Ecological planning for human habitat on a crowded planet”
January 28, 2014
- Jonathon Overpeck, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona. ”Assessing Future Drought and Megadrought Risk”
February 11, 2014
- Eli Kintisch, Journalist, Contributing Correspondent for Science magazine. ”The Two Most Important Words in the World: How to Truly Reach People on Climate Change”
February 25, 2014
- Michelle A. Simon, Environmental Protection Agency. ”Kansas City Middle Blue River Green Infrastructure Project”
March 18, 2014
- Henry Pollack, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan. ”Earth’s Changing Climate: The Transformation of the Arctic”
April 1, 2014
- Terri S. Hogue, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines. ”Anthropogenic Disturbance and Hydrologic Behavior: Case Studies in Southern California”
April 15, 2014
- Danielle Endres, Department of Communication, University of Utah “Composing Energy Policy: The Influence of Low-Carbon Energy Scientists and Engineers on the Composition of Energy Policy”
August 28, 2012
- Tariq Banuri, University of Utah, Department of City and Metropolitan Planning. ”Beyond Rio+20: What Next?”
September 11, 2012
- Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah, Department of Biology ”Elephants, equations, murder, and fast food: hair isotopes as a common thread”
September 25, 2012
- Simon Brewer, University of Utah, Department of Geography. ”Ecoinformatics and the paleo-world: climate change and vegetation response at large temporal and spatial scales”
October 23, 2012
- Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey. ”It’s all connected: Linking above- and belowground ecosystem responses to global change”
November 6, 2012
- Pamela Perlich, University of Utah, Bureau of Economic and Business Research. ”Utah’s transformation from isolation to global city: our air, our water, our future”
November 20, 2012
- Bo Yang, Utah State University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. ”Green Infrastructure Design in Community Development”
January 8, 2013
- Patrick Barickman, Utah Division of Air Quality. ”Air pollution, science, and society”
January 22, 2013
- Stephen T. Jackson, Director, Southwest Climate Science Center. ”Biodiversity Consequences of Climate Change: Forecasts From the Past”
February 5, 2013
- Roslynn G.H. Brain, Utah State University, Sustainable Communities Extension. ”Extension Sustainability: Research, Outreach, and Communication Techniques to Foster Positive Change”
February 19, 2013
- Andrew K. Jorgenson, University of Utah, Department of Sociology. ”The Political Economy of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Overview of Research Done by Environmental Sociologists at the ‘U’”
March 5, 2013
- Doug Jackson-Smith, Utah State University, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology. ”Beyond Cadillac Desert: Reframing the western water sustainability paradigm”
March 19, 2013
- David Schimel, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ”Observational constraints on the climate sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems”
April 2, 2013
- David Chapman, University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics. ”Global Warming: The Science is Settled (for most of us) but Climate Change Challenges Lie Ahead”
April 16, 2013
- Elisabeth Moyer, University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences. ”The danger of mismatched assumptions in climate policy”
August 30, 2011
- Chris Nelson, University of Utah. ”What Americans Really Want: A Review of Surveys into American Preferences for Housing, Mobility, and Urban Form”
September 27, 2011
- Nalini Nadkarni, University of Utah. ”Shifting Broader Impacts from Burden to Benefit: can academic scientists both get tenure and get research into the public arena?”
October 25, 2011
- Lincoln Davies, University of Utah. ”Regulatory Races and Renewable Energy Standards”
November 8, 2011
- Dan McCool, University of Utah. ”River Restoration in the US”
November 22, 2011
- Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska Fairbanks. ”Sea Ice as a Nexus of Arctic Environmental and Socio-Economic Change”
January 10, 2012
- Ken Golden, University of Utah. ”Mathematics and the Melting Polar Ice Caps”
January 24, 2012
- Li Yin, University of Utah. ”Informed Decisions and Planning: Proactive Use of GIS and Other Planning Technologies”
February 7, 2012
- Julio Betancourt, United States Geological Survey. ”For Everything There is a Season: Phenology in a Changing World”
February 21, 2012
- Nancy Huntly, Utah State University. ”Long-term human ecology: applying ecological approaches to understand the roles of the Aleut in their North Pacific ecosystem over thousands of years”
March 6, 2012
- Robin Craig, Utah Law. ”Climate Change and the Oceans: Protecting Special Places in an Era of Change”
March 20, 2012
- Richard Reynolds, United States Geological Survey. ”Linking atmospheric dust, landscape change, and bio-dynamics in North America
April 17, 2012
- Chad Higgins, Oregon State University. ”Turbulent water vapor transport, advection and the surface energy budget”
September 21, 2010
- Mitch Power, University of Utah. ”Biomass burning in the Americas after 1500 AD: European contact or climate?”
October 5, 2010
- Denise Dearing, University of Utah. ”Environmental aspects of pathogen prevalence: A case study of hantavirus in deer mice”
October 19, 2010
- Bill Johnson, University of Utah. ”Ongoing research questions regarding selenium and mercury in the Great Salt Lake”
November 2, 2010
- Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah. ”Dirty little secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth”
November 16, 2010
- Court Strong, University of Utah. ”Human and natural influences on carbon dioxide concentration in Salt Lake City”
November 30, 2010
- Steve Burian, University of Utah. ”Managing water in cities: Past, present, and future”
January 11, 2011
- Roger Bales, University of California, Merced. ”Water and biogeochemical responses to seasonal-to-interannual changes across the rain-snow transition in the Southern Sierra Nevada”
January 25, 2011
- David Noone, University of Colorado. ”The atmospheric water budget revealed with water isotopes: the story of mixing from small to large”
February 8, 2011
- Felisa Smith, University of New Mexico. ”On being the right size: the influence of temperature on mammalian evolution”
February 22, 2011
- Duncan Metcalfe, University of Utah and Utah Museum of Natural History. ”The human paleoecology of Range Creek”
March 8, 2011
- Corey Lawrence, USGS Menlo Park, CA. ”The influence of aeolian dust deposition on soil geochemistry: a case study from the southern Rocky Mountains”
March 31, 2011
- John Lin, University of Waterloo. ”Interpreting regional scale signs of global change from atmospheric concentrations”
April 5, 2011
- Michelle Baker, Utah State University. ”Global Change and urban ecosystems: Adaptation and mitigation options”
April 6, 2011
- Diane Pataki, University of California Irvine. ”Ceci n’est pas une pipe: Understanding nutrient transport and removal processes in river ecosystems”
April 11, 2011
- Gabe Bowen, Purdue University. ”Water in space and time: Patterns, pathways, and processes recorded by isotopes”
April 14, 2011
- Paul Brooks, University of Arizona. ”Linking water cycle dynamics to biogeochemical processes and ecosystem structure”
April 19, 2011
- Rick Gill, Brigham Young University. ”Plant and soil feedbacks to rising atmospheric CO2”