Connecticut College Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies

2007-2008 Lectures: (Return to Top)

Enrique Mayer - Professor of Anthropology, Yale University; Leo Garofalo - Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College; Manuel Lizarralde, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Connecticut College; two police officers from the city of New London; a panel discussion moderated by Bianca Kissel '08: Cocaine: From the Leaves of South America to the Streets of New London

Robert Askins - Professor of Biology, Connecticut College: Conservation Across Landscapes: The Importance of Large Nature Reserves

Benjamin Zuckerberg - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse: Repeating Patterns: Bird Ranges Extend Northward in New York State in Response to Climate Change

Richard Canavan - Senior Environmental Scientist, CME Associates: Restoring the Dammed Dutch Delta: Sediment Biogeochemical Response to Salinization

Robert Baldwin - Associate Professor of Art History, Connecticut College: Nature as Urban Culture: Burgher Reality in the Landscape Art of Pieter Bruegel

Dana Warren - Cornell University, Department of Natural Resources: Impacts of Deforestation and Stream Restoration

Scott Warren - Professor Emeritus of Botany, Connecticut College: Tidal Marsh Restoration

2006-2007 Lectures: (Return to Top)

Alexander Kolker - Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University: Sea Levels, Sulfides or Sewage: What are the Causes of Coastal Change?

Michael Loomis - North Carolina Zoo and North Carolina State University: Connecting the Dots: Monitoring Elephant Movement Patterns to Maintain Connectivity in Congo Basin Landscapes

Justin Richard '03 - Mystic Marinelife Aquarium: Captive Breeding of Beluga Whales

Allen Carroll '73 - Chief Cartographer and Executive Vice President of National Geographic Maps, Recipient of the Goodwin-Niering Center 2006 Alumni Environmental Achievement Award: Cartography and Conservation: From Conn. College to National Geographic

Patricia Klindienst - Author: The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans

Mary-Jeanne Raleigh - Psychotherapist, Antioch New England Graduate School: Restorative Effects of the Natural Environment

Lisa A. Drake - U.S. Coast Guard Academy: Marine Bioinvasions: Ships' Ballast Tanks as Vectors of Microorganisms, and International Regulations to Reduce Potential Introductions

Jennifer Bowen - Marine Biological Laboratory: Nutrient Enrichment of Salt Marshes: How Does Increased Nitrogen Supply Affect Salt Marsh Sediment Microbial Communities?

Doug Thompson - Associate Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics, Connecticut College: The Role of Geomorphology in the Restoration of Our Nation's Degraded Rivers

2005-2006 Lectures: (Return to Top)

Doug Thompson - Associate Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics, Connecticut College: Life on the Mississippi River Delta: The Engineering Battle to Control the Largest River in the U.S.

Alesia Maltz - Environmental Studies Department, Antioch New England Graduate School: An Environmental Historian's Response to the Book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"

Christian Kamenik - Bigelow Laboratories, Maine: Alpine Paleolimnology and Its Importance for Climate Predictions

Nicholas Rodenhouse - Wellesley College: Effect of Weather on Migratory Songbirds: Implications of Climate Change

Dana Warren - Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University: Brook Trout Ecology in the Northeast

Vinton Valentine - The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole: GIS and Remote Sensing for Tidal Wetlands

Stephen Threlkeld - Department of Biology, University of Mississippi: Writing in Science

2004-2005 Lectures: (Return to Top)

Jonathan Fahey '92- Writer, Forbes Magazine: The Big Thirst: How Automakers, Politicians, Regulators and Drivers Keep the U.S. Guzzling Gasoline

Doug Thompson - Professor of Geophysics, Connecticut College: Long-Term Effects of Instream Habitat-Improvement Structures on Channel Morphology Along the Blackledge and Salmon Rivers

Don Mylchreest - Project Manager, Power Plant Laboratories, Alstom Power Inc.: The Greenbrier Clean Coal Initiative

2003-2004 Lectures: (Return to Top)

Alexander Brash `81 - Chief of the Natural Resources Group in New York City, Recipient of the 2003 Alumni Environmental Achievement Award: Re-greening the Big Apple: Environmental Preservation, Restoration and Education in NYC

Derek Turner - Professor of Psychology, Connecticut College: Thinking Metaphorically About the Environment

Marc Zimmer - Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College: A Chemist, a Computer = Environmental Research?

Manuel Lizarralde - Assistant Professor of Ethnobotany, Connecticut College: What Makes An Animal Edible? Some Ethnobiological Consideration In Food Among The Bari People Of Venezuela

Barry C. Field - Professor of Resource Economics, College of Natural Resources and the Environment, UMASS, Amherst: Market-based Approaches to Environmental Policy

Jason Robert - Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Polly Shouldn't Be? The Ethics of Creating Novel Beings

Steven J. McCormick - President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC); Richard Goodwin - Professor Emeritus, Connecticut College, former president of TNC and co-founder of the TNC Connecticut Chapter; Kevin Essington - Project Director, Pawcatuck Borderlands, TNC. A special forum presentation: Protecting Biological Diversity Across the Globe: A Program Honoring Richard Goodwin and the 50th Anniversary of The Nature Conservancy

David Foster '77 - Goodwin-Niering Alumni Environmental Achievement Award Winner, Director of the Harvard Forest and faculty member in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University: The Ecologist as Historian

Wendy Blake-Coleman '75 - Office of Environmental Information, Geospatial Team, member of the Goodwin-Niering Center Advisory Board: New Horizons in Environmental Management

Tim Keating - Environmentalist, Naturalist and Director of Rainforest Relief: Rainforests in the Shopping Cart and the Alternative Consumer

Carole Baldwin - Museum Specialist, Smithsonian Institution of Natural History: Galapagos: Way Beyond Darwin

Judith Irving '68 -Documentary Filmmaker, The Goodwin-Niering Center Alumni Environmental Achievement Award recipient, Tales from an Urban Jungle: Wild Parrots of San Francisco

Dr. David E. Blockstein - Senior Scientist, The National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, D.C. National Perspective on Environmental Research: Impact on Environmental Decision making

Dr. Michael Toman - Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Economics and Policy at Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. - Moving Ahead with Climate Policy

John Cook -Vice President, The Nature Conservancy Northeast Division, Member, The Goodwin-Niering Center Advisory Committee Realities, Myths, and Core Challenges of Ecological Conservation

Ralph Lewis - Connecticut State Geologist, Geological and Natural History Survey, Department of Environmental Protection: The Influence of Geology on the Landscape of Connecticut

1999-2000 Lectures: (Return to top)

Jessica Spelke Jansujwicz--University of Massachusetts
From Snails to Property Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Science

Penny Howell, CT Department of Environmental Protection
Harvesting Natural Populations-How much is too much?

Sam Wainright, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Marine Science
What is the Ultimate Diet for Juvenile Fish in Salt Marshes?

Bunyan Bryant, University of Michigan
Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, and Solutions

David Lodge, Biological Sciences, Notre Dame University
Global Environmental Changes?

David Osgood, University of New Haven
Has Phragmites Expansion Impacted Nekton Habitat along the Hudson River?

Gisella Caccone, Yale University
Evolutionary Origin of the Galapagos Tortoise: Using Live and Museum Specimens to Study Patterns of DNA Divergence

Theresa Sinecrope Talley, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Coastal salt marshes of Southern California: Comparisons and challenges.

Stephen Loomis, Connecticut College
Twenty-five years in suspended animation.

Hatsy Moore, Connecticut College
Vegetation change in created wetlands (1988-1996) in Connecticut

Peter Werle, Fraunhoffer Institute, IFU, Germany
Measuring Methane in Rice Paddies of the Po Valley

Patricia Moehlman, IUNC-World Conservation union species: Survival Commission
Behavioral Ecology of Golden Jackals: Insights for exploring the ecology and evolution of social systems in family Canidae

Jon Turk
Cold Oceans: Adventures in kayak, rowboat, and dogsled

Thomas Shoenemann, Pennsylvania State University
Brain and Behavior from an Evolutionary Perspective

Cynthia S. Jones, University of Connecticut
To be or not to be a reproductive mayapple: morphology, timing, and cues.

John Wehr, Fordham University
Where is the handle that turns the microbial loop?

Charles Rubin, Duquesne University
Green Cities: Then and Now

Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
Life in the Depths: Interspace aliens.

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Herster Barres, Reforest the Tropics Inc.
Global Warming: Role of Tropical Tree Planting

Edward Monahan, Connecticut Sea Grant Program: UConn
How breaking waves influence the oceanic uptake of carbon dioxide and other gases that affect our climate

William Smith, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
DDT-Revisited in northern New England

Barb Toomey
Developing in a polluted environment: multixenobiotic transport and dioxin-induced cell death in marine embryos

Jeff Ward, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Influence of Disturbance on Regeneration of Connecticut Hardwoods

Michael Reed, Tufts University
Extinction Rate in Birds: Problems with Predictions

Laurence Davis, University of New Haven
Water on Columbus' Isle: Studying the Hydrology of San Salvador, Bahamas

Linda Deegan, Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA
Estuarine Ecology

Ann Giblin, Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA
Acid rain and the sulfur cycles of lakes

Elena Ledesma, Project Oceanology, Avery Point
Distribution, Habitat, and Diet of the Introduced Crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus

Norman Richards, Mohegan Sun Casino
Holistic View of Environmental Management

Lisa Stanley, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc.
Beyond the Brooks Range-Flora, Fauna and Oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Dr. Michel Gelobter, Rutgers University
From the Hood to the Woods: Environmental Justice and the Movement to Put People at the Heart of Environmentalism

Janine N. Cairam, University of Connecticut
Evolution and Site Specificity of the Tapeworms Parasitizing Sharks and Rays

John Laemon '90 - University of Connecticut
Gene Flow Revisited: the case of the mummichog

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1997-98 CCBES Public Lectures

David Orr, Oberlin College
Ecological Design, Liberal Education, and the Challenge of Global Change

Frances Cairncross, The Economist Magazine
Business and the Environment

Reid Lifset, Yale University
The Brave New World of Industrial Ecology

Robert Wyman, Yale University
History of Human Population Growth Future Prospects

Peter Werle, Fraunhoffer Institute IFU, Germany
Problems in Environmental Monitoring: Measurements in Trace Gas Analysis

William Ryerson, Population Communications International
Sex Truth and Videotape: The Numbers Game

Mario Jose Molina, M.I.T.
Ozone Depletion and the Antarctic Ozone Hole