Seminar Series

Urban Trees are a Matter of Life and Death
Geoffrey Donovan
Research Forester. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Service, USDA.

Mesophication of Oak Ecosystems: The Consequences of Altered Fire Regimes
Gregory Nowacki
Regional Ecologist, US Forest Service- Eastern Region.

What do plants need? The Extractive Politics Hehind Water and Pollination Requirements.
Emily Reisman
Assistant Professor, Department of Environment and Sustainability; University at Buffalo, NY 

Chasing Shadows: Exploring the Mysteries of Nighttime Ecology and a Nocturnal Primate
Stephanie Poindexter 
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department & Department of Environment and Sustainability;
University at Buffalo, NY                         

Becoming Jonah: Studying Whale Feeding and Its Anthropogenic Interactions
Alexander Werth 
Patterson Professor of Biology; Hampden-Sydney College, VA                          

In Situ Treatment of PFAS using Sonolysis within a Horizontal Treatment Well
Michelle Crimi 
Dean of the Graduate School / Acting Associate Vice Provost for Research & Technology Transfer / Interim Vice Provost for Research & Technology / Professor of Environmental Engineering; Clarkson University, NY 

Natural Resource Management in the Big Apple
Melissa Cohen 
Department of Environmental Conservation                          

Achieving Urban Multifunctional Environments
Sheryl Hosler 
University of Illinois Chicago, IL                          

Biological Invasions: Resilience Through Reframing
Vasiliy Lakoba 
The American Chestnut Foundation                            

Human Behavior, Urban Design, and Ecosystem Functions: Moving towards a socio-biogeochemical framework
Amanda Suchy 
Central Michigan University                              

North on the Wing
Bruce Beehler 
Smithsonian Institute                              

Reconstructing Long-Term Environmental and Climatic Change in the Great Lakes Region Through Paleoecology
Albert Fulton II 
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo, NY.                              

An Environmental Justice Approach to Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Monica Miles 
Assistant Professor, Engineering Education, University at Buffalo, NY.                                                                    Mother Earth Literacies, LLC

Building Civic Infrastructures for Just Participation in Energy Industry Projects
Kirk Jalbert
Associate Professor, Department of Environment and Sustainability; EEB Director of Graduate Studies, University at Buffalo, NY

Meet the EVS DVS Fellow: Transdisciplinary Environmental Scholarship and Activism
Claudia Ford
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Department of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo, NY

Opportunities in Sustainability: A Promising Carreer Path
Swathi Karamcheti
Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo, NY

The New York State Hemlock Initiative and Classical Biological Control of the invasive Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
Mark Whitmore
Senior Extension Associate and Forest Entomologist, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

"Is Brown the New Green? The fusion ecology of urban wildlands"
Dr. Claus Holzapfel
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Rutgers Newark

Urban ecology: towards a multidisciplinary, multi-species, multi-city approach
Javier delBarco-Trillo, PhD

Communities united to protect snow leopards: Land of Snow Leopard
Almagul Osmonova, MSc
Director of Taalim-Forum NGO

Conserving wildlife and ecosystems in mixed-use landscapes
Christie Sampson, PhD
University of Calgary

Zooming In and Out: Coastal Ecogeomorphology across Scales
Kendall Valentine, PhD
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary

People power and its potential for understanding urban biodiversity
Corey Callaghan, PhD
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig Germany

Understanding the effects of urbanization to the ecology and evolution of stream biota to support sustainable cities
Piata Marques, PhD
Center for Environmental Research in the Anthropocene, University of Toronto

Promoting community-informed research and social equity in urban green space management
Mayra Rodiguez Gonzalez, PhD
Gund Institute for Environment and the Spatial Analysis Laboratory, University of Vermont

Analyses of structure and dynamics of tropical and temperate forests
Jenny Zambrano, PhD
School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University

Life on the reef: competition and predation of newly settled octocorals
Chris Wells, PhD
Department of Geology, University at Buffalo

Partner or Predator?  Engaging China in Sustainable Rubber Initiatives
Juliet Lu, PhD
Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Department of Global Development, Cornell University

Food systems and life cycle assessment
Andrew Berardy, PhD
Center for Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Disease Prevention, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University

Sustainable Development
Pat Keys, PhD
Colorado State University
Sponsored by the Department of Geography

Title To Be Announced
Michelle Fournet, PhD
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell University

Title To Be Announced
Do Hyoung Kim, PhD
Department of Geography, University at Buffalo

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Waste Management Options
John Atkinson
Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo
 

Streamflow and the environment: from deserts to Great Lakes
Corey Krabbenhoft
Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota

Telling Stories about the Environment: Filmmaking as a Means of Disseminating and Discovering Knowledge about Our Ecological Predicament
John Fiege
Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo

Navigating the night: slow loris movement and conservation
Stephanie Poindexter
Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo

Democracy and Environment
Barbara Wejnert
Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Buffalo
Department of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo

Sustainability and Transdisciplinary Thinking
Craig Thomas
Department of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo

Life in a changing world: Understanding community resilience and vulnerability to anthropogenic stresses
Ranjan Muthukrishnan
Indiana University, Environmental Resilience Institute

Hidden Ecologies: Exploring the social-ecological dynamics of urban waterfronts
Anne Toomey
Environmental Studies and Science, Pace University

Bridging organizations as innovative governance tools for socioecological governance in small-scale forest communities in the post-industrial world
John Boakye-Danquah
University of Saskatchewan

When it smells it pays': Sustainability science and policy on Peru's contaminated coast
Apollonya Porcelli
Brown University

Putting Efficiency in its place: situating paradigms of agricultural sustainability
Emily Reisman
University of California, Santa Cruz

Collective, collaborative, and conflicting: insights on environmental governance in an era of environmental change
Abigail Sullivan
Indiana University

Carbon removal technologies: How can they be developed in the public interest?
Holly Buck
University of California, Los Angeles

Taking control to do more: how local governments and communities can enact effective climate mitigation policies
John Armstrong
University of California, Santa Cruz

The Impact of Intrinsic & Extrinsic Factors on Primate Social Structure & Disease Risk: Insights from the Genus Macaca  
Krishna Balasubramaniam
Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis

Social Status and Reproductive Behavior in Naked Mole Rats
Melissa Holmes
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga

Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Reconsidering a Pioneering Call-to-Action by UB's Lester Milbrath
Adam Rome
Department of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo

Social Inequality, Environmental Change and Urbanization in Greater Houston
Kevin Smiley
Department of Sociology, University at Buffalo

The evolution of life and landforms: Modeling the link between biological and geological processes
Katherine Kravitz
Department of Geosystems, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam

Q&A Session
Andrew Hoffman
The University of Michigan, Ross School of Business

How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
Andrew Hoffman
University of Michigan, Ross School of Business