Environmental Science and Policy Seminar Series

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The EVR seminar series is an effort to spark discussion and exchanges in a multidisciplinary setting. Speakers include scholars and practitioners from both the University of Miami and other institutions. Visitors are available for meetings with both students and faculty members.

Spring 2023

MAR
  3rd
10:30 AM

Choosing Futures - Climate Adaptation Justice & Transformation 

A.R. Siders, 
University of Delaware

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FEB
  10 th
10:30 AM

Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation 

Teevrat Garg, 
University of California, San Diego

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Fall 2022

NOV
  11 th
10:30 AM

A Thousand Cuts: Cumulative lead exposure reduces academic achievement

Ivan Rudik, 
Cornell University

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OCT
  21 st
10:30 AM

Simulating Environmental Policy Effectiveness:
Will cash payments induce higher levels of resource conservation?

Krister Andersson
University of Colorado, Boulder

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SEP
  23 rd
10:30 AM

I don’t fish for sport, I fish for support”:
Urban fishing and community wellbeing

Noëlle Boucquey, 
Eckerd College

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JUN
  6 th
10:30 AM

Air Quality Research at the University of Aveiro, Portugal

Alexandra Monteiro
University of Aveiro

Spring 2022

FEB
  15 th
1:00 PM

FEB
  16 th
9:00 AM

Using Big Data to Decode Big Oil’s Climate Change Propaganda

Geoffrey Supran, 
Harvard University

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FEB
  25 th
10:30 AM

Land Conservation

Dr. Alexander Pfaff, 
Duke University

Kelly Cox, 
Tropical Audubon Florida

Janet Gil, 
Miami-Dade County Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) Program

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MAR
  4 th
10:30 AM

Challenges of managing harmful algal blooms in US drinking water
systems (and implications for climate policy)

Galen Treuer, 
Miami-Dade County's Office of Resilience

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MAR
  8 th
10:00 AM

Intersectional Ecologies: Transforming Environmental Science
and Policy from the Inside Out

Amelia Moore
University of Rhode Island

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MAR
  9 th
10:00 AM

Attribution, Research, Responsibility, and Environmental Policy

Jennifer Jacquet
New York University

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MAR
  11 th
1:30 PM

The Economic Value of Forecasting Environmental Hazards

Renato Molina
University of Miami

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MAR
  23 rd
10:00 AM

Mangrove Forests as a Model for Human –Environment Interactions

Daniel Friess
National University of Singapore

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MAR
  25 th
10:00 AM

Frontiers in Ocean Governance

Rebecca Gruby
Colorado State University

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MAR
  30 th
12:00 PM

Climate Change and Sustainable Fisheries in the Atlantic

Luis Guerreiro
University of Evora, Research Institutfor Earth Sciences

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APR
  1 st
9:00 AM

Collaborative FEW Nexus Governance for Water Security

Leah Jones –Crank
Earth Institute at Columbia University

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Meeting ID: 910 4086 1431
Passcode: 305341

APR
  22 nd
12:00 PM

Migration as Adaptation?
Relocations in the United States in Response to Hurricanes

Margaret Walls
Resources for the Future

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APR
  29 th
10:30 AM

Designing Digital Serious Games to Support JEDI and
STEM and Heritage

Karen Backe, 
University of Miami

Valuing the Voiceless: Beyond Anthropocentric
Value for Animals in Nature

Ethan Prall, 
University of Miami

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Fall 2021

OCT
  22nd
10: 30 AM

A New Climate for Regionalism? Governing Florida's Climate Adaptation

Linda Shi,
Cornell University

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OCT
  29th
10: 30 AM

Climate risks adaptations: integrating knowledge, making it actionable

Katharine Mach,
University of Miami

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NOV
  5th
10:30 AM

Short and long-term effects of climate change on marine social-ecological system dynamics

Owen Liu,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

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NOV
 12th
10:30 AM

The Nature Conservancy’s Innovative Approaches to Marine and Coastal Conservation and Restoration in Florida

Laura Geselbracht,
The Nature Conservancy

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NOV
 20th
10:30 AM

Making way for water: adapting to increasing flood risk

Carolien Kraan, 
University of Miami

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NOV
 20th
10:30 AM

Opportunities and challenges for livelihood resilience in urban and rural Mexican small-scale fisheries

Eddie Wintergalen, 
University of Miami

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