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CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar Series

The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and the CU Environment and Society Program have decided to join forces for a joint brown bag seminar series. All talks are free and open to the public and will be at12:00 pm on scheduled Mondays at CSTPR (located at 1333 Grandview Avenue) or in the CIRES Auditorium. More Information.

Nootime Seminar Series


ENVS Colloquium Series 2009

Restoring the Earth: No Easy Answers. More Information.

CSTPR/IBS SeminarCSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar: "The Effects of Ecological Information Provision on Preferences for Ecosystem Restoration" by Yohei Mitani, December 7, 2009 at 12:00 PM in the CSTPR Conference Room. More Information.

 


For more information please contact us at 303-735-0451 or ami@cires.colorado.edu
 

Upcoming Talks

Maxwell Boykoff, Cultural Politics and Climate Change, at Oxford University on December 1, 2009.
Maxwell Boykoff, Who Speaks for the Climate? Historical Account of Media Coverage of Climate Change, Dec. 4, 2009.
Yohei Mitani, CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar, The Effects of Ecological Information Provision, December 7, 2009.
Maxwell Boykoff, NOAA Seminar: The cultural politics of climate change: Focusing on mass media, December 9, 2009.
Max Boykoff, AGU Workshop on Communicating Climate Change: Media, Dialogue, and Public Engagement, Dec. 13, 2009.
Lisa Dilling, Providing policy-relevant information for greenhouse gas management, December 16, 2009.
Benjamin Hale, Assessing the Mitigation and Remediation Options, COP15, December 7-18, 2009.
Ursula Rick, Relative Magnitude of Mass Change Mechanisms on the Greenland Ice Sheet, December 18, 2009.
Benjamin Hale, Nonrenewable Resources and the Inevitability of Outcomes, ISEE Meeting, Dec. 30, 2009.
Maxwell Boykoff, Understanding Climate-Change Skepticism: Its Sources and Strategies, February 22, 2010.

Past Talks from 2008-2009

For talks prior to 2008 please see our archives section

Ursula Rick, CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar, Sea Level Rise as a Climate Change Metric, November 2, 2009.
FOSEP Meeting: The Promise and Perils of Geoengineering, informal discussion with Bill Travis, October 27, 2009.
Max Boykoff, CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar, Inconvenient Celebrity? Celebrities & Climate Change, Oct. 26, 2009.
David Cherney, Yellowstone’s Saviors? Nongovernmental Organizations in Policy & American Democracy, Oct. 24, 2009.
CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series: Steve Rayner, University of Oxford, October 23, 2009.
The Role of Natural Gas in a Clean Energy Economy, October 22, 2009.
Steve Rayner, Finding the Right Trousers: Radically Rethinking Climate Policy and Low Carbon Energy, Oct. 21, 2009.
Deserai Anderson Crow, CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar, Recreational water rights in Colorado, October 19, 2009.
Forum on Science Ethics and Policy Informational Meeting for Prospective Members, October 13, 2009.
Max Boykoff, 2009 Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences Meeting, October 9, 2009.
Rad Byerly, CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar, The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission, October 5, 2009.
Tania Schoennagel, Bugs and bugaboos: Mountain pine beetles, fire and ecological restoration, September 30, 2009.
Sonia Akter, CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar, Climate change mitigation in Australia, September 28, 2009.
CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series: Rita Colwell, John Hopkins University, September 25, 2009.
Max Boykoff, Signals and noise: examining media representations of climate change, September 25, 2009.
Robert Frodeman, CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar, What is interdisciplinarity?, September 21, 2009.
Krister Andersson, CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar, Community Self-Governance of Forests in Bolivia, Sept. 14, 2009.
The First 300 Days: An Assessment of Obama's Energy and Climate Policy, Panel Discussion at CU, September 3, 2009.
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado-Boulder, August 6-9, 2009.
Erin Moore, The Conflict Between Growth and Goodness in International Development, SPT 2009, July 7-10, 2009.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Efficiency Illusion & other Energy Myths: Why Cap & Trade Won't Work-and What Can, July 1, 2009.
Peter Hoeppe, The Munich Re Natural Catastrophes Data Base – Trends?, June 26, 2009.
Erik Fisher, The 'Two Cultures' in Science Policy Today, CSTPR Conference Room, RESCHEDULED: June 25, 2009.
Kathleen Evens and Jim Mollenkopf, Sustainable Energy and Atmospheric Sciences, NIST Auditorium, June 16, 2009.
William Travis, From Research to Field Testing & Deployment: Ethical Issues Raised By Geoengineering, June 15, 2009
William Travis, Development: Urban Growth & Agricultural Resilience, June 3, 2009.
Marilyn Averill, Three Degrees: The Law of Climate Change and Human Rights Conference, May 28-29, 2009.
Marilyn Averill, United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Annual Meeting, May 2009.
Reconciling the Supply of & Demand for Research in the Science of Science & Innovation Policy Workshop, May 12-14,
Erik Fisher, The 'Two Cultures' in Science Policy Today, CU-Denver, School of Public Affairs', May 7, 2009.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Climate Policy in the US and the UK, UK Policy Exchange, April 30, 2009.
Melanie Roberts, How to get an NSF Grant, CSTPR Conference Room, April 29, 2009.
Roger Pielke, Jr., The Business of Cap and Trade: Lessons from the European Experience, April 22, 2009.
Eugene Turner, The Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - Wetland Restoration, CIRES Auditorium, April 20, 2009
Shali Mohleji, The Politics of Gulf Coast Restoration, CIRES Auditorium, April 20, 2009.
CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series: Raymond Bradley, University of Massachusetts, April 17, 2009.
Guy Caruso, Global Energy Trends: Implications for U.S. Energy Security & Environmental Policy, April 16, 2009.
Reflections on the Copenhagen International Scientific Congress Meeting, CIRES S274, April 13, 2009.
Museum Leadership Series: Sharing Our Science – Why Bother?, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 13, 2009.
Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 6th - 10th, 2009.
Melanie Roberts, Grant Writing 101: Tips for Success, Atlas Building 200, April 9, 2009.
Steve Vanderheiden, Food Politics & Policy: Competing Imperatives for Land Use, CIRES Auditorium, April 1, 2009.
Melanie Roberts, Research Evaluation at the US National Science Foundation, March 17.
Lisa Dilling, Urgency of climate change challenge: Is governance “getting in the way” of progress?, March 11, 2009.
CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series: Greg Carmichael, University of Iowa, March 6, 2009.
David Cherney, Transforming Environmentalism: Death of the Environmental Movement, CU-Boulder, March 6, 2009.
Jason Delborne, The Practice of Scientific Dissent in Agricultural Biotechnology, March 4, 2009.
Elizabeth Albright, Local-Level Response to Extreme Flood Events in the Central Danube River Basin, March 4, 2009.
Elizabeth Albright, Policy Change, Learning & Adaptation to Extreme Flood Events: Danube River Basin, March 4, 2009
Maxwell Boycoff, Transformations of carbon-based economies and societies, February 27, 2009.
Maxwell Boycoff, The cultural politics of climate change: focusing on mass media, February 27, 2009.
Dr. Konrad Steffen, Changes in the Arctic Ice Cover, February 26, 2009.
David Cherney, Science Policy in Greater Yellowstone, Yale University, February 26, 2009.
David Cherney, Organizational Ecology in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Yale University, February 25, 2009.
Melissa Kenney, Using Decision Analysis to Address Complex Restoration Problems, February 24, 2009.
Melissa Kenney, Coupling Scientific Predictions with Decision Analysis, February 24, 2009.
Lisa Dilling, Land use decision making as a driver of carbon sequestration at multiple scales, February 20, 2009.
Nicole Peterson, Multidisciplinary collaboration in reducing climate risks, February 20, 2009.
Nicole Peterson, Decisions, opportunities, and obstacles in organizational decision-making, February 20, 2009.
Ila Cote, Risk Assessment at the Environmental Protection Agency: Science, Policy and Politics, February 18, 2009.
Roger Pielke Jr., Uncomfortable Knowledge about Climate Policy, Oregon State University, February 17, 2009.
William Lewis, Dam Removal: Advocacy, Resistance, & Feasibility, Humanities 1B50, February 16, 2009.
Roger Pielke Jr., Can the British Climate Change Act Meet its Goals?, February 10, 2009.
CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series: Alan Robock, Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?, January 30, 2009.
Deane Little, Profitable Air Capture of CO2, January 28, 2009.
Chris Sear, Climate Science Evidence for Policy Making – UK Perspectives, NCAR, January 23, 2009.
The Energy and Climate Challenge Fall 2008 Series
2008 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 15-19, 2008.
Evolving Regional Frameworks for Ag-to-Urban Water Transfers, CU Law School, December 11, 2008.
Lisa Dilling, Climate Change: What does it mean to the Denver region?, November 20, 2008
Lisa Dilling, DRCOG Board Study Session on Climate Change: Denver region, November 19, 2008.
Benjamin Hale, "Think!" Lecture on "Why You Don't Have to Love Nature to Be Green", November 18, 2008.
Daniel Kammen, Policy Advice for the New President, CU-Boulder, November 17, 2008.
Energy Initiative Research Symposium and Seed Grant Competition, CU-Boulder, November 17, 2008.
Cold Ice in a Warming Climate: Photographs by Konrad Steffen, Boulder Public Library, Through Nov. 14, 2008.
Jerry Peterson, A nuclear physicist in the Department of State, November 10, 2008.
CIRES Distinguished Lecture: Gerard Roe, What are the limits to global climate predictions?, Oct. 31, 2008.
Do we need a "Manhattan/Apollo Project" to solve the energy/climate problem?, CU-Boulder, October 30, 2008.
Marilyn Averill, Climate Litigation: The Role of the Judiciary in U.S. Climate Policy, October 27, 2008.
2008 Policy Sciences Annual Institute, CU-Boulder, October 23-25, 2008.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Scientists in Highly Politicized Debates, Cornell University, October 23, 2008.
Climate Change Adaptation in the Face of Extreme Weather, Amanda Lynch, NCAR, October 23, 2008.
Barbara Farhar, On the Path to Zero Carbon Homes: The Comparative San Diego Case Study, October 20, 2008.
David Cherney, Non-governmental Organizations in Environmental Policy: An Overview of Yellowstone, Oct. 16, 2008
Frank Laird, Changing Technological Systems: Comprehensive Policy for Renewable Energy, October 13, 2008.
The Energy and Climate Challenge: Have We Underestimated the Size of the Challenge?, CU-Boulder, September 16, 2008
Mary Tyszkiewicz, Venture Capital Concept Analysis, September 8, 2008.
Benjamin Hale, Restoration and Remediation as Redress to Wrongdoing, Clemson University, September 5-7, 2008.
Bill Travis, The Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Panel, CU-Boulder, August 23, 2008.
Tom Yulsman, Communicating Energy and Climate Change Challenges Panel, CU-Boulder, August 23, 2008.
Lisa Dilling, Assembling the Policy Puzzle Panel, CU-Boulder, August 23, 2008.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Prospects for Governing Emerging Technologies: Comments, Big Sky, MT. August 17-22, 2008.
Meeting the Global Energy and Climate Change Challenge, August 22-23, 2008, CU-Boulder.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Social Dimensions of Climate Change Panel, CU-Boulder, August 22, 2008.
Carl Koval, The Challenge of Developing Carbon-free Energy Panel, CU-Boulder, August 22, 2008.
Benjamin Hale, Co-Coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, CU Boulder, August 8-10, 2008.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Climate Change, Economics, & the Courts, Bozeman, Montana, July 2008.
Erik Fisher, Nano Renewable Energy Summit, Denver, Colorado, July 20-22, 2008.
Roger Pielke, Jr., 33rd Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, July 12-15, 2008.
David Cherney, Integrative Conservation Problem Solving Workshop: Methods to Bridge the Natural and Social Sciences
David Cherney, The American West’s Longest Land Mammal Migration, Newport, RI. July 2, 2008.
Benjamin Hale, The Cumbers of Ontology, Thinking through Nature, University of Oregon, June 19-22, 2008.
William Travis, Sustainability Questioned: Appraising the Viability of Land Use Systems, June 19, 2008.
Lisa Dilling, Governing the carbon balance: Land use, decision making, & opportunities for usable science, 6/2/08.
Benjamin Hale, ISEE/IAEP fifth annual joint conference, May 27-30, 2008.
Benjamin Hale, Workshop: Philosophy of Technology, Environment & Society, U. of Twente (Nederlands), May 21-24 2008
Marilyn Averill, Managing Climate Uncertainties, CDMC-DMUU Student Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2008.
Lisa Dilling, The Usefulness of Carbon Science for Decision-Making, U. of Southern California, May 21-22, 2008.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Have we Underestimated the Carbon Dioxide Challenge? May 13, 2008.
David Cherney, GYE Conservation Organizations: Organizational Ecology, May 8-9, 2008.
Benjamin Hale, Tongue Tied: How Non-human Animals Lose their Voice in Habermas’s Discourse Ethics, May 2-4, 2008.
Andrea Ray, Lessons learned from the 2000s Western drought: Evolving linkages between..., April 28, 2008.
Elizabeth McNie, Exploring the Agora: Co-producing useful Climate Science for Policy, April 25, 2008.
Roger Pielke, Jr., Economics and Politics of Direct Air Capture of CO2 from the Atmosphere, April 25, 2008.
Paul Komor, New energy education programs at CU: What does it mean to teach 'energy'?, April 14, 2008.
Hale & Dilling, Carbon Sequestration, Ocean Fertilization, & the Problem of Permissible Pollution, April 11, 2008.
Eva Lövbrand, The Democracy Paradox in Studies of Science and Society, April 9, 2008.
Rebecca Morss, Interactions among Flood Predictions, Decisions, & Outcomes, April 7, 2008.
Kevin Vranes, What's Wrong with Earthquake Mitigation in the United States?, April 7, 2008.
Joe Ryan, Abandoned Mine Cleanups, the Clean Water Act, and Environmental Good Samaritans, March 31, 2008.
Kathleen Tierney, The Good the Bad and the Ugly: Post-Katrina Trends in Hazards Policy and Research, March 17, 2008
David Cherney, Reforming Conservation: Moving beyond persistent policy conflict in greater Yellowstone-Mar. 3, 2008
Lisa Dilling, Department of Geography – Colloquia, CU-Boulder, February 29, 2008.
Jana Milford, Clean Air Rules: Challenges in Air Pollution Control Strategy Design, February 18, 2008.
Balaji Rajagopalan, The Once and Future Pulse of Indian Monsoonal Climate, February 18, 2008.
Benjamin Hale, Research on Prisoners and other Vulnerable Populations Symposium, February 14-15, 2008.
Elizabeth McNie, Linking Knowledge with Action, February 11, 2008.
Lisa Dilling, Creating a climate for Change: Rethinking communication and climate change, February 8, 2008.
Karen Fisher-Vanden, Technology, Development and the Environment, February 7, 2008.
Thomas Chase, To What Degree are Climate Models Useful in Guiding Policy Decisions?, February 4, 2008.
Lisa Dilling, Focus the Nation: Campus Teach-in on Global Warming, CU-Boulder, January 31, 2008.
Paul Komor, Focus the Nation Panel Discussion: Colorado’s Energy Future:Are we on the right path?, January 31, 2008


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