Past Talks from 2008

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.

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.