Speakers: Mark Werner, Coordinator, CTO
Title: Classroom Technologies to Maximize Student Learning
In the classroom technologies can often be used to meet educational goals and learning styles that you might otherwise find difficult to reach. In this workshop we will discuss how different technologies can be used to meet different learning styles.
For further information, please call 303-492-4902.
Websites: Graduate Teacher Program
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Speakers: Konrad Steffen, CIRES, University of Colorado
Title: Greenland Ice Sheet and Dynamic Response to Global Warming
Questions: Jan Wilmesmeier
Websites: NCAR
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Title: Hydrologic Sciences Annual Student Symposium
Websites: Water Resources Engineering Seminar
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Speakers: Aimee Merkel, The AIM Mission
Title: The AIM Mission: Examining clouds at the edge of space
Noctilucent, or night shining clouds form 50 miles above Earth and may be linked to climate change. Learn about the AIM mission that studies them.
1234 Innovation Drive, in the East Campus Research Park off of Colorado Avenue.
Parking and lecture are free. For info, contact Erin Wood, 303-735-0962, or visit LASP.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Websites: LASP Events
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Speakers: James Syvitski, University of Colorado at Boulder
Title: The Anthropocene- a new geologic epoch?
Refreshments served at 3:30 on 3rd floor.
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Speakers: William Boyd , University of Colorado Law School ; Krister Andersson, Department of Political Science and Environmental Studies, CU Boulder
Title: Climate Policy, REDD+ and the Road Ahead
Refreshments served after talk.
by William Boyd, University of Colorado Law School and Krister Andersson, Department of Political Science and Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado
Bios:
William Boyd joined the University of Colorado Law School faculty in 2008. Professor Boyd received his Ph.D. from the Energy & Resources Group at UC-Berkeley and his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an Articles Editor on the Stanford Law Review. After law school, Professor Boyd clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the United State Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Professor Boyd then served as American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Science Fellow and Counsel on the Democratic minority staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. He then practiced energy, environmental and climate change law with the firm of Covington & Burling LLP in Washington DC. He continues to be actively involved in legislative and regulatory debates on energy and climate change at state, national, and international levels, and is currently senior advisor and project lead for the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF), www.gcftaskforce.org.
As a faculty member at the law school, Professor Boyd teaches energy law & regulation, climate change law & policy, and environmental law. His current research focuses on legal and institutional design issues associated with emerging GHG compliance markets; integration of forests and land use into climate policy; carbon accounting and verification systems for biofuels; regulatory challenges associated with implementation of smart grid technologies; electricity policy; technology transfer in the energy and climate fields; risk assessment; and the role of science and technology in law. Since arriving at the University of Colorado, Professor Boyd has played an active role in establishing the new Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) – a joint institute between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Colorado, Boulder -- serving on the campus-wide steering committee that recommended the creation of RASEI and as an inaugural fellow on the RASEI Council of Fellows. Professor Boyd also serves as the University of Colorado representative for the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA) – a newly formed collaborative energy analysis effort between NREL, University of Colorado, Colorado State University, Colorado School of Mines, MIT, and Stanford.
Krister Andersson is an assistant professor in Environmental Policy, Department of Political Science and Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He studies the politics of environmental governance developing countries. Most of Krister's recent work seeks to explain subnational variation in local governance outcomes in Latin America. This is also the theme of his most recent book, Local Governments and Rural Development (University of Arizona Press, 2009), which is co-authored with Gustavo Gordillo and Frank van Laerhoven. In it they compare the institutional conditions for public service performance in 390 local governments in the rural areas of Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru.
Previous to Krister's academic career, he served as an international civil servant and consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Bank and non-governmental organizations in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Sweden.
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Speakers: Professor David Mays, Department of Civil Engineering, CU Denver
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Speakers: James Syvitski, University of Colorado at Boulder
Title: The Anthropocene- a new geologic epoch?
Work is underway to determine whether the Anthropocene should be considered a new geological Epoch where the human footprint on the earth surface equals or surpasses the level of other geological climate events, such as that seen in the transition between the Pleistocene and the Holocene. Records in question include near global biostratigraphic markers, such as from the worldwide spread of invasive or non-native species, monoculture ecologies, or from the conversion of much of the planet's dry land to agricultural or industrial use. Other records might be from global climate signals, chemical (e.g. ocean acidification) and radioactive (e.g. nuclear activity) signals, and species extinctions. Human impacts on Earth surface processes are not however spatially or temporally homogeneous. Human impact on sediment production began 3000 years ago but accelerated more widely 1000 years ago. By the sixteenth century, societies were already engineering their environment. Millponds were ubiquitous in the 18th and 19th century and affected the hydrological nature of many rivers. Early twentieth century mechanization has led to global signals of increased sediment flux in most large rivers. By the 1950s, this sediment disturbance signal reversed for many rivers owing to the proliferation of dams, and sediment load reduction below pristine conditions is the dominant signal today. A delta subsidence signal began in the 1930s and is now a dominant signal in terms of sea level for many coastal environments, overwhelming even the global warming imprint on sea level. Humans have engineered how most water and sediment are discharged into the coastal ocean. Hyperpycnal flow events have become more common for some rivers, and less common for other rivers. Bottom trawling is now widespread, suggesting that even continental shelves have received a significant but as yet quantified Anthropocene impact.
Refreshments will be served at 3:30 just outside Benson Room 380.
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Speakers: Robin Chazdon, University of Connecticut
Title: Resurgence--Successional Dynamics of Tropical Forests
Refreshments at 3:30, talk begins at 4:00.
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