Department of Geography – Colloquia Spring 2008

Updated 04/28/08

Friday, 1/18/08

David Clow, Research Hydrologist, Colorado Water Science Center, US Geological Survey

"Changes in the timing of snowmelt in Colorado: a response to recent springtime warming"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 2/1/08

Eric Perramond, Colorado College, Southwest Studies and Environmental Science

"Adjudication before Neo-liberalism – Water in New Mexico"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 2/8/08

Peter Brosius, University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology

"Global Conservation and the Politics of Scale"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 2/22/08

Julia Klein, Colorado State University, Department of Forest, Rangeland & Watershed Stewardship

"Climate Warming and Grazing on the Tibetan Plateau: Ecological Effects and Implications for Pastoral Livelihoods"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 2/29/08

Lisa Dilling, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, CIRES

"Scales of decision-making in land use and carbon management"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 3/7/08

Phaedon Kyriakidis, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography

"Geostatistical super-resolution land cover mapping from coarse class fractions"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 3/14/08

Malcolm Hughes, Regents' Professor of Dendrochronology and Watershed Management, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona; CIRES Visiting Fellow

"Interannual to multicentury variability in arid region hydroclimate"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 3/21/08

Francis E. "Jack" Putz, University of Florida; Department of Botany

"Shades of Grey in Tropical Forest Transitions: View from the Ground"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 3/28/08

Spring Break

 

 

Friday, 4/4/08

Katherine Verdery, City University of New York, Graduate Center

"Remembering Collectivization in 1950s Romania:  Memory, Victimhood, and Silence"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 4/11/08

Liu Jianqiang, investigative journalist for China's Southern Weekend and visiting scholar, UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism

"The role of media and democratization in China's environmental movement"

co-sponsored by The Center for Asian Studies and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication

4:00-5:00

GUGG 205

Friday, 4/18/08

AAG 4/15-4/20

 

 

Friday, 4/25/08

Suzanne Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geography; Research Scientist, INSTAAR

"Mechanical-chemical weathering linkages:  Examples from glacial landscapes and the critical zone"

3:30-4:30

GUGG 205

Friday, 5/2/08

Mark Williams, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geography and Fellow, INSTAAR

"Save Our Snow:  Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Western U.S. Ski Areas for the Years 2030, 2070, and 2100"

4:00-5:00

GUGG 205