Although optional, Bren School seminars are excellent opportunities to learn about current research, problems and solutions, and/ or careers in Environmental Science & Management.

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic
Tuesday, October 31, 2006	12:30-1:30 pm	Bren Hall 1424	Professor, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University	"Trade and Biodiversity"
	Charles Perrings was appointed Professor of Environmental Economics at Arizona State University in August 2005, with joint appointments in the Global Institute of Sustainability and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Previous appointments include Professor of Environmental Economics and Environmental Management at the University of York; Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside; Director of the Biodiversity Program of the Beijer Institute, Stockholm; Professor of Economics at the University of Botswana; and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland. Until 2005 he was editor of the Cambridge University Press journal, Environment and Development Economics, and he remains on the editorial board of this and several other journals in environmental, resource and ecological economics, and in conservation ecology. He is Past President of the International Society for Ecological Economics, a society formed to bring together the insights of the ecological and economic sciences to aid understanding and management of environmental problems. He is also Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee of Diversitas, an international program of biodiversity science.
Friday, October 27, 2006	4:00-5:00 pm	Bren 3526	Paul Ferraro, Georgia State Hosted by Charlie Kolstad
Tuesday, October 10, 2006	12:30-1:30	BH 1424	Brett Melbourne, Post Doctoral Researcher, UC Davis	“Biological invasions in a heterogeneous world: concepts, models, and experiments.”
	Abstract: Biological invasions are stochastic and proceed in a highly heterogeneous environment, yet many aspects of invasions are modeled deterministically, and experiments are designed to minimize the effects of heterogeneity. I will talk about the role of both endogenous (i.e. biologically generated) heterogeneity and exogenous (i.e. environmental) heterogeneity in invasions.
Friday, September 29, 2006	4:00-5:00 pm	Bren 3526	David Sunding, UC Berkeley, Hosted by Charlie Kolstad
Tuesday, May 16, 2006	1:00-2:00	Bren Hall 1424	Hazel Henderson, Author, Independent Futurist, Worldwide syndicated columnist, Advocate for and consultant on equitable ecologically sustainable human development and socially responsible business and investment	Celebrating cultural and biodiversity and a new "earth ethics" beyond "economism"
	Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, LLC and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series - Dr. Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. Her editorials appear in 27 languages and more than 400 newspapers syndicated by InterPress Service, Rome, New York, and Washington DC. In addition, she has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara), held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley), and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980. She holds Honorary Dr. of Science degrees from the University of San Francisco, Soka University (Tokyo) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts (USA). She is an active member of the National Press Club (Washington DC), the World Future Society (USA), a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and a member of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. Sponsored by Ernst von Weizsacker
Thursday, May 11, 2006	12:15-1:00pm	Bren Hall 1424	Jayashree Watal, Counselor in the Intellectual Property Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO)	“Relationship Between the Trips Agreement and the CBD”
	Jayashree Watal, Counselor in the Intellectual Property Division of the WTO, will give an overview of the work in the WTO on the relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the CBD, noting its evolution since the 1992 Rio Earth summit up to the instructions given by Ministers in the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration of December 2005. She will explain the views of WTO Members, including that of the United States, on the question of whether the TRIPS Agreement and CBD requirements conflict, and if so, what, if anything, needs to be done on the TRIPS side. Sponsored by John Melack
Friday, April 28, 2006	11:30-12:30 pm	Bren Hall 1414	Ernst von Weizsaeker, Dean, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management	“The Triad of Environmental Policies”
	When Yellowstone Park was founded, the environmental agenda was “nature conservation." When the book Silent Spring shocked America, a second field of environmental concern opened: “pollution control.” Now a third area is opening before us: “resource efficiency.” This new area of concern results from scarcities of oil, water, and minerals; from climate change; and from 6 billion people wanting to live like Americans do. The good news is that resource efficiency is feasible and can be made highly profitable.
Friday, April 07, 2006	4:30-5:30 p.m.	Bren Hall 1414	Harvey Himberg, Senior Environmental Specialist at the World Bank Assurance and Compliance Unit in the Vice Presidency for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development	"New Directions in Environmental Assessment at the World Bank"
	The World Bank Group has relied on Environmental Assessment (EA) as the cornerstone of its environmental and social safeguards system and has continually refined this analytical tool to address emerging environmental and social impacts and risks associated with its investment projects in the developing world. By the turn of the century it became clear that new tools are necessary to address macro, strategic and global environmental issues. In 2001 the Bank launched its new Environmental Strategy and has subsequently developed new approaches to environmental assessment, including Country Environmental Assessment (including Use of Country Systems), and Strategic Environmental Assessment, and for its private sector programs, a transition from Safeguards to Performance Standards. This seminar will introduce interested students and faculty to these emerging EA analytical tools in the context of the challenges facing the World Bank and the international development community.* *This presentation does not purport to represent the views of the World Bank Group.
Thursday, April 06, 2006	3:30-4:30pm	Bren Hall 1424	Virender Sharma, Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology	Dealing with Endocrine Disrupting Compounds and Pharmaceuticals
	Virender Sharma is a Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology and currently on sabbatical at Stanford University. He went to the University of Miami in 1985 to work on his Ph.D. in Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, which he obtained in 1989. After his postdoctoral work at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), he joined as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in September, 1992 at the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC). He joined the Chemistry Department at Florida Institute of Technology in August, 1999. Virender has more than hundred publications as journal articles, book chapters, and proceedings. Sponsored by Arturo Keller
Wednesday, March 01, 2006	1:30-2:30	MSI (Marine Science Institute) 1302	Matt Kahn, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University	More...
	Matthew E. Kahn is an Associate Professor of International Economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His research focus is environmental and urban economics. He has published a number of papers concerning the costs and benefits of environmental regulation. His research on international environmental issues has focused on the costs of urbanization in Santiago, Chile and the relationship between international trade and environmental quality. Sponsored by Charlie Kolstad
Friday, February 17, 2006	1:00-2:00	Bren Hall 1414	John Topping
Wednesday, February 15, 2006	11:30-1:00pm	MSI (Marine Science Institute) 1302	Cristina Sandoval, Bob Poole, Carla Frisk, Margaret Connel	Oil Drilling Off the Goleta Coast--Future Planning and the Limits of the Arco Settlement More...
Monday, February 13, 2006	5:30-6:30 p.m.	Bren Hall 1414	Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Wednesday, February 01, 2006	11:30-1:00pm	MSI (Marine Science Institute) 1302	Linda Krop, Susan Jordan, Lorette Lynch, Rory Cox	LNG: Is It a Reasonable Alternative?
	The LNG topic is very hot right now, and you may have noticed, numerous major newspaper articles this week and last: Los Angeles Times; 1/19/06; page B10; Energetic Competition Santa Barbara Newspress; Voices Section Front Page; 1/22/06 Sacramento Bee, see articles below; http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/vprint/story/14106401p14936105c.html The focus of the discussion will be on environmental and long term implications of the choices that are being made and the different interests that will be served, depending on whether or not we go ahead with LNG. Further discussions will be on energy alternatives and what those would be and what woudl be required to move ahead with them. The topic has huge global implications as well as implications for your chosen field, and it is all happening righ here in our back yard. Get up to speed and beyond on what the issues and the pros and cons are with such a major, long range undertaking. This is a local, statewide and national interest.
Monday, January 30, 2006	5:30 p.m.	BH 1414	Christopher Flavin, President, Worldwatch Institute	Energy at the Tipping Point
	The world energy economy faces a perfect storm. The fossil fuels that created our industrial civilization in the 20th century are destabilizing the world in the 21st. Rapid climate change, the depletion of energy resources, soaring fuel prices, and growing dependence on energy from some of the world's most unstable countries are undermining security in the United States and around the globe. The threats and opportunities of this new energy era will be a defining feature of the world economy and politics in the years ahead. The challenge is to turn the current crisis into a
Friday, January 20, 2006	4:00-5:00 pm	BH 1414	Jeffrey Mount	Hell AND High Water In The Delta: California's Next Water Crisis
	The Delta, which lies at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, is the hub of California's water supply infrastructure, serving more than 23 million people and $5B in annual agricultural production. The Delta is undergoing significant landscape, ecologic and hydrologic change that threatens the reliability of this water supply. In addition, the Delta is highly susceptible to abrupt change from earthquakes or floods. Currently, all water policy is based on the assumption that the Delta will remain the same into the indefinite future. This is about to change.
Monday, November 28, 2005	11:30-12:30 p.m.	Bren Hal 2436	Laurie J. Osher, University of Maine, Plant, Soil & Environmental Sciences & School of Marine Sciences	“Isotopic Investigations in Downeast Maine Estuaries: Identification of OM Sources and Deposition Processes”
	Terrestrial soils play an important role in the global carbon cycle in that they store large amounts of carbon, and if managed to do so, may provide an enhanced sink for atmospheric CO2. Organic matter in the world's soils contain as much as three times the carbon found in land vegetation, making them a good candidate for carbon sequestration. However, organic matter sequestered in estuaries and near-shore sediments of the earth have not ben quantified andmay account for some of the "missing sink" in global C budget. The organic matter (OM) in estuarine sediments may contains C from marine, estuarine and terrestrial sources.The non-terrestrial sources of sediments to estuaries include marine particulates carried by incoming tides and waves, or in-situ estuarine primary productivity.Terrestrial sources can include eroded soils transported by rivers and streams, materials contributed as a result of bluff erosion, and by inundation of upland soils by rising sea levels.
Monday, November 21, 2005	12:00-1:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 2436	Dr. Suresh Selvaraju, University of Cincinnati, Department of Environmental Health	"Characterization of Microbal Contaminants in Metalworking Fluids"
Friday, November 18, 2005	12:30-1:30 p.m.	Bren Hall 1414	Marilyn Tam, US Foundation	"The practical opportunities and challenges in incorporating social and environmental standards in business and how to address them" More...
	Hear and discuss with Marilyn Tam, former President of Reebok Apparel & Retail Group, CEO of Aveda, Founder and Executive Director of Us Foundation and child laborer, the benefits and challenges of managing an environmentally and socially conscious business. There is no single answer to the social and environmental issues we are facing today. Marilyn Tam will share from her experience of being on all sides of the business and development equation. Hear and learn from real life stories of what happens when bottom line demands meet social and environmental pressures.
Thursday, October 27, 2005	12:30 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Dr. Al McGartland, Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation, USEPA, Washington	Economics and EPA Decision Making: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" More...
	Hosted by Charlie Kolstad
Friday, September 23, 2005	4:00-5:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1414	Nathan Glasgow, Environmental Economist and Biologist Member, RMI’s Research & Consulting Practice	"Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security." More...
Monday, September 19, 2005	4:00-5:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Dr. Stefan Sievert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	"Microbiology and biogeochemistry of autotrophic microbes in the subsurface at hydrothermal vents: the potential importance of the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle for autotrophic carbon fixation."
Thursday, May 26, 2005	4:00 - 6:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Dr. Richard Iverson  Hydrologist; USGS	Dynamics of debris flows and rock avalanches More...
	Hosted by Tom Dunne & UCSB Geological Sciences
Tuesday, May 24, 2005	4:00-5:00	Bren Hall 1424	Peter Kinnell  Associate Professor; Land and Environment School of Resource Environment and Heritage Sciences - University of Canberra, Australia	Scientific shortcomings in modelling agricultural pollution in watersheds More...
	Hosted by Arturo Keller
Monday, May 23, 2005	2:00-3:00	BH 2436	Ted Webb  Associate Professor of Natural Resource Management; The Asian Institute of Technology	Harnessing Local Capacity: community-based forest management and forest conservation in S and SE Asia More...
	Hosted by Oran Young
Friday, May 20, 2005	2:00-3:00	Bren Hall 1520	Jim Hench  Stanford Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory	Circulation and transport in tropical lagoons: physics meets biology in paradise More...
	Hosted by Hunter Lenihan
Thursday, May 19, 2005	4:00-5:00	Bren Hall 3526	Eric Rose  Project Coordinator; United Nations University in Tokyo	Environment Impacts and Management of Computers More...
	Sponsored by Roland Geyer
Wednesday, May 18, 2005	12:00-1:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 2436	Jessica Fox  Senior Associate; EPRI Solutions, Inc.	“Making Money Protecting Endangered Species” More...
	Sponsored by Frank Davis
Tuesday, May 10, 2005	3:30-5:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 2436	Tom Lyon  Dow Chemical Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology & Commerce University of Michigan	Greenwash: Corporate Environmental Disclosure under threat of audit More...
	Sponsored by Carol McAusland
Thursday, May 05, 2005	3:00-4:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 2436	Grazia Gargiulo  Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere IV, Agrosphere, Research Centre Juelich, Germany	Transport of microorganisms in unsaturated soils More...
	Sponsored by Trish Holden & Arturo Keller
Tuesday, May 03, 2005	3:30 - 4:30	Bren Hall 1414	Hunter Lovins  President, Natural Captialism Inc; CoFounder, Rocky Mountain Institute	A Business Case for Sustainability More...
Wednesday, April 20, 2005	10:00-11:30 a.m.	Bren Hall 3526	Scott Barrett  Professor of Environmental Economics & International Political Economy; Johns Hopkins University	"Eradication" More...
	Sponsored by Carol McAusland
Monday, April 18, 2005	12:30-1:30 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Bart Sokolow  President; Environmental Advisors, Inc.	"Remediation: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime" More...
	Sponsored by Laura Haston & Arturo Keller
Thursday, April 14, 2005	3:30-4:30 p.m.	North Hall 2212	Steve Hamilton  Associate Professor of Economics; Cal Poly State University	"Marketable Permits, Low-Sulfur coal, and the Behavior of Railroads" More...
	Sponsored by Carol McAusland
Monday, April 11, 2005	9:30-10:30 a.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Larry Rogero  Director of Environmental Affairs; Fed Ex/Kinkos	"The Challenge and "Lessons of Preparing a Corporate Sustainability Report" More...
	Sponsored by Doug Cerf
Friday, April 08, 2005	11:00am	Bren Hall 1414	Terry Hazen	"Integration of the Ecogenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, and Biogeochemistry: The New Frontier for Environmental Biotechnology" More...
	Sponsored by Patricia Holden
Tuesday, April 05, 2005			Dr. John J. Johnston  Project Leader; USDA in Fort Collins, CO	Dr. John J. Johnston
	Sponsored by Jim Frew
Monday, March 28, 2005	5:00-6:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Dr. Riti Ott  Author; Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill	"16 years after Exxon Valdez: Lingering Effects of Oil on Public Health and the Environment" More...
	Hosted by Gail Osherenko
Wednesday, March 16, 2005	12:00-1:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Nicholas Pinter  Associate Geography Professor; Southern Illinois University	Nicholas Pinter More...
Monday, March 07, 2005	12:00-1:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Jay Shimshack  Assistant Professor of Economics; Tufts University	“Are Mercury Advisories Effective? Information, Education, and Fish Consumption”
Thursday, March 03, 2005	11:45-1:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 2436	Oran Young  Professor; Donald Bren School, UCSB	Oran Young
Friday, February 25, 2005	1:00-2:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Jim Messelbeck  Director of EH&S; Genentech	“Environmental Health and Safety at Genentech - an Overview” More...
Wednesday, February 23, 2005	12:00-1:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Laurie Harris  Bren School Visiting Professor	"Current Issues in Global Environmental Ethics: Why Global Environmental Problems Are Ethical Problems" More...
Thursday, February 17, 2005	11:45-1:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 2436	Phil Duffy  LLNL	Phil Duffy
Wednesday, February 09, 2005	4:00-5:30 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Linda Krop & Susan Rose  Krop: Chief Counsel; Environmental Defense Council Rose: Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors	PERSPECTIVES ON DECISION MAKING IN LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT
Monday, February 07, 2005	12:00-1:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Peter Etnoyer  Marine Ecologist; Aquanautix	"International marine conservation efforts- the Baja California to Bering Sea (B2B) Initiative" More...
Friday, February 04, 2005	1:00-2:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1414	Lindene Patton  VP & Counsel; Zurich North America
Thursday, January 27, 2005		Bren Hall	Jeff Dozier, UCSB  Professor; Donald Bren School, UCSB	Jeff Dozier
Thursday, January 13, 2005	11:45-1:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 2436	Wolfram Schlenker  UCSD and Princeton	Wolfram Schlenker
Wednesday, January 12, 2005	12:00-1:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Christiane Schmullius  Professor; Geoinformatics and Earth Observation, Friedrich Schiller University -- Jena, Germany	Multisensor Concepts for Greenhouse Gas Accounting in Northern Eurasia
Friday, December 10, 2004	500-6:30 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Jay Shimshack  Assistant Professor; Tufts University	“Are Mercury Advisories Effective? Information, Education, and Fish Consumption” More...
Thursday, December 02, 2004	4:30-5:30 p.m.	Bren Hall 1424	Dr. Guy Midgley  Senior Researcher; South African National Biodiversity Institute	"Climate change impacts on Biodiversity - A South African Perspective" More...
Friday, November 19, 2004	1:00-2:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1414	Annik Fet  Professor; Norwegian Univ of Science & Technology	"Sustainability reporting, indicators and communication of environmental performances exemplified by case studies"
Friday, October 29, 2004	1:00-2:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 1414	Dr. Robert Epstein  Co-founder; E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs	"The Business Benefits from Environmental Policies"
Thursday, October 21, 2004	3:00-5:00 p.m.	Bren Hall 2436	Steve Polaski
Thursday, October 21, 2004	3:30-4:30 p.m	Bren Hall 1424	Lee Hannah  Senior Research Fellow; Conservation International	"Extinction Risk from Climate Change"
Monday, October 11, 2004	2:00-3:30 p.m.	Bren Hall 2436	Jose Antonio Montes  International & Environmental Attorney	Informal Q&A Mesoamerica Environmental and Energy Issues