2009-2010 Lectures
Robert K. Musil - School of International Studies, American University, Hope for a Heated Planet: Can Students Stop Global Warming
Melanie Small CC '03 - Visiting Instructor, Department of Botany, Connecticut College; Ecosystem restoration: policy, economics and the changing landscape
Lauren Hartzell CC'03 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington; The precautionary principle and climate change policy
Lauren M. Mathews CC'96 - Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ecology, evolution and the impacts of invasive species in southern New England
Andrew Stein CC'99 - Field Research Coordinator, Botswana Conservation Trust; Conservation of Large African Carnivores
Sally McGee - Director of the Northeast Regional Policy, Oceans Program, Environmental Defence Fund, Mystic, CT; Getting out of a rut: Long overdue change in fishery management in New England
Varun Swamy CC'01- Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University; Fruit to sapling: tree recruitment processes in an Amazonian reainforest
2008-2009 Lectures
Anne Berhard - Assistant Professor of Biology Department, Connecticut College; Amonia Oxidizing Archea: New Players in the Nitrification Puzzle
Manuel Lizarralde - Associate Professor of Ethanobiology, Connecticut College; Historical Ecology of the Epidemics Among the Bari People of Venezuela
Elizabeth M. DeSanto - Marines Protected Areas Coordination Officer, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Washington, DC; Opportunities and Challenges for Deep Sea Conservation
Jenny Kao-Kniffen - Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Incorporating an ecosystem perspective in plant-microbial research
2007-2008 Lectures
Enrique Mayer - Professor of Anthropology, Yale University; Leo Garofalo - Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College; Manuel Lizarralde, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Connecticut College; two police officers from the city of New London; a panel discussion moderated by Bianca Kissel '08: Cocaine: From the Leaves of South America to the Streets of New London
Robert Askins - Professor of Biology, Connecticut College: Conservation Across Landscapes: The Importance of Large Nature Reserves
Benjamin Zuckerberg - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse: Repeating Patterns: Bird Ranges Extend Northward in New York State in Response to Climate Change
Richard Canavan - Senior Environmental Scientist, CME Associates: Restoring the Dammed Dutch Delta: Sediment Biogeochemical Response to Salinization
Robert Baldwin - Associate Professor of Art History, Connecticut College: Nature as Urban Culture: Burgher Reality in the Landscape Art of Pieter Bruegel
Dana Warren - Cornell University, Department of Natural Resources: Impacts of Deforestation and Stream Restoration
Scott Warren - Professor Emeritus of Botany, Connecticut College: Tidal Marsh Restoration
2006-2007 Lectures
Alexander Kolker - Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University: Sea Levels, Sulfides or Sewage: What are the Causes of Coastal Change?
Michael Loomis - North Carolina Zoo and North Carolina State University: Connecting the Dots: Monitoring Elephant Movement Patterns to Maintain Connectivity in Congo Basin Landscapes
Justin Richard '03 - Mystic Marinelife Aquarium: Captive Breeding of Beluga Whales
Allen Carroll '73 - Chief Cartographer and Executive Vice President of National Geographic Maps, Recipient of the Goodwin-Niering Center 2006 Alumni Environmental Achievement Award: Cartography and Conservation: From Connecticut College to National Geographic
Patricia Klindienst - Author: The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
Mary-Jeanne Raleigh - Psychotherapist, Antioch New England Graduate School: Restorative Effects of the Natural Environment
Lisa A. Drake - U.S. Coast Guard Academy: Marine Bioinvasions: Ships' Ballast Tanks as Vectors of Microorganisms, and International Regulations to Reduce Potential Introductions
Jennifer Bowen - Marine Biological Laboratory: Nutrient Enrichment of Salt Marshes: How Does Increased Nitrogen Supply Affect Salt Marsh Sediment Microbial Communities?
Doug Thompson - Associate Professor of Geophysics, Connecticut College: The Role of Geomorphology in the Restoration of Our Nation's Degraded Rivers
2005-2006 Lectures
Doug Thompson - Associate Professor of Geophysics, Connecticut College: Life on the Mississippi River Delta: The Engineering Battle to Control the Largest River in the U.S.
Alesia Maltz - Environmental Studies Department, Antioch New England Graduate School: An Environmental Historian's Response to the Book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"
Christian Kamenik - Bigelow Laboratories, Maine: Alpine Paleolimnology and Its Importance for Climate Predictions
Nicholas Rodenhouse - Wellesley College: Effect of Weather on Migratory Songbirds: Implications of Climate Change
Dana Warren - Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University: Brook Trout Ecology in the Northeast
Vinton Valentine - The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole: GIS and Remote Sensing for Tidal Wetlands
Stephen Threlkeld - Department of Biology, University of Mississippi: Writing in Science
2004-2005 Lectures
Jonathan Fahey '92- Writer, Forbes Magazine: The Big Thirst: How Automakers, Politicians, Regulators and Drivers Keep the U.S. Guzzling Gasoline
Doug Thompson – Associate Professor of Geophysics, Connecticut College: Long-Term Effects of Instream Habitat-Improvement Structures on Channel Morphology Along the Blackledge and Salmon Rivers
Don Mylchreest - Project Manager, Power Plant Laboratories, Alstom Power Inc.: The Greenbrier Clean Coal Initiative