GES Seminar Series

Spring 2013 Seminars
Wednesdays from 12 to 1 PM
Room 001 Sondheim Hall (unless otherwise noted)

Wednesday, April 24, 12 noon, Sondheim 001

Dr. Kevin Turpie, Associate Research Scientist, UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology

Mapping pelagic autotrophs from Space – converting photons into food for thought

Wednesday, May 8, 12 noon, Sondheim 001

Dr. Dawn Biehler, Assistant Professor, UMBC Department of Ge

We are also co-sponsors of the Korenman lecture, rescheduled to:

Monday, April 29 at 4pm

Proscenium Theater, Performing Arts and Humanities Building

The Fracking of Rachel Carson: Silent Spring in an Age of Environmental Crisis

Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Professor of Education, Stanford University

A cancer survivor, Dr. Sandra Steingraber has written extensively on the intersection of the environment and public health. She will discuss what we have learned, and failed to learn, in the 50 years since Rachel Carson’s publication of Silent Spring , and will examine the threat to public health that fracking poses.

Korenman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women Studies with support from the Department of American Studies, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, Geography and Environmental Systems, Office of the Provost, Social Sciences Forum, and Women in Science and Engineering

For more information, contact Andrew Miller at miller@umbc.edu.