Spring 2018

February 14:
Danny Flier, NPS

February 21:
Christopher Trisos, Postdoctoral fellow, SESYNC
“Potential consequences for biodiversity of climate change and climate engineering”

February 28:
Dr. Heidi Heausermann, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University
“The politics and health implications of unregulated gold mining in Ghana”

March 7:
Dr. Laura Ogden, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
“Forest ethnography: An approach to study environmental history and political ecology of urban forests”

March 14:
Dr. Grace Brush, Professor, Department of Environmental Health & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
“A history of sedimentation in the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries”

March 28:
Dr. Heather Randell, Postdoctoral fellow, SESYNC
“Too hot for school:climate change & education in the global tropics”

April 4:
GES Grad Students Lightning talks

April 18:
Dr. John Weishampel, Professor, Biology Department, University of Central Florida
“Using LiDAR to Understand the Landscape Archaeology of a Maya Polity & Its Environmental Legacies”

Fall 2017

DATE          SPEAKER                        AFFILIATION/TOPIC

9/13              Michael Cove                       North Carolina State University

9/20              GES Faculty Panel             Defining your research project

9/27              Jim Fleming                        Colby College

10/4              Chris Shuman                   JCET

10/11            Colin Cuniff                        AAAS Policy Fellow

10/18            Andy Miller                        UMBC Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems

Spring 2016

Don Outen

Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability
Feb. 24, 12pm
ITE 231

Emily Billo

Department of Environmental Studies Goucher College
March 23rd, 12pm
ITE 231

Aaron Ellison

Harvard Forest Harvard University April 13th, 12pm ITE 231

Faculty and Graduate Student Panel

Publishing: How to Survive Peer Review April 27th, 12pm, 
Sondheim 001

Spring 2015

March 11

Lorraine Remer

UMBC-NASA Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET)

March 25

Stuart Aitken

San Diego State University

April 1

Shiloh Krupar

Georgetown University

April 8

JCET Research Posters

May 6

Thomas Crimson

Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida

Fall 2014

September 15

Rebecca Lave, Department of Geography, University of Indiana

Marketing Environmental Science and Management: Stream Mitigation Banking in the U.S.

September 24

Lee Blaney, Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, UMBC

October 1

Paul Leisnham, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, UM-College Park

December 3

Graduate student panel on fieldwork: Anna Johnson, Sam Dupree, Molly Van Appledorn, Brooks Binau

Spring 2014
February 5
Dr. Christopher Shuman
Associate Research Scientist, Joint System for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC
Mass Balance of northern Antarctic Peninsula glaciers and their continuing response to ice shelf loss, 2001-2013

February 19
Dr. Joseph Mascaro
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
Topic: The World Makers: Ecologists as Ecosystem Designers

March 5
Dr. Mona Atia, Assistant Professor of Geography and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt

March 26
Dr. Elizabeth Selig, Director of Marine Science, Moore Center for Science and Oceans, Conservation International, Arlington, VA.
Quantifying ocean ecosystem health and identifying marine conservation priorities

April 16
Dr. Dena Aufseeser, Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Re-theorizing the political: Peruvian street children’s everyday lives

April 23
Dr. Allen Gellis, USGS MD-DE-DC Water Science Center
Sediment  withdrawals and deposits, Chesapeake Bay Watershed: It’s not just  banks!

April 30
Dr. Mark Bulmer, Owner and Director of Development of Roedown and Roedown Research R2 Earthquake preparedness in Bangladesh

Fall 2013

September 11
Jonathan Dandois, Ph.D. candidate, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Ecosynth: A personal remote sensing toolkit for ecologists

Molly Van Appledorn, Ph.D. candidate, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Discerning community structuring mechanisms in riparian forest ecosystems

September 25
Karyn Tabor, Director of Ecosystem Modeling and Early Warning Systems
Betty & Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans, Conservation International
A Near Real-time Decision Support System Improving Forest Management in the Tropics

October 16
Dr. James Pizzuto
Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Delaware
Suspended Sediment Transport Length Scales and Velocities for the Mid-Atlantic Region:  Will it Take 1000 Years to Restore the Chesapeake Bay?

October 30
Dr. Donald Boesch
President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Updating Maryland’s Sea-Level Rise Projections

November 13
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC
Poster Session

November 20
Dr. Raymond Danner
Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
The geography of thermal ecology and evolution in birds

December 4
Dr. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Studies, Goucher College
The New American Farmer: Agrarian Questions and Immigrant Mexican Growers in The United States

Spring 2013
March 13
Dr. Sean M.C. Smith, University of Maine at Orono, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Bryand Global Sciences Center
The Recognition, Regulation and Research of Headwater Streams in the Contemporary Landscape

March 27
Dr. Jeffrey Halverson, UMBC Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems
Hunting Hurricanes In the 21st Century: NASA’s Hurricanes and Severe Storms Sentinel (HS³) UAV Program

April 8
Dr. Barbara Allen, Director, Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies, Dept. of Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Tech
Justice Matters: Measuring the Success of NGOs in Sustainable Disaster Rebuilding

April 24
Dr. Kevin Turpie, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC
Mapping pelagic autotrophs from Space – converting photons into food for plants and for thought

May 8
Dr. Dawn Biehler, UMBC Department of Geography & Environmental Systems
Silent Spring in the City: Housing, Environmental Justice, and the History of Urban Pest Management

Fall 2012
September 5 – Three GES Ph.D. candidates present their research:
Anna Johnson
A Metacommunity Approach to Urban Plant Community Assembly

Jonathan Dandois
High Spatial Resolution Automated Three Dimensional Vegetation Structure Mapping Using Computer Vision

Yvette Williams
A Qualitative Study of Vacant Lot Management in a Southwest Baltimore City Neighborhood

September 19
Dr. Andrew Elmore, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
A river runs under it: Modeling the distribution of streams and stream burial in large river basins

October 3
Dr. Andrew Turner, Chief Technical Officer, ESRI DC R&D Center
Citizens and Scientists: Collaborative Geography for Better Understanding Our World

October 17
Dr. Nathaniel Hitt, Leetown Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Spatial Modeling to Predict Stream Sensitivity to Climate Change

November 7
Dr. Dana Fisher, Director, Program for Society and the Environment and Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Maryland College Park
Citizens as the Missing Pillar in the Hybrid Governance of Urban Stewardship Regimes

November 14
Dr. T. Garrett  Graddy,  Global Environmental Politics, School of International Service, American University
Re-Centering In Situ: Policy, Epistemology & the Decentralization of Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation in the Peruvian Andes & Beyond

November 28
Dr. Dianna Hogan, Eastern Geographic Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey Novel Urban Stormwater Management: The Clarksburg, MD Research Project