Previous GES Seminars

Fall 2022


Wednesday, Sept. 21, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Camilla Hawthorne, Department of Sociology/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California – Santa Cruz

Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Sept. 28, 12 noon – 1 p.m. 

Dr. Laura PulidoDepartments of Geography and Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon

Monumental Denial: Cultural Memory, the Denial of White Supremacy, & U.S. Territory

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery


Weds., Oct. 12, 12 noon – 1 p.m.    

Dr. Kevin Omland, Department of Biological Sciences, UMBC

Conservation Biology of the Bahama Oriole: Successful Downlisting of a Critically Endangered Species

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Oct. 19, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Catherine L. Kling, School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

The Social Cost of Water Pollution


Wednesday, Oct. 26, 12 noon – 1 p.m. (tentative)

Dr. Kandis Boyd, Director, EPA Chesapeake Bay Program

2025 and Beyond: Today, Tomorrow, Always

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Nov. 2, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Holly Michael, University of Delaware

Drivers and Impacts of Marsh Migration in the Coastal Critical Zone

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Nov. 9, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Keith Eshleman, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Detecting and Understanding Hydrologic Change in Developing Watersheds: Role of Environmental Site Design


Wednesday, Nov. 30, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Xuezhi Cang, Postdoctoral Researcher, UMBC Department of Geography & Environmental Systems

Modeling and Assessing Association by Comparing Spatial Heterogeneity

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Dec. 7, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

JCET/GESTAR Poster Session – Sondheim basement

YouTube Recording


 

Spring 2022


Wednesday Feb. 2, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Bette Gebrian, Executive Director, Grand’Anse Health & Development Association, .Jèrèmie, Haiti

Haiti Resilience and Recovery

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Feb. 9, 12 noon – 1 pm 

Dr. Deondre Smiles, Department of Geography, University of Victoria

Geographic Indigenous Futures

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Feb. 16, 12 noon – 1 pm

Sean Kinard, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Effects of Rainfall on Stream Fish Communities

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Feb. 23, 12 noon – 1 pm

Dr. Susan Sterett, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Warning of displacement in a changing climate: loss, choice, uncertainty

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Mar. 2, 12 noon – 1 pm

Dr. Patrick Bigger, Climate + Community Project

Debt Justice for Climate Reparations

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Mar. 16, 12 noon – 1 pm

Dr. Jack Schmidt,  Director, Center for Colorado River Studies, Utah State University

The Future of the Colorado River

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Mar. 30, 12 noon – 1 pm

Dr. Luis Fernandez, Executive Director, Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, and Research Professor, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University

Calculating the True Price of Gold: Science and Conservation to Develop a Multidimensional Characterization of Ecosystem Degradation by Artisanal Gold Mining in the Amazon

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Apr. 6, 12 noon – 1 pm

Dr. Kelly Kay, Department of Geography, UCLA

Scale, Labor, and the Los Angeles Green New Deal Plan

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Apr. 13, 12 noon – 1 pm

Jeannie Lee, Senior Advisor for NEPA. White House Council on Environmental Quality

Jomar Maldonado, Director for the National Environmental Policy Act, White House Council on Environmental Quality

Big and Little NEPAs: Current and Past Regulatory Initiatives Affecting the National Environmental Policy Act and the California Environmental Quality Act


Wednesday, Apr. 20, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Naomi Schwartz, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

Tropical forests in a changing world: impacts of land use and climate extremes on tropical second-growth forests

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Apr. 27, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Tianna Bruno, Department of Geography & the Environment, University of Texas at Austin

Ecological Memory and Black Sense of Place in the Biophysical Afterlife of Slavery

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, May 4, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Lara Fowler, Senior Lecturer, Penn State Law; Assistant Director, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment; Affiliate Faculty, Penn State School of International Affairs

Working in the Valley of Death: Bridging Differences and Finding Solutions to Challenging Environmental and Societal Issues

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, May 11, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Camilla Hawthorne, Department of Sociology/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California – Santa Cruz

Contesting Race and Citizenship in the Black Mediterranean


 

Fall 2021


Wednesday Sept. 15, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Johannes Quaas, Theoretical Meteorology, University of Leipzig.

The Recent IPCC Assessment Report, with a Focus on the Role of Clouds and Aerosols

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, September 29, 12 noon – 1 p.m. 

Dr. Jennifer Fluri, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder

Farce Followed by Failure: The US Saving Afghan Women Trope

For those interested in the list of organizations to help Afghan refugees, please click on this link.

Wednesday, October 6, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Matthew Fagan, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

The Forests We Need, the Forests We Create: Restoring a Degraded Planet with Ugly Maps and Space Lasers

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, October 13, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Jeffrey Halverson, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

A Summer of Flash Flood Disasters in 2021: The New Normal in this Era of Climate Change?

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, October 20, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Yusuke Kuwayama, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Integrating Hydrologic and Ecological Models into Economic Analysis of Water Resource Policy

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Oct. 27 – Baltimore Ecosystem Study Annual Meeting, no seminar


Wednesday, Nov. 3, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Megan Latshaw,  Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering

Mr. Samuel Jordan,  President, Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition

Transit Equity and Environmental Health in Baltimore

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Nov. 10, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

no GES seminar, instead we are inviting people to attend the following seminar scheduled by Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies:

Dr. Elizabeth Rule, American University

Local Lands and Contemporary Indigenous Issues


Wednesday, Nov. 17, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Brian Harvey, University of Washington

Climate, Fire, and the Future of Forests in the Western U.S.

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Dec. 1, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Annual JCET-GES Poster Session

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, Dec. 8, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

Dr. Akira Drake Rodriguez, University of Pennsylvania

Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing

YouTube Recording


Spring 2021


Wednesday Feb. 3, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

A series of seven E-lightning presentations by our JCET Affiliate Research Faculty

Introduction – Dr. Ali Tokay

 

Dr. Lorraine Remer

UMBC’s Satellite in Space: HARP Cubesat

 

Dr. Amita Mehta

Inter-Comparison of Forest Cover Areas in Panama Based on Optical and SAR Observations in Support of UN-SDG 15.2.1

 

Dr. Petya Campbell

Diurnal and Seasonal Variation in Vegetation Photosynthesis and the Associated Fluorescence and Reflectance Properties, at Leaf and Canopy Scale

 

Dr. Fred Huemmrich

Examining Tundra Greening from Ground-based to Satellite Observations

 

Dr. Christopher Shuman

Visualizing Change with Landsat at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland, 1972 to 2020

 

Dr. Kevin Turpie with PhD student Nicole Trenholm

Subterranean Controls on Glacier Position, Croker Bay, Devon Ice Cap

 

Dr. Ali Tokay

Evaluation of Operational Radar Snowfall Estimate in Northern Great Lakes


Wednesday, February 10, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Meghan Avolio, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University

Synthesizing Plant Community and Ecosystem Responses in Global Change Experiments


Tuesday, February 16, 4:00-5:30 p.m. ET

Dresher Center for the Humanities, Humanities Forum

Dr. Dawn Biehler, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Sytems, UMBC

Embodying Empire Through Captivity: Geographies of Caged Animals, Human Domination, and Struggle in New York’s Central Park

Wednesday, February 24, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Timothy Thomas, Research Director, Urban Displacement Project, University of California, Berkeley

The Baltimore Eviction Study and Urban Displacement in U.S. Cities

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, March 10, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Claire Welty, Director, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education and Professor of Environmental Engineering, UMBC

Use of Groundwater-Surface Water Modeling as an Investigative Tool in the Urban Critical Zone

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, March 31, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Yolanda Valencia, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

Being a Climate Musk Ox: Fighting Doomism and Despair with Harm Reduction, Feminist Leadership, and Ice Age Resilience

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, April 14th, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Yolanda Valencia, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

Necropolitics of the War on Drugs and COVID19: How the Global Hurts the Intimate

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, April 28th, Time 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET

Organized with Center for Social Science Scholarship, Social Sciences Forum

Dr. Tracey Osborne, University of California Presidential Chair and Associate Professor of Management of Complex Systems, University of California-Merced

Playbook for Climate Justice: Our Best Hope for Solving the Climate Crisis


Dresher Center Spring Humanities Forum with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Thursday, April 29th, 4:00-5:30 p.m. ET

Dresher Center for the Humanities, Annual Daphne Harrison Lecture

Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Making Abolition Geographies


Wednesday, May 5th, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

 

 

Gabriel Duran, Research Assistant, Woodwell Climate Research Centre, and
Dr. Phoebe Cohen, Associate Professor of Geosciences, Williams College

Unlearning Racism in Geoscience


 

Fall 2020


Wednesday, September 16th, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Emma Colven (she/her/hers), Assistant Professor, Department of International and Area Studies, David L. Boren College of International Studies, University of Oklahoma

The Production of Jakarta’s Water Crisis: A Political Ecology of Speculative Urbanism


Wednesday, September 30, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Michael Alonzo, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, American University

High Resolution Monitoring of Urban and Boreal Forest Ecosystems Using UAV and Planet SkySat

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, October 7, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Lawrence Brown, Associate Professor, Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Black Butterfly: the Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

YouTube Recording


Friday, October 16, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Karen Holl, Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dr.  Matthew Fagan, Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Dr. Pedro Brancalion, Department of Forest Sciences, University of São Paulo

Keys to Improving Outcomes of Tree Planting Campaigns

YouTube Recording


Weds., Oct. 21, 12 noon – 1 pm ET

Dr. Joshua Caplan, Research Associate, Architecture & Environmental Design, Temple University

How Green Stormwater Infrastructure Design Can Induce or Prevent Plant Physiological Stress

YouTube Recording


October 28-29 – Baltimore Ecosystem Study Annual Meeting


Wednesday, November 4 – Day after election, no seminar


Wednesday, November 11, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Ming Li, Professor, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Fighting Surging Seas in a Changing Climate: Defending Coastlines at all Costs or Strategic Retreat to High Ground?

YouTube Recording

If you find the soundtrack difficult to understand you can watch this other recording from an earlier presentation of the same seminar:

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Wednesday, November 18, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Yolanda Valencia’s seminar is postponed until the Spring 2021 semester. Instead we have two short presentations:

Drs. Jim Smith and Mary Lynn Baeck, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

Cloudbursts of the Mid-Atlantic

Dr. Andy Miller, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

What Can Floods in Baltimore-Area Urban Watersheds Tell Us About Climate Change?

YouTube Recording


Wednesday, December 2, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET

Dr. Dawn Biehler, Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

Urban Green Space and Belonging: Struggles for Justice and Nature in Central Park

YouTube Recording


Spring 2020


Wednesday, February 5, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Benjamin Zaitchik, Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University

Water, Food, Energy and Power in the Eastern Nile Basin


Wednesday, February 19, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Michael Alonzo, Associate Professor of Geography, American University

High Resolution Monitoring of Urban and Boreal Forest Ecosystems Using UAV and Planet SkySat


Wednesday, February 26, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Margaret Holland, Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

A Tale of Two Nature Reserves: Examining Efforts to Benefit Communities Through Conservation in Ecuador & Mozambique


March 4, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Ashante Reese, Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

The Carceral Life of Sugar: The Contemporary Food System and the Afterlives of Slavery


CANCELED

Cat Wars and the Demise of North America’s Bird Populations
Dr. Peter Marra, Professor and Director of the Georgetown Environment Initiative, Georgetown University
(cosponsored by GES, Biological Sciences, and UMBC Honors College)

Date: March 12, 2020
Time: 4-5:30 pm
Location: Library Gallery


CANCELED

March 25, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Dawn Biehler, Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

Urban Green Space and Belonging: Struggles for Justice and Nature in Central Park


Weds. April 1, 8 – TBA


POSTPONED

April 23, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Library Gallery

Dr. Tracey Osborne, Associate Professor of Management of Complex Systems, University of California-Merced

Engaged Scholarship for Climate Justice: Harnessing the Power of Colleges and Universities in the Age of the Anthropocene


April 28, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Dr. Karla Slocum, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of African American Research, UNC-Chapel Hill

Black Towns, Black Futures


April 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: Library Gallery

Making Abolition Geographies: Social Justice Organizing for Vulnerable Households, Workers, and Communities

Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

UMBC Humanities Forum, cosponsored by GES


May 6, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. James Carton, Professor and Chair of Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Maryland College Park.

Warming of the Oceans 1981-2016


 

Fall  2019


Wednesday, September 4, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Benton Taylor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Tropical Forests Getting Their Fix: The Patterns, Controls, and Effects of Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Trees in Regenerating Tropical Forests


Wednesday, September 18, 12:00 p.m.

Location: Sondheim 001

GES 701 Faculty Panel – Navigating Sticking Points in the Research Process


Wednesday, September 25, 12:00 p.m.
Location: ITE 229

Dr. Erle Ellis, Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

Bringing Social, Information, and Natural Sciences Together to Understand Human Transformation of Earth

The principal investigator of a UMBC-led “massively collaborative” project published in Science magazine will describe how archaeologists, geographers, and information science came together to show that human societies began transforming Earth thousands of years earlier than known by Earth scientists; evidence for an earlier Anthropocene.


Wednesday, October 2, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Anne Timm, USDA Forest Service, Baltimore

Redefining Aquatic Habitat Connectivity for Urban Catchments


Wednesday, October 9, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

GES 701 Faculty Panel – Scholarly Writing: Getting Started, Getting Through, and Knowing When You’re Finished


Wednesday, Oct. 16, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Dena Aufseeser, Assistant Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

Venezuelan Migration to Peru: Reworking Notions of Solidarity, Conflict and Deservingness in Lima


Tuesday, Oct. 22, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: Fine Arts Recital Hall

Dr. Joel Scheraga, Senior Advisor for Climate Change Adaptation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Protecting Public Health and the Environment in a Changing Climate

Dr. Scheraga leads EPA’s work on climate adaptation to ensure the agency continues to fulfill its mission of protecting public health and the environment even as the climate changes. A central focus of this effort is supporting states, tribes, local communities, and businesses as they prepare for and increase their resilience to the impacts of climate change. In December 2015, Dr. Scheraga was honored with a Presidential Rank Award, the highest honor given to career members of the federal Senior Executive Service. Dr. Scheraga was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

The following is an article from last September’s Brown Alumni Monthly about his work. https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2018-09-05/weather-warrior


Monday, October 28, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Renee Tapp, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design

All the Way to the Bank: Urban Redevelopment and the Quest for Profits After the Crisis

This talk examines the relationship between banks and urban redevelopment after the 2008 global financial crisis. Focusing on the federal historic tax credit industry, I demonstrate how new ways to own property intersected with post-crisis financial regulations meant to limit banks’ reach into financial markets to ignite large-scale redevelopment projects in the urban core of many US cities. Banks increasingly switched their focus from ‘cash flows’ to extracting tax-benefits from these buildings. By positioning tax credits as a source of financial accumulation, this talk draws attention to the strategies and tactics that investors use to construct their investment portfolio, create liquidity in the built environment, and enrich their shareholders and executives with taxpayer-subsidized investments.


Wednesday, November 13, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

GES 701 Faculty Panel – Policy, Politics, and the Public: How Do/Should Scholars Get Involved?


Postponed to Spring 2020, 12:00 p.m.
Location: TBA

JCET Poster Session – Sondheim basement hallway

Wednesday, December 4, 12:00 p.m.

Dr. Alan Yeakley, Professor and Chair, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

Plant Community Responses to Hydrologic Changes in Pacific Northwest Urban and Coastal Ecosystems


 

Spring 2019


Monday, February 11, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Nisrin Elamin, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford University

Contemporary Land Enclosures in Central Sudan: Troubling the Romanticization of the ‘Commons.’


Wednesday, February 20, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Carolyn Olson, USGS (retired)

The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Process and Summary Findings   —-  CANCELLED


Wednesday, February 27, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sherman 150

John-Henry Pitas, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

Waste in Crisis: The Formation of Waste Disposal Networks in Post-Industrial Baltimore

and

Gina Lee, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC


Wednesday, March 6, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Nicole Voelker, PhD Candidate, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

The Role of Spatial Variation in Habitat Quality and Dispersal in Maintaining Diversity Across
Spatial Scales in the Urban Hydroscape of the Baltimore Metropolitan Region


Wednesday, March 13, 12:00 p.m.

Dr. Bianca Lopez, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Socio-Ecological Synthesis Center

Biodiversity in Urban Landscapes: Ecological Drivers and Social Benefits


Friday, March 29, 12:00 p.m.

Dr. Gillian Rose, Professor, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University

Data Bodies, Smart Bodies and Sensible Bodies: Post-Human Corporeality in the Digitally Mediated City


Wednesday, April 10, 12:00 p.m.

Nathan Swenson, Professor of Biology, University of Maryland College Park

Plant Geography Upon the Basis of Function: How Trait Data Help Address Classic and Unsolved questions


Wednesday, April 17, 12:00 p.m.

Dr. Bianca Lopez, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Socio-Ecological Synthesis Center

Biodiversity in Urban Landscapes: Ecological Drivers and Social Benefits


Friday, April 26,12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Amanda Huron, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, University of the District of Columbia

A Work of Imagination: Building Neighborhoods and Crafting Home in 1970s Washington, D.C.


Wednesday, May 1,12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Alan Yeakley, Professor and Chair, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

Plant Community Responses to Hydrologic Changes in Pacific Northwest Urban and Coastal Ecosystems


Wednesday, May 8 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001

Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi, Assistant Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

More Trees Equals Less Crime: Dismantling Urban Ecology Tropes in Baltimore


 

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


September 13

Michael Cove, North Carolina State University


September 20

GES Faculty Panel

Defining Your Research Project


September 27

Jim Fleming, Colby College


October 4

Chris Shuman, JCET


October 11

Colin Cuniff, AAAS Policy Fellow


October 18

Andy Miller,  UMBC Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems


 

Spring 2016


February 24

Don Outen, Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability


March 23

Emily Billo, Department of Environmental Studies Goucher College


April 13

Aaron Ellison, Harvard Forest Harvard University


April 27

Faculty and Graduate Student Panel

Publishing: How to Survive Peer Review


 

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

The World Makers: Ecologists as Ecosystem Designers

 

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 Bird


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