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Previous Events at the NDSU Environmental and Conservation Sciences Graduate Program
PREVIOUS SEMINARS:
GREEN BAG SEMINAR SERIES - Fall 2007 Date Presenter Title Aug. 28 Wei Lin National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Sep. 4 Frank Casey Fate and Transport of Hormones in the Environment Sep. 11 Wendy Reed Coteau Field School Sep. 18 Craig Stockwell Advanced Conservation Biology Field Trip Sep. 26 Susana Peluc Oct. 2 Peter Oduor Geo Registration of Stewardship Plan for Water Quality Management Policies Oct. 9 Xiana Santos Biostimulated Remediation Using a Novel Method Oct. 16 Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat Water Quality Research on the Souris River, North Dakota and Saskatchewan Oct. 24 Eakalak Khan Collaborative Environmental Research with Universities in Thailand Oct. 31 Mac Butler To Save the Whales or to Eat the Whales? - A look at Alaskan aboriginal subsistence harvest of an endangered baleen whale Nov. 7 Sujan Henkanaththegedara Cool Fishes in Warm Deserts Nov. 13 Marinus Otte Opportunities and Initiatives of Research Collaboration with other Institutions Nov. 20 Mark Harvey Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and Path for the Wilderness Act Nov. 27 Allan Ashworth Dec. 4 Damion Knudsen Site Characterization Optimization: A Proposal for Utilizing High Resolution Subsurface Direct Sensing Instruments
ALDO LEOPOLD BIOGRAPHER AT NDSU
Curt Meine, conservation biologist and biographer of Aldo Leopold, spoke at NDSU on April 6-7, 2004. Meine delivered a public presentation entitled "Emergence of an Idea: Aldo Leopold and the Conservation of Biological Diversity." The lecture explored the history of conservation and evolution of the concept of biodiversity through the experience and writings of Aldo Leopold. Meine's presentation interwove conservation history, science, policy, ethics, literature, and natural resource management. Meine is a research associate with the International Crane Foundation and a senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation, both of which are located in Baraboo, Wisconsin. He is author of several books, including his seminal biography Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988) and the forthcoming volume Correction Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation. He has served on the board of governors of the Society for Conservation Biology and currently sits on the editorial boards of the journals Conservation Biology and Environmental Ethics. He is also active in local conservation as a founder and member of the Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance in Sauk County, Wisconsin.
"ETHICAL CONCERNS IN BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION: A View From the Trenches"
Mr. Phil Pister, April 11th, 2003
EDWIN P. (PHIL) PISTER retired in February, 1990 following 38 years as a fishery biologist with the California Department of Fish and Game. He studied wildlife conservation and zoology under A. Starker Leopold at the University of California (Berkeley) and has spent virtually his entire career supervising aquatic management and research within an area encompassing approximately a thousand waters of the eastern Sierra/desert regions of California, ranging from the 14,000 foot crest of the Sierra Nevada to the floor of Death Valley lying below sea level. He founded and serves as executive secretary of the Desert Fishes Council and is involved in desert ecosystem preservation throughout the American Southwest and adjoining areas of Mexico. He holds special interest in the fields of conservation biology and environmental ethics and has served on the Board of Governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and of the Society for Conservation Biology. He also serves on the President's Advisory Committee of the University of California's system-wide White Mountain Research Station.
Pister teaches regularly at the National Conservation Training Center (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) in West Virginia, has lectured at more than 70 universities in North America and the United Kingdom, and has authored 76 published papers and book chapters. Mr. Pister has received numerous conservation awards from groups such as the Society for Conservation Biology, The American Fisheries Society and The Nature Conservancy. Phil is a dynamic speaker with a very timely message.
A link to a poster for the event (PDF format).
The College of Business Administration Distinguished Speaker Series presented:
Lester R. Brown, president
"GREEN BUSINESS -- The Role of the Upper Great Plains in an Eco-Economy"
December 5, 2002
Lester Brown, who has helped pioneer the concept of environmentally sustainable development, is the author of Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth which conveys a vision for an environmentally sustainable economy and a road map for achieving it. In 1974, Brown founded the Worldwatch Institute, a research institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues, and served as its president until 2000, when he founded the Earth Policy Institute. He has been described by the Washington Post as one of the world's most influential thinkers.
A book sale and signing followed Brown's presentation.
Lester Brown was brought to campus as part of the NDSU College of Business Administration Distinguished Speaker Series, and was co-sponsored by the College of Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources, College of Engineering and Architecture, College of Science and Mathematics, NDSU Sponsorship Committee, Concordia College Biology Department, North Dakota Natural Resource Trust, the Tri-College University/Red River Basin Institute, and Ducks Unlimited
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