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Land
Trusts, Field Stations, and the Future
of Land Stewardship in the West
Winter/Spring
Lecture Series
March 26, 2003
Land stewardship and conservation in
the Colorado Rockies:
local, regional, and global issues
12:00 Noon
University Union, Havasupai A/B
John Harte, Professor
University of California, Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group
Description of Talk:
Research at RMBL has contributed to our understanding
of, and the search for solutions to, local, regional and global
conservation issues. I'll describe relevant research and the ways in
which Lab scientists interact with publics at each of these spatial
scales in the search for solutions.
About John Harte
John Harte holds a joint professorship in
the Energy and Resources Group and the Ecosystem Sciences Division
of the College of Natural Resources. He received a BA in physics
from Harvard University in 1961 and a PhD in theoretical physics
from the University of Wisconsin in 1965. He was an NSF Postdoctoral
Fellow at CERN, Geneva, during 1965-66 and a Postdoctoral Fellow at
the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, during
1966-68. During the next 5 years, he was Assistant Professor of
Physics at Yale University and has been at Berkeley since 1973.
Harte is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and in 1990 was
awarded a Pew Scholars Prize in Conservation and the Environment. In
1993 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the
California Academy of Sciences. In 1998 he was appointed a Phi Beta
Kappa Distinguished Lecturer and a Distinguished Ecologist Lecturer
at Colorado State University. He is the 2001 recipient of the Leo
Szilard prize from the American Physical Society, and has served on
six National Academy of Sciences Committees. He has authored over
150 scientific publications, including six books, on topics
including biodiversity, climate change, biogeochemisty, and energy
and water resources.
Harte’s research focuses on the effects of human
actions on, and the linkages among, biodiversity, ecosystem
structure and function, and climate. His work spans a range of
scales, from plot to landscape to global, and utilizes field
manipulation experiments, the study of patterns in nature, and
mathematical modeling. Two specific goals are to understand the
nature and causes of patterns in the distribution and abundance of
species and to understand the extent to which ecosystem responses to
climate change may result in feedbacks to climate that can either
ameliorate or exacerbate global warming. An overarching goal of his
research is to understand the interdependence of human well-being
and the health of ecosystems.
Series Schedule:
(click on date for more information)
January 29
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Remote Landscapes and
High Biodiversity: Field Station Management in the
Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
Wade Serbrooke, Ph.D.
Director, American Museum of Natural History
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February 19
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Bringing scientists
together to solve problems: desertification and research
on the Jornada Experimental Range
Ed L. Frederickson
Research Scientist, New Mexico State University
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February 19
2:00 P.M.
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
The business of science
at a large field station: lessons from the Jornada
Experimental Range
Kris Havstad
Supervisory Scientist, New Mexico State University
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March 5
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Biological Field
Stations: An opportunity to walk the talk
Phillipe S. Cohen, Ph.D.
Administrative Director, Stanford University
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March 12
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Making the science
relevant to management and policy: lessons from the
Pacific Northwest
Art McKee
Director, Andrews Experimental Forest, The University of
Montana
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March 26
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Land stewardship and
conservation in the Colorado Rockies: local, regional, and
global issues
John Harte
Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of
California, Berkeley
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April 1
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Kaibab Room |
Whole thinking for land
conservationists
Peter Forbes
Director, Trust for Public Land, Center for Land and
People |
All lectures are free, open to the
public, and handicap accessible.
Co-sponsored by:
Ecological Monitoring and Assessment
Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research
Centennial Forest
Trust for Public Lands
and the Diablo Trust
If you have questions, call David Fiss at (928) 523-7087
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