Speaker: Joshua Farley, University of Vermont. Farley is working in the coastal mountain ranges of Santa Catarina, Brazil to develop and disseminate agroecological systems that can increase ecosystem services and economic output, reduce purchased inputs, comply with forestry code that requires forest restoration, and improve farmer livelihoods...
Past PMB Seminars
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Jeff Horowitz: BERC Resources Roundtable 2015: Changing Lands in a Changing Climate
Our lands provide us food and resources in addition to acting as a carbon sink, making them one of the most important pieces of the climate change puzzle. Join the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative for its annual Resources Roundtable at the David Brower Center to learn about this dynamic topic. The event will include a keynote speech on international deforestation, a panel on regional...
Norman Terry: "Phytoremediation - Panacea or Wishful Thinking? Case Studies from the Terry Lab"
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Danny Cullenward: The Future of U.S. Climate Policy: Building Sustainable Legal Regimes
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Tanja Woyke: "Accessing the Genomes of the Uncultivated Organisms, One Cell at a Time" - note corrected title
After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the JGI in 2004. The main object of her research was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered function and host-symbiont interplay using...
Julian Fulton: Peak water or enduring thirst? California water, virtual water, and growth
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Toniann Pitassi: Simons Institute Open Lecture: Interactive Information: Applications and New Directions
The second in the spring series of Simons Institute Open Lectures. The Open Lectures are intended for a broad scientific audience. Light refreshments will be served before the lecture at 3:30 p.m.
David Innouye: BiGCB Seminar Series: The effects of global and regional climate change on phenology of wildflowers and animals in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology Seminar Series: Biological responses to environmental change: using past and present dynamics to predict future responses.