Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Spring 2022
Wednesdays from 12:30-1:30 p.m. over Zoom
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Jan. 26 — Arjan Meddens, Washington State University
"Specifying remote sensing data product characteristics for forest and fuel management applications"
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Feb. 9 — Katie Wollstein, Oregon State University
"Integrating range and fire management in southeastern Oregon"
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Feb. 23 — Troy Magney, University of California, Davis
"Do plants glow, can we see it from space, and why would we care?"
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"The rise of renegades: Resident experiences during the California 2020 fire siege"
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March 30 — Jyoti Jennewein, ARS, Greenbelt, MD
"From the field to space: Remote sensing technologies for mapping winter cover crops"
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"Conservation Finance: Exploring New Funding Models for the Restoration of Public Lands"
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April 27 — Micah Russell, Western Colorado University
"Building toward climate resilience: restoring and researching Colorado headwaters through interdisciplinary collaboration"
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Previous Seminars
NRS Graduate Seminar, Dept. of Natural Resources and Society
Natural and Social Migrations
- 1/28/2021: Ruth Oliver
Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University
"A bird's eye view of migration: What new technologies can teach us about old questions in avian phenology"
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- 2/11/2021: Karl Bursa
Senior Administrator Floodplain Management, Monroe County Florida
“The Florida Keys”
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- 2/25/2021: Elizabeth Marino - Dennis Davis
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Oregon State University - Inupiat Photographer
"Pulling At the Thread: Why Climate Change Driven Relocation is Such a Hard Problem to Solve"
- 3/11/2021: Carlos Munoz Brenes
Chief Social Scientist, Conservation International
“The Role of Social Science in Making the World a Better Place"
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- 4/1/2021: Robert Lewis
Deputy Chief Officer (Administration), Cabinet Office, Caymen Islands Government
“Migration, Climate Change or any significant challenge: some best practices toward being effective”
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- 4/15/2021: Paul Montesano
Lead Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Boreal forest migration: heterogeneity, variability, & uncertainty of forest change in the high northern latitudes"
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- 4/29/2021: Linda Amaral-Zettler
Research Leader, Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry: NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
“Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Plastisphere”
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Contemporary Issues in Natural Resources and Society: Social-Ecological Systems and Socio-Environmental Synthesis
Natural and cultural resource managers and decision-makers need to integrate social, ecological and traditional forms of knowledge in order to understand and address complex environmental challenges. We hear this message coming from stakeholders who employ our NRS graduates. We are designing curricula, research, and outreach in a social-ecological context because we think this will help prepare our students to be successful professionals. The goals for this seminar are to provide our faculty, staff, and students opportunities to interact with and learn from diverse scholars whose work can inform and shape our social-ecological understanding, and to offer our students opportunities to develop and practice effective science communication. The specific focus of this year’s seminar will be the importance of connections between the Inland and Pacific Northwest and the Ocean.
Invited speakers for the fall include:
September 4th: Eric Jessup, Associate Research Professor
School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman WA
“PNW Transportation and Economic Connectivity”
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September 18th: Kenneth Wallen, Assistant Professor
College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow ID
“The Four Fixes: A Behavior Design Framework for Social-Ecological Systems”
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October 16th: Richard Maganck, International Environmental Consultant and retired Rector (President) of United Nations Institute for Post Graduate Water Education
UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands
“Governed by waters: the life and times of an international civil servant”
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October 30th: Captain Shaun McAndrew , Professor of Naval Science and University of Idaho NROTC Commanding Officer
“The Changing Maritime Security in the Arctic, a Naval perspective”
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November 13th: Anastasia Telesetsky, Professor of Law, Natural Resources and Environmental Law Faculty
College of Law, University of Idaho, Moscow ID
“Our Plastic Oceans”
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November 20th: Jaap Vos, Professor and Bioregional Planning and Community Design (BIOP) Program Head
College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow ID
“Intruders and extractors of the American West: How Californians, Texans, Canadians and Amazon are reshaping Idaho”
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December 11th: Mary Engels, Assistant Professor
College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow ID
"Oh the places you will go: Preliminary thoughts on the fate of plastic debris from inland waters"
** Additional invited speakers will be added to the schedule as they are confirmed
Fall 2018 NRS 501: Social-Ecological Systems
Seminar Context and Goal
Natural and cultural resource managers and decision-makers need to integrate social and ecological knowledge in order to understand and address complex environmental challenges. This message is clear in both theory and practice: we hear it coming from stakeholders who employ our NRS graduates, and through our development of new knowledge within the scientific community. NRS is designing curricula, research and outreach in a social-ecological context because this will help prepare our students to be successful professionals in our ever changing world. The goal of this seminar is to provide for our faculty, staff and students opportunities to host, interact with and learn from a diversity of leading professionals and scholars who design and implement their work in a social-ecological framework.
September 6, 2018
Dr. Leona Svancara, Spatial Ecologist
Idaho Department of Fish and Game and University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
"Managing Idaho's Wildlife in a Social-Ecological System Framework? Insights, Challenges, and Opportunities"
September 20, 2018
Dr. Kristal Jones, Social Science Researcher
Center for Large Landscape Conservation and SESYNC, Bozeman, MT
"Empirical and epistemological challenges in interdisciplinary socio-environmental systems research."
October 4, 2018
Dr. Emma Norman, Professor and Chair
Native Environmental Science Department, NW Indian College, Bellingham, WA
“Starting from Where you Stand: Place-based pedagogy and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in STEM education and research”
October 18, 2018
Dr. Todd Brinkman, Professor and Director
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
"Exploring the impact of climate change on access to ecosystems services in Alaska"
November 1, 2018
Dr. Tom Koontz, Professor
School of Interdisciplinary Arts-Sciences, University of Washington-Tacoma
"Policy Research for Social-Ecological Systems: Institutions and Governance"
November 15, 2018
Dr. Toddi Steelman, Stanback Dean and Professor
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC
“U.S. Wildfire Policy as Socio-ecological Problem”
November 29, 2018
Mr. Chip Corsi, Regional Supervisor Northern Region
Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Coeur d’Alene, ID
"Righteously Right or Effectively Right – a Case for Pragmatism and Public Ownership in the Management and Conservation of Natural Resources"