2024-2025 Teale Lecture Series “Realizing the Promise of Nature-Based Water Treatment in the Age of Climate Change Adaptation” March 27, 2025 David Sedlak Plato Malozemoff Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Berkeley View recorded David Sedlak lecture “What the History of Monsanto Can Teach Us About the Future of Food” January 30, 2025 […]

2023-2024 Teale Lecture Series “Joining Forces with Water: Resonance and the Geologic Presence of People and Aquifers” October 12, 2023 Andrea Ballestero Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Ethnography Studio, University of Southern California View recorded Andrea Ballestero lecture. “Building a Better Anthropocene by Understanding Relationships Between People and Nature” November 2, 2023 […]

2022-2023 Teale Lecture Series “What Can an Economist Possibly Have to Say About Climate Change Policy?” 13 October 2022 Robert Stavins A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School of Government View recorded Robert Stavins lecture. “America’s Public Lands: A Political & Conservation Success Story” 17 November 2022 John Leshy Distinguished Professor […]

2021-2022 Teale Lecture Series 30 September 2021 “The History and Future of Conservation” Michelle Nijhuis Journalist and author of “Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction” View recorded Michelle Nijhuis Lecture 21 October 2021 “Ending Population Growth: A Race Against Ecological Limits” Jane O’Sullivan Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Agriculture and Food […]

2020-2021 Teale Lecture Series 24 September 2020 “Frontiers in Climate Change Adaptation” Chris Field Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University 11 February 2021 “A Multi-Decadal Landscape Experiment Leads to New Perspectives on the Effects of Multiple Landscape Transformations” […]

2019-2020 Teale Lecture Series 19 September 2019 “Food Waste Policy: Using Systems Change to Stop Squandering One of Our Greatest Resources” Emily Broad-Leib Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard University Due to technical difficulties, there is no recording available for this lecture. Speakers presentation slides are available here. […]

2018-2019 Teale Lecture Series 13 September 2018 “The Edge of the Petri Dish” Charles Mann Journalist; Author of “1491,” “1493,” “The Wizard and the Prophet,” and other books; Contributing Editor, Science, Wired, and The Atlantic Monthly View Recorded Charles Mann Lecture (NOTE: Due to technical problems, slideshow does not appear until the 43:40 mark)   […]

2017-2018 Teale Lecture Series 21 September 2017 “Extreme Conservation — A Planet without Glaciers” Joel Berger Cox Chair of Conservation Biology, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University View recorded Joel Berger lecture 9 October 2017 (Special Presentation) “Science and Environment in the White House: What Obama Did. What Trump Is Doing. […]

2016-2017 Teale Lecture Series October 20, 2016 “Just Sustainabilities: Re-imagining e/quality, Living Within Limits” Julian Agyeman Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University November 3, 2016 “Our Rivers on Drugs: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products as Agents of Ecological Change in Aquatic Ecosystems” Rosi-Marshall Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, […]

2015-2016 Teale Lecture Series 16 October 2015 “Island Ecosystems as Models for Human-Environment Interaction” Peter Vitousek Clifford G. Morrison Professor of Biology and Sykes Family Faculty Director of the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University 19 November 2015 “Slow Violence, Environmental Activism, and the Arts” Rob Nixon Thomas A. and Currie C. […]