2004-2005 Teale Lecture Series

September 22, 2004

“The Role of Science in National Policy Making: Lessons from Working in Congress and The White House”
Rosina Bierbaum
Former Clinton White House Director of the Office of Science, Technology and Policy; Dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

October 21, 2004

“Teaming With Life: The Future of Life at the Dawn of the Sixth Great Extinction”
Tom Lovejoy
Director, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

November 17, 2004

“Leaving Lascaux: The Frontier of Human Nature”
Barry Lopez
National Book Award Winner

February 24, 2005

“Living Sustainably on a Planet of Extremes”
William Hooke
Director, Atmospheric Policy Program, American Meteorological Society

March 24, 2005

“Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism”
Char Miller
Trinity University, Texas

April 21, 2005

“Achieving the Millennium Development Goals on Hunger”
Pedro Sanchez
2002 World Food Prize, Director of Tropical Agriculture & Co-chair, Millennium Project Hunger Task Force, Columbia University Earth Institute

2003-2004 Teale Lecture Series

September 23, 2003

“Greening the Campus: How Universities are Improving Environmental Performance and Sustainability”
Julian Keniry
Director, National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Program

October 9, 2003

“Below-ground Biodiversity of Hot and Cold Deserts”
Diana Wall
Professor and Director, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University

November 20, 2003

“Environmental Esthetics: Beauty and the Evolutionary Mind of the Beholder”
Gordon Orians
Professor Emeritus of Zoology, University of Washington

February 12, 2004

“A Sense of Wonder: A One Act Play Based on the Life and Works of Rachel Carson”
Kaiulani Lee
Playwright and Actor,
OBIE Award winner for outstanding achievement off-Broadway

April 8, 2004

“Penguins, People, Pollution, and Politics: When Science is not Enough”
P. Dee Boersma
Professor, Zoology, University of Washington

April 29, 2004

“Economic Incentives for Spatial Habitat Design to Protect Endangered Species”
Jason Shogren
Stroock Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and Management, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming

2002-2003 Teale Lecture Series

September 23, 2002

“Prehistoric Human Impacts on the Environment of Amazonia, With Emphasis on Anthropogenic Dark Earths”
William Denevan

October 17, 2002

“Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making”
Scott Barrett

November 14, 2002

“Crossing Thresholds: The Environment as Moral Challenge”
Bill McKibben
Award-Winning Author, Middlebury College

February 20, 2003

“Estimating Climate and Climatic Change from Lousy Weather-Station Networks”
Cort Willmott
Professor, Geography, University of Delaware

March 27, 2003

“African Climate Change and Human Evolution”
Peter deMenocal
Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Columbia Earth Institute, Columbia University

April 24, 2003

“Linked Watershed/Ocean/Human Ecosystem: Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico Water Quality”
Nancy N. Rabalais
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium

2001-2002 Teale Lecture Series

October 10, 2001

“Snowball Earth: Testing the Limits of Global Change”
Paul Hoffman

November 15, 2001

“The Value of Nature and Human Physical and Mental Well-Being”
Stephen Kellert

February 18, 2002

“The Plaza or the Pendulum: Two Concepts of the Ecosystem”
Mark Sagoff

March 7, 2002

“Humanist Environmentalism”
William Cronon

April 17, 2002

“Forecasting the Future of Biodiversity in a Human-Dominated World”
Gretchen Daily

2000-2001 Teale Lecture Series

September 22, 2000

“Tropical Conservation through Biodiversity Development: The Only Hope”
Dan Janzen

October 11, 2000

“Dividing the Waters: The Challenge of Sustaining People and Ecosystems in a New Era of Scarcity”
Sandra Postel

November 2, 2000

“Swampwalker’s Journal: Reflections on 50 Years of Turtles and Wetlands”
David Carroll
Author, Illustrator, and Environmental Consultant

February 21, 2001

“Making Parks Work”
John Terborgh
Co-Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University

March 8, 2001

“Tropical Forests: For Whom and For What?”
Jeffrey Vincent
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University

April 24, 2001

“The Concept of the Intrinsic Value: Theoretical and Pragmatic Considerations”
J. Baird Callicott
President, International Society for Environmental Ethics; Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of Texas

1999-2000 Teale Lecture Series

September 23, 1999

“Thoreau’s Country: Historical Insights to Ecology and Conservation”
David R. Foster

October 13, 1999

“Global Climate Change during the Last 400,000 Years”
Mike Bender

December 9, 1999

“Fertilizer and Global Change in the Nitrogen Cycle, Too Much of a Good Thing?”
Pam Matson

February 9, 2000

“Sustainable Development is not a Destination (It’s the Way You Make the Trip)”
Dennis Meadows

February 22, 2000

“Edwin Way Teale – An American Naturalist”
Ann F. Guian

“On the Trail to Trailwood: In pursuit of Edwin Way Teale”
Thomas A. Potter

March 15, 2000

“Regulation by Revelation: Disclosure Strategies for Controlling Pollution”
Tom Tietenberg

April 26, 2000

“Nature and the Everglades — in the Fiction AND Nonfiction of Peter Matthiessen”
Pete Matthiessen

1998-1999 Teale Lecture Series

September 24, 1998

“Gratitude to Trees: Buddhist Resource Management in Asia and California”
Gary Snyder

October 27, 1998

“Science, Politics, and the Endangered Species Act”
David Wilcove

December 3, 1998

“The Science of Nature: The Nature of Science”
Gene Likens

February 11, 1999

“Regulating Environmental Health Risks”
Maureen Cropper

March 23, 1999

“Sustainability and Obligations to Future Generations”
Bryan Norton

April 22, 1999

“Environmentalism in the 21st Century: New Ways to Get Results”
Fred Krupp

1997-1998 Teale Lecture Series

September 24, 1997

“Economics and Ecology: The Value of Ecosystem Services”
Robert Costanza

October 23, 1997

“Pollution and Prejudice: Who Bears the Burden of Environmental Risk?”
Evan J. Ringquist

November 13, 1997

“Pricing What Is Priceless: Ecologists vs. Economists”
Kerry Smith

February 12, 1998

“Financial Challenges to the Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Developing Countries”
Eduardo Fuentes

March 12, 1998

“The Environmental Imagination”
Lawrence Buell

April 28, 1998

“Beyond Science and Reason”
Paul Ehrlich