2025-2026 Teale Lecture Series
“On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice”
September 18, 2025
Ryan E. Emanuel
Associate Professor of Hydrology, Duke University
“The Declining Monarchy: A Butterfly’s Ecology Speaks to America’s Environmental Crisis”
October 16, 2025
Anurag Agrawal
James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies, Cornell University
“Does Evidence Even Matter? Using AI to Debunk Climate Misperceptions”
November 13, 2025
Gordon Pennycook
Associate Professor & Himan Brown Faculty Fellow, Cornell University
View recorded Gordon Pennycook lecture
“How Can Individuals, Organizations, and Nations Make Better Sustainability Decisions?”
February 26, 2026
Tom Dietz
University Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Environmental Science & Policy, & Animal Studies, Michigan State University
“Women, Water, Violence, and Wellbeing In The Face of Climate Change”
March 26, 2026
Susan J. Elliott
Professor & University Research Chair in Health Geography, University of Waterloo, Canada
View recorded Susan Elliott lecture
“Back to the Wall, Face to the Sun: The Climate Crisis and the Renewable Answer”
April 2, 2026
Bill McKibben
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT; Founder of ‘350.org’ and of ‘Third Act’
View recorded Bill McKibben lecture
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
Bart Elmore
Professor of Environmental History, Ohio State University
View recorded Bart Elmore lecture
“Data Science to Address the Health Impacts of Climate Change”
October 17, 2024
Francesca Dominici
Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science, Harvard University
View recorded Francesca Dominici lecture
“Conceptual Frameworks and New Frontiers in energy Justice”
September 26, 2024
Benjamin Sovacool
Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University
View recorded Benjamin Sovacool lecture.
“Fire and Oil: Coming to Terms with a More Flammable World”
October 10, 2024
John Vaillant
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominated author of Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burin
View recorded John Vaillant lecture.
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
Elena Bennett
Professor and Canada Research Chair – Sustainability Science, McGill University
View recorded Elena Bennett lecture.
“Agriculture’s Transition to Net Zero Emissions: What Is Livestock’s Role?”
December 7, 2023
Ermias Kebreab
Professor and Director, World Food Center, University of California – Davis
View recorded Ermias Kebreab lecture.
“When Is a Stream a Stream? States, Feds, Big Business Beg to Differ but Science Shows it Matters”
February 1, 2024
Margaret Palmer
Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland
This lecture was canceled due to scheduling issues.
“Phosphorus, Food, and Our Future”
February 29, 2024
James Elser
Bierman Professor of Ecology & Director of the Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana; Research Professor & Director of the Sustainable Phosphorus Alliance, Arizona State University
View recorded James Elser lecture
“Green Amendments — The National Movement to Empower Environmental Rights, Law & Advocacy”
March 21, 2024
Maya Van Rossum
Founder, Green Amendments For The Generations Movement & Organization
View recorded Maya Van Rossum lecture
Special Teale Event — Film Screening: “The Last of the Nightingales”
April 11, 2024
Directed by Masha Karpoukhina, featuring Bernie Krause (composer, foley artist with The Doors and the Rolling Stones) and Katherine Krause.
Discussion with Ms. Karpoukhina to follow film.
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 Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
“The Extreme-Weather Climate Gap: Implications for Cities, Risk, & Vulnerability”
02 February 2023 (Virtual Event)
J. Marshall Shepherd
Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geography & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Georgia
View recorded J. Marshall Shepherd lecture.
“From Vulnerability Indices to Profiles”
02 March 2023
Arun Agrawal
Professor, School of Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan
“World Without Us, World With Us”
23 March 2023
Alan Weisman
Author of “The World Without Us;” Journalist; Co-Founder, Homelands Productions
“Biodiversity Science & Solutions for the Anthropocene”
27 April 2023
Andrew Gonzalez
Professor & Liber Ero Chair in Biodiversity Conservation, Department of Biology; Director of the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, McGill University
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 Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia, and Co-convener of The Overpopulation Project.
View recorded Jane O’Sullivan Lecture
2 December 2021
“Public Participation and Policy-making in an Environment and Climate Emergency”
Patrick Devine-Wright
Professor of Human Geography, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
View recorded Patrick Devine-Wright Lecture
Spring Semester
10 February 2022
“The View from Here: A Geologist’s Perspective on Living through Climate Change”
Andrea Dutton
Professor, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison
View recorded Andrea Dutton lecture
24 March 2022
“Understanding Institutional Diversity and Lack of Transparency in Environmental Organizations”
Dorceta E. Taylor
Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Yale School of the Environment
At the request of the presenter, this lecture was not recorded.
12 April 2022
Small Island Big Song – Collaboration with Jorgensen Auditorium, and Rod Rock, Director -intersection of culture, music and environmental issues.
Performance at Jorgensen associated with other events (e.g. panel discussions, artist interviews)
21 April 2022
“The Promise and the Peril of Ocean-Based Solutions to Climate Change”
Sarah Cooley, Ph.D.
Director of Climate Science, Ocean Conservancy, Washington, DC
View recorded Sarah Cooley lecture
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”
David Lindenmayer
Australian Research Council Laureate Professor, Australian National University, Canberra
11 March 2021
“The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice”
Robert Bullard
Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning & Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University
22 April 2021 (Earth Day)
“The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable”
Amitav Ghosh
Acclaimed International author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and Distinguished Professor, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
This event was cosponsored with the UConn Reads Program, thematically focused in 2020-2021 on environmental justice and human rights.
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.
24 October 2019
“Ending Extreme Poverty Without Endangering Ecosystems”
Paul Ferraro
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Carey Business School & Whiting School of Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University
View recorded Paul Ferraro lecture
14 November 2019
“Hotter, Wetter, Drier: Contemporary Urbanization and Challenges for Sustainability”
Karen Seto
Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography & Urbanization Science, Yale University
At the request of the presenter, this lecture was not recorded.
6 February 2020
“Connecting with Organisms – Restoring the Human Connection with Nature”
William (Ned) Friedman
Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University
View recorded William Friedman lecture
5 March 2020
“We Are Not Pricing Climate Risk: A Wall Street Perspective”
Robert Litterman
Chairman of Risk Committee, Kepos Capital, LP
View recorded Robert Litterman lecture
16 April 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
*Canceled due to the COVID-19 crisis.
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
25 October 2018
“In the Footsteps of Late 19th Century Explorers: Reconstructing Environmental Change across the Canadian High Arctic”
John England
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta; Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
View Recorded John England Lecture (Note: Lecture starts at the 9:00 mark)
15 November 2018
“Silverswords and Lobeliads: Restoring Hawaii’s Marvels of Evolution”
Rob Robichaux
University Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona;
Founder and President of the Board of Trustees of the Hawaiian Silversword Foundation
31 January 2019
“Litigating in the Supreme Court of the United States: Property Rights vs. Environmental Protection”
Richard J. Lazarus
The Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
View Recorded Richard Lazarus Lecture
21 February 2019
“Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature”
Liam J. Heneghan
Professor of Environmental Science and Studies, DePaul University
View Recorded Liam Heneghan Lecture
18 April 2019
“Improving Water Quality: Are Economics and the Environment Always at Odds?”
Catherine Kling
Professor, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
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. What We Can Do”
John Holdren
Senior Advisor to President Obama on Science and Technology Issues from 2009-2017; Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
View recorded John Holdren lecture
Note: This Special Presentation is at 4:00 PM in the Student Union Theater.
Dr. Holdren was brought to campus by the Center of Biological Risk, with support from the Teale Series.
19 October 2017
“Mining the Mountains: the Environmental Legacies of Coal Mining in Appalachia”
Emily Bernhardt
Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University
View recorded Emily Bernhardt lecture (playback begin 17:42)
9 November 2017
“Thoreau as Activist: Writing to Save the World”
Jeffrey S. Cramer
Curator of Collections, Walden Woods Project’s Thoreau Institute Library, Lincoln, Massachusetts
View recorded Jeffrey Cramer lecture
1 February 2018
“Giving the Future a Chance”
Elke Weber
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
8 March 2018
“Rolling Back Environmental Regulation: Implications for Law, the Economy, and the Environment”
Cary Coglianese
Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania
5 April 2018
“Multispecies Justice in the Age of Extraction and Extinction”
Subhankar Banerjee
Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair of Land Arts of the American West and Professor, Art & Ecology, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico
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, New York
December 1, 2016
“Wanting the Wild”
Harriet Ritvo
Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 2, 2017
“The Sixth Extinction”
Elizabeth Kolbert
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
March 30. 2017
“Building Capacity for Adapting to Climate Change”
Maria Carmen Lemos
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
April 19, 2017
“The Nile Project”
Mina Girgis
President and CEO, The Nile Project
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. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment, Princeton University
Co-sponsors: Teale, Junior Faculty Forum of the Humanities Institute, and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
4 February 2016
“Of Mice and Men: Emerging Infectious Disease in a Warmer, More Fragmented World”
Rick Ostfeld
Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York
3 March 2016
“Comedy, Economics, and Climate Change”
Yoram Bauman
Author, “standupeconomist,” and carbon tax activist, www.standupeconomist.com
21 April 2016
“Opportunities and Challenges of Shale Gas Production”
Mark Zoback
Benjamin M. Page Professor in Earth Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
2014-2015 Teale Lecture Series
September 25, 2014
“The Global Urban Crisis and an Ecological Way Forward”
Steward T. A. Pickett
Distinguished Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
October 30, 2014
“The Importance of Being Urban: Density & the Green City”
Julie Campoli
Author & Photographer, Terra Firma Urban Design
November 20, 2014
“Climate Change in the American Mind”
Anthony Leiserowitz
Director, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
February 26, 2015
“Dispatches from a Hotter Planet and a Cooler Cosmos”
Seth Borenstein
Associated Press National Science Writer
March 26, 2015
“Ecological Imperialism Revisited: Entanglements of Disease, Commerce and Knowledge in a Global World”
Gregg Mitman
Vilas Research & William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History & Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 16, 2015
“From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads & Men”
Tyrone Hayes
Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkley
2013-2014 Teale Lecture Series
September 12, 2013
“Bridging the Gap Between the Natural and Social Sciences for Addressing Our Common Future in a Changing World”
Harold Mooney
Professor of Biology, Emeritus, and Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
October 3, 2013
“This Verse Business”
The Poetry of Robert Frost in a one-person play written by A. M. Dolan, performed by Emmy-winning actor Gordon Clapp
October 24, 2013
“Towards Sustainable Food Systems: A Tale of Three Transitions”
Olivier De Schutter
UN Social Rapporteur on the Right to Food
March 27, 2014
“What Role Will the Oceans Play in Meeting the Global Demand for Food?”
Steven D. Gaines
Dean, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California – Santa Barbara
April 10, 2014
“Climate, Weather, Oceans and Biodiversity: Science in Policy and Politics”
Jane Lubchenco
Valley Professor of Marine Biology, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Former Administrator of NOAA
2012-2013 Teale Lecture Series
September 13, 2012
“The Natural Environment and the Strategy of Firms”
Forest L. Reinhardt
John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
October 4, 2012
“Civilization: Is it Worth the Cost?”
George M. Woodwell
Founder, Woods Hole Research Center
November 8, 2012
“The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate”
David Archer
Professor of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
February 7, 2013
“The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology”
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
March 14, 2013
“Give Science a Chance: Communicating about Environmental Risks”
Baruch Fischhoff
Howard Heinz University Professor, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, and Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
April 18, 2013
“The Lost Woods of Childhood”
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Professor, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, Affiliated Faculty, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona
2011-2012 Teale Lecture Series
October 20, 2011
Film Premiere: “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for our Time”
Co-Producers Ann and Steve Dunsky and Senior Fellow, Curt Meine
Aldo Leopold Foundation
November 17, 2011
“Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming”
Naomi Oreskes
Professor of History and Science, University of California, San Diego
December 8, 2011
“Integrating Energy and Environmental Policy: The Path Forward for Protecting Our Natural Resources and Building our Economy”
Daniel Esty
Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP)
February 23, 2012
“The Future of Plants”
Sir Peter Crane
Dean, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
March 1, 2012
“In Pursuit of a New Environmentalism”
David Gessner
Associate Professor of Creative Writing, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
March 29, 2012
“The Hockey Stick: On the Front Lines in the Climate Wars”
Michael Mann
Professor, Director, Earth System Science Center, The Pennsylvania State University
2010-2011 Teale Lecture Series
September 23, 2010
“The Voice Of Science In Policy Making”
Gene E. Likens
Distinguished Senior Scientist; Ecologist; Founding Director and President Emeritus of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Distinguished Research Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
October 21, 2010
“From Simple Traits To Complex Systems: What Do The Humble Plant Leaf And “Advanced” Human Societies Tell Us About The Future Of Planet Earth?”
Peter B. Reich
Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota
November 11, 2010
“9 Billion People + 1 Planet = ?”
Andrew Revkin
New York Times Dot Earth blogger, Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace University Academy for Applied Environmental Studies
December 9, 2010
“Can we sustain democracy and the planet, too?”
Philip Kitcher
John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
February 17, 2011
“Finding Common Ground”
Rick Bass
Author, environmental activist
March 31, 2011
“Tropical Forests, Climate Mitigation, and Agricultural Production”
Ruth S. DeFries
Denning Professor of Sustainable Development, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
April 28, 2011
“Challenges in Water Provisioning, Delivery, and Quality for Urban Populations: Analysis of Global Patterns and an Aridland Case Study”
Nancy Grimm
Professor, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
2009-2010 Teale Lecture Series
September 24, 2009
“A Sober Look at Global Warming”
Dr. Kerry Emanuel
Professor of Atmospheric Science and POAC Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 22, 2009
“Literature and Sustainability”
John Elder
Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Middlebury College
November 19, 2009
“Coming Down to Earth: Valuing Nature to Improve Decision-Making”
Dr. Stephen Polasky
Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics, University of Minnesota
February 4, 2010
“A Sense of Wonder: a film about Rachel Carson”
March 4 , 2010
“Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It”
Dr. Robert J. Glennon
Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Arizona
2008-2009 Teale Lecture Series
October 16, 2008
“Ecosystem Services Science & Policy – A New Old Idea Finally Comes of Age”
J.B. Ruhl
Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property Law, Florida State University College of Law
November 6, 2008
“Forces of Nature”
performed by the Connecticut Repertory Theatre
November 20, 2008
“Water: A Continuous Fluid in a Fragmented Policy Framework”
Don Scavia
Professor and Michigan Sea Grant Director, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment
February 5, 2009
“Bridging the Science/Journalism Gap in a Time of Epochal Change”
Bud Ward
Editor, The Yale Forum on Climate Change and The Media
March 5, 2009
“Forest Carbon Stocks and Land-Use: Reconciling the International Agenda With the Needs of Indigenous Populations”
Catherine Potvin
Professor, Department of Biology, McGill University
April 2, 2009
“Sun Tzu and the Art of War: How the Battle of Museums to Survive Has a Negative Impact on Nature and the Environment”
Michael Mares
Presidential Professor of Zoology, University of Oklahoma and Distinguished Research Curator of Mammals, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
2007-2008 Teale Lecture Series
September 20, 2007
“Corporate Environmentalism: Doing Well by Doing Good?”
Geoffrey Heal
Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia University
October 4, 2007
“Endangered Species Conservation: An Assessment and Prognosis”
Michael J. Bean
Attorney, Chair of the Wildlife Program, Environmental Defense Fund
November 15, 2007
“Emerging New Forests in the Shining Star of the Caribbean”
Ariel Lugo
Director, International Institute of Tropical Forestry
February 7, 2008
“Brewing Biodiversity: the Ecology of Coffee Farms in Chiapas, Mexico”
Ivette Perfecto
Professor of Natural Resources, University of Michigan
March 20, 2008
“Hope in a Dark Time: The Promises of Religious Environmentalism”
Roger Gottlieb
Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
April 10, 2008
“This Earth, Our Mother”
Joseph Bruchac
Storyteller and Writer
2006-2007 Teale Lecture Series
September 14, 2006
“The Dodo’s Legacy: Conservation on Mauritius”
Carl Jones
International Research Fellow, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust; Scientific Director, Mauritian Wildlife
October 19, 2006
“Carbon Taxes to Slow Global Warming”
William Nordhaus
Member of the National Academy of Science; Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University
February 1, 2007
“Ideas About Time: Recent Projects that Investigate the Relationship of Time, Space and Photography”
Mark Klett
Regents Professor of Art, Arizona State University
March 22, 2007
“Climate, Climate Change, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”
Richard Somerville
Distinguished Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
April 12, 2007
“The Sibley Guide to Birds: Birds and Bird Guides”
David Allen Sibley
Author and Illustrator
2005-2006 Teale Lecture Series
September 29, 2005
“High Voltage Conservation Action in Tropical America”
Sharon Matola
Founding Director, Belieze Zoo and Tropical Education Center
October 12, 2005
“Trees and Late Paleozoci 02 X XX CO2 Climate Evolution”
Robert A. Berner
Alan M. Bateman Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
November 3, 2005
“This Sacred Trust: The American Land and the Climate Emergency”
James Gustave Speth
2002 Blue Planet Prize Awardee; Dean, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
February 2, 2006
“Community Gardens as a Response To Environmental Justice Concerns: Evaluating the Effects Gardens Have on the Neighborhood”
Vicki Been
Eliju Root Professor of Law; Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University Law School
February 16, 2006
“Producing Wildlife: The Unintended Natures of Conservation in India”
Paul Robbins
Associate Professor of Geography & Regional Development, University of Arizona
April 20, 2006
“Brave New Ocean”
Jeremy Jackson
William E. and Mary B. Ritter Professor; Director, Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of San Diego
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