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Women in Science and Engineering
Dr. Arlene
Blum
Adaptive Peaks Seminar Series
Dr. Anne Magurran  Resources
Management, and the ESF Women's Caucus.
Dr. Magurran is Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of St. Andrews. She is interested in the measurement, evolution and conservation of biological diversity. Her research looks to link behavior and evolution,asking on the one hand how adaptive behavior evolves and on the other how behavior shapes the course of evolution. She is concerned with the conservation of freshwater fish biodiversity and is examining the role of behavior in the survival of endangered populations. Much of the work is based in the neotropics, particularly Trinidad, Mexico and Brasil, and in the UK.
Women in Science and Engineering&
K. Douglas Nelson Lecture
Series
Molly Welker is a
hydrogeologist and Senior Project Manager for Bristol Environmental
Remediation Servic
Ms. Nina-Marie Lister
Design Critic,
Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design,
Harvard University
She has collaborated on projects including the Lower Don Lands International Design Competition, Toronto (Finalist), Toledo ArtNET ‘Glass City’ (Design Competition Winner, Toledo), and Downsview Park, Toronto, (International Design Competition Finalist). Professor
Lister teaches landscape and planning studios, research methods, ecological
design, and landscape urbanism. She is a founding faculty member of the Ryerson
graduate program in Planning. In 2004, she received a Canada Mortgage and
Housing Corporation Excellence in Education Award. All presentations are free and open to the public. Parking is available in Syracuse University's Irving Avenue Parking lot and garage (area map; close up). The fee is currently $3.25 for the first hour, $2 for each additional. Presented by
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Dr.
Blum is a biophysical chemist, visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Department
of Chemistry, and author of Annapurna: A Woman’s Place and Breaking
Trail: A Climbing Life. Blum’s research contributed to the
regulation of two cancer-causing flame retardants used in children’s
sleepwear in the 1970s, and prevented unnecessary flammability standards
that would have led to the use of hundreds of millions of pounds of
persistent toxic chemicals each year. She is currently bringing science into
policy decisions to reduce the use of toxic chemicals in consumer
products and protect public health. Dr. Blum was selected by the National
Women’s History Project as one of 100 “Women Taking the Lead to Save Our
Planet,” received the Society of Women Geographers’ Gold Medal, and a top
Purpose Prize from Civic Ventures. Dr. Blum has also played a groundbreaking role in
women’s mountaineering. She led the first American—and all-women’s—ascent
of Annapurna I, considered one of the world’s most dangerous and difficult
mountains, as well as the first women’s team up Mt. McKinley.
Dr.
Kathie Weathers' research focuses on quantifying cross-boundary nutrient fluxes
(e.g., nutrient delivery from ocean to forest), examining how atmospheric inputs
are influenced by landscape structure (e.g., the influence of landscape features
such as elevation, forest edges, and vegetation type on atmospheric deposition),
and understanding controls on nutrient and pollutant cycling within forested
ecosystems. Much of her research is focused on understanding atmospheric
influences and controls on ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycles in
heterogeneous landscapes. She has published widely, including significant papers
on modeling the effects of landscape features on patterns of atmospheric
deposition, tracking the response of terrestrial ecosystems to nitrogen
pollution, and illuminating the ecological importance of fog.Dr. Weathers has
been elected a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and is a member of the Public
Affairs Committee of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). She has been a
member of various National Science Foundation and American Association of
University Women (AAUW) panels, of the EPA's CASAC NOx and SOx Review Panel as
well National Academy of Sciences/Transportation Research Board (NAS/TRB)
Committee to evaluate the Congestion Mitigation Air Quality (CMAQ/TEA-21)
program. She has co-led workshops and conferences on such topics as the
ecological effects of air pollution; strategies for successfully bridging
science, policy and management; and linking science, education and outreach. She
received her M.F.S. degree from Yale University in 1983 and her Ph.D. in Ecology
from Rutgers University in 1993. 
es in Anchorage Alaska. Molly has developed and
administered water quality and environmental monitoring programs for state
and federal agencies for more than 20 years. She was previously an
Environmental Scientist at HDR Alaska and the project manager for the
baseline water quality program for the Pebble Mine in southwest Alaska. She
also serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the non-profit
organization, Anchorage Waterways Council. Before relocating to Alaska, she
was with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State. She has
a BS and MS in geology.
