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University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Shortcuts to specific years: 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Spring 2009
Dr. Betsy Henry Senior Managing Scientist, Exponent, Schenectady Mercury in the Onondaga Lake Remedy Tuesday, February 24, 4-5 pm, 145 Baker Laboratory Sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and the ESF Women's Caucus
With a
broad background in the transport and fate of contaminants in the environment,
Dr. Henry’s s
Women in Science and Engineering Speaker Series
Ms. Welker's flight was among
the many cancelled following the series of eruption of Mt. Redoubt.
Her rebooked flights were also affected. Molly was very much
looking forward to sharing her findings with the University community,
meeting colleagues in CNY, and discussing careers in science and engineering
with our students. Unfortunately, the end of the semester is fast
approaching, and Redoubt remains active, so rescheduling this visit is
uncertain.
Molly Welker is a
hydrogeologist and Senior Project Manager for Bristol Environmental
Remediation Servic
Dr. Ann Lemley
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Women in Science and
Engineering & K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series Subglacial Lakes Linked to Ice Dynamics Tuesday, March 4, 4 pm, Marshall Auditorium Sponsored by Syracuse University's Department of Earth Sciences, Women in Science and Engineering, and ESF Women's Caucus
Dr. Robin E. Bell is a Doherty
Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, where she directs major research programs on the Hudson River
and Antarctica. She is also the Director of the ADVANCE program at the
Earth Institute. C. Eugene Farnsworth Lecture SeriesDr. Margaret Shannon Associate Dean, The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont The Essential Role of Research for Sustainable Forest Management: Feminist Theory and Practice Friday, April 4, 3:30 pm, 146 Baker Laboratory Sponsored by the Faculty of Forest and Natural Resource Management, the C. Eugene Farnsworth Memorial Endowment and the ESF Women's Caucus Dr. Shannon joined The Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources as Associate Dean and Professor in
August 2007. She was previously at the State University of New York at Buffalo
Law School (since 1999) where she was a Research Professor, Director of the
Environmental Law Program, and Convener of the Environmental Governance and
Stewardship Working
Dr. Shannon was one of the first ‘natural resource social scientists’ specialized in policy and law. Her research and professional interests have always been focused on democratic practices within natural resources and environmental governance. Beginning in the 1970s, she focused on public land management planning and the place of public participation in policy planning and management decision-making. Beginning in the 1990s, she was part of early work on meaning of sustainability for forests. She was a member of the U.S. delegation of experts who developed the Montreal Process Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management and was the initiator of Criteria Seven on Institutional and Legal factors. She was a co-leader of the social science team for the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team that developed the scientific analysis for the Northwest Forest Plan in 1993. She was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Faculty of Forest and Environmental Science at the University of Freiburg , Germany in 1999 and is now a Professor-in-Honor there with a substantial doctoral program as well as regular teaching. She was a member of the EU COST Action E-19 on ‘National forest programmes in a European context’ and an advisor to the research action following it on ‘New modes of governance for sustainable forest management in Europe.’ She is currently working on emerging modes of governance in the Pacific NW as a result of changes since the NWFP in 1993.
Ms. Patricia Riexinger Tuesday, April 8, 4-5 pm, 146 Baker Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Randolph G. Pack Environmental Institute and the ESF Women's C  aucus
Patricia Riexinger is the Director of the Division of
Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources at the NYS Department of Environmental
Conservation. She has a B.S. degree in Wildlife Biology from Cornell
University, and a M.S. degree in Biodiversity Conservation and Policy from
the University of Albany. She began her career at DEC in 1976 in the
Waterfowl Management Unit, and then spent four years in the Endangered
Species Unit as the reptile and amphibian specialist. In 1983, she took
responsibility for coordinating and leading the Freshwater Wetlands Program,
and along the path added responsibility for stream protection, the NY
Natural Heritage Program, and sundry other conservation issues. She was
appointed to the Director's position in September 2008. Pat is an avid
outdoorsperson who loves to watch birds, snorkel, and travel. She has two
teenaged kids, serves on her town Conservation Board, and leads a Girl Scout
troop.
Ms. Susan Crow Creating Resilient Communities: tools for regional land-use planning in the face of coastal hazards in South Carolina Tuesday, April 22, 4-5 pm, 146 Baker Laboratory (Note new date) Sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture and the ESF Women's Caucus
Susan brings considerable experience in comprehensive
planning, landscape ecology and participatory decision making to the
PlaceMatters-David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship. Since 1993,
Susan has applied GIS and other technologies to help communities better
understand growth implications and envision alternative futures. As a
member of the public service faculty of the Institut
Green Chemistry and Cradle to Cradle Product Design Tuesday, February 6, 4-5 pm, 140 Baker Laboratory Sponsored by the Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering and the ESF Women's Caucus
Dr. Lauren Heine has extensive experience in the areas
of sustainability and green chemistry. As Director of Applied Science at
GreenBlue, she guides the development of technical tools and approaches that
help organizations integrate Green Chemistry and Engineering into their
product and process design and development activities -- eliminating toxics
and the concept of waste, and moving toward economic, environmental and
community sustainability. Dr. Heine is currently directing the development
of Clean
 Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel Climate Scientist, Global Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, DC Global warming: the science behind the headlines Tuesday, March 6, 4-5 pm, Marshall Hall Auditorium Presented by Syracuse University's WISE initiative, Syracuse University Graduate School, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the ESF Women's Caucus
Dr.
Brenda Ekwurzel works on the national climate program at the Union of
Concerned Scientists (UCS). She is leading UCS's climate science education
work aimed at strengthening support for strong federal climate legislation
and sound U.S. climate policies. Prior to joining UCS, Dr. Ekwurzel
was on the faculty of the University of Arizona Department of Hydrology and
Water Resources with a joint appointment in the Geosciences
Dr. Sharon Todd specializes in the social psychology of leisure, outdoor recreation and research methods. She received a B.S in Business Administration and a BS in Recreation from Southern Illinois University, and MS in Recreation and Parks and a PhD in Leisure Studies from The Pennsylvania State University. Her leisure interests include a year-round range of outdoor sports.
Dr. Rosemary O'Leary
Rosemary O'Leary is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at Syracuse
University. She
also serves as the Co- Spring 2006
Dr.
Joanne Westphal
Dr.
Lorna Gibson
Professor Lorna J. Gibson received her Bachelor of
Applied Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University
Dr.
Nancy Grulke
23rd Annual
C. Eugene Farnsworth Memorial
Lecture and Fellowship Ceremony
Dr. Ursula Goodenough Professor, Biology, Washington University, St. Louis Exploring the Concept of Religious Naturalism Thursday, Oct. 28, 7 pm, 1916 Bird Library Sponsored by EnSPIRE, Syracuse University's Departments of Biology and Religion, and Religion and Society Program, and ESF Women's Caucus Leading cell biologist and Washington University professor of biology Ursula Goodenough, is the author of a bestselling textbook, Genetics, and also wrote the popular discourse on religion and science The Sacred Depths of Nature, which was named Oustanding Academic Book of 1999 by Choice. She has served as president of both the Society of Cell Biologists and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. Dr. Goodenough and her colleauges study the molecular basis and evolution of life-cycle transitions in the flagellated green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. They have cloned genes in the mating-type (mt) locus and genes regulated by mt that control the transition between vegetative growth and gametic differentiation and zygote development. These include genes responsible for mate recognition, uniparental inheritance of chloroplast DNA, and gametic differentiation, allowing them to study their function and their evolution during speciation. Dr. Goodenough earned a BS in biology from Radcliffe College in 1963, MS in biology at Columbia University in 1965, and PhD from Harvard in 1969. In this presentation, Goodenough asks: What is the religious potential of our scientific understandings of nature and of the human's place within nature? She will suggest some ways to think about the word "religious," and will present a variety of responses to this question from the perspective of religious naturalism
Dr.
Caryl Fish (CHE '91) Dr. Fish is an Associate Professor of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry at St. Vincent College. She does research with undergraduate students on abandoned mine drainage and reclamation. Dr. Fish is also the director of St. Vincent's Summer Institute in Watershed Restoration and its Environmental Education Center. Dr. Fish earned her B.S. from Manchester College, MBA at the University of Dayton, and Ph.D. from SUNY-CESF.
Diversity Council Lecture Series
and
CGMA Speaker Series Dr. Esnard is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director, GEDDeS Computer Lab, at Cornell University. Her most recent projects have focused on hazard mitigation planning, and decision tools for post-disaster planning. She directed the natural hazards and vulnerability manpping project for eleven New York Counties and for the Tompkins County chapter of the American Red Cross. She is the co-author of the Hypothetical City workbook and has written on other topics that include quality of life and holistic disaster recovery, spatial analysis of New York metropolitan urban expansion, vulnerability assessments of coastal and flood hazards, public participation GIS, GIS education, and ethics.
Ms. Frances
Dunwell Ms. Dunwell serves as a Special assistant to the commissioner for the Hudson River Valley at NYS Department of Environmental Conservation where she directs the implementation of the Hudson River Estuary Plan. She is also author of The Hudson River Highlands an award-winning book on the region's natural and cultural history.
22nd Annual
C. Eugene Farnsworth Memorial
Lecture and Fellowship Ceremony Ann Bartuska is the Forest Service's deputy chief for research and development. In this position she directs the agency's research efforts to promote ecologically sound management of these nation's natural resources, serve the nation's private forest landowners, and investigate new ways to process and recycle biomass into products. Prior to this, Bartuska directed the Invasive Species Initiative at The Nature Conservancy and worked for the Forest Service for 14 years in positions with research and development; state and private forestry, as the director of forest health protection; and the National Forest System, as the agency's first director of ecosystem management. She currently is on the board of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents and is past-president of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. Deborah SwackhamerProfessor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota--Twin Cities Estrogen Mimics and Sex Education for Fishes Tuesday, January 27, 4-5 pm, 140 Baker Laboratory Sponsored by the Faculties of Chemistry and Environmental and Forest Biology, ESF Graduate Student Association, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the ESF Women's Caucus. Dr. Deborah L. Swackhamer is a Professor of Environmental Chemistry in the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health, and serves as Co-Director of the Water Resources Center, at the University of Minnesota. She received a BA in Chemistry from Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA) and a MS and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Water Chemistry and Limnology & Oceanography, respectively. After two years post-doctoral research in Chemistry and Public & Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, she joined the Minnesota faculty in 1987. She has studied the processes affecting the behavior and fate of persistent organic compounds including PCBs, dioxins, and pesticides in the Great Lakes for the past 20 years, including sediment accumulation, source determinations, water column processes, and foodweb bioaccumulation. Her current research is focused on developing chemnical indicators of ecological condition for coastal zones of the Great Lakes, and on exposures and impacts of endocrine disruptors. She currently sits on the Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission of the US and Canada, chairs the Science and Technology Advisory Committee for the Great Lakes Environmental and Molecular Sciences Center at Western Michigan University, and serves on the Advisory Board for the National Undersea Research Program of NOAA for the North Atlantic-Great Lakes region.
Dr. Karla Henderson Dr. Henderson is currently Professor and Chair in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where her research focuses on women's leisure, social psychology of leisure, camping, research methodologies. She has been on the faculty at Minnesota, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Texas Woman's University. She publishes regularly in a variety of journals in the field and has authored or co-authored several books: Both Gains and Gaps (with Bialeschki, Shaw, and Freysinger), Dimensions of Choice, Volunteers in Leisure (with Tedrick), Introduction to Leisure Services (with Sessoms), and Evaluation of Leisure Services (with Bialeschki). Dr. Henderson has served as president of SPRE, president of the AAHPERD Research Consortium, and on numerous editorial boards. She has been the recipient of the JB Nash Scholar Award, the Julian Smith Award, the NCRPS Special Citation, the ACA Honor Award, and the NRPA Roosevelt Excellence in Research Award.
Diana Bendz (CHE '68) Ms. Bendz has been with IBM for 34 years, beginning as a process engineer during the early days of semi-conductor production. Through the years, she filled diverse roles throughout the company until named an executive in 1991. In this position, she developed IBM's much duplicated program for the design, manufacture, and disposition of environmentally conscious products. She currently serves as the senior executive at IBM's Endicott location. Bendz has lectured extensively on the technical aspects of electronics in the environment. The ESF Alumna (Chemistry 1968) serves on the advisory board of Syracuse University's College of Engineering and Computer Science and Binghamton University's Engineering and Management School.
Dr. Christine Sloane
Dr. Christine Sloane is the Director of FreedomCAR and Technology Strategy at General Motors Corporation, and their former Director of Environmental Policy and Programs. She is responsible for global climate issues and for mobile emission issues involving advanced technology vehicles. Advanced technology vehicles include vehicles with hybrid-electric, fuel-cell and advanced compression-ignition systems. From 1994 to 2000, Dr. Sloane served as Chief Technologist for the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) where she was responsible for guiding and implementing the development of energy conversion and materials technologies for use in the Precept, GM's 80 mile-per-gallon 5-passenger demonstration vehicle. Her earlier research interests included aerosol chemistry and physics, air quality and visibility, manufacturing & vehicle emissions, and environmental policy. Dr. Sloane received her PhD from MIT in chemical physics.
Shifting Paradigms Conference: Human
Health and the Environment Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Ethanol in your Gasoline: Energy and Environmental Implications Tuesday, February 4, 4-5 pm, 140 Baker Laboratory Sponsored by the Faculty of Environmental Resources and Forest Engineering, Graduate Student Association, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the ESF Women's Caucus Dr. Susan Powers’ area of interest includes understanding the physical and chemical phenomena associated with multiphase flow and contaminant transport in subsurface systems, with specific emphasis on the fate, transport, and remediation of nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) in complex systems. Her current research projects include the complexities associated with aquifer heterogeneties and non-ideal chemical mixtures such as coal tars and oxygenated gasoline. Her classes at Clarkson cover the physical and chemical principles affecting the transport and treatment of pollutants. Dr. Powers is also the director of the Clarkson K-12 Project - Based Learning Partnership Program. This program places Clarkson students in local middle schools to teach a science and technology curriculum that focuses on solving environmental problems. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and a MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Clarkson, and a PhD from the University of Michigan. She joined the faculty of Clarkson in 1992.
Dr.
Laura Musacchio (LA BS '89, MLA) Dr. Musacchio's interests focus on the development of knowledge about the human dimensions of landscape ecology and urban ecology. Her interests have been influenced by her academic experiences in landscape architecture (BLA, magna cum laude, and MLA, SUNY-ESF) as well as landscape ecology, mapping sciences, and environmental planning/policy (Ph.D. Urban and Regional Sciences, Texas A&M University at College Station). Her current investigations focus on the modeling of the dynamics of planned and designed landscapes as self-organized systems within an ecoregional context. In her landscape models, she focuses on how human decision-making, such as those made in the design and planning processes, can affect the spatial and functional heterogeneity of urban patterns and how changes in these patterns affect ecosystem health and services such as water quality, wildlife habitat quality, visual quality, and recreational access quality. Through her scientific investigations, she seeks to contribute to new knowledge and innovations in the development of sustainable communities. Her current research projects include the Rio Alamar Urban River Restoration Project in Tijuana, Mexico and landscape change of suburbanizing floodplains and watersheds in the Phoenix metropolitan region. Her research has been recently published in Landscape and Urban Planning and in Ecological Modeling.
Ms. Virginia Silver Ms. Silver is an Analytical Chemist by education and experience and has worked for International Paper for twenty years in the Research and Development area. The past fifteen years have been spent leading the quality process, directing the training and education department, and in management development. For the last three years, she has been the facility director for IP's Corporate Research Center. She works closely with pulp and paper scientists to tackle tough management situations and to create positive outcomes. A significant portion of her career has been in improving the management skills of others. She is a graduate of SUNY Albany.
Great Lakes Research Consortium Speaker Series Dr. Hudon currently coordinates Environment Canada’s Program (Quebec Region) assessing the impacts of water level variations on St. Lawrence River ecosystems. This program comprises about 20 scientists from federal and provincial levels of governments and is a part of the third Phase of the St. Lawrence Vision 2000 Action Plan (1998-2003). She also carries out research on St. Lawrence River wetlands diversity and productivity. Dr. Hudon holds a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from Laval University (1982). After a post-doctoral appointment at University of Waterloo (1983), she was hired as a research scientist at the department of Fisheries and Oceans, where her studies were concentrated on population dynamics of lobster (1984-86, 1991-93) and Arctic fisheries exploration and development (northern shrimp, arctic char, whitefish) (1987-90). She has been a research scientist since 1993 and Research Program Coordinator since 1998 at the St. Lawrence Centre of Environment Canada in Montreal. She is also affiliated with the Département de Sciences biologiques at the Université de Montréal and the GRIL - a multi-University Group in Limnological Reseach.
Dr. Devra Lee
Davis, MPH, PhD Dr. Davis is a former Scholar in Residence of the National Academy of Sciences, and President- appointed member of the National Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board . She is currently a Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and a Senior Advisor to the World Health Organization. She is also a leading environmental epidemiologist working on breast cancer, reproductive health, and the links between fossil fuels and public health. Dr. Eleanor SterlingDirector, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY Conserving biodiversity in Viet Nam and Bolivia: The need for adaptive management Tuesday, January 29, 4-5 pm, 140 Baker Laboratory Sponsored by the Faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the ESF Women's Caucus. Dr. Eleanor Sterling is Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where she administers all Center activities and establishes program priorities and directions for the activities. She also continues to directly lead the development and coordination of the Center's international field projects and the development of the project "Conservation Biology Curriculum Materials for Tropical Countries". Dr. Sterling has worked for several international conservation organizations, and has more than 15 years of field research experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where she conducted surveys and censuses, as well as behavioral, ecological, and genetic studies of primates, whales, and other mammals. She has extensive expertise developing environmental education programs and professional development workshops, having trained teachers, students, and U.S. Peace Corps volunteers in a variety of aspects related to biodiversity conservation. For the last four years, she has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where she has taught classes in conservation biology (undergraduate, graduate and adult education). She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology and Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.
Dr.
Marla R. Emery Marla R. Emery is a Research Geographer with the Northeastern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service, where her research focuses on the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in household economies and other direct human-forest interactions. She conducted the first comprehensive study of contemporary NTFP use in the United States, for which she spent a year in Michigan's Upper Peninsula conducting ethnographic research that documented the material uses of 138 products from over 80 botanical species and the livelihood practices associated with them. She is currently repeating that work in the northeastern United States as well as conducting research on fine-scale land use in the Adirondack Park region of New York. Dr. Emery also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the University of Vermont’s Department of Geography. Her past duties with the Forest Service have included developing an agenda for research on the human dimensions of global environmental change for the Forest Service's Northern Global Change Program.
Associate Professor, Wood Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA Architecture of a wood cell wall: concentric rings or helical plates? March 5, 4-5 pm, 140 Baker Laboratory Sponsored by the Faculty of Construction Management and Wood Products Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the ESF Women's Caucus, with the assistance of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University D r. Audrey Zink-Sharp is Associate Professor, Wood Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Dr. Zink-Sharp's expertise is in wood anatomy, wood structure and property relations, and digital image analysis and experimental mechanics. She serves as coordinator of Virginia Tech's "Wood Magic Show", an educational program about the science and magic in wood and forest products targeted at third-, fourth-, and fifth graders. Her recent research and teaching projects have focused on Stereoscopic Video Microscopy in Wood Science, Moisture Distribution and Flow During Drying of Wood and Fiber, and Influence of Specific Gravity on Truss Plate Tooth Withdrawal. She has developed a workshop titled: "Education and Research in Wood Science and Natural Resources" for the College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources.She also serves as a consultant for wood identification to Champion International, Courtland, Alabama University. She has served in various capacities the Forest Products Society, Society for Experimental Mechanics, Society of Wood Science & Technology. She was the 1994 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Enhancement Award winner. Dr. Zink-Sharp earned her BS in Wood Sciences and MS in Wood Anatomy at Colorado State University. She completed her Ph.D. in Wood Products Engineering in 1992 at ESF.
19th
Annual C. Eugene Farnsworth Memorial Lecture and Fellowship Ceremony
Dr. Stafford's research interests include: research
information management, applied statistics, multivariate analysis and
experimental design, scientific databases, GIS applications, and other data
management topics. She earned a B.S. in Biology and Mathematics (Magna Cum
Laude) at Syracuse University in 1974, a M.S. in Quantitative Ecology at
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in 1975, and a
Ph.D. in Applied Statistics at ESF in 1979. Dr. Ellen Druffel
Professor Ellen R. M. Druffel is Professor of Earth
Systems Science, University of California, Irvine, CA with a joint position
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dr. Druffel is internationally
known in the area of earth systems science. Her research interests include
the cycling of organic carbon between the surface and deep ocean, and
determination of past changes in circulation and ventilation in the upper
ocean. Professor and Director, Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology, NCSU The Toxic Pfiesteria Complex: A Story of Water Pollution, Fish Kills and Human Health at the Science/Policy Border January 30, 5 Illick Hall Sponsored by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the ESF Women's Caucus Dr. JoAnn M. Burkholder's world-renowned research has emphasized the nutritional ecology of algae, dinoflagellates, and seagrasses, especially the effects of nutrient pollution on algal blooms and seagreass disappearance. She has held policy-advising positions on the Governor-appointed North Carolina Coastal Futures Committee, and has serves as Chair of the Habitat and Water Quality Committee on the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission and as science advisor on a governor-appointed Pfiesteria Commission in Maryland. Her research and environmental education efforts have earned an Admiral of the Chesapeake Award, the Conservationist of the Year Award in Science from the National Wildlife Federation, and the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Marilyn L. Fogel Dr. Fofel is a senior scientist in the Geophysical laboratory at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and an adjunct professor at the University of Delaware College of Marine Studies. She uses sophisticated mass-spectrometry techniques and ion microprobes to study evolutionary biology and the history of the earth. She received a BS in biology from The Pennsylvania State University, and a PhD in Botany (Marine Science) from the University of Texas at Austin. She has also held professional and research appointments at the Smithsonian Institution, Dartmouth College, and George Washington University. 18th Annual C. Eugene
Farnsworth Memorial Lecture and Fellowship Ceremony
As project leader of the Forestry Sciences Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, Irvine, PA, Dr. Susan Stout's responsibilities include coordinating the research efforts of the entire team and its research partnerships. Personal research includes studies of the responses of forests to uneven-age, two-age and even-age silviculture, of measures of relative density or stocking and their ecological meaning, and of deer impact and its interaction with deer management strategies. She is also active in the unit's technology transfer program, including training sessions, updating the SILVAH decision support software, and coordinating the unit's contributions to NED decision support programs. Dr. Stout is an alumna; she earned her Master's degree in silviculture at the College.
Frances Spivy-Weber Ms. Spivy-Weber has had thirty years in environmental policy work, including international, national, regional, and statewide experience with a wide range of environmental issues (forests, oceans and coasts, wildlife, land use, and water). In her current position, she manages an organization serving 15,000 members, and serves on local and state steering or advisory committees of the Environmental Water Caucus, California Urban Water Conservation Council, Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund, Governor's Advisory Drought Planning Panel, and she is the Convener for Southern California Water Dialogue. Frances is also a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies; she has all but completed her dissertation "The Role of Non-governmental organizations in the Evolution of Environmental Regimes." In the past, Frances has served as the International Program Director for the National Audubon Society, a Legislative Assistant for the Animal Welfare Institute and the Society for Animal Protective Legislation, and the Education Director for the American Humane Education Society. She holds Bachelors of Arts in political science and history from the University of Texas and in biology from San Francisco State University, and a master of arts from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Dr. Shirley Malcom Shirley Malcom is Director of the AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs. A former high school science teacher, university faculty member, and NSF Program Officer in science education, Dr. Malcom holds a Ph.D. in ecology from Penn State University. She serves on a number of boards and committees related to science policy and science education at local, state, national, and international levels. She is a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and American Museum of National History. Dr. Malcom was appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate as a member of the National Science Board and serves as a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. She is author or co-author of numerous publications related to the mission of EHR including, Equity and Excellence: Compatible Goals; Science Assessment in the Service of Reform, and The Effect of the Changing Policy Climate on Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Diversity. As directorate head Dr. Malcom is responsible for ensuring programmatic development, adherence of EHR programs to support AAAS' mission, and garnering financial support for EHR projects, in addition to serving as spokesperson and advocate for EHR issues and principal investigator and intellectual contributor for EHR projects. Dr. Kristina HillAssistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Washington Fuzzy Sets and Categorical Ambiguity Tuesday, February 1, 5 Illick Hall Sponsored by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the ESF Women's Caucus Dr. Hill specializes in the analysis and representation of urban ecological patterns and processes. She connects this to design by exploring the design of ecological infrastructure systems that provide habitat, clean surface and ground water, and maintain fertile soil in metropolitan areas. Her research has focuses on articulating a theory of category definition for spatial models, and on the influence of gender on environmental variables.
Ms. Jeannine Siembida
17th
Annual C.
Eugene Farnsworth Memorial Lecture and Fellowship Ceremony
Sandra Brown has a Ph.D. in systems ecology from the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, a MS. in engineering science from the University of South: Florida, Tampa, and a BSc. in chemistry from the University of Nottingham, England. She has been employed as a senior scientist in the Ecosystems Services Unit of Winrock International for about four years. Prior to joining Winrock, she was an Assistant, Associate and full Professor in the forestry department at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Dr. Brown is a specialist on understanding the role of forests in the global carbon cycle and their present and potential future role in climate change and mitigation. She has a national and international reputation as a leader in the field of forests and their relation to climate change and mitigation, and provides scientific leadership and expertise to many national and international organizations. Dr. Brown has 20 years of experience in planning, developing, implementing, and managing research projects focusing on estimating and modeling the stocks and flows of carbon in forests and the environmental and human factors that influence them, that has resulted in more than 160 publications. She has demonstrated expertise in developing successful research proposals, designing and implementing field research studies, leading multi-institutional research projects, developing new techniques for modeling forest biomass, leading the development of programs related to forests for US governmental agencies and international organizations, and synthesizing and reviewing the state of scientific knowledge on land-use change, forestry, and mitigation for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Ms. Suzanne LaLonde Mrs. LaLonde is the first Director of Recycling and Waste Reduction for the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency, and has been with the agency since 1990. She launched its award winning recycling program, and was selected in 1992 as one of the Post Standard’s Women of Achievement. Dr. Ellen KettersonProfessor of Biology and Co-Director of the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University. Phenotypic Engineering: Using Hormones to Explore Adaptation and Constraint February 2, 5 Illick Hall Sponsored by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the ESF Women's Caucus Dr. Ketterson studies avian reproductive behavior and avian migration. Her work on reproduction has focused on the adaptive significance of male parental care and the effects of hormones on parental behavior. Her studies of migration have focused on site fidelity, the role of experience in regulating onset and termination of migration, and the relative importance of a series of selective factors in shaping the distance an individual migrates. Dr. Ketterson's current research is directed toward the relationship between hormones and life histories, particularly the physiological basis for the trade-off between parental effort and mating effort.
Dr. Tarla Rai Peterson 16th
Annual C. Eugene Farnsworth Memorial Lecture and Fellowship Ceremony
Dr. Perison has served International Paper in a number of capacities in her tenure with the company. She earned her BS in Forestry and Forest Biology from ESF, MS in Forest Soils (1993) and PhD (1997)in Forestry and Wetlands from NCSU.
Annual Albrecht Lecture As of 2006, Anne Whiston Spirn is an author, photographer, landscape architect, and planner. Her books include the award-winning The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design (1984) and The Language of Landscape (1998). She currently is finishing The Eye Is a Door, a book on the art of seeing. “Knowing Where to Stand,” an exhibit of her photographs that opened at the MIT Museum in 2003, will travel to other venues. Since 1984 Spirn has worked on ecological planning and community design and development in inner-city neighborhoods. She directs the West Philadelphia Landscape Project, an internationally-recognized program that has integrated teaching, research, and community service since 1987. Her next two book projects grow out of this experience: The Once and Future City and Top-Down/Bottom-Up: Rebuilding the Landscape of Community. Spirn is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at MIT, where she is a member of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Architecture. She has taught at Harvard and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she chaired the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Prior to teaching, Spirn worked at Wallace McHarg Roberts and Todd on diverse projects, including plans for Woodlands New Community in Houston, the Toronto Central Waterfront, and a comprehensive plan for Sanibel, Florida. She received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, where she majored in art history, and the master's of landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2001, Spirn was awarded the International Cosmos Prize for “contributions to the harmonious coexistence of nature and humankind.”
Marilyn Wakeland
Hoskins Hoskins is a consultant with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. She previously was a senior forestry officer with the FAO's forestry department. She is the author of about 50 publications. Hoskins' focus is community forestry, local governance, and community development. She specializes in the relationships between community residents and the tree and forest resources upon which the residents depend.Her career has taken her to some 40 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where she worked on forestry and community development issues in developing nations. She is currently working in the United States, where she is helping the U.S. Forest Service in the area of urban forestry. Hoskins has worked with ESF representatives numerous times at professional gatherings devoted to the discussion of forestry issues. Hoskins will receive a honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in conjunction with commencement activities at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). In awarding the honor to Hoskins, the SUNY Board of Trustees described her as "one of the world's major innovators in new approaches in managing forests." She will also receive an honorary degree from Syracuse University; both will be awarded May 16 during ESF's joint commencement exercises with SU. |
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pecialty is in the transport, fate, and bioaccumulation of mercury
in both terrestrial and aquatic systems. She has focused on assessment of
mercury cycling and bioaccumulation in fresh and estuarine waters, mercury
biogeochemistry in wetlands, mercury volatilization from contaminated soils, development of preliminary remediation goals for mercury in sediment and fish
tissue for protection of wildlife and humans that consume fish, management
options to control methylmercury formation, and residual risk analysis,
including assessment of future concentrations of mercury in water and fish
following remediation. Her experience includes management of investigations,
risk assessment, and agency negotiations at some of the most prominent mercury
sites in the country. More recently, she has worked closely with engineers
during remedial design to understand and address risks associated with mercury
contamination. 
Environmental and Forest Biology, and the ESF Women's Caucus
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.
Dr. Robin Bell
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of Government and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at
the University of Georgia, Susan was the Principal Investigator for a
three-year Coastal Incentive Grant Program project, Visualizing Land
Cover and Land Use Changes on the Georgia Coast
Dr. Lauren Heine
Gredients™ and the Sustainable Textile Metrics standard. Both of
these projects are multi-stakeholder initiatives. CleanGredients is an
information platform that promotes green chemistry by providing human and
environmental health, safety and sustainability information on cleaning
product ingredients to support environmentally preferable product
formulation. The Sustainable Textiles Metrics are being developed as a
standard for contract textiles in collaboration with the Association for
Contract Textiles and NSF International. Dr. Heine consults and publishes on
issues related to green chemistry, alternatives assessment and sustainable
material flows. She was previously Director of Green Chemistry and
Engineering at the Portland, OR-based, Zero Waste Alliance (ZWA) and a
Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the
Green Chemistry Program of the Industrial Chemicals Branch of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, Dr.
Heine taught Organic Chemistry labs at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME
where she helped to develop the Microscale Organic Lab program. Dr.
Heine earned her doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke
University.
Department. Her
specialty is isotope geochemistry, a tool she has used to study climate
variability in places as disparate as the Arctic Ocean and the desert
Southwest. She has published on topics that include climate variability and
fire, isotopic dating of groundwater, Arctic Ocean tracer oceanography, paleohydrology, and coastal sediment erosion. She has also worked as a
hydrologist with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection,
working with communities to protect groundwater sources. Dr. Ekwurzel
completed her doctorate work at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia
University and post-doctoral research at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory in California.
Dr. Sharon Todd
Director,
Program for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict, and Senior Research
Associate in Syracuse University's 
Dr. Joanne Westphal, ASLA, AMA, AOA is a practicing
landscape architect and licensed physician in Michigan. A member of the School
of Planning, Design, and Construction at Michigan State University, her
specialty areas involve environmental design, therapeutic site design, regional
landscape design, and research methodology. Dr. Westphal has focused on issues
of health in
the built environment, including design that complements medical treatment
protocols, post-construction evaluation of therapeutic site designs, landscape
and environmental issues affecting human health, and resource sustainability and
open space protection.
of Toronto in
1978 and her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1981. From 1982-84 she was
an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University
of British Columbia. She joined the MIT faculty in 1984, where she is currently
the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Her
research interests focus on the mechanical behaviour of highly porous materials
with a cellular structure, such as engineering foams, trabecular bone and
scaffolds used in tissue engineering. She is the co-author, with Professor MF
Ashby, of the book "Cellular Solids: Structure and Properties". She has been
active in MIT’s gender equity efforts, chairing the Committee on Women Faculty
in the School of Engineering. Other interests include bicyling touring, walking
Toblerone, her chocolate Labrador, baking and gardening.
Dr. Nancy E. Grulke received a
B.Sc. in Botany from Duke University in 1978,and a Ph.D. in
Botany from the University of Washington in 1983. She is
currently a physiological ecologist and Project Leader,
Atmospheric Deposition on Western Ecosystems,
at the Pacific Southwest
Research
Station, USDA Forest Service, in Riverside, California. She
specializes in whole tree responses to atmospheric pollution
(O3, CO2, N deposition) and drought stress in mixed conifer
forests of California.
