The Energy and Resources Group Colloquium

Alternate Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
126 Barrows Hall
Professor Dan Kammen

Fall 08 Colloquium Schedule (ER 295)

August 27

No Colloquium


September 3

Lee Schipper
Visiting Scholar, UCTC

"Fuel Economy Trends in Industrialized Countries: When the Rubber Hits the Road"


September 10

No Colloquium


September 17

Kirk R. Smith
School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

"Carbon on Steroids: The Untold Story of Methane, Climate, and Health"


September 24

Ashok Gadgil
Senior Scientist and Deputy Director EET Division, LBNL and
Adjunct Professor, Energy and Resources Group

"Saving Energy in U.S. Commercial Buildings--a new large initiative for an urgent and important task"


October 1

Matthias Fripp
ERG/Environmental Change Unit, Oxford University

"Optimal Investment in Wind and Solar Power in California"


October 8

David Schlissel
Senior Consultant at Synapse Energy Economics

"Risks of Investing in New Coal-Fired Power Plants"


October 15

Dan Farber
Berkeley Law School and Chair, Energy and Resources Group

"The Emergence of Climate Change Law"


October 22

Holmes Hummel
Energy and Resources Group-UC Berkeley

"Keys to Climate Policy on Capitol Hill: View of a Congressional Science Fellow"


October 29

TBA


November 5

E3

TBA


November 12

Mary Ann Piette
Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

TBA


November 19

Holly Doemus
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley & UC Davis

"Climate Change and the Evolution of Property Rights"


November 26

No Colloquium--Thanksgiving Break


December 3

Maximilian Auffhammer
Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

"Climate Change and California's Residential Electricity Consumption"


December 10

Steve Selkowitz
Environmental Technologies Department, EETD--Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

"Energy Efficiency Buildings"


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Spring 08 Colloquium Schedule (ER 295)


January 16

No Colloquium


January 23

Katharine R. Emans Sims
Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

"The Effects of Protected Forest Areas on Land Use and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Northern Thailand"


January 30

George Dyer
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis

"The Spread of Innovations in Traditional Agrosystems"


February 6

Brenda Lin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

"Agricultural Vulnerability Under Climate Change: Agroecosystem Management and Adaptation"


February 13

Carolyn Kousky
Doctoral Research Fellow, Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

"Learning from Extreme Events: Risk Perceptions After the Flood"


February 20

Asmeret Berhe
President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Berkeley

"The Significance of Soil Erosion for Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration"


February 27

Erika Marin-Spiotta
NSF Minority Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara

"Reforestation of Tropical Pastures: Biodiversity, Species Composition, and Carbon"


March 5

David Dowall
Professor, City and Regional Planning, Director, Institute of Urban & Regional Development, UC Berkeley

"Financing Infrastructure in the Developing World: The Case of Mumbai"


March 12

Erin Conlisk
PhD, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

"Modeling the Spatial Patterns of Plants: Pragmatic Predictions from Minimal Information"


March 19

Reuben Deumling
PhD Candidate, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

"Public Policies, Private Choices: Consumer Desire and the Practice of Energy Efficiency"


March 26

No Colloquium--SPRING BREAK


April 2

Sabrina Spatari
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

"Biomass to Ethanol Pathways: Life Cycle Evaluation of Lignocellulosic Ethanol"


April 9

Amol Phadke
PhD Energy and Resources Group; Environmental Energy Tech (EEEA), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

How Many Enrons? Electricity Reforms in Developing Countries: Outcomes, Challenges and New Directions


April 16

Cancelled


April 23

Rebecca Ghanadan
PhD, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

"Public Service or Commodity Goods? Electricity Reforms, Access, and Development in Tanzania"


April 30

Richard Norgaard
Professor, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

CANCELLED


May 7-8