Upcoming ECI Activities
View Past Events here.
Fall 2009 Seminars will be jointly sponsored with Brown departments. Interested in co-sponsoriong a seminar with ECI? Contact Marty Downs.
Events, Fall 2009:
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 4 p.m. in MacMillan Hall Room 115
Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona, Environmental Studies Laboratory
Cosponsored by ECI and Geological Sciences.
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at Noon in Mencoff Hall Seminar Room, 68 Waterman Street
Rosamond Naylor, Stanford University, Director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment
Cosponsored by ECI, PSTC, CES, Geological Sciences, and ADVANCE.
Rosamond Naylor is an associate professor of environmental earth system science and economics at Stanford University and director of Stanford’s program on food security and the environment. Her research focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive food production. Working at the intersection of environment and economics, Naylor has been involved in a number of field-level research projects throughout the world concerning issues of aquaculture and livestock production, high-input agricultural development, biotechnology, climate-induced yield variability, and food security. Her research appears regularly in Science and Nature and recent articles have focused on how changing and increasingly variable climate may affect food production in developing countries.