Summer 2008 Graduate Seminar Course: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Environmental Changes

Organizers:

Prof. Hormoz BassiriRad, Department of Biological Sciences, UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Prof. Krishna Reddy, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, UIC College of Engineering

See Attendees Group Photo

May 19, 2008

Course Introduction & Climate Change and Native Ecosystems, Hormoz BassiriRad, Biological Sciences, UIC College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Global Change Effects on Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, Miquel Gonzalez-Meler, Biological Sciences, UIC College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Mobile Source Emissions and Climate Change, Jane Lin, UIC Department of Civil & Materials Engineering

Environmental Policies, Eric Welch, Public Administration, UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

Climate Change and  Water Hazards, Krishna Reddy, UIC Department of Civil & Materials Engineering

May 20, 2008

Warming & Extremes, Hormoz BassiriRad, Biological Sciences, UIC College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Energetics of Urban and Rural Microclimate, John Frederick, University of Chicago

Global Hydropolitics and Hydroeconomics , Christoph Darnualt, UIC Department of Civil and Materials Engineering

EPA Clean Energy and Climate Programs, Alexis Cain, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5

Climate Change and Water Depletion/Recharge, Krishna Reddy, UIC Department of Civil & Materials Engineering

May 21, 2008

Atmospheric N Deposition, Hormoz BassiriRad, Biological Sciences, UIC College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Ecological Restoration & Global Change, Young Choi, Purdue University at Calumet

Environmental History: How Historians Discovered the Natural World, Christopher Boyer, Histrory/Latin American and Latin Studies, UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Climate Change and Pollution Problems, Krishna Reddy, UIC Department of Civil & Materials Engineering

Climate Change and Pollution Control/Treatment, Krishna Reddy, UIC Department of Civil & Materials Engineering

May 22, 2008

Agriculture in a Changing Climate, Hormoz BassiriRad, Biological Sciences, UIC College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Perspectives on Sustainability of Biofuel, Michelle Wander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Global Governance in a World of Climate Change, Babette J. Neuberger, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, UIC School of Public Health

Why Don’t Economists Like the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standard?, Joshua Linn, Economics, UIC College of Business Administration

The Great Lakes Program, Anthony Kizlauskas and John Haugland, USEPA Great Lakes National Program Office

May 23, 2008

Society & Hydrologic Problems in Changing Climate, Hormoz BassiriRad, Biological Sciences, UIC College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Landscape Response to Megadroughts in the Western U.S.: Potential Land-Atmospheric-Oceans Connections, Steve Forman, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Engineering, Technology and the Global Environment: Historical Perspectives, Ethical Ramifications, Sylvia Hood Washington, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, UIC School of Public Health

Nanotechnology: What can it do for and to the Environment? Warren W. Layne, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5

Environmental Ramifications of Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment, Susan Kaplan, UIC Institute for Environmental Science & Policy