Organized by the PhD Program in Environmental Science and Management
- Time
- Mondays at 3:45pm unless otherwise indicated
- Location
- CELS 120 and/or Zoom
Seminars
Tuesday, January 17
Tuesday, January 17 Nuclear Famine: The Threat to Humanity from Nuclear Weapons
Dr. Alan Robock, Rutgers University
Tuesday, January 24
Tuesday, January 24 Just and Sustainable Planning Through Human-Environment Interactions
Dr. Jessica Miller, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
Tuesday, February 7
Tuesday, February 7 Accounting for nature’s value: Applying ecosystem services approaches to natural resource planning
Dr. Kenneth Bagstad, U.S. Geological Survey
Tuesday, February 14
Tuesday, February 14 Mars, Melts, and Magnetism: Using Synthetic Basalts to Understand the Red Planet
Dr. Stefanie Brachfeld, Montclair State University
Tuesday, February 21
Tuesday, February 21 Progradational beaches and dunes: Archives of Holocene sea-level change and coastal dynamics
Dr. Chris Hein, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
Tuesday, February 28
Tuesday, February 28 Intraplate earthquakes in the eastern U.S., infrastructure resilience, and lessons learned from the 2011 Mineral earthquake
Dr. Frank J Pazzaglia, Lehigh University
Tuesday, March 14
Tuesday, March 14 Removal of Cyanobacterial Cells and Toxins from Drinking Water - POSTPONED
Dr. Harold Walker, SUNY Stony Brook
Tuesday, March 21
Tuesday, March 21 Agriculture, Food and Prospects for Sustainability
Dr. Xenia Morin, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Tuesday, March 28
Tuesday, March 28 Overview of Fulbright U.S. Student Program: Grants to Conduct Research Abroad
Domenica Dominguez, Global Education Center, The Fulbright Fellowship Program
Tuesday, April 4
Tuesday, April 4 Those rocks are alive! Geomicrobiology of the deep biosphere in subseafloor igneous basement
Dr. Jason Sylvan, Texas A&M University, Ocean Discovery Program Distinguished Lecturer
Tuesday, April 11
Tuesday, April 11 Conversion of lignocellulosics to biofuels using a multistep chemo-enzymatic deconstruction approach
Dr. Shishir Chundawat, Rutgers University
Tuesday, April 18
Tuesday, April 18 A Multi-Scale Monitoring Program in the Northeast Region of the National Park Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service
Dr. Norbs Psuty, Rutgers University
Tuesday, April 25
Tuesday, April 25 Interdisciplinary Science; Integrated Solutions
Dr. Jensen Montambault, Senior Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
Tuesday, September 13
Tuesday, September 13 The Long and the Short View: Deltas, Subsidence, and Wetland Restoration in Louisiana
Dr. Chris Paola, University of Minnesota
Tuesday, September 20
Tuesday, September 20 Hot days Along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Studying Ecosystem Change in the Dawn of Robotic Oceanography
Dr. Oscar Schofield, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
Tuesday, September 27
Tuesday, September 27 Metabolic activity of airborne bacteria
Dr. Valdis Krumins, Department of Environmental Science, Rutgers University
Tuesday, October 4
Tuesday, October 4 Impact of flooding and water quality on coastal resilience
Dr. Michel Boufadel, Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection New Jersey Institute of Technology
Tuesday, October 11
Tuesday, October 11 Diversity, ecology, & ecosystem services of urban insect populations
Dr. Amy Savage, Department of Biology, Rutgers University-Camden
Tuesday, October 18
Tuesday, October 18 Modeling global relationships between climate and jellyfish blooms
Dr. Natasha Henschke, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University
Tuesday, October 25
Tuesday, October 25 Climate Change is Water Change: increasing water utility resiliency
Dr. Mark LeChevallier, Vice President and Chief Environmental Officer at American Water
Tuesday, November 1
Tuesday, November 1 NYC Lakes: Challenges, surprises and unintended consequences
Dr. Brett Branco, CUNY Brooklyn College
Tuesday, November 8
Tuesday, November 8 Cave records from Southeast Asia: Windows to Past Hydroclimate Variability
Dr. Michael Griffiths, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, William Patterson University
Tuesday, November 15
Tuesday, November 15 Contaminant Transport from Landfills to Streams, Wetlands and Wells
Ronald Baker, U.S. Geological Survey
Tuesday, November 29
Tuesday, November 29 Laws, Regulations, and Executive Action: The role of Science Policy and Governance
Dr. Kelly Kryc, Senior Policy Analyst for Energy, Water, and Ocean Sciences, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Tuesday, December 6
Tuesday, December 6 Biotechnology-Enabled Environmental Cleanup: Application of Molecular Techniques to Bioremediation of 1,4-Dioxane
Dr. Mengyan Li, PhD, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Thursday, January 21
Thursday, January 21 Deliberate Transformation in Food Systems
Dr. Jennifer Hodbod,Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Tuesday, January 26
Tuesday, January 26 Doing Sustainability Right: Applications of Integrated Sustainability Metrics
Dr. Seung-Jin Lee, University of Michigan-Flint
Monday, February 1
Monday, February 1 Technological Change in the Life Cycle Assessment of Rapidly Expanding Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Technologies
The increasing frequency, scale, and damages from recent catastrophic events has called for a shift in focus from evading losses through risk analysis to improving threat preparation, planning, absorption, recovery, and adaptation through resilience.
Tuesday, February 16
Tuesday, February 16 The Danger of Tanning
Dr. Carlos A. Molina, Department of Biology, Montclair State University
Tuesday, February 23
Tuesday, February 23 Global Water, the Anthropocene and the Transformation of a Science
Dr. Charles Vorosmarty, Civil Engineering and Director of the CUNY Environmental CrossRoads Initiative
Tuesday, March 1
Tuesday, March 1 A Substance Flow Model for Global Phosphorus
Dr. David A. Vaccari, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE Stevens Institute of Technology
Tuesday, March 15
Tuesday, March 15 Biodiversity and ecosystem services planning in cities: A global survey of urban plans
Dr. Karen M. O’Neill, Human Ecology Dept., Rutgers University
Tuesday, March 22
Tuesday, March 22 Market Mechanisms for Wetland Conservation
Dr. Smita Brunnermeier Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University
Tuesday, March 29
Tuesday, March 29 The Fishy World of Illegal Fishing
Alexa Cole, Deputy Chief, Enforcement Section, Office of General Counsel, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Tuesday, April 5
Tuesday, April 5 Geochemical Evolution of the Lithospheric Mantle in the West Antarctic Rift System
Cathleen Doherty, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Tuesday, April 12
Tuesday, April 12 Rutgers Veterans Environmental Technology and Solutions (VETS) Program
Dr. Amy Rowe, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Essex County
Tuesday, April 19
Tuesday, April 19 Environmental Conflict Resolution
Raymond Papperman, Deputy Advisor to the Commissioner
Tuesday, April 26
Tuesday, April 26 Advanced Tools for Brownfield Site Characterization and Remediation
Dr. José Luis R. Gallego, University of Oviedo (Spain)
Tuesday, September 8
Tuesday, September 8 Magnetic Tracers of Coal Ash Contamination in the Tennessee River Watershed
Dr. Stefanie Brachfeld, Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State University, presents this week's seminar.
Tuesday, September 15
Tuesday, September 15 The Effect of UV light Depletion on Flavonol Biosynthesis
Dr. John Berger, Associate Professor of Chemistry, County College of Morris.
Tuesday, September 22
Tuesday, September 22 Sustainability and Computational Systems
Dr. Katherine Herbert, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Montclair State, delves into the recent ecological and volatile climate issues, numerous concerns have arisen which have given greater emphasis to the sustainability sciences.
Tuesday, September 29
Tuesday, September 29 Profit, Choice and The Sustainable Spirit
Dr. David Axelrod, adjunct professor of Economics, Montclair State.
Tuesday, October 6
Tuesday, October 6 Hacking Sustainability: integrating architecture, systems, and sensors to demonstrate overlooked potentials in the built environment
Dr. Forrest Meggers, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Affiliated faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton.
Tuesday, October 20
Tuesday, October 20 Effects of Elevated CO2 on the Early Life-Stages of Marine Fishes and Potential Consequences of Ocean Acidification
Dr. Chris Chambers of the NOAA Fisheries, Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
Tuesday, October 27
Tuesday, October 27 Barriers, Limits and Limitations to Resilience: A Case Study of Coastal New Jersey
Dr. Robin Leichenko, Rutgers Department of Geography and Rutgers Climate Institute
Tuesday, November 3
Tuesday, November 3 Tracking Coherent Structures While Computing Optimal Extinction Paths
Dr. Eric Forgoston, Montclair State
Tuesday, November 10
Tuesday, November 10 Stormwater Manufactured Treatment Devices: Performance and Maintenance
Dr. George Guo, Rutgers
Tuesday, November 17
Tuesday, November 17 Thinking About Local Sustainability and Land Use
Dr. Paul Gottlieb, Rutgers department of agricultural, food and resource economics
Tuesday, December 8
Tuesday, December 8 PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentations
Melissa Hansen and Nanzhu Li
Tuesday, January 20
Tuesday, January 20 Exploring Spatiotemporally Varying Regressed Relationships: The Geographically Weighted Panel Regression Analysis
Dr. Danlin Yu, Montclair State, delves into regression analysis with geographic information demonstrating the need to take into consideration the inherent spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity of the data.
Tuesday, February 3
Tuesday, February 3 Time Series Analysis for the Environmental Professional: An Introduction and Overview
Dr. Joseph Ofungwu provides insight into this fascinating, extensive, and potentially confusing topic in statistics.
Tuesday, February 10
Tuesday, February 10 Strengthening air quality parameters in SDG’s post 2015 public-private partnership possibilities
Shazia Z. Rafi, Global Parliamentary Services, LLC focuses on a UN project of a year-long series of on-line workshops and advocacy on segments of the Sustainable Development Goals post-2015.
Tuesday, February 24
Tuesday, February 24 Section 319(h) Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Grant Program
Jay Springer, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, visits to present a seminar discussing the significance of Section 319(h) funding.
Tuesday, March 3
Tuesday, March 3 Dissemination of antibiotic resistance in engineered and agricultural systems
Dr. Nicole Fahrenfeld, Rutgers looks into the over 2 million people that are sickened and at least 23,000 people that die in the U.S. of antibiotic resistant infections each year.
Tuesday, March 17
Tuesday, March 17 New Jersey’s Best Kept Secret: “Biodiversityâ€
Blaine Rothauser, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc, looks into how New Jersey's biota from the north and south meet their geographic limits.
Tuesday, March 24
Tuesday, March 24 Coastal Community Resiliency Planning in NJ
Nick Angarone, NJ Department of Environmental Protection details CVI and the tools and programs of the CMP and its partners.
Tuesday, March 31
Tuesday, March 31 Mechanism study of trace metal uptake and transport in wetland plants
Yu Qian, PhD Candidate in Environmental Management presents on his research showing that metal contamination in urban brownfield sites have been an emergent issue, and discusses the ramifications of this problem.
Tuesday, April 7
Tuesday, April 7 Coupled Barrier-backbarrier System Responses to Long-term Coastal Change
Dr. Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba, Montclair State, discusses the dynamic interactions between RSL rise, cross and alongshore sediment exchanges, overwash processes, and coupled barrier-back-barrier behaviors.
Tuesday, April 14
Tuesday, April 14 Addressing environmental issues in the solid waste industry
Dr. Renzun Zhao, Columbia University/DC water and sewer authority presenting research that demonstrates the application of biological, chemical and physical approaches to solve environmental problems in the solid waste industry.
Tuesday, April 21
Tuesday, April 21 A Tale of Two Sides: Role of Vegetation in the Geochemical Cycling of Metals in Soils
Dr. Satish Myneni, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University provides a discussion of these two sides of vegetation-induced mobilization of trace elements in soils, and how field, greenhouse, and molecular studies can be combined to investigate plant-metal interactions will be presented.
Tuesday, April 28
Tuesday, April 28 Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling for Evidence-based Policy Making
Dr. Onil Banerjee is a Natural Resource Economist with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He will provide insight into economy-wide computable general equilibrium (CGE) models that were initially developed to explore international trade policy, applications now span the diversity of critical policy issues.
Tuesday, September 9
Tuesday, September 9 American Fact-finder: Extracting Statistics & Spatial Data For Environmental Purposes
David Kraiker, Census Bureau - New York Regional Office
Tuesday, September 16
Tuesday, September 16 Microbial Astronauts: Effects of Spaceflight conditions on Microbial Growth and Activity
Dr. Aaron Mills, University of Virginia/NASA
Tuesday, September 23
Tuesday, September 23 The Morris Canal Greenway and the Challenges of Creating a New Park in New Jersey
Joe Macasek, Canal Society of New Jersey
Tuesday, September 30
Tuesday, September 30 High Resolution Imagery for Validation of Canopy Structure & Biomass Maps from Multi-Angle Satellite Remote Sensing
Dr. Mark Chopping, Montclair State
Tuesday, October 7
Tuesday, October 7 Tracking the Elusive RfP
Dr. Pete Rowe, New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium
Tuesday, October 14
Tuesday, October 14 Application of Synchrotron-based Probes in the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr. Ryan Tappero, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday, October 21
Tuesday, October 21 Spatial Variation of Greenland Ice Sheet Meltwater Export Inferred from River Discharge Observations." This might change down the road.
Dr. Asa Rennermalm, Rutgers
Tuesday, October 28
Tuesday, October 28 Understanding Plant and Soil Relationships to Improve Restoration of an Urban Brownfield
Dr. Jennifer Krumins, Montclair State
Tuesday, November 4
Tuesday, November 4 Removal of Arsenic and Recovery of Nutrients from Water
Dr. Xiaoguan Meng, Stevens Institute of Technology
Tuesday, November 11
Tuesday, November 11 Redox Transformations of Mercury in Groundwater
Dr. Nathan Yee, Rutgers
Tuesday, November 18
Tuesday, November 18 Buried Alive: Life Beneath the Seafloor
The Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, with support from the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, will host Dr. Beth Orcutt, Senior Research Scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and a 2014-2015 Consortium for Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer.
Tuesday, December 2
Tuesday, December 2 Publishing Scientific Research
Dr. Sherestha Saini and Dr. Kenneth Teng, Springer Science + Business Media
Tuesday, December 9
Tuesday, December 9 Paleoenvironmental Evidence for First Human Colonization of the Eastern Caribbean
The timing and process of island colonization is a controversial topic in Caribbean archaeology. The first settlers to the islands probably came in small groups, difficult to identify archaeologically.