YIBS 1997-1998 Annual Report

V. SPONSORED PROGRAMS AND SEMINARS

 

Dr. Prasad Thenkabail presented his work on Syrian agriculture at the First International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

 

Mr. Jeff Albert presented work on water resources and remote sensing at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

 

Global Change Symposium ñ Global Change, the Broad View, sponsored by the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the Department of Geology and Geophysics in honor of Professor Karl Turekian's 70th birthday.

 

Climate Change Conference - Strategic Opportunities Post-Kyoto: Business and Global Climate Change, sponsored by the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Climate Institute of Washington, D.C.

 

Distinguished Guest Lecture Series - New Directions for Conservation Biology, presented by the Yale Student Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology and sponsored by the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and the Society for Conservation Biology.

 

Conservation of Biological Diversity in Tibet - Dr. Reed Noss, Society for Conservation Biology.

Conservation Biology and Planning on a Regional Scale - Dr. Reed Noss, Society for Conservation Biology.

Beyond Platitudes: What Can Science Really Do for Conservation Biology? - Dr. Peter Karevia, University of Washington.

When Ecological Theory Bumps Against Public Policy and Politics - Dr. Joy Belsky, Oregon Natural Desert Association.

How Can Field Research Merge with Models to Illuminate the Effects of Forest Fragmentation? - Dr. Scott Mills, University of Montana.

The Future of Biodiversity in Madagascar - Dr. Pat Wright, Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments, State University of New York.

What is Environmental Studies? - Dr. Michael Soule, University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Population Seminar Series, Fall 1997

 

The Size of Humanity - Jessie Ansubel, Director, Program for the Human Environment, Rockefeller University.

 

Population Policy Options in the Developing World - John Bongaarts, Vice President, Policy Research Division, and The Population Council.

 

Fresh Water in the 21st Century - Peter Cleick, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security.

 

Climate, Disease, and Security: Some Connections - Donald Kennedy, Co-Director, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

 

Human Fertility in Africa: The Mismatch Between Theory and Current Observations - Allan Hill, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health.

 

The Demographerís Perspective on the Next Century - John Cleland, Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.

 

African-American Mortality - Samuel Preston, Director, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

VI. COURSES

Introduction to Environmental Studies (F&ES 199a)

 

Senior Project and Colloquium (Studies in the Environment 496a)

 

Global Problems of Population Growth (Studies in the Environment 205b/Biology 205b)

 

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Managing Earth and its Resources (Studies in the Env 466b)

 

Plant Ecology w/laboratory (Organismal Biology 455b/456Lb)

 

Senior Project and Colloquium (Organismal Biology 491b)

 

World Populations and Environmental Issues (F&ES 504b)

 

Observing Earth From Space (OEFS) - G&G 362b/562b or F&ES 506b

 

Evolution, Ecology and Behavior II: Bio 242a

 

Intensive Research: Bio 595 - L. Buss

 

Community Ecology: FES 563b

 

Seminar on the Design of Bioreserves and Bioreserve Networks: FES - O. Schmitz

 

Landscape Ecology: FES - D. Skelly

VII. MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY COUNCIL

Elisabeth S. Vrba - Director, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
Director, Center for Ecology and Systematics of Animals on the Verge of Extinction (ECOSAVE); Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

 

D. Allan Bromley - Dean of Engineering

 

Richard L. Burger - Director, Peabody Museum of Natural History

 

Mary Helen Goldsmith - Chair, Studies in the Environment; Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Director, Marsh Botanical Gardens

 

John C. Gordon - Acting Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

 

Pierre C. Hohenberg - Deputy Provost, Science and Technology

 

Douglas R. Kankel - Chair, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

 

Michael H. Merson - Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health

 

Jeffrey R. Powell - Chair, Program in Organismal Biology; Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

 

Gustav Ranis - Director, Center for International and Area Studies

 

Ronald Smith - Director, Center for Earth Observation; Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

 

Karl K. Turekian - Director, Center for Global Change; Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics

 

J. Rimas Vaisnys - Professor, Electrical Engineering

 

Günter P. Wagner - Director, Center for Computational Ecology; Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

 

Robert J. Wyman - Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

VIII. MEMBERS OF THE EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD

 

Chair: Edward P. Bass -Fort Worth, Texas

 

Edward A. Adelberg - New Haven, Connecticut

 

Frances Beinecke - New York, New York

 

Coleman P. Burke - New York, New York

 

John R. Bermingham - Denver, Colorado

 

William J. Cronon - Madison, Wisconsin

 

Duane Dickson - Chicago, Illinois

 

Strachan Donnelley - Garrison, New York

 

Michael J. Donoghue - Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

W. Daniel Hillis - Glendale, California

 

Donald Hudson - Boston, Massachusetts

 

Thomas E. Lovejoy - Washington, D.C.

 

George G. Montgomery, Jr. - San Francisco, California

 

Michael J. Novacek - New York, New York

 

Nicholas Pappas - Wilmington, Delaware

 

William K. Reilly - Washington, D. C.

 

Ralph C. Schmidt - New York, New York

 

Nelson S. Talbott - Cleveland, Ohio

 

Joseph H. Williams - Tulsa, Oklahoma